Poe's Law
Just a nifty lil' anecdote as I'm feeling under the weather:
There's a story - in accordance with Poe's Law, I have no idea whether it's a joke or it actually happened - about a creationist who was trying to claim a "gap" in the fossil record, two species without an intermediate fossil having been discovered. When an intermediate species was discovered, the creationist responded, "Aha! Now there are two gaps."I just looked up Poe's Law and *chuckle.* I'm sure Chris would enjoy this:
"Poe's law (religious fundamentalism) — "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing." named after Nathan Poe who formulated it on christianforums.com in 2005 Although it originally referred to creationism, the scope later widened to religious fundamentalism
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