I'll retract the comment if you are willing to admit publicly that your bible is a pile of shit. I've been telling you that for years. Perhaps it finally sunk in?
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The Tower of Babel
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 6, 2018 at 2:18 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 2:19 am by vulcanlogician.)
(August 5, 2018 at 8:44 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 5, 2018 at 7:33 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Why would mainstream scientists be "unwilling to accept" something that is evident? Evidence is kinda their whole schtick. New theories, especially ones that break the old paradigm, are often considered "false until proven true." The reason that Newton's particle theory was rejected is because evidence pointed to light being a wave. The old paradigm had no theoretical room for wave-particle duality. But scientists didn't figure wave-particle duality out later by consulting cranks. They followed the evidence until it lead to a paradigm shift. Scientists are open to paradigm shifts as they can be. The article you quote called this "unwillingness"... at best, it was a poor word choice. RE: The Tower of Babel
August 6, 2018 at 8:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 9:02 am by vulcanlogician.)
Also, in Huggy's defense, the subject has come up elsewhere in the forums and he has said he doesn't subscribe to YEC-ism. So it's unfair to throw the 6,000 year thing in his face.
RE: The Tower of Babel
August 6, 2018 at 8:42 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 9:25 am by Aroura.)
2 Ukrainians with an theory is not "mainstream science". In fact, this is the very definition of pseudoscience.
the growth of pseudoscience in Russia is serious Also note, just because you read it in something claiming to be a scientific journal, or the paper has a scientific looking layout, does not make it good, legit research. Is there any corroborating research? Or is it just this pseudoscientific Russian thing you are going off of? (August 5, 2018 at 4:53 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:I would like to point out that RIGHT HERE you claim this is "mainstream science".(November 4, 2015 at 3:46 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:*UPDATE* (August 5, 2018 at 7:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 5, 2018 at 6:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Oldest means first...dipshit. The same techniques and methods were used in the 2d and 3d. All three were built within a span of about 80 years.... if you listen to the Egyptologists. And then a few posts later, you quote the article which actually says it GOES AGAINST mainstream science. Which you apparently noticed by I guess hoped we wouldn't. And no, you didn't quote multiple sources. I just looked into this and there is one source. That's like quoting WaPo, NYT, and FOX who are all using one single identical source, and claiming you used multiple sources. Do you know how sources work? This is from 2 Ukrainian scientists. That is all. There is literally not another scientific source backing this up. Could it still be true? Maybe. But you'd have to have other scientists study the same evidence and reach similar conclusions. 2 guys do not, by themselves mean much of anything. Get some corroborating studies. Then we'll take a more serious look. OH WAIT! I did more research and this claim is already 10 years old! It comes up every few years again in the news, much like other consiracy theory bull. I call bullshit and I have actual evidence to back up my claim. Unlike you. I'll post it in a minute. Alrighty, here is an very interesting article. Because honestly, Ill accept anything backed by actual science, even if it goes against my current beliefs. So, is there any actual evidence to back this claim of an 800,000 Sphynx, and therefore also Pyramid? Short answer? No. No there is literally no evidence at all. Long answer: truth about the 2008 claim on the Sphinx's age Firstly, the "scientists" original claim was 750,000. But the pseudoscince blogger who made the story mainstream "got the date wrong, and most of those who are reacting to him followed suit." Including Huggy, who clearly didn't even read the actual scientific study, just the trash news articles that followed it. Another man named Schoch claims that these two fellows based their findings on his work. "“Personally, I am not convinced that the Great Sphinx is anywhere close to the age postulated by Manichev and Parkomenko,” Schoch wrote in defense of his own proposed date before the start of dynastic Egypt." Next: Quote:the two authors did not conduct any field testing to reach their conclusions. Instead, they say that they re-dated the monument based on a “visual investigation” (i.e. visiting the Sphinx and looking at it) and “reading the literary sources.” They based their conclusion on a comparison of the Sphinx, in a desert environment, with rock walls around the Black Sea, in an environment that differs in pretty much every conceivable way. Nevertheless, they argue that the undulating pattern of erosion on the Sphinx is not the work of wind and sand working differentially on rock layers of different hardness but rather the work of waves that accomplished the same task in a time when Giza was flooded.They start their premise with a massive, unfounded assumption. They did not test anything. It's pure BS they just thought