fuck a creationist

Yeah, that's another fun bit; the deliberate misrepresenting of what folks actually mean when they say "evolution," much like the deliberate misuse of the word "theory" (i.e. instead of "hypothesis"). A lot of it seems like both projection and a cluelessness about how science changes and can disprove itself over time, like all we in the secular world worship upon the altar of Darwin, and we do it in the exact same unquestioning, blindly following way they follow their own leaders.

I think that's why they always call it "Darwinism,"(we only follow the man, who ain't Jesus) and hold up the fact that we've evolved theories that go beyond his as some sorta prove that we're wishy-washy nihilists who don't believe anything strongly(even to refute it).

lol, this is some seriously Star Trek-level biblical retcon!

xpost im getting quotes from answersingenesis.com & a couple other linked or googled creationist faqs - theres nothing even close to consensus on any of this stuff, it basically amounts to biblical fan fiction

this has pretty much always been the strategy of creationists though!

Jesus can get in line, baby.

(sorry for being so frat boy, I've always had the hots for xtian girls. Feeds from my self-defeating nature, I guess.)

(and that red-head is OOTW)

(The freckly god-is-good girl is cute.)

xpost i think he's asking to be forgiven for spreading his oral herpes

X-amining X-Men

It is ironic that the film on one hand depicts the horrors of the Holocaust but on the other embraces evolutionary premises. We must point out that it was evolutionary ideas that actually fueled Hitler’s genocide of ‘less-evolved’ peoples like Jews, Gypsies, Slavic peoples, etc. Evolutionary ideas have never advanced humankind either biologically or socially. On the contrary, they lead to the decay of societies—for example, today’s increase in abortion has been greatly influenced by evolutionary thinking (see Ken Ham’s book Genesis and the Decay of the Nations).

i think he's asking to be forgiven for spreading his oral herpes

otm!

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Blaming Darwin for Hitler is like blaming Jebus for Vlad the Impaler.

actually, they do! there's some site out there for "christian erotica" or some such. it's some really circumscribed erotic stories, but hey, if it gets some of these folks to finally accept intimacy, go for it.

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p.236.

"Aww, man, I would totally have this baby, but my genes aren't very good, so ..."

(That's a missed opportunity, really: much more traction in the argument that we're selfish consumption-obsessed children who seek out frivolous self-gratification over the greater fulfillment of family and child-rearing.)

The argument I've heard proposed by certain creationists I know:

1) Even if genetic mutation/"microevolution" (ugh) does occur, evolutionary theory still is not plausible because "most mutations are harmful."
2) When God created living things back in Eden, the gene pool was so pure that even harmful mutations would do minimal damage.

they have, and have.

I've read the Shirer. I think he's only partly right: Luther is certainly a crucial influence on ideas of German-ness, but I don't think the Nazis were explicitly "following his advice".

That one makes little to no sense (and yeah, I know it's not your argument): billions of three-eyed two-headed tail-having double-jointed backwards-limbed critters dead within weeks, just like they are in the present = so?

for real tracer, saying fundies 'have a point' about evolution & hitler is right up there with 'hiphop is dead cuz williamsburg only jams biggie nowadays'

xpost germans saw martin luther in him. really? never heard this. even so, you may as well blame il duce on dante