Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
2 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,817 Year: 3,074/9,624 Month: 919/1,588 Week: 102/223 Day: 0/13 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   The smoldering of EVC
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(2)
Message 8 of 168 (714998)
12-31-2013 12:39 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Bolder-dash
12-30-2013 9:13 PM


Booooo
I don't know. I pretty much think this is the best forum I've ever been a member of and it is far more inclusive and forgiving than any of the Christian forums. Heck, it's even more inclusive and forgiving than many of the Atheist forums. And I'm an atheist.
Sure, people get frustrated and rude, but I'd say the abuse goes both ways. Just look at your post. However, in spite of the snarkiness and that Faith makes me want to pull my eye lashes out one by one, I have great respect for her. I've told her this in the past and I re-iterate it now. I would love to speak to her face to face and I think we'd get along just fine in real life -- as long as we stayed away from Creationist topics. Though I'm not sure she'd actually want to be friends with a stupid, idiotic atheist. But that's okay, too. Same with Buzz and other Creationists.
The doubters flee, no doubt, because this site is chock full of extraordinarily intelligent people (myself NOT included) and they demand a higher quality posting than your typical forum. Posting here can be quite intimidating.
I think you are probably an adult, but you certainly don't sound like one here.
Edited by roxrkool, : No reason given.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by Bolder-dash, posted 12-30-2013 9:13 PM Bolder-dash has not replied

  
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(6)
Message 64 of 168 (715206)
01-02-2014 11:09 AM
Reply to: Message 48 by Faith
01-02-2014 4:41 AM


Re: The smoldering of EvC
It's certainly not the "science" here that we creationists suffer from, it's the misrepresentations and the idiotic purely imaginative speculative answers that are taken for gospel over anything we offer about anything. ALL you guys have IS speculation and the POWER TO ENFORCE it.
This would be true indeed if the only places these "old Earth" theories are promoted are on evolution v. creation websites. But of course we know that is not the case. We actually USE our theories to find billions of dollars in natural resources? You know how Creationist "geologists" make money? They bilk the ignorant masses like you by selling books, videos, and "Technical Journal" papers, which you turn around and defend to the non-believers. You ingest junk science and defecate insensible rubbish.
Rather than sit in your sweet little creationist offices writing ABOUT geology and coming up with all these sciency theories, why aren't you all out applying your theories? That is the true test of whether your theories ought to be accepted or not. Instead, you'd rather sit at home complaining and whining and crying and acting worse than a petulant 3 year old child whose mother won't buy them a Thomas the Tank Engine toy because the mean old Atheists won't blindly accept your cockamamie stories. Boo fucking hoo.
As a geologist, nearly every single day of my job, I get questioned, derided, laughed at, eyes rolled at, and snickered at by other geologists, and have my science called "voodoo" by ignorant engineers for my own cockamamie ideas. You know how I handle it? I get the fuck to work and show them EVIDENCE and more EVIDENCE of why my idiotic idea is right or better and theirs is wrong. The ones who cry about being laughed at, find themselves with less and less work until they can only talk about the days, "I used to be a geologist." We don't put up with whiny babies in geology, because climbing mountains or hiking deserts with a pack full of rocks, beer, and a hammer is hard enough work.
And if you go to Geology conferences, there are arguments all the time about so-and-so's ridiculous theory about the K-T extinction or the ha ha snowball earth joke or continental drift or a giant flood in Washington state or meteorites hitting the earth. If scientists gave up every time they were laughed at or derided, no one would ever go on to discover anything new.
So forgive me if I don't give a shit about your having to put up with a little written abuse for your cockamamie ideas on geology on some EvC website on the internet.
If you want to leave, leave. Stop playing the poor persecuted Christian and grow some fucking balls already. In fact, grow a vagina. They're tougher.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 48 by Faith, posted 01-02-2014 4:41 AM Faith has not replied

  
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(1)
Message 81 of 168 (715241)
01-02-2014 3:19 PM
Reply to: Message 74 by RAZD
01-02-2014 2:36 PM


EvC Facebook page
I agree. A couple of the boards I used to visit have facebook pages and it's really not conducive to the quality of debating EvC has. It's better suited to superficial commentary on various EvC topics, getting to know people better, and general bullshitting.
It might be pretty good advertising, though.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 74 by RAZD, posted 01-02-2014 2:36 PM RAZD has seen this message but not replied

  
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(2)
Message 85 of 168 (715262)
01-02-2014 5:45 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by Faith
01-02-2014 7:39 AM


Re: The smoldering of EvC
Do a little research on "historical sciences."
There are experimental (observational) sciences, whose goal is to identify and test physical laws, and historical/interpretive sciences, whose goal is to research past events and reconstruct the history of these events.
A good place to start is the paper Geological Reasoning: Geology as an interpretive and historical science, R. Frodeman, 1995 (PDF).
And a short excerpt that I liked:
quote:
Like art history, with which it shares a strongly visual component, geology is an especially hermeneutic science: the outcrop typically means nothing to the uninitiated until the geologist introduces concepts for ‘‘seeing’’ the rock.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 50 by Faith, posted 01-02-2014 7:39 AM Faith has not replied

  
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(2)
Message 87 of 168 (715282)
01-02-2014 10:14 PM
Reply to: Message 70 by AZPaul3
01-02-2014 1:41 PM


Re: The smoldering of EvC
Here is an excellent example of the garbage flooding facebook:
Yeah, ingesting salt orally is EXACTLY the same thing as injecting it into your veins. Try that with O2 and see what happens. FFS.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 70 by AZPaul3, posted 01-02-2014 1:41 PM AZPaul3 has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 88 by AZPaul3, posted 01-03-2014 1:33 AM roxrkool has not replied
 Message 90 by Percy, posted 01-03-2014 6:37 AM roxrkool has replied
 Message 96 by Tanypteryx, posted 01-03-2014 11:04 AM roxrkool has replied

  
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(1)
Message 94 of 168 (715302)
01-03-2014 10:29 AM
Reply to: Message 90 by Percy
01-03-2014 6:37 AM


Re: The smoldering of EvC
Exactly, Percy. Our bodies actually need these things. Ever hear of electrolytes... Gatorade...Who doesn't know this? This friend posts this insanity on a daily basis, from chemtrails poisoning us and toxifying the environment to localized climate manipulation. All by the government. She places 100% trust in the people writing this garbage. I had to reply and haven't heard a word since.
Critical thinking and skepticism should be taught from 1st grade on.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 90 by Percy, posted 01-03-2014 6:37 AM Percy has seen this message but not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 95 by RAZD, posted 01-03-2014 10:59 AM roxrkool has not replied

  
roxrkool
Member (Idle past 989 days)
Posts: 1497
From: Nevada
Joined: 03-23-2003


(3)
Message 101 of 168 (715311)
01-03-2014 12:40 PM
Reply to: Message 96 by Tanypteryx
01-03-2014 11:04 AM


Re: The smoldering of EvC
Sometimes it's quite shocking and enlightening to find out what people think about the world. I have white supremacists, racists, religious fanatics / creationists, new age kooks, and conspiracists as friends on fb; plus my dad who no longer has a public filter and posts comments regarding private conversations I've had with him.
All I know is that I'm happy there was no facebook when I was younger. Those things are better left in the deep dark recesses of my mind.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 96 by Tanypteryx, posted 01-03-2014 11:04 AM Tanypteryx has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 103 by Theodoric, posted 01-03-2014 4:59 PM roxrkool has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024