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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 17, 2011 at 11:16 am
(November 17, 2011 at 3:03 am)Epimethean Wrote: Stat is a scientist-a christian scientist. That is as far as his understanding of biology, taxonomy, and natural history goes. If it ain't in his silly old book, it ain't real: Which, of course, sets him up for a real Cartesian wallop.
I disputed that long ago, like his claim to be a government scientist, yet he was posting on "guvment" time. The man is a talking head, nothing more.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 17, 2011 at 11:21 am
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LOL, his legendary employment status as appeal to authority gambit? Yeah, I call massive bullshit as well.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 17, 2011 at 11:50 am
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(November 16, 2011 at 10:29 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: I believe dinosaurs existed yes. The point was to show atheists how absurd and downright annoying many of the games they play are by playing the same game back concerning the existence of dinosaurs.
You have no point, because you were denying obvious evidence to support dinosaurs.
Relentlessly claiming "but where is the proof?" every time somebody showed you a skeleton, was NOT the same as what atheists do to theists (unless you actually think we deny OBVIOUS PROOF of god - is that what you think?), it was just an exercise in absurdness.
It was a stupid and crap game, and you got beaten.
Quote:When I was in high school I worked in a pharmacy, and two of the pharmacy techs got into this very same squabble. It was one of the most hilarious things I had ever seen, because you really can’t “prove” dinosaurs existed, and the one tech was very good at pushing that point.
But you can prove dinosaurs existed. 
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 17, 2011 at 12:38 pm
(November 17, 2011 at 11:50 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: You have no point, because you were denying obvious evidence to support dinosaurs.
Relentlessly claiming "but where is the proof?" every time somebody showed you a skeleton, was NOT the same as what atheists do to theists (unless you actually think we deny OBVIOUS PROOF of god - is that what you think?), it was just an exercise in absurdness.
It was a stupid and crap game, and you got beaten.
What I saw re-reading the entire thread for some sense:
SummerQueen: Here is an hilariously badly done paper on dinosaurs
denialism.
SW: You are not skeptical the same way with god than with dinosaurs.
All: Well there is proof for dinosaurs
SW: NO
All: there are fossils
SW: NO
All: there are research published
SW: NO
All: There are museums
SW: NO
All: There is science
SW: NO
All: there is what teachers have told you
SW: NO
All: there is what you can learn in unversity
SW: NO
and so forth... Anyone can replace the rest of the dialogue with a one
simple Unix command:
yes "no"
I'm a bit disappointed myself. I was expecting demonstrations, an argument besides an systematic denial of everything. It's a bit of a tease with nothing in the end.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 18, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Oh, you'll get used to that with the xtians here.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Quote:I'm a bit disappointed myself. I was expecting demonstrations,
That's about all you ever get from fundies. Nothing is real but their hallucinations.
They are all pretty well fucked up by having this jesus shit crammed into them for too long.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 19, 2011 at 2:34 am
(November 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:I'm a bit disappointed myself. I was expecting demonstrations,
That's about all you ever get from fundies. Nothing is real but their hallucinations.
They are all pretty well fucked up by having this jesus shit crammed into them for too long.
Damn right
Might I also add that Christian apologetics in general comprises of this kind of thinking
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 19, 2011 at 1:14 pm
No, Stat. It was actually pointing out that you were in fact the one making special pleading.
But I must thank you for this thread, because when I was sick of it some nights ago the telling of it allowed me to make my favorite Skeptic and your dear fellow Christian Ryft laugh rich and full, and there's nothing I like better than seeing my boys laugh.
I leave it in your capable hands, my loves. Your queen is about to turn in for the winter.
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Good night, my Queen
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RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 19, 2011 at 2:13 pm
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