Until I saw this I never realized that before the Flood it never rained and there was a water canopy surrounding the Earth. I guess P.T. Barnum was right.
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It’s simple, isn’t it. Just make stuff up, and keep repeating it. The news media will do the rest, by telling people there’s a “controversy”.
Arghh, those fucking French atheists. They’ll do it every time.
The Water Canopy sounds kind of cool, but a world with no rain? That sucks, man. I, like Eddie Rabbit, love a rainy night.
Maybe I’m right. Religion should be outlawed.
#3 – Bobster
You’re big on the government control/ nanny state thing, aren’t you?
#1 – jim h – It’s simple, isn’t it. Just make stuff up, and keep repeating it. The news media will do the rest, by telling people there’s a “controversy”.
Works every time. 😛
#4 – Ayatollah Mustardi
But religion plus politics is and has been a great combo, right?
I’m pretty sure Science has disproved Creationism – at least the part about the world being 4,000 years old.
Actually historical records indicate the pyramids have been around since at least 5,000 B.C.
Unless, of course, you accept the idea that God simply created the world, complete with pyramids, dinosaur fossils, etc. all carefully set up just to trick us.
#4–Mustard==well, thats exactly why I said “maybe.” I don’t like government action interfering with human autonomy==even when I agree with the outcome/desired goal.
Maybe a warming label should be required like ads about Crystal Ball Readers: “For Entertainment Purposes Only” BECAUSE only an idiot believes in fortune telling and the GOVERNMENT is charged with protecting the idiot public from itself.
I’m moving towards a “position” consistent with freedom and reality.
I PROPOSE: All churches should be required to post a sign outside their places of chanting that the acitivities inside are “For Entertainment Purposes Only.”
Just a nudge to protect the idiots who so obviously need it. Sun rotates around the earth kind of concern.
Who could argue with that logic!
#7
LMF-ingAO!!!
IQ vs. Religiosity
#5 – Cough Syrup Man
>>But religion plus politics is and has been
>>a great combo, right?
Oh no. That sucks. Especially when the religion is Atheism.
There’s nothing worse than a cold, cruel, heartless nanny state, run on a mixture of narcissism and egotism.
Fuck, I’ll take a Unitarian any time.
It’s hard to know where to start, but…
– Water canopy? Seriously?
– So why, if there was such a thing, did God decide to screw us over by removing it? Did he decide he made a mistake?
#10 – Ayatollah Mustardi
You’ve learned the propaganda methods used from the pulpit very well, my friend. Repeat your nonsense about atheism being a religion throughout your life and you might even win some minds.
#10 – Paregoric Man
You call it nonsense, but you and your bretheren are more mindless believers than the worst of the snake handlers.
Deal with it.
http://tinyurl.com/5rq6ao
#11 – debegray – So why, if there was such a thing, did God decide to screw us over by removing it?
Because this invisible man is a murderous, sadistic, cruel, psychopathic and racist creature. He wants people to die and suffer for him.
So much crazyness in there it is hard to know where to begin.
Only atheists belive in evolution and that the universe is billions of years old? I’m guessing that these are the same people that say that Roman Catholics aren’t really Christians either.
Water canopy? So any guesses on how they try to use science to explain that? How would plants live without water from rain? Wouldn’t 50% oxygen be toxic to some lifeforms? (not sure about that one)
I also love how they explain how the generations were used to explain how the earth is young and then later on say that before the flood people lived at least 900 years. So wouldn’t their own theory make the world several thousand years older than they claim?
I’m disappointed, however, that they didn’t include the notion that all animals in the garden of eden were vegetarian to explain how adam and eve didn’t get eaten by the carnivorous dinosaurs.
>>Because this invisible man is a murderous,
>>sadistic, cruel, psychopathic and racist
>>creature. He wants people to die and suffer
>>for him.
Good luck to YOU at the pearly gates, my tincture-of-opium friend.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Repent, while you still can.
#16 – jccalhoun – …they didn’t include the notion that all animals in the garden of eden were vegetarian to explain how adam and eve didn’t get eaten by the carnivorous dinosaurs.
