Originally Posted By Labuda ^ Wow. So can you please find out for us what has made the speed of light slow down? I'm dying to learn the answer to THAT.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance "Maybe Huckabee should be pro-abortion since he feels that unmarried pregnant women are unacceptable? " I thought the same thing.
Originally Posted By Labuda Trust me, I don't expect science from a person who believes the earth is only 6,000 years old and that the speed of light has slowed down. I just expect a good laugh.
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^They try to come up with pseudo scientific explanatons that fit into their belief in a "young earth". They are a larger version of the Flat Earth Society. No amount of proof will convince them that the Earth is more than 6000 years old.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Well, when you present facts about carbon dating, and the response is that "the devil uses that to deceive us", how can you argue facts with them?
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Flat Earth Society< I can't decide if they are better/funnier than the Hallow Earth Society.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Well, when you present facts about carbon dating, and the response is that "the devil uses that to deceive us", how can you argue facts with them?<< Another fundy relative of mine once remarked that "science can't be trusted." My reply was: "Yet you trust science enough to out your entire family on jet airliner to come out and visit us." His reply was: "That's different"
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Another fundy relative of mine once remarked that "science can't be trusted." My reply was: "Yet you trust science enough to out your entire family on jet airliner to come out and visit us." His reply was: "That's different"" LOL, yup, these were the kinds of "arguments" I got into all the time growing up. It was constant stuff like this that made me do my own soul searching and left... Oh, and these were the kinds of people teaching kids in school. Do you really want people with those logic skills to be teaching science or history to your kids? I had to re-learn quite a lot of what they taught me...
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 "They try to come up with pseudo scientific explanatons that fit into their belief in a "young earth"." I remember seeing footage from a creationism museum somewhere that cracked me up. They used really cheesy animatronics to show that the dinosaurs and humans got along and everyone was happy, with people even riding dinosaurs ala the Flinstones, until Eve ate the apple. Then the dinosaurs turned mean and then randomly disappeared from the Earth while the humans were able to survive whatever it was that made the dinosaurs die. The funniest thing about it was the claim that there is more scientific evidence to support this wackadoo theory than there to to support evolution. The sad part about it is that the children of all of these people grow up actually this stuff is true "science."
Originally Posted By skinnerbox They also grow up believing that Harry Potter and his classmates are devil worshippers, and that the Potter books and films are indoctrinating our kids into evil lifestyles.
Originally Posted By mele This is totally off topic but I have to share it cos it's too funny. One of my friend's friends (yeah, I know) is attending school with Emma Watson. Apparently she answered a question correctly in class and someone shouted "ten points for Gryffindor!" She was unamused (but it makes me LOL)
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "I remember seeing footage from a creationism museum somewhere that cracked me up. They used really cheesy animatronics to show that the dinosaurs and humans got along and everyone was happy, with people even riding dinosaurs ala the Flinstones, until Eve ate the apple. Then the dinosaurs turned mean and then randomly disappeared from the Earth while the humans were able to survive whatever it was that made the dinosaurs die." LOL, yeah, I saw that too. The thing that always got me was that supposedly while in the Garden of Eden, there were no carnivores. So...every animal that eats meat now somehow had the ability to eat and digest only vegetation. Well, then, once Eve ate that apple, did God have to then "re-create" all those carnivores and give them proper teeth and digestive systems to hunt down and eat meat? Totally illogical. "One of my friend's friends (yeah, I know) is attending school with Emma Watson. Apparently she answered a question correctly in class and someone shouted "ten points for Gryffindor!" She was unamused (but it makes me LOL)" Mele, that's a funny story. I can imagine she was not amused, LOL!
Originally Posted By fkurucz Taking the creation stories (there are two in the OT) literally is rather silly IMHO. What is much more powerful about the creation stories is the meaning. For instance, that God pronounces creation as "good". Which is interesting as most fundies see creation as evil (i.e the "world" is evil as opposed to be merely fallen from grace).
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Yeah, the literal interpretation of creation, and several other Biblical stories takes so much mind-bending, it's just nuts!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <with people even riding dinosaurs ala the Flinstones, until Eve ate the apple.> That's kind of bizarre. That would mean there were humans around BEFORE Eve. (??)
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Maybe they had more than one set of Adam and Eve animatronics or maybe they think that after Adam and Eve were created lots of other humans quickly followed...I just saw the footage, don't ask me to decode their bizarre theories. I wouldn't know where to start
Originally Posted By Mr X ***The thing that always got me was that supposedly while in the Garden of Eden, there were no carnivores. So...every animal that eats meat now somehow had the ability to eat and digest only vegetation. Well, then, once Eve ate that apple, did God have to then "re-create" all those carnivores and give them proper teeth and digestive systems to hunt down and eat meat? Totally illogical.*** I saw a YouTube vid once that was awesome. An atheist kid asked a creationist (regarding Noah's Ark), "So, did they bring extra gazelles for the lions?". The creationist sputtered and stammered for a while, and finally landed on "this was before 'the fall' and lions didn't need meat". So the kid was like, "yes, yes they do need meat. they can't survive on plants only, they require protein", so the creationist (who claims himself a rational, scientific person so his answers have to attempt to stay logical) says "well, yes. of course, I know that. They probably ate beans". lmao.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I would imagine that the lions could survive nicely on a steady diet of seafood, not to mention all the dead animals floating in the flooded earth that Noah might have been able to fish out of the water, at least until they got too disgusting.
