Your tax dollars at work

[tikistitch]

Spotted near Exit 110 in southern Oregon.



Been wanting to snap a photo. Yes, even in a Blue State, teh stoopid sometimes reigns. Especially with folk who spend money on billboards (there are actually two of them within a few miles of each other). Most self-respecting simians we know would be emabarrassed to be related to the guys what put them up anyways.

EDIT: Just looked up the referenced web site, for the LULZ. Didja know, contributions to the fellas what put up the billboard, Who Is Your Creator?, are tax deductible? They are registered as a charity. In Minnesota.

We quote:

Who Is Your Creator uses media, including display advertising, to raise awareness of the serious misrepresentations and lack of scientific proof for the theory of Evolution, Naturalism and Darwinism.

See? They are a scientific organization.

Who Is Your Creator is a 501(c) 3 public charity registered in the State of Minnesota and donations are tax-deductible as provided under the IRS tax code. (Who Is Your Creator has no paid directors or employees.)

Minnesota? Y'all should be proud, P.Z.! (/joke)

So, you're wondering, how did they come to their very scientific conclusion about the theory of evolution? Are they perhaps crack biochemists from MIT? Rogue geneticists at Berkeley?

We believe that God is The Creator, and that Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life. Our hope is that we can Advance His Kingdom by countering the false foundations for the faith of evolution and to offer Christians more opportunities for sharing the Gospel.

Oh. That. Okey-dokey.

EDIT: Oopsie, PZ, whose blog people actually read (unlike, say, this one) put a link here, so I've temporarily enabled anonymous comments, so all the crazy people can have their say. For extra credit, you can take the good perfesser's advice, and visit Monkey Lady's forum. Ya, rilly, she has a forum.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

It's "SCIENCE!" (/skaɪɛns/) as Clint would say.

[(Anonymous)]

Are they perhaps crack biochemists from MIT?

Well, they're certainly crackheads! *rimshot*

[(Anonymous)]

please explain how this billboard involves TAX dollars?

what I wonder about is...

[(Anonymous)]

... how do they get the enormous amount of money to sustain this kind of activity? The stupid burns, but the fact that there are actually people supporting the stupid boggles the mind!!

Sad really

[(Anonymous)]

It's really quite sad. Though lulz are lulz, and the stupid runs deep in this one.

[ladyvonkulp.livejournal.com]

Sounds more like they're a lack-of-science organisation.

What the heck is 'Naturalism', anyway? Wasn't that an artistic movement?

[agnesscottie.livejournal.com]

You know, it seems like us poor Oregonians don't get much publicity (unless you're talking about the greenery) and then stuff like this pops up....

*sigh*

(came by from PZ's blog)