Mad Social Scientist

I got this "invitation" today; it lies somewhere between spam and and personalized waste of my time.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:42:40 -0800
From: XXXXXXXX
To: XXXXXX@XXXXXXX.edu
Subject: Revelations

Dear Professor XXXXXXXX:

NBC is hosting a one time screening of their new pilot "Revelations" in XXXXX on XXXX and we would like to invite students and professors from XXXXXXXXXXX to come and participate in this event.

This is a groundbreaking show for network television--it asks the question of whether God and science can fit into the same equation.

To preview the show, we have provided a password, protected Website that can only be viewed by select universities. The site has a PROMO of the show and the capability to RSVP online.

www.NBCscreenings.com

User Name: nbcscreener

Password: revelations

Attached you will find information pertaining to the event as well as the show. Please forward it to your students, your faculty and to anyone else you feel may be interested in coming to this exclusive NBC screening.

I will follow up with you in the next couple of days to discuss the possibility of your department's participation in this event.

Little do they know that I have seen every MST3K, and could riff their lights out given half a chance. I half-hope they do contact me personally...

"So a dialogue on the roles of science and religion consists of a bunch of endtime believers berating a goggle-eyed scientist for refusing to accept the Book of Revelations as a scientific explanation?

And since when were Catholics end-timers? And since when were nuns hot? And what the hell does it mean to put science and religion in the "same equation"? And if God himself wants to destroy the world, why is the Church trying to *stop* him?

If you want to mix science and religion, why not a movie on scientists being forced to confront the hypothesis that the universe is turtles-all-the-way-down? Why are you using valuable TV time that could be devoted to test-patterns, or the display of cosmic background radiation, or---"

FFFT! My head explodes Servo-style...