RE: The Statler Waldorf Balcony
October 20, 2010 at 2:17 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2010 at 2:35 am by orogenicman.)
(October 20, 2010 at 1:03 am)Chuck Wrote:(October 19, 2010 at 11:27 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Do you have any idea how foolish you appear when you make such statements?
It is too generous to grant him even the last residual of ability to admit to possibilities outside his tortured desert Bedouin creation myth, or to allow him even the slightest sense of shame and embarrassment in choosing what to says to defend his myth.
To him the desert Bedouin creation myth is received truth without error, anything that could be concocted to support it must therefore be the next best thing to received truth. To us it is complete garbage worthless even for the purpose of learning from its mistakes because its deviations from what we've found out to be true is effectively random. It is but white noise for the purpose of finding out what really happened to anything anywhere outside a few moments in the history of early iron age hebrew tribal politics. We have a tolerably good idea of why he thinks what he thinks; he has no idea whatsoever how we found out what we know.
This was exactly how it was when he come to these discussions, and it will be exactly this way when he leaves us for good.
Actually, I believe that Genesis was written during the Bronze age, but I see your point. I would add that using his logic, as light takes just 12,022 years to traverse Creation, the Biblically Correct Universe is a mere 1.7375 Trillion Cubic Light-years in volume, leaving the stars just billions of miles apart. No one will be Left Behind with Interstellar Travel a Done Deal!
Every space probe launched since Star Trek The Movie must by now have left hundreds of stars astern, and Voyager should arrive at the Andromeda galaxy any year now. Providence clearly smiles on NASA's 'Faster, Better, Cheaper' program now that the creationists have shrunk the universe for us all.
Isn't it amazing that in order to prop up thieir fairy tales they must try to rewrite all the laws of physics and Chemistry? It just blows my mind.
That said, my offer to lead a real geology field trip to the land surrounding the magical Creation Myth Museum in Northern Kentucky still stands for anyone who is interested.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
