|
Register | Sign In |
|
QuickSearch
Thread ▼ Details |
|
Thread Info
|
|
|
Author | Topic: Coffee House Musings on Creationist Topic Proposals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
DWise1 writes:
For Dredge's benefit (though he probably won't understand it): We assume that the wheel we already invented will still work. Having to reinvent the wheel every time you need to use one is utterly stupid. The only reason to revisit the wheel would be to make a significant modification to the design or else to correct some inherent problem with the original design. For example, why revisit the geocentric model all the time? But Kepler had to because the Copernican heliocentric model was flawed and was far less accurate than the Ptolemaic geocentric model which had had the benefit of centuries of continual tweaking and improvements through the adding of ever more epicycles. Kepler found that the flaw in the Copernican system was the assumption of circular orbits, which he corrected in his First Law of Planetary Motion: "The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci." The only other reason to reinvent the wheel would be to teach it to schoolchildren. Which is not the purpose of any scientific papers, especially in medical science. Maybe if Dredge had ever left his mother's basement and gone out to learn how to work for a living, he would know better, but he will never learn nor even try to improve himself. To repeat to him the words of Marcus Lycus that I've shared with him before:
quote:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
Darwin has been dead since 1882. Many other names have been associated with evolutionary theory since then. So why do critics of evolution always refer to the study as Darwinism? The simple answer is that they have no idea what they are talking about. They see words without knowing what those words mean, but rather they have been told that those words are bad. And their empty minds have been filled with bullshit lies. Does anyone here doubt that Dredge and other creationists have come up with their "gotcha questions" all on their own? Of course not. They got that nonsense from creationist sources. But this raises another issue with creationists. They believe that everybody else thinks and operates like they do, when that is clearly not the case.
Or we can just return to the basic observation that creationists don't know what they are talking about. And they refuse to learn anything.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
The greatest scientist in history - Isaac Newton - was a creationist. LOL!! A creationist in the modern context is an anti-science idiot. You are lying by dithering with the meanings of words. That does not describe Isaac Newton, but he could be deemed a "creationist" within the context of his own time and culture since he did believe in God the Creator. And he did do science by doing science instead of mixing in the supernatural. BTW, Newton was also a numerologist and may have also dabbled in astrology (Kepler most certainly did practice astrology). Many scientists, including highly effective opponents to creationism (ie, to your anti-science idiocy), also believe in God the Creator and hence could be deemed "creationists" in the same sense as Isaac Newton was, but most definitely not in the sense of being an anti-science idiot. And those scientists who believe in God the Creator do serious science by doing science without mixing religion into it. There are also professional creationists who have valid doctorates in a science and who have done actual scientific research and published actual scientific papers. The name Snelling comes to mind. However, when they do science they keep their anti-science idiotic creationist out of it and only do creationism when writing for creationists (ie, anti-science idiots). What a complete fucking idiot you are! Yet again you have absolutely no idea what you are babbling about.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
One of the funniest things about "creation science" is how much effort leading creationists have to put into explaining away why the evidence looks for all the world like evolution.
Rather than always having to discount and refute and explain away the evidence, why don't they just look at what the evidence is telling them?
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Saying "only a theory" is like saying "only a trillion dollars". The word "only" doesn't really apply to something so vast. Well, it's a well known fact that the Bible is only a book. Where did you get that idea anyway? From somebody else with an IQ of 9? He got it from other creationists, so, yeah, somebody else with an IQ of 9. The thing is that creationists always lie. They have to, because they have nothing else. They're trying to deny reality but there's no evidence to support their denial. All they have to work with are lies. And Dredge is too stupid to realize that his creationist sources are lying to him too! What a rube!
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
Dredgings: well,
WTF??? I'm beginning to understand why I flunked Elementary school ... fixed it for you. no need to thank me. How could he have flunked elementary school when he obviously never attended one?
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
A quote that I keep coming back to:
quote: I heard that in an interview on NPR circa 1990. The then-governor of Mississippi used it in defending his push to improve education (the Mississippi school system usually ranks at the bottom) despite his state legislature's opposition. Oh! I just realized! I never knew before that Australia had been colonized by Mississippians!
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
|
Yet again you raise the question of whether negative IQ scores are possible by submitting for one yourself.
It doesn't matter how loudly you squeal against reality, reality does still exist. And regardless of how fervently you creationists try to repeal reality, reality is not affected by you one bit. Reality does not care one whit whether you believe in it or not. So delude yourself all you want to. Reality will still bite you solidly in the ass every single time. Note about National Public Radio (NPR):
While serving internal exile in the cold part of North Dakota (what I would call my active duty assignment there), NPR became my primary source for world and national news (and for music, since the FM side played classical). We were rather isolated and I couldn't get any news from the outside because I always had duty when network news was on TV and the local news and newspapers rarely covered more than local news, farm news, and the weather (everybody always made sure to catch the weather report, such that it was used as a joke in the book, How to Speak Minnesotan). Thus NPR became my primary source for news.
I was impressed that NPR was covering the Soviet war in Afghanistan long before other US news sources even started to pay any attention to it. Then I learned later that for international news NPR made use of the BBC World Service.
|
|
|
Do Nothing Button
Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved
Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024