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A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 12:34 pm
Why should any bible-thumping shithead worry about facts when they can just invoke their magic sky-daddy to solve all the problems?

And we have the balls to think of the muslims as backward.
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 12:56 pm (This post was last modified: February 26, 2016 at 12:57 pm by Chas.)
(February 25, 2016 at 6:57 pm)Mancunian Wrote:
(February 25, 2016 at 11:16 am)Chas Wrote: It would not be an altitude of 29,000 feet - it would be sea level.

Welcome to my world Chas, glad to see that Drich is not the only one who does not get irony.

Your irony was not at all apparent. People actually make this error in thinking.
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 12:56 pm
(February 26, 2016 at 12:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Why should any bible-thumping shithead worry about facts when they can just invoke their magic sky-daddy to solve all the problems?

And we have the balls to think of the muslims as backward.

They're working on it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/scienc....html?_r=0
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm
Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:

Quote:The degree of acceptance of evolution varies among Islamic countries.

Research led by the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University, in Montreal, found that high school biology textbooks in Pakistan covered the theory of evolution. Quotations from the Koran at the beginning of the chapters are chosen to suggest that the religion and the theory coexist harmoniously.

In a survey of 2,527 Pakistani high school students conducted by the McGill researchers and their international collaborators, 28 percent of the students agreed with the creationist sentiment, “Evolution is not a well-accepted scientific fact.” More than 60 percent disagreed, and the rest were not sure.

Eighty-six percent agreed with this statement: “Millions of fossils show that life has existed for billions of years and changed over time.”

Wonder how long it will be before that changes?
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 1:16 pm
(February 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:

Quote:The degree of acceptance of evolution varies among Islamic countries.

Research led by the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University, in Montreal, found that high school biology textbooks in Pakistan covered the theory of evolution. Quotations from the Koran at the beginning of the chapters are chosen to suggest that the religion and the theory coexist harmoniously.

In a survey of 2,527 Pakistani high school students conducted by the McGill researchers and their international collaborators, 28 percent of the students agreed with the creationist sentiment, “Evolution is not a well-accepted scientific fact.” More than 60 percent disagreed, and the rest were not sure.

Eighty-six percent agreed with this statement: “Millions of fossils show that life has existed for billions of years and changed over time.”

Wonder how long it will be before that changes?

Has Drich been to Pakistan?
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#126
RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 1:19 pm
Pakistan isn't mentioned in the bible, so he probably doesn’t believe it exists.
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 2:54 pm
(February 26, 2016 at 1:16 pm)Old Baby Wrote:
(February 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:


Wonder how long it will be before that changes? 

Quote: Has Drich been to Pakistan?

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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 3:21 pm
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#129
RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 3:58 pm
(February 26, 2016 at 12:56 pm)Chas Wrote:
(February 25, 2016 at 6:57 pm)Mancunian Wrote: Welcome to my world Chas, glad to see that Drich is not the only one who does not get irony.

Your irony was not at all apparent.  People actually make this error in thinking.

See my later post, theists don't have a monopoly on talking nonsense.
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 26, 2016 at 5:18 pm
(February 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Looks like the cretinist message hasn't percolated through just yet:

Quote:The degree of acceptance of evolution varies among Islamic countries.

Research led by the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University, in Montreal, found that high school biology textbooks in Pakistan covered the theory of evolution. Quotations from the Koran at the beginning of the chapters are chosen to suggest that the religion and the theory coexist harmoniously.

In a survey of 2,527 Pakistani high school students conducted by the McGill researchers and their international collaborators, 28 percent of the students agreed with the creationist sentiment, “Evolution is not a well-accepted scientific fact.” More than 60 percent disagreed, and the rest were not sure.

Eighty-six percent agreed with this statement: “Millions of fossils show that life has existed for billions of years and changed over time.”

Wonder how long it will be before that changes?

That's the point of the article. It is changing. The whole article is about the rise of creationism among Muslims in the past couple of decades, even in places that were ostensibly secular, like Turkey following the election of its own Republican religious fanatics.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.

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