Remember the creationist outside the Evolution meetings who handed out bananas with Bible verses on them yesterday? My ex-student Mohamed Noor (president of the Society), decided to respond by making evolution bananas, which were placed in the fruit bowl at the meetings. The Society issued an official tw**t:
Those of you who have studied evolution will recognize the gospels. I hope there was a Coyne and Orr 1989 (or 2004) and that somebody snatched it up. If those aren’t part of the canonical Gospels of Noor, I disown him.
Fortunately, Coyne & Orr 1989 was really on some bananas, so I’m safe…
I’ve taken quite a few Coursera courses and Your Intro to Genetics and Evolution is still the best one by a country mile. I still have a look through the lecture videos now and then just for fun. Many thanks!!
Glad you liked it, and thanks for telling me!
Photos or it didn’t happen!
Who got Darwin, 1859?
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That guy outside. But after the first bite he burst into flames.
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Hey, if we’re descended from bananas, how come there are still bananas?
No direct mention of bananas in the Bible. There may, however, be a reference: “For where two or three bunch together in my name, I am there among them.” – Matthew 18:20. There are also no jokes.
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Especially no jokes.
There are some funny bits about Abraham (pimping his wife, maybe not so funny for her), and the J creation myth is pretty hilarious when properly understood. But yeah, Jewish comic writing peaked a lot later.
No jokes in the Bible? More or less true, I suppose.
I haven’t thought of this for years, but I had a Xtian friend at uni, who told me this one:
A newly arrived vicar boasted to his congregation — “Suggest to me a topic for a sermon at the beginning of the Sunday service,and I will preach a suitable sermon on it, complete with Bible text.”
Needless to say, two of the younger more frivolous parishioners couldn’t resist the challenge, and one Sunday handed the vicar a piece of paper inscribed “Suggested topic — Constipation”.
The service wore on, and when the time for the sermon came, the vicar mounted the pulpit and announced “The text for today is Exodus xx:x, “And Moses took the two tablets, and went out into the wilderness.”
I don’t know why I remembered that!
It’s more a joke *about* the Bible, I suppose.
Sorry that it doesn’t mention bananas.
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Which Charlesworth is it? Deborah or Brian?
Were there bananas on the Ark? If not, what did the monkeys eat?