RE: Are we scientists?
February 28, 2014 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2014 at 11:00 am by Mister Agenda.)
(February 28, 2014 at 7:56 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: Okay, what's a troll and what's a poe?
A troll is a person whose main goal in posting is to provoke emotional reactions. They like to start arguments, derail topics, and they're insincere in the sense that saying what they really thing isn't their purpose.
A Poe is someone who mimicks a fundamentalist in order to make fundamentalists seem immoral or stupid. It's a reference to Poe's Law, which states that it is impossible to parody a fundamentalist in this manner because there are always real fundamentalists who will say something as or more stupid or immoral. It's usually invoked when someone suspects that a poster cannot sincerely hold the view they're espousing, it's so ridiculous that it's easier to believe it's an atheist trying to make fundamentalists look bad.
(February 28, 2014 at 8:19 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: Telling a Christian to read scientific materials is like asking an atheist to read the Bible.
Read the Bible twice, cover-to-cover. Your move.
And telling a Christian to read scientific materials is more like asking them to learn what a person educated in a developed country should already know. If you seriously maintain that being a Christian and learning more about science are incompatible, that's very good news for those who like to see the number of atheist increase if the idea catches on.
(February 28, 2014 at 9:32 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Behold the peppered moth. It used to be a light colored moth, since the species prefer to sleep on birch tree trunks. But thanks to pollution coloring the the environment darker, predators could more easily spot the lightly colored ones. The minority of the moths were dark, but they were usually the first ones to get eaten first, since the stood out against white trees. Now however, the light moths get eaten first, giving the darker ones a chance to breed, so the gene that codes for the excessive melanin is a more successful one, and nowadays the darker moths are more successful in surviving than their light counterparts.
FYI, the area got its soot problem under control, the trees lightened up, and so did the moths, so the light variety is more common now again.
Did you hear about the subway mosquitoes?
