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Topic: Other side's biggest misinterpretation?
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Rei
Member (Idle past 7038 days) Posts: 1546 From: Iowa City, IA Joined: 09-03-2003
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Message 1 of 49 (58377)
09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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Regardless of whatever side of the debate your on, what do you find to be the most annoying misinterpretation of your side's views? I'll go first: "If we evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still here???" ------------------ "Illuminant light, illuminate me."
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Chiroptera
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Message 2 of 49 (58378)
09-28-2003 8:44 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Rei 09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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bad statistics
Oh, this is easy. It's gotta be: "The odds that a DNA molecule making hemoglobin could form by random chance is a hundred million bazillion to one!" Or any of the other "tornado in a junk yard" examples.
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crashfrog
Member (Idle past 1492 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: 03-20-2003
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Message 3 of 49 (58381)
09-28-2003 8:47 PM
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I'd say it's the idea that evolution == atheism. Atheism may be suggested by evolution, but it by no means is neccessitated by evolution, of course.
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Asgara
Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: 05-10-2003
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Message 4 of 49 (58384)
09-28-2003 9:08 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Rei 09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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This isn't necessarily a misrepresentation of evolution, but when losing with their other misrepresentations, you can hold your breath waiting for Pascal's Wager to come out. ------------------ Asgara "An unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates via Plato
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NeilUnreal
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Message 5 of 49 (58390)
09-28-2003 10:13 PM
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Mine is general: it's the reliance of YEC and ID on scholasticism, and the assumption that science does the same. -Neil
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Mammuthus
Member (Idle past 6500 days) Posts: 3085 From: Munich, Germany Joined: 08-09-2002
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Message 6 of 49 (58433)
09-29-2003 4:10 AM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Rei 09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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It is hard to pick a favorite since there are so many...but it does irk me that creationist number n comes to the board and claims that even though he or she has never read anything about evolution, has an X grade education, and in principle would not engage in any debate on any other technical subject with such a lack of preparation, he/she knows for a fact that evolution and abiogenesis are the same thing
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John
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Message 7 of 49 (58453)
09-29-2003 8:34 AM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Rei 09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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Irritating? That has to be the 'your science is just faith, too' line. ------------------
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MrHambre
Member (Idle past 1418 days) Posts: 1495 From: Framingham, MA, USA Joined: 06-23-2003
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Message 8 of 49 (58467)
09-29-2003 10:21 AM
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Reply to: Message 7 by John 09-29-2003 8:34 AM
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I agree. However, you forgot that after you provide them with an avalanche of sources to support the ToE and its mechanisms, they always follow up by accusing you of making an Appeal to Authority. ------------------ I would not let the chickens cross the antidote road because I was already hospitlized for trying to say this!-Brad McFall
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nator
Member (Idle past 2195 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: 12-09-2001
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Message 9 of 49 (58469)
09-29-2003 10:31 AM
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Reply to: Message 8 by MrHambre 09-29-2003 10:21 AM
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My favorite is "Evolution can't be true because it isn't common sense!"
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roxrkool
Member (Idle past 1014 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: 03-23-2003
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Message 10 of 49 (58480)
09-29-2003 11:09 AM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Rei 09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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I have a couple: 1) That a dog should give birth to a cow if the ToE is true; and 2) The whole Noah's Flood thing!!! [This message has been edited by roxrkool, 09-29-2003]
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Brian
Member (Idle past 4984 days) Posts: 4659 From: Scotland Joined: 10-22-2002
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Message 11 of 49 (58510)
09-29-2003 12:50 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Rei 09-28-2003 8:28 PM
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When Bible inerrantists say that archaeology supports every historical event mentioned in the Bible. This displays a great ignorance of the subject. Brian.
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John
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Message 12 of 49 (58730)
09-30-2003 10:12 AM
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Reply to: Message 8 by MrHambre 09-29-2003 10:21 AM
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quote: ... they always follow up by accusing you of making an Appeal to Authority.
No kidding! And then they prove their point by quoting the Bible. ------------------
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Percy
Member Posts: 22489 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 5.0
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Message 13 of 49 (58732)
09-30-2003 10:19 AM
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More and more scientists are abandoning the bankrupt theory of evolution as they realize that life could only be the result of a divine creator. --Percy
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 14 of 49 (58736)
09-30-2003 11:04 AM
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For me, it's the "Young" in "Young Earth (Age) Creationism". Moose
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John
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Message 15 of 49 (58737)
09-30-2003 11:07 AM
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Reply to: Message 13 by Percy 09-30-2003 10:19 AM
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