Comments on: Creationist Nonsense http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/ Your last stop before eternal enlightenment Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:40:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ian http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-2793 Ian Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:33:44 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-2793 Science is NOT a religion. Science is NOT a religion.

]]> By: Len http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-2785 Len Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:17:33 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-2785 Bit late, sorry. Lamont accepts the standard equation: bug A => bug B = dog => cat. But there's more at play here. Not only are the dots too far apart, but there are also too many real gaps to make it work. Perhaps we should just accept that. The universe is way more compicated than we can understand. Some people are helped by their belief in a supreme being, others prefer to see science as the answer. Both defend their "religion" tooth and nail. I (just like everyone else) don't really know what the answer is. Can't we all just get along? Bit late, sorry.
Lamont accepts the standard equation: bug A => bug B = dog => cat. But there’s more at play here. Not only are the dots too far apart, but there are also too many real gaps to make it work. Perhaps we should just accept that. The universe is way more compicated than we can understand. Some people are helped by their belief in a supreme being, others prefer to see science as the answer. Both defend their “religion” tooth and nail. I (just like everyone else) don’t really know what the answer is. Can’t we all just get along?

]]> By: Ian http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 Ian Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:34:02 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-2102 Gravity isn't a theory, it isn't a law. It's a natural phenomena, the same way evolution is. We can make theories and laws based on those phenomena, but that doesn't make their existence any more or less real. Gravity isn’t a theory, it isn’t a law. It’s a natural phenomena, the same way evolution is.

We can make theories and laws based on those phenomena, but that doesn’t make their existence any more or less real.

]]> By: Lamont B Dumont http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-2100 Lamont B Dumont Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:54:04 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-2100 Well - evolution IS "only a theory"; just like gravity. There was some poking in the right direction above, but it lacked clarity as I read it. When something has reached the status of "theory" among scientists, it means "we know this happens, we're still figuring out all of the nuts-and-bolts of it, but we know this happens". Evolution as fact need no longer rely on the fossil record, which involves too much in the way of connecting a series of very distant dots for the average person to follow, much less find compelling. For proof of evolution, we need look no further than the nearest pharmacy. Why do we have an industry that is constantly creating new antibiotics? Because the microbes we're trying to kill off have been evolving in response to a change in their environment over the last century. If the process of evolution did not exist, we'd still all be using penicillin for bacterial infections. We would never have heard of "antibiotic-resistant strains" of bacteria. Sometimes the easy answer is the best. Well – evolution IS “only a theory”; just like gravity. There was some poking in the right direction above, but it lacked clarity as I read it. When something has reached the status of “theory” among scientists, it means “we know this happens, we’re still figuring out all of the nuts-and-bolts of it, but we know this happens”.
Evolution as fact need no longer rely on the fossil record, which involves too much in the way of connecting a series of very distant dots for the average person to follow, much less find compelling. For proof of evolution, we need look no further than the nearest pharmacy. Why do we have an industry that is constantly creating new antibiotics? Because the microbes we’re trying to kill off have been evolving in response to a change in their environment over the last century. If the process of evolution did not exist, we’d still all be using penicillin for bacterial infections. We would never have heard of “antibiotic-resistant strains” of bacteria.
Sometimes the easy answer is the best.

]]> By: Ian http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1716 Ian Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:11:43 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-1716 Nice Ad Hominem there Paco.. At least I can take comfort in knowing you're wrong because you're ugly. Nice Ad Hominem there Paco..

At least I can take comfort in knowing you’re wrong because you’re ugly.

]]> By: Paco http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1714 Paco Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:48:51 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-1714 It is comforting to have the comments of Ian, who can test the validity of writer's P.h,D's by their few brief writings here and yet cannot spell 'breathe.' It is comforting to have the comments of Ian, who can test the validity of writer’s P.h,D’s by their few brief writings here and yet cannot spell ‘breathe.’

]]> By: jesse http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1279 jesse Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:16:09 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-1279 creationism is just so to the point. evolution just takes SO long... creationism is just so to the point. evolution just takes SO long…

]]> By: Ian http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1228 Ian Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:09:46 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-1228 Ridiculous. How did these two get a Ph.D in anything? I'm surprised they have the IQ to breathe on regular intervals. Ridiculous. How did these two get a Ph.D in anything? I’m surprised they have the IQ to breathe on regular intervals.

]]> By: Spoonman http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Spoonman Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:12:13 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/2007/10/21/creationist-nonsense/#comment-1224 The already <a href="http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2093" rel="nofollow">did respond</a>. And, it's just as stupid a response as you'd expect. The already did respond. And, it’s just as stupid a response as you’d expect.

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