Dr.Xu

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I loved the pokémons-in-the-ark scenario! Thanks for the laugh.

Prof

It's a funny thing. Creationists accept that an all powerful God, who performed multiple miracles (let alone creating the cosmos), who flooded the entire earth. This is God who can make anything happen with a snap of his fingers (or a wiggle of his nose or however He does it). Yet, creationists look at a story with an utterly miraculous scene of God flooding the earth, and then twist their brains in a knot trying to figure out how an Ark could have survived it and carried every animal on earth. Why bother? They already accept this fantastical being who has planned the whole thing and who constantly effects the miraculous. Why strain looking for naturalistic explanations and possibilities within such an already fantastic scenario? How about: "It was God's plan that it all happen, so however the heck it worked, God made sure it worked." End of story.

It's just so strange to see fundies accept one insanely miraculous part of a story, and then go all "scientific" trying to justify other elements within that story.

Prof.

batjew

Didn't the bible say that the animal came two unto two to the ark? I don't see how the eggs could walk.

Jayjay

AiG's top scientific publication "After Eden" does not claim that dinosaurs in the Ark were eggs, it specificly mentions "juvenile dinosaurs".

nigh_invulnerable

I thought the "theory" was that the flood killed all the dinosaurs, which is why we find their fossils buried in sedimentary rock?

SEF

Hmm... dinosaur eggs and fossils. I expect the story goes something like: they came, they laid and then they conked out. As opposed to the begatting humans: who came, got laid and still conked out (sometimes before getting laid).

walt6

If Pokemon evolved into Yu Gi Oh, how come there are still Pokeman?

batjew

No, no it is speciation

SEF

Perhaps the pokemon phenomenon is part of the explanation (along with blatantly obvious research, breeding and GM programs!) of why the current generation of creationists accepts micro-evolution as occurring but gets hopelessly confused about there being a distinction between evolution and metamorphosis. Some people really do believe TV and films are real, eg ringing the phone number of someone who played god or an angel or something and attacking actors who play baddies.

Oolon Colluphid

The word for this is, of course, irrationalisation.