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Great, so will the nutjobs start putting "Rotation around the sun is just a theory! Round earth is just a theory!" on science books now?
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Only seems fair. Technically, they seem to be undermining the very concept of gravity - so maybe the concept of gravity should be compeltely abandoned. After all, science cannot REALLY explain it particularly well. If I'm up to speed, the particles (or whatever) by which the effect of gravity operates, have not yet been definitively identified or measured - so perhaps it really just is magic or divine will. Ironically, I remember a satirical piece a while ago, lampooing the "intelligent design" stuff, claiming that gravity was bunk and in reality should correctly be called "intelligent falling". I can't decide if it's funny or sad to see real life imitate comedy so accurately. |
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Man, stuff like this makes me want to build my cabin in the woods and pretend people like this aren't really there.
"I must be insane, because nobody can be this dumb!" I like this quote
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Amazing thing can happen when you get a bunch of people like this together.
I blame the internet so in turn it must be Gore's fault. |
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Intelligence falls along a statistical bell curve. Looks like someone slipped, rolled down the curve and fell off the left side of it.
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The one horrific thing the interweb did was make hordes of weird idiots discover that they weren't alone. This gave them confidence and power. It's also why we must more often deal with people who believe the earth is flat, communists, and furries. |
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I'll second that! |
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Ugh...
...Here we go again. Now there are more idiots that anti-religious types can throw at us sensible Believers with a sneer and a smirk and say "What do you know? You don't believe the Earth is round..." Thanks, anti-science idiots. A whole bunch. ps why aren't those guys wearing pants...? Is this a Python skit...? |
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Well, technically, he could be right, since there's no such thing as absolute position. All position is relative, so it could just as well be that the Earth doesn't spin, and the rest of the universe revolves around the Earth every 24 hours.
It's not very bloody likely though. |
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Guys, this man coaches my sons basketball team!! NO JOKE!!!!
I am as Catholic as they come and I really believe in my religion. This however I do not get. This guy is as normal and reasonable a man as you will ever meet...until you delve into this. It is a shame that subjects like this, that have no real impact on salvation, become the points that divide us. |
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Some people need to be eliminated from the gene pool! You can't argue with stupid people. We need to take these people up to 3000 feet and kick them out of a plane they will find out in 20 seconds that gravity is real and the ground is hard.
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I always figured that the guys were just attention whores. Can anybody be THAT stupid?
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Don't extrapolate that all Christians think that way. If an alien landed in backwoods Kentucky and saw a trailor parked out in the woods, painted purple, with a picture of Elvis giving the thumbs up sign on the side, should he write the entire US off as a being a bunch of dimwits?
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His theories don't seem too far off from what we see "mainstream" religious advocates push for...
The earth is 5000 years old, carbon dating is all lies and so are dinosaur bones. God made you the way you are right now, and evolution is crock. sound familiar? |
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But what if they happen to be huge Elvis fans? |
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Nothing brings out a crowd, and the press, better then dead bodies and half naked nut jobs.
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Seriously - "Monty Python skit" was my very first thought as well. |
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Correct. I'm running into more and more of them as more people from Ohio move into the area. Most of them are just normal people, but quite a few of them are simply wacky.z |
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"If you see the Earth as just a humdrum planet among stars circling in a vast universe, then we're not significant, we're just part of a crowd," Sungenis said. "But if you believe everything revolves around Earth, it gives another picture - of purpose, a meaning of life."
And that right there is where people like this come from. Oh and why are the guys in the pic not wearing pants? |
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Here ya go: www.theonion.com/content/node/39512 I wonder, how long before people here on ARFCOM start arguing for this? |
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You know, I prefer to think of myself as just a man that can't see the "real" design in the matrix, if you will.
As I remember, ALL of science is based on THEORY. Theory only becomes fact if we believe it to be. |
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Every belief system has many branches to it. These seem to be the nuts that fell off.
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Oh, come on. We can directly observe the Earth revolving around the Sun, and see that the Earth is spherical, etc. We cannot see evolution, or proof that the Earth is billions of years old. And C-14 dating sucks for really old things. Its half-life is too short, and besides, we can't say with certainty how much C-14 a certain thing had in it when it died. We just assume it's the same as today, and we assume that none got added or subtracted somehow. The flat-earthers are in a league by themselves. Don't compare us to them in any way. |
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Which is why C14 is never just accepted in isolation. It's used in conjunction with other dating methods. But yes it's limited to a narrower range of dates. Anyway, these idiots are on a level of stupid all to their own. Flat out amusing really. |
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Modern carbon-dating is calibrated to account for changes in the natural C14/C12 ratio. The method I have seen quoted uses long-lived trees, which lay down annual growth rings. Counting rings establishes an exact calendar date for that ring, and carbon-dating them allows the calculation of the actual carbon ratios for that year. |
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