Why people laugh at Creationists

[Dave Lane]

Taking a lead from Killer Clown I thought I'd create a alternative thread to post some videos I like...

[EDIT New video here]

So on with the show:

Here's the Kent Hovind Theory:



"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Well, that's not how I see the original scene, since it was not disproven right away, but as you said 40 some years later.
More like today's science can be tommorrow's fiction.




According to this, Piltdown Man’s legitimacy didn't surfaced until the 1920s and ’30s.

http://www.history.com/news/piltdown...-100-years-ago

This is an excerpt from The Jaw Of The Piltdown Man by Gerrit S. Miller Jr. It is dated 1915. There are other examples, one going back to 1913, but this is the first link I found:

http://black.clarku.edu/~piltdown/ma...w_piltman.html


Few recently discovered fossils have excited more interest than the "Dawn Man of Piltdown," and few have given rise to more discussion (see bibliography at end of this paper). Deliberate malice could hardly have been more successful than the hazards of deposition in so breaking the fossils as to give free scope to individual judgment in fitting the parts together. As a result no less than three restorations of the braincase already exist (see Gregory, 1914, fig. 9), while the canine tooth has been assigned to the right lower mandible and the left upper jaw. The estimates on the capacity of the braincase range from 1,070 to 1,500 cubic centimeters. While there is no doubt that [2] the braincase, whatever its exact size, represents a member of the family Hominidæ, there is wide difference of opinion as to the possibility of joining it with the mandible as parts of one skull. One author regards "this association of human brain and simian features" as precisely what he had anticipated (Smith, 1913, p. 131), while another says that it seems to him "as inconsequent to refer the mandible and the cranium to the same individual as it would be to articulate a chimpanzee foot with an essentially human leg and thigh" (Waterston, 1913, p. 319). I cannot find, however, that anyone has yet definitely identified the jaw as that of a member of an existing simian genus, or that any zoologist has attempted a detailed comparative study of this part of "Eoanthropus." Dr. Woodward, who regarded the jaw as "almost precisely that of an ape," compared the specimens with young and adult chimpanzee only, while Dr. Gregory chose for his simian standard a female orang. Neither appears to have examined any considerable series of jaws of great apes.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

We disagree.

Its not a comparison because science disproved science and people no longer claim it to be true. No one is screaming that it should still be up for consideration. Someone created a clever hoax and when further evidence surfaced that doubted the claims it was no longer part of the evidence of evolution. But don't worry the theory was not built upon that case's evidence

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Its not a comparison because science disproved science and people no longer claim it to be true.

That wasn't my point.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

That wasn't my point.

So what is your point?

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by listopencil

Capitalization, do you use it?

Dave can speak for himself or are you two now a thing?

[|Zach|]

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

Dave can speak for himself or are you two now a thing?

So now you want to infringe upon my freedom of speach? It was a funny situation. Dave Lane made a grammatical error, or a typo, in one of his posts and you "call him out" with a mistake of your own. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

[listopencil]

I think Jesus would want you to apologize to Dave Lane, your post was very unchristian.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by listopencil

So now you want to infringe upon my freedom of speach? It was a funny situation. Dave Lane made a grammatical error, or a typo, in one of his posts and you "call him out" with a mistake of your own. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

I read it a few times and didn't understand what he was saying, but you did.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by listopencil

I think Jesus would want you to apologize to Dave Lane, your post was very unchristian.

You know nothing about Christianity, I'll take that advice with a grain of donkey salt.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

I read it a few times and didn't understand what he was saying, but you did.

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Aren't calls from prison collect anyway?

You truly do have horrible reading comprehension skills.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by listopencil

You truly do have horrible reading comprehension skills.

You should apologize for this post, bad pencil bad. Not very buddha zen master of you.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

You know nothing about Christianity, I'll take that advice with a grain of donkey salt.

I know at least as much about Christianity as you do, probably more judging by your ridiculous posts in this forum.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by listopencil

I know at least as much about Christianity as you do, probably more judging by your ridiculous posts in this forum.

You are a complete self serving moron, you know nothing.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

You should apologize for this post, bad pencil bad. Not very Buddha zen master of you.

You should read some of the teachings. It would do you some good.