314? Call Tebow.

Fossils are the learned homosexuality that Darwin uses to keep 0bama out of his militant atheism.


/My surname is Le BèvHèad.

The devil planted the slides.

dickfreckle: Darth_Lukecash: The devil planted the slides.

I will never, ever, ever forget the day my mother looked at me with a straight face and said, "Alex, have you ever considered that the evidence was put there to test our faith?"

I didn't say a word. I just backed out of the room and and banged my head against the cars in the garage.

It's even funnier when people claim that biblical stories or situations show up earlier in other cultures is the Devil going back in time to plant them.

The problem I have with religion is that it requires Unquestioning Faith, And anything that actually sends up an intellectual red flag, is considered a "Test"

/The Universe doesn't care. That's why shiat happens. It's not personal, it's just business.

Mathematic Dyslexia

jagec: dickfreckle: Darth_Lukecash: The devil planted the slides.

I will never, ever, ever forget the day my mother looked at me with a straight face and said, "Alex, have you ever considered that the evidence was put there to test our faith?"

I didn't say a word. I just backed out of the room and and banged my head against the cars in the garage.

That's why I'm a very young-earth creationist.

The earth was created, in its exact present form, last Thursday. Any evidence that we find to the contrary, or any memories that we have of moments before then, were simply planted there to test our faith.

Bonus points if you can make the successful argument that the Bible itself was written simply to test our faith.

That's the Omphalos argument. I had a relative who used the same argument on me. I told them that if the Earth was less than 2000 years old, Jesus himself never existed, and if it were less than about 3500 years old, Moses never existed, and so on. So we agreed that the Earth was at least* 3500 years old.
Since she agreed that the Earth had to be at least that old, in part because evidence within the Universe (the Bible) indicated that it must be at least that old, then I asked if she would accept extra-Biblical evidence that the world was even older. She would not.

The fact that people are willing to take a many-times-copied written account of an oral tradition of a group of nomadic shepherds from the Bronze Age at face value, but ignore the fact that we have proof based on fundamental physics that the Universe is older than 6000 years just boggles my mind.

*Of course, at least is relative here, since I put the Earth at about 4.5 billion years old, about a quarter to a fifth the age of the Universe.

StanTheMan: Ah, another "Democrats believe in science, unlike those dumb religious Republicans thread." Great.

Meanwhile, Democrats More Likely to Believe in Ghosts, Fortunetellers, Communicating With the Dead, Yoga As a Spiritual Practice.

And how many Democrats insist that we teach about fortune-telling, necromancy, yoga, and ghosts in school?

Fox News first broadcast in 1996. Nothing before that matters to them....except for Reagan.

Arkanaut: I think subby means "one for every 19 years".

/Unless time began 16 years ago.

Prove that it didn't.

:-)

StanTheMan: Ah, another "Democrats believe in science, unlike those dumb religious Republicans thread." Great.

Who ever said that? What kind of jerkoff divides everyone into "republican" and "democrat"?

Oh.

bmr68: I just discovered this month that a co-worker believes the Earth is 6000 years old. I walked away after he said that the depth of dust on the moon is all the scientific proof he needs to prove Earth's age. That just reaffirmed the "never talk about religion and politics at work" speech my dad gave me.

wow, I'd never heard of that at all, had to look it up. The majority of the young earth crowd has even decided that is nuts.