Christians, TMNT, and cartoons from the past. (846 hits)
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Submitted by Parkinsuns (View user info) at 2005-02-06 06:42:49 EST
The earth is round. Stars are far away. Sun is not going to burn out anytime soon, but will eventually. Clouds are in the sky. Do not worry about what causes lightning and thunder quite yet, but it cancels your tee-ball games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can do anything with enough pizza. Long time ago dinosaurs roamed around and they were really cool but might eat you. Right.
You are told a lot of basic knowledge as a kid. Most of which is so basic, it is not really something that even comes into question. The earth is round, and it is going to stay round. Whatever happens, you got that whole question about the shape of the earth settled. Dinosaurs? Dinosaurs were large and made weird sounds (probably). Most importantly, dinosaurs are dead. Dead as in the extinct type, the kind that never come back, ever.
Again, this is most decidedly not something I questioned. As a matter a fact, I honestly thought everyone agreed on this. Apparently not. A conversation that should not have happened - religious arguments never work out in anyone's favor - sparked a comment that is going to bother me for days.
"I went to a public school once, and, it was so funny. The people there actually believed that dinosaurs lived before humans. Like, we were made like hundreds of years afterward. They didn't think dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time."
Wow. Stunned.
I will simply say this person was extremely Christian. Extreme in the Harold and Kumar go to White Castle "extreme" sense. Moreover, nothing beyond God himself is going to change this universal truth that I suppose they had been told during their childhood.
The race was on; I had to find out how many other people had this idea. Where does one turn to when one of life's basic lessons are challenged? Where does one go when all becomes uncertain? I am still trying to figure that out, until then I Google like there is no tomorrow.
Oh, by the way, am I feeling Lucky? I am always feeling lucky.
http://www.creationists.org/mananddinos.html
If you follow the links on the site for the videos, there is a seminar you can watch, full length, of 2 hours and 45 minutes. I even made some popcorn for the occasion. (ACT II original popcorn, and if you do not think it is the best popcorn ever, I will fight you.) At first I found my new video professor to the unknown be entertaining. He spoke with that special tone of a preacher that only comes sub-Mason-Dixon.
After a few minutes, I became upset. This was not a joke. This guy was definitely for real. People actually thought that the world was only about 5000ish years old, and that dinosaurs stopped hanging around maybe a thousand years ago.
I sat alone and pondered everything I knew about dinosaurs. Everything I had learned, every movie I ever saw, every nightmare I had involving reptiles suddenly flashed through my brain. It was an orgasm of prehistoric proportions.
Then suddenly it hit me, I know what happened to the dinosaurs. It was explained to me o so long ago, and my adult mind had let me forget it.
I ask that everyone remember with me.
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Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2005-02-07 11:03:12 EST (#)
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You know what else was a great show, "Shut-The-Hell-Up-And-Die!". In fact that show needs to come on right now, and you need to watch it!
Submitted by Val (user info) at 2005-02-06 16:33:01 EST (#)
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I blame Bush. Don't ask questions.
Submitted by Grin (user info) at 2005-02-06 13:34:38 EST (#)
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I'm all for "live and let live" in terms of religious beliefs...but how can you accept that with the mountain of evidence to the contrary?
Submitted by PsychoDan (user info) at 2005-02-06 11:23:31 EST (#)
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prof fuckface, in regard to your couterexample to carbon dating: I have to assume you know very little about carbon dating to provide that example. Carbon dating compares the concetration of Carbon-14 in formerly living matter to the concentration of Carbon-12, as Carbon-14 radioactively decays, whereas carbon 12 does not. It does not work on living organisms, as carbon-14 is constantly cycled through respiration. So it won't work on something alive.
oh, and +2 for TMNT
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-02-06 11:22:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
People are fucking insane.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-02-06 10:52:33 EST (#)
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Don't get me started. It's Sunday and I have a lot to do today so I just can't really jump on a soap box and start ranting about "intelligent design". Besides, its very very bad for my blood pressure.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2005-02-06 10:31:44 EST (#)
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"parts of Noah's ark in layers of sedimentary rock dated to bible dates"
Haha. Parts of Noah's ark that were dated....
WITH CARBON DATING!
Who gives a fuck where we came from? We're here now. I'll leave the crazy ideas about a magical man in the sky to the nutjobs and worry about how I'm going to pay my mortgage and how global warming will affect my grandchildren.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-02-06 08:41:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-02-06 08:05:54 (#)
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Get out of it fuckface (the name, not the insult) - the only reason that anybody believes in creationism is that they were told to at a very young age and it has become knowledge to them.
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True enough, but you're extremely naive if you think the theory of evolution has been proven without doubt. You'll find most hardline evolutionists are as clinically insane as the creationists.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-02-06 08:05:54 EST (#)
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Get out of it fuckface (the name, not the insult) - the only reason that anybody believes in creationism is that they were told to at a very young age and it has become knowledge to them. There is no evidence to support creationism: what do you mean by moon dust readings, the flaws in carbon dating do not prove creationism they lay some doubt on evolutionism, and the Noah's ark thing I've heard of (in an Erich von Daniken book no less) and it is quite feasible that the writers of the Bible based it on real events. Who is to say there was no gigantic boat? We know most of the dates and places in the New Testament hold true. As for there being no motivation for creationism, I expected better of PFF as a cynic. There was the motivation of being able to explain the origins of the universe before the sciences were even close. There was the motivation of being able to keep the populace under control by evoking a grand creator, etc.
The overwhelming evidence such as background radiation and pulsars point towards the universe being trillions of years old.
Submitted by Jay_Bassman (user info) at 2005-02-06 08:04:11 EST (#)
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Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2005-02-06 07:16:27 (#)
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God I love those movies... Although there's like 7 of them now.
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I lost interest after the third one. It got out of hand then. The first one will always be the best though. Am I right, or am I right?
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2005-02-06 07:41:25 EST (#)
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Creationism is as valid a theory as evolution. Evolution is full of holes, as well as the Old Earth theory, there is no evidence to back it up.
What you have to understand is that there is nothing to prove beyond a doubt that dinosaurs didn't live on Earth with Man. First of all carbon dating has been used to measure the age of some dinosaur skeletons, but those same carbon dating techniques used once identified a sea molusc fossil as millions of years old. In fact it was not a fossil, but a live molusc, the carbon dating was incorrect.
There is every reason to believe in creationism, because not only doesn't evolution and old earth have little evidence to back it up, it also has no motive for what they have created. Creationism is a good theory, because not only does it have plenty of evidence to back it up (moon dust readings, carbon dating mistakes, parts of Noah's ark in layers of sedimentary rock dated to bible dates) creation also has a reason to occur, that is that God wanted it to occur.
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2005-02-06 07:16:27 EST (#)
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God I love those movies... Although there's like 7 of them now.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-02-06 07:04:24 EST (#)
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I will never for the life of me understand religious fundamentalism.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-02-06 06:52:05 EST (#)
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Please excuse retarded christians. They mean well. They are just dumb.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2005-02-06 06:49:34 EST (#)
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