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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 4, 2012 at 5:27 pm
(May 4, 2012 at 5:04 pm)DeeTee Wrote: I watched that video sometime ago and though the creationist was terrible in her answers, Dawkins fared no better. He kept pointing her to go to a museum, as if they are an authority on origins, to see the supposed evidence for evolution.
All museums have are nice little displays but nothing that shows the process in action, the transformation in action, or that the process of evolution actually exists.
Museums are filled with conjecture, assumptions, wishful thinking not fact nor evidence.
Please capture this so called process and put it in a test tube like you want to do with God.
Remember science and museums are not an authority and do not have a say in what took place at creation. They were not there and are not an eye-witness. In fact their supposed observations
re thousands of years after the fact and mean nothing.
and your Bible is filled with ancient superstition which had nothing to back it up.
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 4, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I managed just over 3 minutes. I was literally slapping my hand against my forehead. The stupid. It must be purged from my brain somehow. Arghh I am mentally scarred.
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 4, 2012 at 9:10 pm
(April 28, 2012 at 4:08 pm)jackman Wrote: i realize that maybe everyone here has watched this video at one point or another, but another thread i've read today just made me think of it.
this video gives me the chills. the lady's facial expression and condescending tone just drives me crazy, not to mention her total ignorance. not knowing facts is not as bad as imitating looking for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFjoEgYOgRo
I thought that was just botox. 
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 5, 2012 at 12:13 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2012 at 12:15 am by Gooders1002.)
I watched all of that and I have no idea how Dawkins could stay so calm...ish. I would have either:
A: lost my cool.
B: Shot myself.
C: shot her.
D: given up when seeing a lost cause.
E: insult her for being an idiot.
I did a implied face-palm when I saw this.
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 8, 2012 at 10:23 am
I've watched the whole thing about a year ago. He also interviews Ted Haggard at some point too, if I'm thinking of the right series. Attempting to communicate with people like that grows tiring fast. I can't see any point in it really unless you're interested in demonstrating their ignorance to others. Still, I guess it's possible that something good could come out of it if you can manage to keep it cool.
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 8, 2012 at 12:22 pm
I watched the whole thing just recently. All this idiot woman kept bringing up was some bullshit about how people who believe we were created "with love" are more likely to treat others with "respect and dignity". Never mind the fact that believers have committed unspeakable atrocities throughout history, what the fuck does this have to do with the evidence for evolution?
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 8, 2012 at 6:30 pm
(May 4, 2012 at 5:04 pm)DeeTee Wrote: They were not there and are not an eye-witness. I found this quote so ironic.
Mind you, creationists wrote stuff in a book so that must be true. These scientists, trying to write a book too... Pah!
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 9, 2012 at 3:00 pm
(May 8, 2012 at 6:30 pm)The Heff Wrote: (May 4, 2012 at 5:04 pm)DeeTee Wrote: They were not there and are not an eye-witness. I found this quote so ironic.
Mind you, creationists wrote stuff in a book so that must be true. These scientists, trying to write a book too... Pah!
Shit. Creationists didn't even write a book. They took someone else's piece of shit book and adopted it.
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 18, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Richard Dawkins. The king at interviewing people significantly less intelligent than himself. When confronted by the more intelligent of that group (the sad thing is they aren't really that intelligent...for obvious reasons), he backs out.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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RE: interviewing a creationist (painful)
May 18, 2012 at 11:57 pm
(May 18, 2012 at 11:35 pm)Polaris Wrote: Richard Dawkins. The king at interviewing people significantly less intelligent than himself. When confronted by the more intelligent of that group (the sad thing is they aren't really that intelligent...for obvious reasons), he backs out.
Interesting claim. Where's the evidence?
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