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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Obviously has no clue exactly how much more unbelievable he's made his claim.
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 2:04 pm
We do no favors to anyone by coddling these people's delusional beliefs.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 4:51 pm
Yeah, I saw this on Facebook. This is what I wrote in response:
Quote:Did... did Ham actually say "get your facts right"? Like - with a straight face?
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 8:16 pm
(January 1, 2017 at 4:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Yeah, I saw this on Facebook. This is what I wrote in response:
Quote:Did... did Ham actually say "get your facts right"? Like - with a straight face?
Well, when you can define or redefine anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, of course he can say 'facts' as if they're the exact opposite of the actual definition. I mean, could you fool a lie detector by redefining some of the words in the questions you get asked?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 9:12 pm
Heh. The news outlet reported that Ham believes something that is marginally less ludicrous that what he actually believes, and Ham goes all snitty over it. He may as well have said, 'Stop telling people that I'm not quite as crazy as I really am!'
*sigh* Some lunatics are never satisfied.
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 9:28 pm
I think it's awesome that he considers that a correction.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 9:47 pm
(January 1, 2017 at 9:28 pm)Tonus Wrote: I think it's awesome that he considers that a correction.
Ask him how seriously he thinks people would take him if he was only working a minimum wage job.
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RE: Washington Post Tries To Help Out Creatards and
January 1, 2017 at 10:14 pm
(January 1, 2017 at 9:47 pm)Astonished Wrote: (January 1, 2017 at 9:28 pm)Tonus Wrote: I think it's awesome that he considers that a correction.
Ask him how seriously he thinks people would take him if he was only working a minimum wage job.
Ask me how seriously I take people knowing that he isn't.
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