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Creationists: Just a theory?

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Creationists: Just a theory?
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Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 6:40 pm (This post was last modified: August 30, 2013 at 6:40 pm by Darwinian.)
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 7:18 pm
You really expect to change creatards' minds? They didn't get that stupid overnight. They aren't going to get better very quickly.
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 7:58 pm
Yeahhh but if we show them the tangible points, and they refuse them, then we can always say we are taking the intellectual high ground with greater conviction to be witnessed by the outside world. Big Grin
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 8:28 pm
They ignore that theories explain observed facts. Ignore the explanation if you want, but the observed facts remain.
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 8:33 pm
Simple and to the point!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 8:54 pm
(August 30, 2013 at 8:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: They ignore that theories explain observed facts. Ignore the explanation if you want, but the observed facts remain.

I would be contented by this, but then there's sheeple who flock to see Ham's museum of delusions.
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 11:26 pm



I question whether the moral high ground is of any value, as it seems that nobody wants to live there.
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
August 30, 2013 at 11:33 pm
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
September 16, 2013 at 6:01 pm
Scientists shot themselves in a foot slightly when they called string theory a theory when it's more a string hypothesis.
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RE: Creationists: Just a theory?
September 16, 2013 at 7:08 pm
(September 16, 2013 at 6:01 pm)Zone Wrote: Scientists shot themselves in a foot slightly when they called string theory a theory when it's more a string hypothesis.

As oppose to creationists, who didn't shoot themselves in the foot when they called creationism a "fact"?
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