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Swede

(39,449 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:02 AM Apr 2024

So Tucker goes on Rogan and proclaims there is no evidence of evolution. I just did an edit and posted the link.

Last edited Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:35 AM - Edit history (2)

He then says he believes god created everything. Trolling, stupid or both?

Perhaps a burning bush told him, or an angel. Talking donkey?

I added the link I saw on twitter. I also blocked the bible guy that posted it.


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So Tucker goes on Rogan and proclaims there is no evidence of evolution. I just did an edit and posted the link. (Original Post) Swede Apr 2024 OP
Pandering to the religionists. sop Apr 2024 #1
In Tuckem's case....Evolution NEVER took place... ProudMNDemocrat Apr 2024 #2
Neanderthals were pretty damn cool. -misanthroptimist Apr 2024 #19
Please do not insult Neanderthals. At best, he may be cro-magnon. niyad Apr 2024 #27
In appearance. Not intellect. ProudMNDemocrat Apr 2024 #34
cro-mangon is homo sapiens stopdiggin Apr 2024 #46
He's proof that some of the monkeys.... lastlib Apr 2024 #48
Tucker and Rogan True Dough Apr 2024 #3
One waste of time and the other a waste and a waist of time? Wonder Why Apr 2024 #17
and oxygen. niyad Apr 2024 #28
Did Rogan push back? edhopper Apr 2024 #4
He probably replied "Interesting.....". nt Carlitos Brigante Apr 2024 #9
Just asking questions. So very edgy. 617Blue Apr 2024 #12
Con artists collecting their money. Grifters. yardwork Apr 2024 #26
Rogan is a f'ng A-hole...and right wing to his core. I listened to the podcast about gay Demsrule86 Apr 2024 #41
That was for the benefit of all the MAGA suckers out there. eShirl Apr 2024 #5
It was a donkey's talking behind... Hugin Apr 2024 #6
He meant to say sellitman Apr 2024 #7
What a coincidence! The shirt I am wearing says: Conjuay Apr 2024 #8
What a whore he is PCIntern Apr 2024 #10
Yet every discipline of science that can show evolution, in fact does. GreenWave Apr 2024 #11
best answer stopdiggin Apr 2024 #47
Tucker has no problem denying evolution. Haggard Celine Apr 2024 #13
I swear sorcrow Apr 2024 #14
I've discussed... Mike Nelson Apr 2024 #15
How does he explain the Missing Link? C_U_L8R Apr 2024 #16
MTG on endangered species list. oasis Apr 2024 #20
His ignorance is painful to observe. -misanthroptimist Apr 2024 #18
No evidence says he... genxlib Apr 2024 #21
Another example -- the Florida snail kite evolves in less than a decade Ponietz Apr 2024 #29
+1 n/t Hugin Apr 2024 #32
Why do Christians ALWAYS diminish the powers of their god? PJMcK Apr 2024 #22
I agree. Hugin Apr 2024 #23
They don't want their god to be smarter than they are. yardwork Apr 2024 #30
Their belief that they can force their God to bring about an apocalypse... Hugin Apr 2024 #33
IMO, the lack of understanding humans fostered explanations in their own image Model35mech Apr 2024 #36
It's certainly not all of us. dawg Apr 2024 #39
Evolution deniers don't recognize evidence when they see it. Model35mech Apr 2024 #24
👇👇👇👁️👁️ Goonch Apr 2024 #25
But America is graced by the one tru gawd. Marcus IM Apr 2024 #31
In reading through this thread, I am pleased to note that 4/20 was successfully celebrated... Hugin Apr 2024 #35
If the alleged God invented people like Tucker and Trump, God needs to hire a new engineer. Ping Tung Apr 2024 #37
"That's why it's still just a theory after almost 200 years." Jim__ Apr 2024 #38
Tucker is just all around full of shit, LuvLoogie Apr 2024 #40
Fossils: God's little jokes. nolabear Apr 2024 #42
If they had cell phones in the year 1 we wouldn't have to kill each other over "the word of god." lindysalsagal Apr 2024 #43
Yeah, the "God" app. Hugin Apr 2024 #45
Tucker the Fuckwit who cheered after his brown-nosing Putin interview that "Leaders kill people" struggle4progress Apr 2024 #44

Demsrule86

(71,542 posts)
41. Rogan is a f'ng A-hole...and right wing to his core. I listened to the podcast about gay
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 12:24 PM
Apr 2024

kids becoming pedophiles blasting upstairs in my house when my son was a teen. I knocked on his door and said how can you listen to this when your sister is Gay...he opened his mouth then closed it and said you are right Mom, I almost fainted in surprise. My son never listened gain that I know of. I told him if you must listen to that filthy liar, wear headphones. I don't ever want to hear it again. I don't use Spotify because they broadcast his show. Rogan was and is forbidden in our house.

