I ran across this and heard this joke before, but I just had to repost it.
“God vs. Darwinian”
One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The Darwinian walked up to God and said, “God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don’t you just go on and get lost.”
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, “Very well, how about this? Let’s say we have a man-making contest.” To which the Darwinian happily agreed.
God added, “Now, we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”
The Darwinian said, “Sure, no problem,” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt…
…God looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!”
Why isn’t it offensive when a black man makes fun of white men, and when women make fun of men, but a controversy when [white] men make fun of women or black people in stand up acts? Power. When someone in power jokes about someone not in a position of power then this signifies a viable threat to the weakling. However, when a weakling jokes about someone in power, everyone knows it’s in good humor, i.e., harmless. It’s why a black man can rip on the white race, and women about men in general. Now, a joke still has to be clever, and point out something true, but the point is that the cleverness and truthfulness is not funny when directed at a less powerful party by a party in power.
The reason why this joke doesn’t work. The assumptions underlying it are granted to the theist only as a matter of curtesy by the scientific community. They are not proved and arguably unprovable. They are believed through faith. Hence the weakling in this scenario is the theist, and the darwinian stands in a position of power. The theist knows this and the Darwinian knows this, thus this is another kind of case like when women comedians make fun of men, only it lacks wit or truth because it’s assumptions are not true first of all, and secondly even if we were to assume they were true for the purpose of this joke, the punch line lacks any cleverness. It’s just a strawman where we have a hubris laden scientist facing ‘facts’ that allah ackbar.
Oh, and Darwinian don’t deal with abiogenesis, so that sort of adds to the funniness because it reveals the ignorance of the joke teller.
Does it? I was wondering why this was originally posted by an atheist in the Mundane folder. I would have thought that person would have found it offensive…apparently they perceived the humor of it…hmmm.
Here’s a thought-provoking one, again involving God.
I used to really fancy this girl, and every day I prayed to God to make her fall in love with me and thereby let me have sex with her. After many weeks, nothing whatsoever had happened, and I realised that this isn’t how God works. So I raped her, and I now pray for forgiveness.
I think the whole thing is in bad taste, Faust, but that’s just me.
Here’s mine:
A philosophy professor walks in to give his class their final. Placing his chair on his desk the professor instructs the class, “Using every applicable thing you’ve learned in this course, prove to me that this chair DOES NOT EXIST.”
So, pencils are writing and erasers are erasing, students are preparing to embark on novels proving that this chair doesn’t exist, except for one student. He spends thirty seconds writing his answer, then turns his final in to the astonishment of his peers.
Time goes by, and the day comes when all the students get their final grades…and to the amazment of the class, the student who wrote for thirty seconds gets the highest grade in the class.