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Brian Member (Idle past 5220 days) Posts: 4659 From: Scotland Joined: |
I never used to read much on the evolution/ cretinism debate, I really had no reason to as I know that the creation accounts in Genesis are myths, but I have found myself a bit more interested since I became a member here.
I was reading the Zindler/Gish debate when I came across this little gem of a quote from Duane Gish
But now Frank, if you're trying to tell me and this audience that a chimpanzee and man are 98.4% similar, I will b'lieve that when you will allow your daughter to date a chimpanzee and so forth. And you know you wouldn't do that because there's a whale of a difference between a chimpanzee and a human. I was in stitches!! Does anyone have any amusing creationist quotes? I am preparing to upload my website again, and I think I will devote a section to these pearls of wisdom. Brian. ------------------Remembering events that never happened is a dangerous thing!
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joz Inactive Member |
More here...
http://home.houston.rr.com/bybayouu/quotes.html Though most of them seem to be giving the out of context quoters a taste of their own medicine it also has this gem from our very own Fred Williams...
Normally, if you tell a lie, you should mix in a lot of truth to try to sell it.
Fred Williams
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truthlover Member (Idle past 4320 days) Posts: 1548 From: Selmer, TN Joined: |
My apologies that this is a small section of a debate rather than a single quote, but this cracked up my whole science class (8th through 11th graders). It's from the Zindler Morris debate on the radio:
Morris: Will you tell me where it says Noah had to take fish on board? Zindler: I'm saying it was an error because they didn't know he had to take fish on board. Morris: What you're saying is that the Bible account is wrong. Zindler: Yes! (skip about two sentences here, for brevity's sake) Morris: Nowhere is it claimed that they had to be on board. Zindler: That's why it's wrong! ... Morris: See what this is? This is atheistic logic here... radio show host: Well, he doesn't deny that! Morris: No, he doesn't. He's Madalyn Murray's right hand man! In the end Morris never addresses the point Zindler made clearly, that whales and fish could not have survived Noah's flood, and so they would have to be on the ark. I'm not sure Morris was ever even able to understand the point.
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9012 From: Canada Joined: |
I have to thank Mr. Pamboli for pointing to this one (if I remember correctly)
http://members.truepath.com/vitaC/question.html Note this:
quote: Note the bold sentence. What has carefully been left out?
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zephyr Member (Idle past 4811 days) Posts: 821 From: FOB Taji, Iraq Joined: |
Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! I know this one!
Maybe they didn't feel like explaining why some other species of apes were cursed by God too. After all, how can animals sin?
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9012 From: Canada Joined: |
Bingo!
My question is: Are there in fact 7? Which ones? Chimp, Bonobo, Gorilla, Orangutan, Gibbon, I've run out of guesses?
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Mister Pamboli Member (Idle past 7838 days) Posts: 634 From: Washington, USA Joined: |
quote:Ah zephyr. When you're an old man like me, you will sadly begin to realize that creationism is beyond parody, as this page on "Fallen Man, Fallen Apes" makes clear ... "Humans have always been humans, and apes have always been apes - though when God made them they were both more complex than we see today. There is nothing in between the two groups. There are only fossil remains of the apes of Eden (perfect), and of their subsequent fall (degeneration) into the apes of today (imperfect)" ... To see the original page you'll need to google for "fallen man fallen apes" then look at the page in the Google cache.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 995 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Guinea pigs have a (differently scrambled) GLO pseudogene. I don't know another.
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wj Inactive Member |
Add macaques to the list of vitamin C dependent primates. And IIRC Borger previously cited a number of bats which have defective GLO genes. I'm willing to place a small wager that the mutations in the bat GLO pseudogenes will be different to the SNP deletion common to humans, chimpanzees, macaques and orangutans. And I expect the guinea pig GLO pseudogene to be different again.
This is the sort of information which Booboo and his creationist ilk studiously avoid because it is so damaging to their theological based arguments against evolution.
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9012 From: Canada Joined: |
But maybe that site is right about the number 7 at least?
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Mister Pamboli Member (Idle past 7838 days) Posts: 634 From: Washington, USA Joined: |
Back to the topic. Here's one of my recent favourites, from Terry on the msn "talkorigins" community. I quote it in full so you can savour it ...
quote:Our own moose and a couple of others tackled him on this and Terry eventually conceded. Nevertheless, this one post, I think sums up Terry's thought processes in a nutcase.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1727 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Our own moose and a couple of others tackled him on this and Terry eventually conceded. Nevertheless, this one post, I think sums up Terry's thought processes in a nutcase. Do you have a link? I don't post on Terry's board but I do occasionally read posts over there when they get linked to, here. He strikes me as kind of arrogant, so I'd like to see him conceding something. I imagine your objections to his post was the fact that walking "upright" means walking with one's spine on top of one's pelvis, right? A posture that not too many animals are capable of - certainly not the ones Terry mentions.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3971 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
quote: That certainly seems to have been a typical wacky Terry topic. I, however, don't recall being involved in it, or even if the topic ever went anywhere. I just looked back through the list there, and didn't find the topic. Perhaps I just didn't recognize the title. By far, my main battle with Terry was over a "younger" Grand Canyon topic. I refer anyone who cares to the "Terry at the Talk Origins board" topic. Moose
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Mister Pamboli Member (Idle past 7838 days) Posts: 634 From: Washington, USA Joined: |
Sorry folks, here is the link. I thought I had included it.
A long url {edited to shorten display form, to restore page width to normal - D'oh Adminnemooseus} Moose, this obviously wasn't a memorable one for you! One of your exchanges struck me as particualrly classic Terry:
quote: His concession is as follows:quote:Terry's board has however had one great boon - it put me back in touch with an old university friend. He found dealing with Terry as irritating as it was laughable. [This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 04-30-2003]
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Mister Pamboli Member (Idle past 7838 days) Posts: 634 From: Washington, USA Joined: |
Guess what is the first post you link to in the "Terry at the Talk Origins Board" topic? You guessed it - the one about walking upright.
When he returns, I expect Percy may have some comments on your impending senility.
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