Conjuay

(3,061 posts)
8. What a coincidence! The shirt I am wearing says:
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:27 AM
Apr 2024

"You are the product of 4 billion years of evolution.

ACT LIKE IT."

PCIntern

(28,355 posts)
10. What a whore he is
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:31 AM
Apr 2024

Smarmy, repressed, faux-intellectual, serial-killer-creepy, bow tie wearing, ugly gnome says what?

No evidence? Well, you little impotent fuck, there’s no evidence that you’re even a human being. I think you’re a toadstool which acquired semi-sentient attributes. You are coalesced algae and spores. I’d rather crap broken glass than hear another word uttered by you.

GreenWave

(12,636 posts)
11. Yet every discipline of science that can show evolution, in fact does.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:35 AM
Apr 2024

serology
parasitology
embryology
are a few that do not get that much attention, but they do.\Even religion evolves, often plagiarizing others to do so.

Haggard Celine

(17,812 posts)
13. Tucker has no problem denying evolution.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:38 AM
Apr 2024

He's a fucking nihilist, so he can take whatever argument that he deems convenient at the time.

sorcrow

(680 posts)
14. I swear
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:43 AM
Apr 2024

I swear there's something wrong with that man's brain bone.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

Mike Nelson

(10,943 posts)
15. I've discussed...
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 08:52 AM
Apr 2024

... this with an "evangelical" type Christian. The don't accept proof, even if presented. They just fall back on the Devil planting the false proof.

-misanthroptimist

(1,602 posts)
18. His ignorance is painful to observe.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 09:13 AM
Apr 2024

"It's only a theory." Yeah. This tells me off the bat one of two things: Either you know nothing whatsoever about science, or you do know and are trying to use the colloquial usage of "theory" to mislead people.

Darwin. He and Wallace didn't invent evolution. They discovered it. They absolutely did not think at the time that they knew everything there was to know about evolution. The proposed mechanism, Natural Selection, is an important factor in evolution, but it's not the only one.
Evolution is an observed fact. It is impossible to believe that Carlson Wasn't taught this at some point in his high priced education.

genxlib

(6,132 posts)
21. No evidence says he...
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 09:34 AM
Apr 2024

I present you evidence in real time



This is all part and parcel with the Covid denial. In order to make it seem like Covid was just another flu, they have to ignore the fact that the bugs evolve to become more/less dangerous over time.

PJMcK

(25,047 posts)
22. Why do Christians ALWAYS diminish the powers of their god?
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 09:35 AM
Apr 2024

Fundamentalists are forever claiming that the universe was created in six days about 6,000 years ago. This in spite of all kinds of contrary evidence.

If their god is all powerful, why would it need magic? Wouldn’t such a being be far more clever and creative than just saying a few words and waving a proverbial magic wand?

Too many people can’t handle the complexities of our universe. They want a coloring book explanation for everything.

Hugin

(37,840 posts)
23. I agree.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 09:38 AM
Apr 2024

Higher powers who initiated a universe that builds itself is far more awesome and impressive.

yardwork

(69,352 posts)
30. They don't want their god to be smarter than they are.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:13 AM
Apr 2024

That would be frightening and confusing. Their god is stupid, cruel, inconsistent, mean, and insecure because these people created their god in their own image.

I think we can tell a lot about people by the gods - or absence of gods - they choose to follow. People who think of God as forgiving, empathetic, and demanding the same of His followers tend to be forgiving, empathetic people with high standards. Does a person follow the Goddess? Chances are they care about protecting the Earth and they celebrate all of Creation. Atheists tend to be self-reliant people with their own moral code.

The meanies follow a mean god of their own creation.

Hugin

(37,840 posts)
33. Their belief that they can force their God to bring about an apocalypse...
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:19 AM
Apr 2024

Tells me all I need to know about these charlatans.

(I bet their God laughs about this every “day”.)

 

Model35mech

(2,047 posts)
36. IMO, the lack of understanding humans fostered explanations in their own image
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:58 AM
Apr 2024

What they knew best was their own 'agency'. They collected food and water and built shelter. These 'good things', to borrow words from Martha Stewart, came from their intentional actions.

When confronted with nature confounding their interests, they interpreted the presence of an opponent. When the bad things went away, they interpreted it as an act of an 'agent' working in their interests.

It's not hard from that point to appreciate how western-style religion originated in the belief that 'god-agents' were responsible for the conditions humans confronted. The friendly agent became perceived as a 'GOD', the unfriendly agent was the leader of the opposition of that god, demons and Satan.

Now, it's quite likely that early human societies involved groups that developed and nourished quid-pro-quo relationships, partly if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, and partly in the practice of trading things of value. That quid-pro-qup thing is built into all the Abrahamic religions. We sacrifice and we get a reward. Not because GOD told us, but because 'we" interpreted our relationship with the 'good thing' according to our understanding of relationships with 'other'.

