Queen of Swords

Originally posted by Late_Cretaceous:
<strong>she quotes "I ask you just to use common sense. Have you ever seen a bang, an explosion, create something?"</strong>

Well, I'm here, aren't I?

Automaton

Idiot preacher This is not an argument, it's a bunch of words that might be related to some form of argument somewhere, strung together in a nonsensical fashion. The "conclusion" shouldn't be there, as a line of reasoning was not presented that establishes why one is false and the other true. Not to mention that it's a False Dichotomy.
"Science" is a body of knowledge and principles relating to the physical world. How can it "accept" or "deny" anything? Perhaps what he meant was, "Scientists have accepted the Genesis flood." That would be a lie, however. No real scientist have ever done such a thing.
Too bad that mountains are a product of plate tectonic folding, therefore mountains could have once been underwater regions, and that this is demonstratably false, many mountain ranges don not have marine fossils, and finally that this actually contradicts the Genesis flood. No real or imagined sorting mechanism can account for why marine animals and not small birds or other similar sized creatures were at the top of the mountains. Whoops!
Even our simpleton preacher knows you can't take two apples and have three apples in the end (unless you had a magical apple machine of some kind), but 1st law is totally and utterly irrelevent to systems related to cosmogony, cosmology and biological evolution. Just to make sure the idiot is the ultimate expert on thermodynamics in the universe, why don't you ask him to do some enthalpy calculations for you, and see what his reaction is.
No, the second law of thermodynamics is NOT that matter is becoming less orderly. It is that: Unless heat available to do mechanical work is provdided to a system, that heat available to do mechanical work will disperse itself homogenously in that system (I think I phrased that correctly).
There is no law of biogenesis, never was, except perhaps relating to bacteria genesis in meat broth and milk. Ask him to provide ACTUAL counterevidence to the proposition that life can come from non-life in a primordial "soup". Keyword is evidence. If there is such a law, then he should have no problem supporting and establishing it.
Show him a chart of hominids, and other pictures of transitionals, and see if he still makes this wild claim.
The geologic column is not used to "prove" anything. What the hell kind of crack was this guy smoking? It is used as a theoretical -guideline-, read -guideline- as to how strata will appear. And yes, the entire column as proposed in the -guideline- does in fact exist in several places.
This is a lie upon a lie. The original myth was exposed long ago by a friend (or relative, I can't remember) of Lady Hope. She never even visited Darwin! So how could she have personally converted him on his deathbed? Now the fool preacher has created a whole new elaborate myth that's more bullshit than the original. Anyway, even if Darwin did recant, (and creationists have a hard time understanding this) that has absolutely FUCK ALL to do with the scientific validity of their theories. If Einstein had said his relativity theory was just a prank he pulled as the result of losing a bet in a bar, would that make relativity suddenly false?

Oolon Colluphid

Something like this?



Point out that they're in chronological order. Then ask him to find a dividing line between the ape ones and the humans, and explain why.

Oolon

RufusAtticus

If that's the best the preacher can do to defend his religion, then Atheists have nothing to worry about.

-RvFvS

Peregrine

Just write a polite letter to the preacher reminding him that it is a sin to bear false witness. That all he said were lies, and that you hope it was his sources that lied and not himself.

Dark Jedi

They invite rebuttals to letters:
letters@rockymountainnews.com

Valentine Pontifex

Except for the first skull which is modern.

DNAunion

DNAunion: Hold on a second. Are you claiming that humans evolved from apes? If not, are you saying that you guys can fake an transitional series from apes to humans with well-chosen photographs?
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fando

DNAunion

DNAunion: No reply yet. Okay, I'll ask again.

DNAunion: Hold on a second. Are you claiming that humans evolved from apes? If not, are you saying that you guys can fake an transitional series from apes to humans with well-chosen photographs?
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