I consider this a historic post, for it’s surely the first time that Richard Dawkins, often criticized by atheist-bashers for lacking a sense of humor (e.g., here), has contributed a LOLcat to any website. I’m positive that neither William Lane Craig, Karen Armstrong, nor Terry Eagleton have ever done anything like that.
The contribution (along with the photo):
http://www.perfectlytimedpics.com/cat-dumps-the-water-out-of-the-vase/
Lots of other nice pictures in the “Perfectly Timed” series.
Indeed. Check out the one with the seagull and the ice cream cone.
Sorry to be a party-pooper, but I am shocked how Dawkins can endorse such an unscientific image that very obviously violates the laws of physics…. 😉
Cats, who themselves defy gravity, are clearly fascinated with the phenomenon nonetheless….
b&
The photo is a New Earth Creationist trick: a photomontage. We all know from the fossil record that cats, vases and tulips never existed together
Poor kitty was the victim of a frame job with that spilling vase (see what I did there?).
Unweaving the rose bowl.
My cat Nova loves fresh cut flowers. She drapes her mouse toy in the flowers and rearranges the flowers. Twice she has upset a beautiful glass vase. Water really flies, flowers all over, but the vase did not break. Now i stick the vase down with butyl rubber tape, the same stuff used for car windshields. Kitty love changes your life in a good way.
The dogmatist in me notes that it isn’t a traditional LOLcat with text in the picture, but the empiricist notes “so what”.
Grabbity for the win!
Well, the dogmatist in me notes that neither you nor I cannot prove this catastrophe ever happened. Were you there?
Uh, can prove.
I suspect perfectly timed pics has mostly Photoshop jobs (now why doesn’t anyone use the GIMP?). For example, the motorbike losing its 2 wheel in mid-air — that just can’t happen. Even if the guy loosened the front wheel nuts enough, he’d have to kick the wheel off to get it to separate appreciably. The back wheel is even trickier because the chain does a great job of holding the wheel in place and you’d need quite a bit of force to kick the wheel off. Some images such as the stork with the contrails are quite believable, but also trivial to fake.
Is the anti-Dawkins implication that one must have an LOL sense of humour to take religion seriously? Have they thought that through?
Richard Dawkins has plenty of funny expressions, e.g. the “great Juju at the bottom at the sea”, “Science. It works … bitches” and in his more combative interviews or talks is often tongue-in-cheek, and deriding. The sense of humour might be somewhat impaired when someone is occupied with feeling offended, I can see that. Then again, neither the tastes of religious people or accommodationists are a good yardstick for humour, nor that of a German commentor on WEIT 😉
Good one, and good on Dr. Dawkins.
But … looks like:
wellphotoshoppedpics_dot_com
rather than
perfectlytimedpics_dot_com.
The cat looks like it has wet fur so I’m not sure if it took the photographer more than a few tries(and a very patient cat)to get the shot.
I still can’t figure out how he got the water to eject from the vase without first ejecting the flowers.