And I think that understanding was exploited by a priestly class that turned supplication of "the good thing" with the priests making their livings by mediating our supplications. The sacrifices of believers shifted from 'god-focused' into benefiting priests, but were intended to recieve the QUID from God in return for the Pro of the sacrifice.

As civilization developed, religion transformed under emerging practices in humans. Our lives were dominated by power assymetries between leaders and the led. So 'we' created god-heads that were similar. Consider how the God of western religion is modelled on Monarchy, royal relationships, and a force of "priestly bureaucratics/boyars' who in our hopes, labors to lead us toward the "QUIDs" that they control because they had a monopoly on dealing with the gos and thereby our access to the gods interest in sharing wealth, power, and fulfillment of our wants.

As far as I can see, the structure of religion isn't -reality- of divine origin, but rather is interpretation and creation of supernatural infuence promoted by a scamming, parasitic priestly class, that tells us "how it is" in a manner that serves their interests.





dawg

(10,777 posts)
39. It's certainly not all of us.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 11:50 AM
Apr 2024

There are still a few of us theists left who are able to do "nuance" .

And the more I learn about the universe, the more awestruck I become. Whether by accident or design, our existence is a miraculous gift. We should all try to love each other and make the most of it.

 

Model35mech

(2,047 posts)
24. Evolution deniers don't recognize evidence when they see it.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:04 AM
Apr 2024

The clever ones among them also redefine 'evolution' and 'evidence' and lean into apparent anomalies that underlie what they perceive to be currently held scientific understanding as they define it. Most of these sorts of approaches depend upon both lack of interpretive ability of their authors and supporters and approaches to evidence that produce, perhaps intentionally, misleading applications of rules of argumentation from outside of science.

The most recent approach is called "Intelligent Design". Wherein it's inventor, a lawyer, advocates with semantics tricks, such as suggesting the existence of undemonstrated evidence ("irreducible complexity) and the misapplication of rules of forensic argument. They insist that this non-evidentiary semantic slight ot hand creates doubt- that fully undermes evolutionary theory. But then they fail to ever show the existence of actual biological things that are irreducibly complex or that things which seem to have purpose could only be produced by a designer building into them an inherent 'purpose'.

All they've ever shown is their own failings of interpretive ability when it is applied to complex, highly ordered natural phenomena. Nonetheless they argue from their terribly weak position of understanding that evolutionists interpretation violates the principal of entropy in the laws of thermodynamics. They actually can't demonstrate positive evidence for a cosmic designer.

Instead, they appeal to popular general scientific ignorance and purposeful misinterpretation arising from the failings of their interpretive abilities.

The most UN-educated ones, who make up many of the ones with the loudest presence in society, remain entrenched in baseless theistic notions that biblical creation narratives are, actually, THE real evidence. And that THAT evidence was provided by an infallible the all-powerful all- knowing designer rather than ancient religious story tellers. They are ignore real cultural evidence in the creation narratives in the bible itself. That evidence illustrates that the creation myth was compiled by multiple bible authors' who mashed together differing versions of creation myths that are inconsistent and in conflict with each other, even as presented in the quite short length of the book of genesis.





 

Marcus IM

(3,001 posts)
31. But America is graced by the one tru gawd.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:13 AM
Apr 2024

Any nonbelievers in the fact that America is the greatest nation on earth can go take a jump into that eternal lake of fire.






I'll meet you there.

Hugin

(37,840 posts)
35. In reading through this thread, I am pleased to note that 4/20 was successfully celebrated...
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:51 AM
Apr 2024

All across the land.



Good job! Carry on!

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
37. If the alleged God invented people like Tucker and Trump, God needs to hire a new engineer.
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:58 AM
Apr 2024

Jim__

(15,219 posts)
38. "That's why it's still just a theory after almost 200 years."
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 11:27 AM
Apr 2024

Yea, it's just a theory. Sort of like gravity.

LuvLoogie

(8,808 posts)
40. Tucker is just all around full of shit,
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 11:59 AM
Apr 2024

whether he's trolling, believes, what he says, misinformed, lying, confused -- he's full of shit.

lindysalsagal

(22,903 posts)
43. If they had cell phones in the year 1 we wouldn't have to kill each other over "the word of god."
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 12:30 PM
Apr 2024

It would come pre-loaded on all cell phones. Gods can do shit like that.

struggle4progress

(126,120 posts)
44. Tucker the Fuckwit who cheered after his brown-nosing Putin interview that "Leaders kill people"
Sun Apr 21, 2024, 12:43 PM
Apr 2024

right before the Russian thugs announced their murder of Navalny?

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