Good point.
#17 – Ayatollah Mustardi – Repent, while you still can.
Please share your laugh after we’re both dead… oh, wait… you can’t…
But seriously folks, what can be done?
I’m thinking this luddite contest will continue until some GREAT EVENT like maybe some ice shelf sliding off into the ocean 100 years from now raising the sea level 50 feet overnight might, just might, cause some world leaders to say: “We gotta get scientific about our lives.”
Unfortunately, its going to take some kind of charasmatic leader with a catalyzing event to cause a shift in general perception.
Course, when a tsunami comes in and kills 300K people, and Star Jones thanks god for his mercy in saving her fat ass==the betting money should be on “Religion will take us all down the rat hole.”
Its a close contest either way.
well, i don’t know about you but that slideshow was all the evidence i needed to convert. stupid science and its inaccuracies, when will they learn?
Mustard,
just out of idle curiosity, if I came up to you and said that I believe in a creature that lives in another dimension who periodically sticks his hand into our dimension to stir up the waters in Lake Michigan to create a cake made of carrots which we should worship so that when we die we can get free peanut butter sandwiches for free forever, so you better believe too, wouldn’t you assume that I was a nut case? On the other hand, what would I have to do to make you believe me?
What makes my saying all that any different than what you believe given there is no physical proof that either what I say or your beliefs are based in fact? Why would you assume your beliefs are correct and mine wrong? Can you point to what caused you to believe what someone told you you should believe rather than say it’s all a crock?
Love this one:
“…half life of carbon 14 is 5730, therefore it cannot be used to date very old fossils”
Of course, if it points to dates before 6000 years ago… this “clock” must be wrong…Duh!
Only a WITCH can create things from merely using words. But GOD is easier to spell.
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, eat my apple and your pain will double! EEEH-Hee-Hee-Hee! No more Eden for you my pretty!
“Who are you who art so wise in the ways of
science?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LKX0knZxFs
I’m starting wonder if this is all a put on. What is the origin of this presentation? I’m suspicious that it was put together to ridicule the creationists, rather than something that was authored by a real live creationist. After all, don’t they usually have some pride of authorship?
Its very funny either way!
Slide 14 says “Fossils can be formed instantly” — okay, make me some fossils!
#16- jccalhoun – “How would plants live without water from rain?”
Well, right after saying there was no rain, Genesis says this.. “But there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground”.
No idea where the 50% oxygen claim comes from; never heard that one.
#21–Uncle Dave==you’ve seen Mustard asked that question many times before and he always responds that his beliefs are no different than yours==all beliefs are equivalent and science and atheism is just a belief system. Ask him again, and he is tired of responding.
Your question though is so silly as to be rejected out of hand. Mustard has also been asked the better version of your same question: “Why have you rejected all the gods of the other religions so popular with millions of people?” He then will say to stop forcing your beliefs on him.
Calling for introspection of those who have chosen to give up thinking is indeed beating a dead horse. Still, I’m curious too. How can we both be homo sapiens?
#25 Bud, Oh this is real. I grew up being fed this BS. The main points are fairly consistent with the religion I grew up with. There are some minor differences but overall this is what most fundamental Christians believe.
Man I am so glad I am now an atheist!
#21 – Unc D
I really wouldn’t give a fuck what you thought. This dimension, that dimension, carrot cake, it’s all fine with me.
One difference, however, is that you’re an [Ed.] on dvorak dot org slash blog, while the people from whom I take spiritual advice are some of the wisest, kindest, noblest people I have ever met.
In the end, it makes no difference. You have your 7th-dimensional carrot cake monster, I have my invisible man in the sky.
It’s what you do with what you’ve got that’s important. Do something good. After all, you’re my Father’s brother
#28 – Bobbo
All I can assume is that you’re trolling. Nobody could really be as dimwitted as to have read my postings and come up with the gibberish you spout.
You’re the only one I get “tired of responding” to, because you say the most ridiculous things imaginable, that don’t warrant a response.
And then there’s the fucked-up punctuation.