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Author Topic:   Defeating "Dr" Kent Hovinds' claims.
Parasomnium
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Message 6 of 60 (348300)
09-12-2006 3:06 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Fork
08-12-2006 9:32 AM


Linear thinking
When my grandmother was 60, she stood a proud 5 ft 7" tall. Twenty-five years later she had shrunk to a mere 4 ft 11". This means of course that she was born an 8 ft 3" long baby.
Also, from the fact that her IQ of 110 at age 60 had fallen to just 65 when she died at 75, we may of course conclude that, at birth, she must have been a child prodigy with an IQ of 290.
Don't you just love it when you can pretend that everything develops linearly?
Oh, and another thing:
The rate at which the earth is slowing down can be used to prove that the earth was spinning so fast life would have been ejected into space at the 4.5 billion mark.
It's a good thing then that there was no life to be ejected, isn't it?

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
Did you know that most of the time your computer is doing nothing? What if you could make it do something really useful? Like helping scientists understand diseases? Your computer could even be instrumental in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. Wouldn't that be something? If you agree, then join World Community Grid now and download a simple, free tool that lets you and your computer do your share in helping humanity. After all, you are part of it, so why not take part in it?

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Message 10 of 60 (348317)
09-12-2006 7:12 AM
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09-12-2006 7:00 AM


Re: Linear thinking
Actually, it was a little gruesome: lil' granny thought it would be nice to use a caesarian to introduce herself to the world. From the inside out.

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Message 29 of 60 (348988)
09-14-2006 2:45 AM
Reply to: Message 27 by arachnophilia
09-14-2006 12:51 AM


Re: Doctor - I need oxygen!
my jokes are failing
It wasn't lost on me, Arach. 'Nukular' is what gave it away. I think Dwise1 just hasn't been around on EvC long enough to know you. Or Dwise1 was in too serious a mood to notice your little quip, what with debunking Hovind's nonsense an' all.

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Message 51 of 60 (350447)
09-19-2006 6:18 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by Muhd
09-19-2006 5:00 PM


The Game of Blind Faith: the score so far
Muhd writes:
Atheists all have faith to believe that one day, somehow, scientists will be able to explain something coming from nothing, or life arising from non-life which to me seems to require more blind faith than believing that some higher power did it.
I don't know. Maybe scientists will one day find out that life has always existed and that the earth was just seeded from outer space. But I doubt that it requires more blind faith to believe that life arose from non-life than it does to believe that some higher power did it, because the former means that you only have to believe that life arose from non-life, whereas the latter requires you to believe that some higher power did it, as well as that said higher power has either always existed or arose from some lower power, or, God forbid, from non-power. The tally is: one thing to believe for the atheists, and two for the creationists. In the game of Blind Faith, the creationists are firmly in the lead.
looking for a naturalist answer to the Origin of life is like looking for a natural process that creates wristwatches
I own no less than eight mechanical wristwatches and I can tell you that, without exception, they were all the result of a natural process. Although I do admire their extraordinary skills, I do not think that watchmakers are supernatural entities. Do you see the error in your rhetoric, or do you need someone to spell it out for you?

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
Did you know that most of the time your computer is doing nothing? What if you could make it do something really useful? Like helping scientists understand diseases? Your computer could even be instrumental in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. Wouldn't that be something? If you agree, then join World Community Grid now and download a simple, free tool that lets you and your computer do your share in helping humanity. After all, you are part of it, so why not take part in it?

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