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You gotta check this stupid woman out.

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there's a branch of Christianity called Day Age Creationism that accepts that one of God's days is longer than a human day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Age_creationism

if the earth was created in 7 days, which in human terms is 3.5 billion years, well that works out to -
1 of God's days = 500 million years.

what percentage of the speed of light do you have to travel at to stretch time out by a factor of 365 x 500 million ?

if we accept that God has the ability to travel at near the speed of light, then the time periods of Creationism and evolution can be reconciled.

i couldn't bring myself to watch the video. i presume it's the blonde woman glowing, wearing a knowing smile, explaining how God (sort of) cooks ... a sprinkle of this, a sprinkle of that, BINGO ! instant earth.

could someone please Cliff-notes-ize the video or do i have to actually listen to it ?
 
wwswimming said:
there's a branch of Christianity called Day Age Creationism that accepts that one of God's days is longer than a human day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Age_creationism

if the earth was created in 7 days, which in human terms is 3.5 billion years, well that works out to -
1 of God's days = 500 million years.

what percentage of the speed of light do you have to travel at to stretch time out by a factor of 365 x 500 million ?

if we accept that God has the ability to travel at near the speed of light, then the time periods of Creationism and evolution can be reconciled.

i couldn't bring myself to watch the video. i presume it's the blonde woman glowing, wearing a knowing smile, explaining how God (sort of) cooks ... a sprinkle of this, a sprinkle of that, BINGO ! instant earth.

could someone please Cliff-notes-ize the video or do i have to actually listen to it ?
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Well, since our days are based on our rotation around the sun, and presumably the Earth and Sun didn't exist when God was making them, God couldn't have had any days.
 
wwswimming said:
could someone please Cliff-notes-ize the video or do i have to actually listen to it ?
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she doesn't think the fossil record or dna provide enough support/evidence for evolution. She thinks there should be an overwhelming number of intermediary fossils lying around spelling out the fact of macroevolution among all species, if it occured, and that the absence of these fossils 1) is the reason evolution is controversial in the non-scientific community (probably true), and 2) demonstrates that evolution is not true.

She also keeps making a case that if we (choose to) believe that god created us then we'll be better people because that means a loving creator made us and we didn't "come from slime", and therefore we will live in a better society. I'm not sure how that addresses the factual history of man's development, but whatever. The only evidence she cites for creation is that DNA is unique and therefore she concludes we must have had a creator who made us all unique.
 
NesuD said:
Says Who? You? It is never ok to be a bigot. Your problem is you don't seem to realize that we are all bigots in some way. You are bigoted against people who believe in the "big magical guy in the sky" as you put it. I am a bigot as well in certain ways. Point is just because someone has beliefs that differ from yours based on their religion, that does not make them a bigot. It simply makes them someone with a different belief. Your willingness to label them bigots for that is just a demonstration of your own intolerant bigotry.
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Yes cus you see atheists picketing gay people's rights or just gay people in general...........
 
PlasmaBomb said:
Originally Posted by SphinxnihpS
They are equally believable, so why not? Do you seriously think that Christianity is at all credible? If so, how is it more credible that Pastafarianism? Before you reply, I want you to know I know that Pastafarianism is an obvious joke (and hilarious) created for the express purpose of making a social point. Do you really believe that because a particular religion is old, that it is more credible, or that because more people buy into it that it is more credible?

Interested (with popcorn).
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/facepalm
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My face is equally palmed.

I do believe I heard a fairly prominent "woosh!" sound as well.


Before you reply, I want you to know I know that Pastafarianism is an obvious joke (and hilarious) created for the express purpose of making a social point.
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What, now you're also going to tell me that The Onion is not a serious, legitimate news site?
 
totalnoob said:
Dawkins "agenda" is to teach the facts as we know them and to stop religious nutcases from poisoning the well of human knowledge.
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I'm just finishing "The Greatest Show on Earth" and enjoy Dawkins' treatment of history deniers.

