Ken Ham's ark.

[JuliaL]

By technology you mean wishful thinking?

No, 'gopher wood' is code for carbon nanotube composite.

[dyresand]

By technology you mean wishful thinking?

No, 'gopher wood' is code for carbon nanotube composite.

So all this time religion was just front for smart people then. Damn... i didn't it said that in the bible.

[Zen Badger]

I'd like to see them when the place is jammed and they have to walk through the section slowly with all us heathens. I'd be so tempted to stand next to them and explain things to my kids loud enough for them to hear, it would be sheer fucking delight to watch them squirm and not be able to get away.

I think you're attributing a level of self awareness and consideration to opposing worldviews to creationists that, a lot of the time, simply isn't there. The attitude that many of them have wouldn't allow for them to get uncomfortable, because to become uncomfortable implies some possibility that their children would find the alternative view on display remotely persuasive, which they couldn't possibly do, because creationism is obviously right. You gotta be really closed off to accept creationism, after all, and you can see that among our creationists here, for which a discussion on the merits of creationism rarely ascends beyond the level of "evolution is a lie!" repeated over and over. Perhaps you've seen that youtube video of the homeschooling creationist mother "auditing" a museum?





This is what we have to deal with. She walks through the entire damn museum with her cameraman, slowly panning over every exhibit, and not once in the entire half hour video does she realize that a derisive snort or a "this is a lie!" assertion is not a valid justification for her views. The information is right there, but it never once penetrates the shield of baseless huffy condescension she has.

I lent my copy of the greatest show on earth to a creationist work colleague a few weeks ago. When he came back from holidays I asked what he thought. He replied that it was wrong. I then asked him how much of it he had read.
The reply? Three pages.

[dyresand]

I think you're attributing a level of self awareness and consideration to opposing worldviews to creationists that, a lot of the time, simply isn't there. The attitude that many of them have wouldn't allow for them to get uncomfortable, because to become uncomfortable implies some possibility that their children would find the alternative view on display remotely persuasive, which they couldn't possibly do, because creationism is obviously right. You gotta be really closed off to accept creationism, after all, and you can see that among our creationists here, for which a discussion on the merits of creationism rarely ascends beyond the level of "evolution is a lie!" repeated over and over. Perhaps you've seen that youtube video of the homeschooling creationist mother "auditing" a museum?





This is what we have to deal with. She walks through the entire damn museum with her cameraman, slowly panning over every exhibit, and not once in the entire half hour video does she realize that a derisive snort or a "this is a lie!" assertion is not a valid justification for her views. The information is right there, but it never once penetrates the shield of baseless huffy condescension she has.

I lent my copy of the greatest show on earth to a creationist work colleague a few weeks ago. When he came back from holidays I asked what he thought. He replied that it was wrong. I then asked him how much of it he had read.
The reply? Three pages.

[IATIA]

... by getting 2 of every animal in there for 40 days?

2 of every unclean animal and 7 of every clean animal.

[dyresand]

... by getting 2 of every animal in there for 40 days?

2 of every unclean animal and 7 of every clean animal.

But what about the polar bears and penguins... they couldn't have possibly have added those in.

[IATIA]

2 of every unclean animal and 7 of every clean animal.

But what about the polar bears and penguins... they couldn't have possibly have added those in.

He had a hundred years to "git 'er done"

Check this

So the real Ark, using Noah and the help of his family or hired workmen, could have been built in around the same time.

So after the ark was built. "Adios motherfuckers, no room for hired help, now git.".

[Minimalist]

I'd like to see them when the place is jammed and they have to walk through the section slowly with all us heathens. I'd be so tempted to stand next to them and explain things to my kids loud enough for them to hear, it would be sheer fucking delight to watch them squirm and not be able to get away.

I think you're attributing a level of self awareness and consideration to opposing worldviews to creationists that, a lot of the time, simply isn't there. The attitude that many of them have wouldn't allow for them to get uncomfortable, because to become uncomfortable implies some possibility that their children would find the alternative view on display remotely persuasive, which they couldn't possibly do, because creationism is obviously right. You gotta be really closed off to accept creationism, after all, and you can see that among our creationists here, for which a discussion on the merits of creationism rarely ascends beyond the level of "evolution is a lie!" repeated over and over. Perhaps you've seen that youtube video of the homeschooling creationist mother "auditing" a museum?





This is what we have to deal with. She walks through the entire damn museum with her cameraman, slowly panning over every exhibit, and not once in the entire half hour video does she realize that a derisive snort or a "this is a lie!" assertion is not a valid justification for her views. The information is right there, but it never once penetrates the shield of baseless huffy condescension she has.

That is one dumb twat.