I am sure that I'm not the first person to say this, but I feel that I must parrot other people indirectly because I...feel like it!
Oh, and if this is really old news, feel free to throw rotten fruit at me, I've brought a baggie with some tomatoes....
So, I don't normally post in the Atheist board cause, oddly enough, I dick around in the Christian board to see how they think. Or at least, how they type.
Other people's mindsets fascinate me...mostly cause I want to see how a bag of goo and gray bits and advanced nuro-chemistry can create so many different people. The brain is pretty miraculous, if you think about it (cue canned laughter)
So, seriously now, I recently learned about something that, well, got me jiggered. I'll explain why in a short while.
The "thing" was the news of these clowns. For those of you who don't want to watch the video: They are two fellas who go around and have "BC" tours of Natural History museums and what not. BC stands for "biblically correct"
So...yeah. I quote:
Clown: How do scientists tell if the sedimentary layer is old?
Kids (prompted by clown): It has fossils.
Clown: And how can they tell the fossils are old?
Kids: Becuase it's in the sedimentary layer!
Clown: And that, kids, is what we call
All together: Circular reasoning!
Now, going beyond the horrible horrible horrible hypocrisy of telling scientists that they are using circular reasoning, but they had the gall to say this IN FRONT of the CARBON DATING EXHIBIT!
Let me underline that.
the gall to say this IN FRONT of the CARBON DATING EXHIBIT
Some people might not understand why this offends me. Let me illustrate it with a scene:
Okay, it's a nice day at church. Then two clowns come in running an SC tour. That's a Scientifically correct tour, just so you know. They walk into a Sunday school class that is going over the creation of the world
Clown: Now, see, the world was actually made over a very long period, not six days.
Teacher <flustered>: But, I-
Clown: See, over thousands and thousands of years, the world slowly coalesced into a ball of molten rock.
Teacher: That's not how-
Clown: And then it cooled down into a hard hunk of rock. Now, slowly, over time-
Teacher: No, no...it says in this Bible that the world was made in six days.
Clown: And how do you know the bible is right? Kids?
Kids: <prompted by clown>: Because it's holy
Clown: And how do you know the bible is holy?
Kids: Because it says it is.
Clown: Now...all together. What is that?
All together: Circular logic!
People would be really offended by this. So I have a hard time understanding why other people have such a hard time understanding why I am so offended over the REAL Clowns! Anyone else think this? Am I just taking crazy pills here!?
Oh, and if this is really old news, feel free to throw rotten fruit at me, I've brought a baggie with some tomatoes....
So, I don't normally post in the Atheist board cause, oddly enough, I dick around in the Christian board to see how they think. Or at least, how they type.
Other people's mindsets fascinate me...mostly cause I want to see how a bag of goo and gray bits and advanced nuro-chemistry can create so many different people. The brain is pretty miraculous, if you think about it (cue canned laughter)
So, seriously now, I recently learned about something that, well, got me jiggered. I'll explain why in a short while.
The "thing" was the news of these clowns. For those of you who don't want to watch the video: They are two fellas who go around and have "BC" tours of Natural History museums and what not. BC stands for "biblically correct"
So...yeah. I quote:
Clown: How do scientists tell if the sedimentary layer is old?
Kids (prompted by clown): It has fossils.
Clown: And how can they tell the fossils are old?
Kids: Becuase it's in the sedimentary layer!
Clown: And that, kids, is what we call
All together: Circular reasoning!
Now, going beyond the horrible horrible horrible hypocrisy of telling scientists that they are using circular reasoning, but they had the gall to say this IN FRONT of the CARBON DATING EXHIBIT!
Let me underline that.
the gall to say this IN FRONT of the CARBON DATING EXHIBIT
Some people might not understand why this offends me. Let me illustrate it with a scene:
Okay, it's a nice day at church. Then two clowns come in running an SC tour. That's a Scientifically correct tour, just so you know. They walk into a Sunday school class that is going over the creation of the world
Clown: Now, see, the world was actually made over a very long period, not six days.
Teacher <flustered>: But, I-
Clown: See, over thousands and thousands of years, the world slowly coalesced into a ball of molten rock.
Teacher: That's not how-
Clown: And then it cooled down into a hard hunk of rock. Now, slowly, over time-
Teacher: No, no...it says in this Bible that the world was made in six days.
Clown: And how do you know the bible is right? Kids?
Kids: <prompted by clown>: Because it's holy
Clown: And how do you know the bible is holy?
Kids: Because it says it is.
Clown: Now...all together. What is that?
All together: Circular logic!
People would be really offended by this. So I have a hard time understanding why other people have such a hard time understanding why I am so offended over the REAL Clowns! Anyone else think this? Am I just taking crazy pills here!?