She an off the scale fool. Which I would hit. To stop, for a few precious moments, the condescension.
 
Inside Intelligent Design: Genie Scott and Daniel Dennett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMx_q8WLSso&feature=player_embedded

^Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) since 1987. She is a leading critic of young earth creationism and intelligent design.

^Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
 
OMFG AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2:45 IN: "There is no evidence of evolution from one species to another. There's microevolution within a species, but not from one species to another."

Richard Dawkins: "Oh really?"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

OH GOD, LOL, IT JUST GETS BETTTERR AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

God, you can just hear the "Yes, oh, yes, oh, oh... Oh god I want to kill you so much right now" in Dawkin's voice.
 
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TridenT said:
OMFG AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2:45 IN: "There is no evidence of evolution from one species to another. There's microevolution within a species, but not from one species to another."

Richard Dawkins: "Oh really?"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

OH GOD, LOL, IT JUST GETS BETTTERR AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

God, you can just hear the "Yes, oh, yes, oh, oh... Oh god I want to kill you so much right now" in Dawkin's voice.
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where is the evidence?
 
Printer Bandit said:
where is the evidence?
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x100000000000000000000000000000000

Omfg, that woman NEEDS TO DIE!!!! I could hear the contemplation of murder in Dawkin's voice... My god, he interviews some BATSHIT INSANE PEOPLE!!! >_<

Wow, I could barely take it. I watched another one that was 2 parts and it was with some grey half-bald whacko. He was crazy too.

Slit time!
 
TridenT said:
x100000000000000000000000000000000

Omfg, that woman NEEDS TO DIE!!!! I could hear the contemplation of murder in Dawkin's voice... My god, he interviews some BATSHIT INSANE PEOPLE!!! >_<

Wow, I could barely take it. I watched another one that was 2 parts and it was with some grey half-bald whacko. He was crazy too.

Slit time!
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🙄
 
PlasmaBomb said:
Maybe if we listen closely we will hear the penny drop...
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What is at all plausible about a man being the son of god, dying for your sins, and being resurrected three days later. I'm dying to know what you think is more plausible about the literal interpretation of the crux (lol) of Christianity.
 
Printer Bandit said:
where is the evidence?
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"Species" is an arbitrary designation. If you accept microevolution, but not macroevolution, you might as well say, "I believe in trees, but not forests," only because you aren't able to walk far enough to see one.



SphinxnihpS said:
What is at all plausible about a man being the son of god, dying for your sins, and being resurrected three days later. I'm dying to know what you think is more plausible about the literal interpretation of the crux (lol) of Christianity.
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It's not plausible at all, and that's the point we've been making.
 
iamanidiot said:
And what you said is somehow not idiotic faith? See "without question", nothing in science is without question. There are missing links in the fossil record. The same fossil records that neither of us has actually seen. I keep an open mind that all of this could still be proven either way in the future, although I think evolution is the better theory atm. Gravity is law because we have no ways of testing anti gravity. The Universal gravitational constant is constantly changing. Newton himself was not completely sure of his work at the time since all he could conclude was that gravity has and will always be there. I.e. there's no interaction time between masses.
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You know what? You're right! You are an idiot.
 
I can't stand people like this, and I don't even bother arguing with them anymore. In an argument about logic (ie, science/evolution), they bring faith and humanistic belief into the mix, which is totally irrelevant.

iamanidiot said:
The most definitive way to prove it either way would be to observe it actually happen.... in which case there would be no way to emulate the environments in a lab....
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You know we can observe bacterial evolution in labs, right?

If the "evidence" that deniers are talking about is observing a chimp turn into a human, that's not going to happen. There is so much evidence of DNA being common and morphing between species that the theory of evolution really is not deniable anymore.
 
PlasmaBomb said:
/facepalm

What is with the lack of reading comprehension in Off Topic (and the world in general) at the minute?
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I didn't read his/her previous posts. I figured they were just quoting that woman who said the EXACT SAME FUCKING THING A BILLION TIMES. >_<
 
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