{"id":4144,"date":"2007-11-01T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/expelled-and-infected-all-in-one-day\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T20:58:00","slug":"expelled-and-infected-all-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/expelled-and-infected-all-in-one-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Expelled and Infected, All In One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Now that I\u2019ve been banned from Uncommon Descent<\/a>, presumably I can now confidently talk about pots and kettles and things like that whenever I hear proponents of Intelligent Design whine about censorship. I disagree strongly with Richard Dawkins about a number of things, but I will say this \u2013 I posted something critical of his views on the Richard Dawkins forum<\/a> and, while of course there were many who disagreed with what I said, I wasn\u2019t banned.<\/p>\n

From now on, I think I won\u2019t say I was banned<\/em> from Uncommon Descent. I\u2019ll say I was EXPELLED<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Since we\u2019re on the subject of Richard Dawkins, this allows for a perfectly logical segue onto one of his favorite themes: memes. I have been tagged with a replicating blog meme<\/a> by the An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution blog<\/a>. I\u2019ll give the instructions as I received them, for the benefit of those soon to be infected [sinister laughter]<\/p>\n

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, \u201cThe best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is\u2026\u201d. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:<\/p>\n

You can leave them exactly as is.
You can delete any one question.
You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change \u201cThe best time travel novel in SF\/Fantasy is\u2026\u201d to \u201cThe best time travel novel in Westerns is\u2026\u201d, or \u201cThe best time travel movie in SF\/Fantasy is\u2026\u201d, or \u201cThe best romance novel in SF\/Fantasy is\u2026\u201d.
You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form \u201cThe best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

You must have at least one question in your set, or you\u2019ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you\u2019re not viable.<\/p>\n

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions. Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.<\/p>\n

My Ancestors:<\/p>\n

My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club<\/a>.
My great-great-great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite<\/a>
My great-great-great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock<\/a>
My great-great-grandparent is The Anterior Commissure<\/a>
My great-grandparent is Laelaps<\/a>
My grandparent is Quintessence of Dust<\/a>
My parent is An Evangelical Dialogue On Evolution<\/a><\/p>\n

My Questions (and Answers):<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The best scary movie in sociopolitical dystopias is: Children of Men<\/a>\"\" [isn\u2019t it great when a child agrees with his parent?]<\/li>\n
  2. The best song that moves me inexplicably in 80s pop is: \u201cAll Through The Night\u201d by Cyndi Lauper<\/a>\"\"<\/li>\n
  3. The best classical story in Historical Fiction is: The Gospel of John<\/a> <\/li>\n
  4. The best book appealing to both children and adults in Science Fiction is: Star Wars Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook<\/a>\"\"<\/li>\n
  5. The most fantastic melody of all time is found in: the second movement of Kurt Atterberg\u2019s Symphony No.2<\/a>\"\".<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I\u2019ll transmit this meme to five friends:<\/p>\n

    Hyper-Textual Ontology<\/a><\/p>\n

    Sporadic Maunderings<\/a><\/p>\n

    Schenck Thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n

    TheoFantastique<\/a><\/p>\n

    The Quixotic Infidel<\/a><\/p>\n

    These are blogs that I don\u2019t think intersect with one another. Hopefully this will spread my version of the meme far and wide. [cue sinister laughter and thunder]<\/p>\n

    One last bit of news. Some of you know I have a new book coming out. If anyone is interested in buying my first book, John\u2019s Apologetic Christology<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, they can get it at a discount from Eisenbrauns, who is having a special sale on books by bibliobloggers.<\/p>\n

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