"Counterexamples to Evolution" -- Dumbest page on the internet?

[Tobie]

I really would not be surprised if conservapedia turned out to be a poe. It is ridiculous that the ignorance levels of so many people get so high.

Possibly, but every single one of these "counterexamples" I've heard several times from real creationists like Hovind or Ham.

Is there a special "how to be a biblically inspired moron" class in US schools?

[FemmeRealism]

Warning: You may experience injury from severe face-palming

Is this what happens when creationists pay attention in science class? They start changing what they hear to make it support their beliefs?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Possibly, but every single one of these "counterexamples" I've heard several times from real creationists like Hovind or Ham.

Is there a special "how to be a biblically inspired moron" class in US schools?

Not officially but it meets every sunday morning. And every day for many homeschoolers.

[Minimalist]

Is there a special "how to be a biblically inspired moron" class in US schools?

Only in the bible belt....where it is a required course.

[libalchris]

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.

[Creed of Heresy]

They never get it, do they? Like...EVER. I think the word "theory" is tossed around too much and used too loosely. As a result nowadays we get these lemming-like morons who hear "theory of evolution" and "theory of relativity" and "theory of gravity" and think "MUST MEAN IT'S ONLY SUSPECTED AND THEY DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE TO BACK IT UP hyurp a hyuck a durpidee dee"

What shoe-on-head idiots actually have these kinds of thought processes? Here, in the US, SUPPOSEDLY the land of innovation and intellectual discourse, we have the biggest group of idiots you can possibly imagine in the entire first world. They're not just stupid, they're insultingly stupid. So stupid that instead of them being insulted for being so stupid, you feel insulted because you actually heard them say their stupidity. Insulted because you realize that by some form of national or cultural ties you are associated with these buffoons. These peoples' brainwave patterns must look like a fucking 60hz ground hum, I swear to atheismo.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

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?

[Jackalope]

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?

Don't know about creationists, but Conservapedia appears to be staffed entirely by kooks have a strong anti-science bias in general.

[Gambit]

The thing is, these people are not stupid in the intellectually challenged sense; instead, they choose to display stupidity at levels that are close to genius. I really wish I could come up with as many ways to explain away established scientific theories; maybe then I'd be able to write fiction and make a fucking killing.

[Rev. Rye]

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?

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:

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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0