Secular Pinoy

I can't wait for that enemigo. I want something so visually stunning that any creationist that comes along would be swayed to shift to evolution even before reading a single article. Besides, most anti-creationist website are highly informative but poorly designed© (Oolon would probably blame it on the unIntelligent Designer).

Elvithriel

Ahhhhhrrrgggg!!!!!..... Hulk smash!... ahhhhhrrrggg!!!

orpheus last chant

Famous Painters
What is it about the great artists that makes their work so recognizeable? Is it because they always paint the same thing? Or, is it because no matter what they paint, you can see the character and style of the painter reflected in the finished work? Take Vincent Van Gogh, for example. Instantly recognizeable. Why? The evolutionist would say "well, naturally, his paintings evolved from a singular original painting". Now we know this is ridiculous, right? So why do they get away with using similiarities found in creatures, such as 5 fingers, 2 eyes, etc., as proof that everything evolved? Couldn't it also be argued that a creator might use repeated themes and colors on various creatures as he wills it? Some painters prefer oils on canvas. Others prefer pastels. So, when you see a zebra, a butterfly and a fish that all possess the same black and white stripes, remember; it is not proof of 'common descent'. It just might be proof of a common designer.


:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

i happen to not be an creationist, and still like art and study it...and man, i would never say his paintings evolved from one painting.

liek i said
:banghead:
Fossil Trees in Antarctica
This may not seem like a problem at first. Until of course, you learn that trees do not grow in Antarctica. Six months of the year there is no daylight in Antarctica. How then, did these forests arise in the first place? Perhaps the climate was different at a previous stage in history? Evolution doesn't have an answer for this. The Bible does.

this guy doesn't seem to know much about the movement of continents the changes in climat and pretty much anything.


Right and Wrong
Why do we have right and wrong? How do people instinctively know that it is "good" to say, give a gift, and "bad" to hit someone for no reason? Even children understand these things. The Bible has an answer for this. Evolution does not.

ummm, and at what point does this have anythign to do with evolution?


The Law of Biogenesis
Life comes only from life. This is the law. There is a reason why science has 'laws'. It is a law because life coming from non-life has never been observed. So why would the very science upon which so much of the various other sciences currently rest, be allowed to break a fundemental law of science? Evolutionists must surely hate the Law of Biogenesis

this guy ddin't hear about abiogenesis either.


Mt. St. Helens
I was in Oregon when Mt. St. Helens was coming to a boil. I heard radio reports of the building lava dome, watched for weeks as the steam came out the top, and watched in amazement as the huge top portion of the mountain was blown miles into the air. There was ash all over the place, like grey snow.
What I did not know at the time, was that Mt. St. Helens would become a monument against evolution. In hours, weeks and months, stratified layers of sediment were layed down, which later turned to stone. 'Fossil Forests' were created, mudflows carved miniature Grand Canyons, and the entire area was completely transformed by the event. A vivid example of rapid processes performing in short periods, what evolutionary geology says take hundreds of millions of years. This is a remarkable refutation of the commonly accepted view of geology. Click here for a more in depth look. Here is another great link: The Seven Wonders of Mount St. Helens


and at what point does lava cooling down turn into sediment layers.



but this one is the best


Dragon Legends
In Europe and Asia in the middle ages, dragon legends and depictions were common. As well as written accounts which tell of going to caves where "a dragon lives" and slaying it. It is important to note that the term "Dinosaur" was not invented until the 19th century. Why so many dragon tales? Might these have been the last of the dinosaurs? Consider the Chinese Zodiac. It has 12 creatures. All of them known to us as common animals. Pig, Dog, Ox, etc., etc. Why is there also a Dragon? Perhaps it was just another known creature at the time the Zodiac was created.

Ancient Textiles
Blankets found in tombs from ancient Peru depict beasts which are not unlike dinosaurs. Other art includes jaguars and other animals.




yes people, and the pottery from ancient greece, depicts zeus and the three headed dog of the inferno, cyclops and athena the goddess, ummm......but forget that, that doesn't count .... ups.....

Doubting Didymus

Some inadvertantly good advice, here:

Alright, you phylogeneticists, keep that in mind, will you? I don't want to see anyone inferring a common 'striped ancestor' for zebras and zebrafish, okay? Good.

Jackalope

Strange features and fossils explained?
And ancient peoples didn't recall their flood legends as being "local" because the "local" area was the whole world to them. Argh! This person needs a dose of Claw Hammer Aversion Therapy.

I am ashamed to be an artist...

Lobstrosity

Actually, children need to be taught these things. Children hit things all the time for no reason (perhaps most often their younger, weaker siblings), they break things, they call each other names, lie, eat things they find in their noses... Does the Bible have an answer for this? Oh I forgot, the "fall" explains all bad and God explains all good (even though this "good" guy needlessly set humanity up for its inevitable fall--sadistic bastard rigged the system and somehow is powerless to fix it). :banghead:

Evolution does have an answer: such behavior is beneficial for humans. At their simplest instinctual level, notions of "right" and "wrong" are simply a code of behavior that allow us to reside within societies--to pool our efforts collectively--thereby extracting prosperity greater than the sum of the independent parts. Such "instinctual" behavior could easily be understood as the product of evolution (just like one could easily understand how, say, mother lionesses could theoretically evolve to avoid eating their own offspring). I know, I know...I'm preaching to the choir...but the stupid...I just need to do something about the stupid.

pangloss

Indeed. I found (and put in my Amazon.com review) a big old out of context quote used as a "take home message" in the section on the "crisis" in molecular phylogenetics.

I had posted it on ARN and PLA presented a steadfast defense of this dishonesty - insisting that it did not deter from his message...

Whatrever...

Now, I had also mentioned that I had not read the "whole book".
PLA jumped on me for that.

Of course, I had read the part I found the out of context quote in, as well as the "notes" on it and the bibilography pertaining to it.

I concluded that since I found such dishonesty/incompetence in that one little section, that I had no reason to believe that the rest of the book was this stellar piece of scholarship that it was and is being touted as.

So, Russ - is that bad?

Daisy

um, then you're saying there isn't any "Stripey Kind"?

orac

It is unforgivable! Don't people know that the Bible gives clear instructions for which races should be exterminated, and which should be enslaved? Oh, that's right. We hate the Koran as well, because it's very old so it must be true. Er, did I get that one right? I hope Zeus understands, anyway. It's so hard to keep track of which old things are true and which old things are unfortunate mistakes.

Actually to be honest, I just hate people who can't even use a dictionary when they're making strawmen. It's not as if anything on that page is new, but couldn't it at least be presented nicely? Is that really so much to ask for?

Ok, having gotten to the end of the list, I've decided there's one thing I hate even more: people who can't count claiming to be able to explain the origin of life, the universe, and everything.

And they broke my new irony meter. It's getting to the point where it's just not worth replacing.

dpkm

Okay, this might be a bit off-topic, but I wonder if Eric knows that his "Anger" image has been used by this "designer".

I'm going to drop Eric an email and find out.