(April 19, 2015 at 5:52 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: I will preface this by saying my father has a P.H.D. is qualified as a Chemist so I know he's not stupid. I'm just venting some frustration. You when Richard Dawkins (who by the way I don't pay much attention too) talks about the perfect teacher/lecturer who teaches science perfectly but who simultaneously hold views contrary to science? Well my father fits that description perfectly. He once said to me: "I believe the Earth is 6000 years old less than I used to." And he teaches people about science...

Probably what this shows is how almost everybody must form opinions by choosing which experts to believe. Even the experts must trust other experts, because nobody can learn everything in detail and verify every claim.

So that's why smart Christians can believe such ridiculous things. They are forced by their religion to choose from an ever shrinking pool of Christian experts who are basically quacks.

(April 20, 2015 at 12:34 am)Godschild Wrote:

(April 19, 2015 at 9:44 pm)LostLocke Wrote: A cat is one kind of animal.
A tiger, lion, cougar, panther, leopard, hyena, etc are all also kinds of animals.
Unless you're going to claim that 'feline' is a kind unto itself, and say that all those animals plus cat are just one kind.

Exactly, nice of someone to notice.

GC

Wait, so you're agreeing with me?
If so, there is no way Noah would able to bring all those 'kinds' of animals on to an ark.
I mean, he couldn't just bring "felines" on to the ark, he would have to bring lions and tigers and panthers and leopards and hyenas, etc on to the ark.....

(April 20, 2015 at 10:56 am)LostLocke Wrote:

(April 20, 2015 at 12:34 am)Godschild Wrote: Exactly, nice of someone to notice.

GC

Wait, so you're agreeing with me?
If so, there is no way Noah would able to bring all those 'kinds' of animals on to an ark.
I mean, he couldn't just bring "felines" on to the ark, he would have to bring lions and tigers and panthers and leopards and hyenas, etc on to the ark.....

kangaroos Koalas and wallabies. Where were their "kinds".

SIGH

You know what, the Noah story is so obviously a baseless myth that anyone believing it as a fact in this day and age has to be able to completely blind themselves to reality and is not worth our time.

There just Noah way man.

(April 20, 2015 at 10:56 am)LostLocke Wrote:

(April 20, 2015 at 12:34 am)Godschild Wrote: Exactly, nice of someone to notice.

GC

Wait, so you're agreeing with me?
If so, there is no way Noah would able to bring all those 'kinds' of animals on to an ark.
I mean, he couldn't just bring "felines" on to the ark, he would have to bring lions and tigers and panthers and leopards and hyenas, etc on to the ark.....

He bought enough felines to produce today's cats. So, no I'm not agreeing with you, I thought you were seeing all cats belonged to the feline kind.

GC

(April 20, 2015 at 1:30 pm)robvalue Wrote: There just Noah way man.

Ark at you. Floody 'ell.

(April 20, 2015 at 1:30 pm)robvalue Wrote: There just Noah way man.

Why didn't you answer my post.

GC

Wow, what an ego. Settle down, GC, you're getting over-excited.

Thing is GC...different breeds is how the process of divergence starts. Eventually, given enough generations and enough mutation, a dalmation will become its own species entirely, as will any other different breed of any species. Since we do not live in geological timescales, however, we don't notice this change occurring over the few decades we live on earth.
We all occupy our own teeny tiny little slice of time. Unfortunately, it seems a fair number of idiots think their little slice of time is the most important, the one against which all other slices must be measured.

(April 20, 2015 at 2:13 pm)Godschild Wrote:

(April 20, 2015 at 1:30 pm)robvalue Wrote: There just Noah way man.

Why didn't you answer my post.

GC

Because I was making a flippant pun not aimed at anyone.