Larry Moran makes a Freudian slip

April 3, 2014 • 2:16 pm

Over at Sandwalk, Larry Moran is rightfully incensed at creationist flack Vincent Torley, and they’re having a kerfuffle: Torley’s unjustly accused Larry of not thinking that natural selection had a role in the genetic divergence between apes and humans. Torley has apparently apologized.

Now, in a new post about the flap, Moran makes the best Freudian slip I’ve seen about ID creationists. Here’s a screenshot:

Screen shot 2014-04-03 at 11.50.58 AM

I’m sure this is unintentional because Larry deliberately avoids nasty language and slurs.

And I’ll have to define Freudian slip here: “It’s when you say one thing and mean your mother.”

I’ll be here all week, folks.

h/t: Doc Bill

41 thoughts on “Larry Moran makes a Freudian slip”

        1. Nice, as it fits well with the indelicate “load of crap” phrase in Larry Moran’s first sentence quoted above. (hehe)

        1. Finding genomes: these plays on words are entering Ant Allan territory. Cue Ant for summat completely obscure…

          Slaínte.

  3. Hehe, to really test whether cdesignproponentists “are liable to be swayed by emotion rather than reason” you have to watch their reaction to the bonobo-pig hybrid/backcross hypothesis. That really makes their heads asplode!

    2. My bad, I should have added a link to Michael Lewis hypothesis for those who haven’t seen it.

    3. From the article linked:

      “That can’t be right, because I don’t already believe it.”

      Great line.

  4. “I’m sure this is unintentional because Larry deliberately avoids nasty language and slurs.”

    Yet in spite of that he still comes off as cranky to me. His, uhm, “website” isn’t as warm and friendly as WEIT.

    1. Yeah, but I quite like that. Even so, he doesn’t ban repeat creationist trolls that pop up and make the same damn comments over and over again – he’s letting them flaunt their lack of understanding even when he must find them excruciating.

  5. Whilst Larry is often all wet, I’m sure I’m not alone this time in wanting to tank him for not dunking this deep subject.

    b&

    1. Unless my sarchasm detector is broken, you might want to check your dictionary. A “flack” is a publicity agent. “Flak” is antiaircraft fire.

      b&

      2. Ah! Never heard of the word ‘flack’, meaning publicity agent. Hardly surprising, as it’s a North American word, and I’m a Brit. I naturally assumed you were referring to someone who sends out metaphorical flak.

        (So, no, I’m not admitting I’m wrong at all. Just British.)

  7. Q. How many Freudians does it take to change a lightbulb?
    A. Two. One to change the bulb, the other to hold the penis ladder.

  8. Hehehe; even a spell checker wouldn’t have helped Larry discover the invisible R. It’s just one of those (un?)fortunate coincidences.

  10. We have all been there. Just the other day I was teaching about protein translation and I drew little clover-leaf shaped tRNA molecules carrying amino acids. Only the tRNA definitely looked like doodles of male genitalia, so we all had a laugh over it.
    I really hope it did not have some deeper meaning…

  12. I don’t know; I’d say that throwing in the word ‘damn’ before fool takes it to the level of slander & nasty language a bit, but alrighty then…

  13. “It’s when you say one thing and mean your mother.”

    Sounds like a Woddy Allen line to me!

  14. “I’m sure this is unintentional because Larry deliberately avoids nasty language and slurs.”
    Like IDiots?

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