(February 25, 2013 at 5:52 pm)John V Wrote:(February 23, 2013 at 6:12 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I want to use this thread to list the common con tricks used by religions.Hey, you said this was about religion, but then go off on evolution.
The emperors new clothes con trick, if you havent heard the story of the emperors new clothes its basically a story where a con man tells a king he will make new clothes for him, but the clothes are invisable to fools, so he gives the king nothing, tells him to put them on and the king pretends to see them because he doesnt want to look like a fool. he parades around the village and no one else wants to be exposed as a fool so they all pretend hes wearing clothes except for one young boy who just says "whys the king naked?" and exposes the whole con. It isnt a true story obviously its just a fable, but is used as a simile to describe other situations like it.
in what way? if you say evolution is using the emperors new clothes con trick on people then thats laughable, darwin never said anything like "evolution is revealed to whoever is good enough for evolution to be revealed to"
youre basically claiming the vast majority of biologists are pretending to understand evolution so they dont look stupid because really evolution is fake
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