up. And it gets worse. Quote:When you drill down into their paper, it becomes clear that they never considered alternative hypotheses, nor did they attempt to find proof that only submersion in a giant lake could achieve the erosion they describe. It’s also disturbing that almost all of their sources on geology were Soviet texts published in the 1960s. Surely there have been updates to geology since then. Worse, their paper takes as its foundation the Secrete Doctrine of Helena Blavatsky, which they refer to in their own English re-translation of the Russian translation, citing Book 2, Part 2, Stanza 5, which I give in the original: “Behold the imperishable witness to the evolution of the human races from the divine, and especially from the androgynous Race—the Egyptian Sphinx, that riddle of the Ages!” They argue that the lines place the Sphinx at 750,000 BCE, though in context it is not at all clear that this is what she meant. But anyway the point remains: The whole claim is inspired by Theosophy... and the part of Theosophy (as we can see from her footnotes) directly inspired by the Book of Enoch and the myth of the Fallen Angels! TLDR: This is most certainly not science. It is, as I suspected, the worst sort of pseudoscience. Oh wait, I was only responding to the second claim of the 800,000 year old age. As to the first claim, I submit that Huggy goes from a scientific maybe "The Great Pyramid of Giza Might Focus Electromagnetic Energy in Its Chambers" and makes the great leaps that this was: a) intentinal b) used for some as of yet unknown advanced technology There is NO evidence to suggest his giant leap. Quite the opposite. About 5 minutes of reading reveals that many structures structure, both manmade and natural, have unusual properties such as this. Think of it this way, if I design a building to do function A), then it also turns out to do function B, that does not mean I understand function B, intended function B, or in anyway ever even used function B. All of that would take a giant, unproven assumption. And let me restate. That's not how science works. Still, this is a pretty cool discovery, on it's own. Who would have guessed, pyramids have special physical properties! Hey Huggy, maye you should go out and buy one of those metal pyramids you put over your food to help preserve it. I mean, since they focus electromagnetic energy, it turns out Pyramid Power is real!!! Amiright?!?
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
I'd like to know what Huggy thinks a structure being capable of focusing electromagnetic radiation means. I don't know. Does he?
(August 5, 2018 at 10:10 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 5, 2018 at 9:01 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Uh, yeah... we're here and you're a creatard. Where does "Adam" and your 6,000 year old universe fit in? Or did you forget that part. Your reasoning skills are as bad as your understanding of how science works, lol. No one is obligated to disprove your silly book, Huggy. The Bible is a heaping pile of assertions. Onus is on you to demonstrate they’re true.
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Wiser words were never spoken. RE: The Tower of Babel
August 8, 2018 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2018 at 9:06 pm by Succubus.)
(August 5, 2018 at 7:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: According to these researchers the Sphinx was constructed atleast 800,000 years ago. And with this Huggy, you have just told the whole world everything it needs to know about you.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
(August 6, 2018 at 8:29 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Also, in Huggy's defense, the subject has come up elsewhere in the forums and he has said he doesn't subscribe to YEC-ism. So it's unfair to throw the 6,000 year thing in his face. All that means is that he's a cherry-picker. Which we already knew. I love it when xhristards decide which parts of their "inerrant" scripture are not inerrant! RE: The Tower of Babel
August 8, 2018 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2018 at 11:03 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(August 8, 2018 at 9:05 pm)Succubus Wrote:(August 5, 2018 at 7:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: According to these researchers the Sphinx was constructed atleast 800,000 years ago. As per usual, don't even try to refute the research, just engage in adhominem... What are you guys afraid of? I didn't write the paper dummy, it was written by two geologists, who detailed scientifically why they came to the conclusion they did. My point to Minimalist was that the Great Pyramid was far older than the other two, which would explain why they don't have the same properties. Whether it's older by 800,000 years or 10,000 the point stands. *edit* I should add that the fact that Jormungandr kudosing that post makes her one of the biggest hypocrites of the forums. (August 8, 2018 at 9:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(August 6, 2018 at 8:29 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Also, in Huggy's defense, the subject has come up elsewhere in the forums and he has said he doesn't subscribe to YEC-ism. So it's unfair to throw the 6,000 year thing in his face. Oh so now I'm cherry picking? I'll wait for you to provide one scripture that states the earth is 6000 years old. I won't hold my breath...
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