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Roland98 · 06-19-2003, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by southernhybrid
I find this thread from Rapture Ready very depressing. Many of these people claim to have a degree in science.

Yikes! At least on the Christian board I post on, they acknowledge that they know essentially nothing about science besides what AIG or ICR has brainwashed them with.

RufusAtticus · 06-19-2003, 05:49 PM

From that Rapture Ready thread, a person who claims to have a degree in biology:

Anyone who can look at a single cell, and still believe in evolutionary theories for the origin of life, has to have blinders on. A true scientist considers ALL possible explanations...

Apparantly he missed the part of his scientific education where they taught that science only considers scientific explainations, and only then ones that haven't been disproven.

Spaz · 06-19-2003, 06:30 PM

"Unfortunately, all areas of academic endeavor, including computer science (whatever that is, as defined in your orbit) are fallen and subject to evolutionary thought. I see virtually every department in my institution as reeking with evolutionary thought, including business, including computers, and especially religion." - from the great thinker CamelPower on RaptureReady

WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?!!

Why must people be so ignorant? What happened? WHY?! Everytime somebody says something about evolution in anything other than biology you know automatically that they have no idea what the hell they're talking about. How the hell can "evolutionary thought" affect business? Computer Science? WTF?! What is wrong with these people? Can't they see reality? Is it something wrong with me? I don't get it, I really don't.

Peregrine · 06-19-2003, 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by pariahSS
if humans evovled from monkies, why do monkies still exist

all too common and quite uninspired :boohoo:

Okay, a student in my bio class came up with a variation on this one.

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If humans evolved from ape-like animals why are there still apes and no neanderthals?

pangloss · 06-20-2003, 05:01 AM

At the 'christians unite' board, where I post as doppelganger, I have been informed that I am 'playing dumb' and 'hiding' for asking a poster to define the terms "information", "creation scientist", and "transitional fossil" before I will discuss those issues with him.

Roland98 · 06-20-2003, 05:29 AM

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Originally posted by pangloss
At the 'christians unite' board, where I post as doppelganger, I have been informed that I am 'playing dumb' and 'hiding' for asking a poster to define the terms "information", "creation scientist", and "transitional fossil" before I will discuss those issues with him.

Well of course--why should they be tied down to something that is "of this world," like definitions, when they can stick by the heavily mutable and nebulous terms like "kind?"

Don't tell me you're trying to use LOGIC with them!!!

Roland98 · 06-20-2003, 11:41 AM

Topic: Were Adam and Eve black?

Username: DanielGordon

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Differences between whites and Blacks... well I suspect man was white in the beginning since it is said man was created in the image of God and his shining glory was bright and I guess white then.

Also there is the pigment: If you spend a lot of time in the sun, what happens? darker skin, African people were in Africa where it was hot and there wasn't much relief so it was only natural that over time there skin would turn dark. People in other place of the world, cooler would get less sun and lighter skin.

And somehow, later in the same post:

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The carbon dating kind of stuff might not be as accurate as we think. We have only accuratly monitered half-lives for only a few years, the half-life cycle may and could have changed over time, so how old the Earth is could be Billions or thousands of years.

And finally, he wraps it up with:

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Adam and Eve may have been a color that no one has seen before, or could understand.

I vote Adam and Eve were both fuschia!!!

caravelair · 06-20-2003, 12:33 PM

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Originally posted by Roland98
I vote Adam and Eve were both fuschia!!!

no, DanielGordon is right! they were a colour no one has seen before! hmm, i wonder what part of the EM spectrum that would be in...

Spaz · 06-20-2003, 01:25 PM

No no, I got it! White the color is when there is no color, but white light is a collection of all colors of light. So see adam and eve were white light, so all the colors came from them, yeah, that doesn't make sense so it must be true!

caravelair · 06-20-2003, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by Spaz
yeah, that doesn't make sense so it must be true!

agreed!

06-19-2003, 05:49 PM	#132
RufusAtticus Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NCSU Posts: 5,853	From that Rapture Ready thread, a person who claims to have a degree in biology: Anyone who can look at a single cell, and still believe in evolutionary theories for the origin of life, has to have blinders on. A true scientist considers ALL possible explanations... Apparantly he missed the part of his scientific education where they taught that science only considers scientific explainations, and only then ones that haven't been disproven.

06-20-2003, 05:01 AM	#135
pangloss Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,302	maybe not 'dumb', but.... At the 'christians unite' board, where I post as doppelganger, I have been informed that I am 'playing dumb' and 'hiding' for asking a poster to define the terms "information", "creation scientist", and "transitional fossil" before I will discuss those issues with him.

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06-19-2003, 06:30 PM	#133
Spaz Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 6th Circle of Hell Posts: 1,093	"Unfortunately, all areas of academic endeavor, including computer science (whatever that is, as defined in your orbit) are fallen and subject to evolutionary thought. I see virtually every department in my institution as reeking with evolutionary thought, including business, including computers, and especially religion." - from the great thinker CamelPower on RaptureReady WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?!! Why must people be so ignorant? What happened? WHY?! Everytime somebody says something about evolution in anything other than biology you know automatically that they have no idea what the hell they're talking about. How the hell can "evolutionary thought" affect business? Computer Science? WTF?! What is wrong with these people? Can't they see reality? Is it something wrong with me? I don't get it, I really don't.

06-20-2003, 01:25 PM	#139
Spaz Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 6th Circle of Hell Posts: 1,093	No no, I got it! White the color is when there is no color, but white light is a collection of all colors of light. So see adam and eve were white light, so all the colors came from them, yeah, that doesn't make sense so it must be true!

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