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What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 17, 2015 at 10:59 pm
I'm genuinely curious.
I had a Christian tell me "If you believe in evolution, then you think we ultimately came from a rock."
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 12:00 am
Basically anything blondie regurgitates from creationist sites
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 12:00 am
One of many dumb things, off the top of my head:
When I was still a theist, a co-worker was angry to find that I didn't accept the story of Noah and the Great Flood as literal truth.
"Fine, go by facts, then. But, facts are just theories like everything else."
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 12:10 am
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"If evolution is true how come slugs haven't evolved and become slug people?".
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 12:30 am
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(October 17, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Laika Wrote: I'm genuinely curious.
I had a Christian tell me "If you believe in evolution, then you think we ultimately came from a rock."
Not necessarily true, although it does look more and more like we did ultimately come from a rock. Modern origin research does seem find more and more lines of evidence pointing to life on earth with its particularities originated because proper conditions existed on the surfaces of particular rocks.
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 12:33 am
It's the final Irony.
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 12:49 am
(October 18, 2015 at 12:30 am)Chuck Wrote: (October 17, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Laika Wrote: I'm genuinely curious.
I had a Christian tell me "If you believe in evolution, then you think we ultimately came from a rock."
Not necessarily true, although it does look more and more like we did ultimately come from a rock. Modern origin research does seem find more and more lines of evidence pointing to life on earth with its particularities originated because proper conditions existed on the surfaces of particular rocks. We might have come from substances located on or within rocks, but we did not evolve from the rock itself, because the rock is not alive.
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 1:17 am
(October 18, 2015 at 12:49 am)Laika Wrote: (October 18, 2015 at 12:30 am)Chuck Wrote: Not necessarily true, although it does look more and more like we did ultimately come from a rock. Modern origin research does seem find more and more lines of evidence pointing to life on earth with its particularities originated because proper conditions existed on the surfaces of particular rocks. We might have come from substances located on or within rocks, but we did not evolve from the rock itself, because the rock is not alive.
That is not as clear cut or clearly accepted by the origin research community as you might think.
There is one school of thought which argues the basic organic processes that underpin all life which exist today are actually the artifact, or catalytic results, of a wholly different system of inorganic, mineral based life that existed prior to the first organic life, but which habe since gone extinct. So this school would argue that some rocks, or at least clay, which are the ultimate residual of break down of many types of rocks, were able to enfold information about its own configuration and transmit this information to the products of formation of more clay. And the complex inorganic crystalline chemistry that happened in this process formed the catalyst and scaffolding for the basic organic chemistry of that first organic life.
So this school would argue the first life were based on ultimate weathering products of rocks, and we, while not the direct genetic descendants of this inorganic life, did evolve from this inorganic ancester through a different clay chemical catalytic process.
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 1:22 am
(October 18, 2015 at 1:17 am)Chuck Wrote: (October 18, 2015 at 12:49 am)Laika Wrote: We might have come from substances located on or within rocks, but we did not evolve from the rock itself, because the rock is not alive.
That is not as clear cut or clearly accepted by the origin research community as you might think.
There is one school of thought which argues the basic organic processes that underpin all life which exist today are actually the artifact, or catalytic results, of a wholly different system of inorganic, mineral based life that existed prior to the first organic life, but which habe since gone extinct. So this school would argue that some rocks, or at least clay, which are the ultimate residual of break down of many types of rocks, were able to enfold information about its own configuration and transmit this information to the products of formation of more clay. And the complex inorganic crystalline chemistry that happened in this process formed the catalyst and scaffolding for the basic organic chemistry of that first organic life.
So this school would argue the first life were based on ultimate weathering products of rocks, and we, while not the direct genetic descendants of this inorganic life, did evolve from this inorganic ancester through a different clay chemical catalytic process. Wow. You just scienced me. I guess you do learn something new every day. Thanks for the insight, I'll do some further research on it.
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RE: What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard a theist say?
October 18, 2015 at 1:59 am
Here's a new Darkmatter2525 video which shows how stupid the whole religious spiel is from start to finish.
http://youtu.be/A-D8Mf9DdQI
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