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"Counterexamples to Evolution" -- Dumbest page on the internet?
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RE: "Counterexamples to Evolution" -- Dumbest page on the internet?
(August 17, 2012 at 4:03 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:
(August 15, 2012 at 8:16 pm)libalchris Wrote: Ahh conservapedia. He also has counterexamples to Einstein's theory of relativity. http://www.conservapedia.com/Counterexam...Relativity

I guess he didn't get that when we said "gravity is just a theory too" we were implying that scientific theories are powerful, not blind guesses.

I'm trying to imagine what problem a creationist might have with relativity. Is there something about relativity that contradicts the bible like the theory of evolution? Confused Fall
According to RationalWiki, it appears that the powers that be have linked the theory of relativity and moral relativism (a common bogeyman for Conservative Christians). Also, Andrew Schlafly believes he found a passage in John 4:46-54 that he thinks somehow disproves relativity:

The Amplified Bible Wrote:So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was lying ill in Capernaum. Having heard that Jesus had come back from Judea into Galilee, he went away to meet Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was lying at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see signs and miracles happen, you [people] never will believe (trust, have faith) at all. The king’s officer pleaded with Him, Sir, do come down at once before my little child is dead! Jesus answered him, Go in peace; your son will live! And the man put his trust in what Jesus said and started home. But even as he was on the road going down, his servants met him and reported, saying, Your son lives! So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better. They said, Yesterday during the seventh hour (about one o’clock in the afternoon) the fever left him. Then the father knew that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, Your son will live. And he and his entire household believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Jesus). This is the second sign (wonderwork, miracle) that Jesus performed after He had come out of Judea into Galilee.

Schlafly's logic is this: In the passage bolded, Schlafly believes that the word translated as "hour" should be translated as "moment," even though most translations use "hour," and only a few versions use any other word (such as The Easy-to-Read Version, God's Word, [same time], The J.B. Phillips version, The Message [the very moment], the NEw Century Version, the NIV and all derivatives [the exact time], New Life, Worldwide English [the time], New Living [the very time]), so this is on shaky ground.
Back to Schlafly's "reasoning", Cana and Capernaum are 20-25 miles apart. Applying ^D/c=^t, we'll have a fraction of time that, while too small to be significantly noticable, isn't instantaneous.

What Schlafly believes is that "the same moment" is conducive to an amounnt of time which is literally instantaneous wherein Jesus' powers traveled 20-some miles to affect some poor kid. In other words, HE THINKS LIGHT SPEED IS TOO SLOW FOR JESUS.

Apparently, Jesus' powers work like Spaceballs.
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RE: "Counterexamples to Evolution" -- Dumbest page on the internet? - by Rev. Rye - August 17, 2012 at 5:08 pm

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