Nutballs who will believe anything

I have often noticed a shared mentality between the lunatic fringe and creationists. A recent special on the Moon Landing Conspiracy had my jaw bouncing off the floor. Not because of the stupidity of the conspiracists who claim the moon landings were faked, but by the similarity between moon landing conspiracy theorists (Moonies for short) and creationists. In the TV program they ripped up the Moonies evidence one by one, but the Moonies had an ad hoc rationalization for every rebuttal. The best was when they demonstrated how the laser refelcting prisms on the moon worked, an experiment left on the moon by one of the Apollo missions. They couldn't get one Moonie to answer any questions about the laser light that reflected off of the moon. This was so similar to topics on this site that are ignored by creationists as if it were the plague (numerous threads on ERV's for instance).Man has, and probably always will, put wishful thinking ahead of rational thought.This message has been edited by Loudmouth, 04-13-2005 04:39 PM

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I am a bit more whacko than the purely scientific minds here, but I think that if some conspiricy of Biblical prophecy were to be detected, it would be detected and discerned by many people and not just by one guy on his private mission.

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I think we should call this the Ron Wyatt Principle. It is the same logic that was used to discern the mental state of the late Mr. Wyatt, and it applies here as well. After all, when someone claims to have seen the Ark of the Covenant, Noahs Ark, and several other biblical artifacts and they have no evidence to back it up you have to wonder if that someone iss not a walking tabloid.If I were to dream up of a perfect EvC Tabloid Headline, it would read: "Ron Wyatts Face Found On Joseph's Ossuary".

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Creationists really don't deserve to be put in the spotlight for not responding to scientific evidence, when one, they are not the only ones, and two, they rarely can combat such evidence, and usually stick with faith, belief, morals, and philosophy because of this deficiency.

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They do, and rightfully so. They claim there is no scientific evidence that supports evolution, and do so only by ignoring it.

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It's easier to dream, then to realize truths.

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I agree. It is even harder to support what you think is truth. It is hard to admit when you may be wrong. To get back to the OP, it is easier to dream of untestable reasons why you are right and ignore the most damning evidence.