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mike the wiz Member Posts: 4752 From: u.k Joined: |
ID BEING PATENTLY LOGICAL
"can we yet create a life or an artificial lifeform Mr Scientist?""no". "why not?" "Because we haven't accumulated enough knowledge/intelligence yet, for the problems." "are we closer now than we were?" "Yes, because the more knowledge and the more brains (intelligence) you throw at the problem, the closer we get" (noticing a pattern yet folks?) "So are you saying mr scientist, that the key to creating a life or getting closer to that level, is we need more and more intelligence/knowledge?" "Oh I see what you are doing now - you are trying to get me to admit that knowledge and intelligence is what you need to get a life form! How dare you! what an absolute outrage, I take it all back, in fact we stand a much better chance of getting a lifeform by never doing any thinking ever again, or any experiments! Just sitting here looking at a rock and waiting for it to sprout feelers is much more likely to get us a lifeform, without any intelligence, you wretched, religious ignoramus!" "And there was me thinking that an eyeball being constructed to see wasn't a religious notion. How silly of me your highness, and grandiose chief of educated thought. Next time my local mechanic fixes my car I'll be sure to tell him what a religious idiot he is for his belief that a car is constructed for the purpose of driving."
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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I wondered why this was posted in the humour thread since it seemed to be just a mean-minded exercise in strawmanningl. Then I thought about the subtitle and realised it was an attack on IDer "logic". It's still not nice, but there is at least a touch of humour there.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 284 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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There is in fact a subforum where this sort of moronic drivel is on topic. But this is the Humor thread.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped! |
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 477 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
If you say the word "gullible" slowly, it sounds like oranges. Go ahead and try it. |
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frako Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that. |
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ringo Member (Idle past 412 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Two Corinthians walk into a bar....
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vimesey Member Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined:
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But was Cruz just being Ionic ?
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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frako Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that. |
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 284 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5930 Joined: Member Rating: 5.8
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Sadly, that is not a joke. I'm not saying that that tweet is genuine, but rather that it does represent how much too many Christians know.
Back in 2002, I received an email from a Christian asking me about a badly garbled claim about how fast the sun is losing its mass (the claim was that the sun loses half its mass every year). That led me to look for other examples, in the course of which I found that the current vector for claims involving solar-mass loss was Kent Hovind, though he is obviously not the source of the original claim that had been so badly garbled. I keep trying to rewrite my page on that claim, the latest which you can find as: Kent Hovind's Solar Mass Claim. While searching for examples of Hovind's claim, I came across this flaming example of fundamentalist Christian conspiracy paranoia and science illiteracy at http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1260.cfm:
quote: They couldn't understand the simple truth, but they could understand someone who was as confused and ignorant as they were. Galileo plunged into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2003. Of course, there was no explosion since its two reactors, each containing 17 lb of plutonium (or 34 lb combined, not the 49.7 lb claimed), were designed to minimize the effects of any event such as a crash, an explosion, fire, reentry into the atmosphere. More information can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/...eo_(spacecraft)#Electrical_power. BTW for the sake of lurkers, Kent Hovind is not now nor has he ever been a scientist. His three degrees are all in Religious Education or Christian Education and they are all from unaccredited schools (his Master's and PhD are from the same diploma mill). His only science education was from some classes at a community college in his first two years out of high school and from teaching math and science for about 15 years in private Christian schools (which do not have to require their teachers to be qualified).
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 284 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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His comment on her proposed thread made me laugh out loud:
"At one point you say that all tectonic motion today is in one direction. I think if you move the relevant material for that idea from this proposal to a new thread proposal that it would generate a great deal of interest." Ah, Percy, you're a sly one.
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 477 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
I partly blame the confusion on the labeling of fusion by mainstream science. I think it was an effort to make science more friendly to the general public. You know what physicists call fusion? They call it burning. So, hydrogen fusion would be "hydrogen burning" and helium fusion would be "helium burning".
Those of us who have been properly educated know the difference between "hydrogen burning" and hydrogen combustion. Unfortunately, most of the public aren't properly educated, so the misunderstanding that "hydrogen burning" is actually hydrogen combustion lingers. Go ahead and do a google search for "hydrogen burning".If you say the word "gullible" slowly, it sounds like oranges. Go ahead and try it.
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