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damnedifIknow

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Mon Mar 18, 2013, 01:50 PM Mar 2013

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And dumber'n a box o' hammers MynameisBlarney Mar 2013 #1
This is terrible that this propaganda is given to vulnerable Children!! hue Mar 2013 #2
Here we are in Pennsylvania? RVN VET Mar 2013 #3
Now everybody get back to work in those mines and dig that multi-million year old coal.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #4
I once had the pleasure of working with a "Promise Keeper" MynameisBlarney Mar 2013 #8
I was told fossils are "art" put in the rock to test our faith.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #10
Oh, yea. I've been subjected to their "astronomy".... paleotn Mar 2013 #19
Then there are the ones who claim all that "stuff" is much closer than "THEY" claim.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #21
There's one where I work Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #5
Always remember who the real audience is... JHB Mar 2013 #7
"they are missionaries who argue like lawyers and their juries are their own home team crowd" Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #11
The very ACT of telling them they are wrong to them is a test of their faith.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #12
"A babbling encyclopedia of ignorance" rurallib Mar 2013 #16
I couldn't even take the full 3:29 minutes of this bunk! n/t ThingsGottaChange Mar 2013 #6
Until society wakes up and PROSECUTES men like this for child abuse, we are doomed. Moostache Mar 2013 #9
these people need to be put in jail juxtaposed Mar 2013 #13
Indeed they are. Like InfoWars junkies, climate doomers, and members of the so-called "militias".... AverageJoe90 Mar 2013 #14
err... kenfrequed Mar 2013 #15
It's a complicated issue, but if you really want me to explain..... AverageJoe90 Mar 2013 #20
Ken Ham is an endless source of comedy gold... SidDithers Mar 2013 #17
Ah, yes, the conveniently placed shrubs! hatrack Mar 2013 #28
CHILD ABUSE!!! 02potato Mar 2013 #18
I thought this was the history book of the Universe: Wise Child Mar 2013 #22
barking mad as Dawkin's would say /nt jimlup Mar 2013 #23
Child Abuse zebonaut Mar 2013 #24
Wanna see what real science can do? zebonaut Mar 2013 #25
The parents of these children should be arrested. bowens43 Mar 2013 #26
Just dumb and ignorant. nt ladjf Mar 2013 #27

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)
1. And dumber'n a box o' hammers
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 01:55 PM
Mar 2013

to boot.

hue

(4,949 posts)
2. This is terrible that this propaganda is given to vulnerable Children!!
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:05 PM
Mar 2013

RVN VET

(492 posts)
3. Here we are in Pennsylvania?
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:10 PM
Mar 2013

I don't believe that this guy exists. I think he's a digitized animation created by the Zombie God to eat the brains of small children.

Also, I'm beginning to wonder about Pennsylvania.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. Now everybody get back to work in those mines and dig that multi-million year old coal....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:31 PM
Mar 2013

....and ignore the fossils you find.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18279510/#.UUddYhx9p7Q

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)
8. I once had the pleasure of working with a "Promise Keeper"
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:06 PM
Mar 2013

Who told me that fossils were a conspiracy.
I laughed in his face.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
10. I was told fossils are "art" put in the rock to test our faith....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:27 PM
Mar 2013

Later I was told the time scale was all wrong. It was all pre-Flood and just a few thousand years old.

Then there's the astronomy from these people which really makes me believe they are actually experts in chemistry.

paleotn

(22,211 posts)
19. Oh, yea. I've been subjected to their "astronomy"....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 08:05 PM
Mar 2013

Our solar system is the center of the universe. How do they know this? Because all the galaxies are moving away from us, as the universe expands!

The universe was created as is, with light photons already on their way to earth.

The speed of light was actually much faster in the early part of the universe's 6,700 or so year history.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
21. Then there are the ones who claim all that "stuff" is much closer than "THEY" claim....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 09:23 PM
Mar 2013

"THEY" being "those idiot scientists".

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
5. There's one where I work
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:37 PM
Mar 2013

A babbling encyclopedia of ignorance. Arguing with him is like reasoning with a birther: No matter what proof he asks for, showing him just brings a succession of demands for more.

JHB

(38,211 posts)
7. Always remember who the real audience is...
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:00 PM
Mar 2013

...and it's never the creationist. They aren't scientists, they are missionaries who argue like lawyers and their juries are their own home team crowd.

If you argue with one, content yourself that whatever you say will bounce off him and the true believers around him, and steer what you say toward anyone else who might be listening. (which is easier said than done, of course)

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
11. "they are missionaries who argue like lawyers and their juries are their own home team crowd"
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:29 PM
Mar 2013

Great line! Condensed brutally logical and dead accurate. Consider yourself quoted.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
12. The very ACT of telling them they are wrong to them is a test of their faith....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:38 PM
Mar 2013

It makes you the Devil and them Jesus going through the temptations.

Not that these clowns can actually NAME the temptations.

What's weird is how this image looks like coal miners....

rurallib

(64,688 posts)
16. "A babbling encyclopedia of ignorance"
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 05:29 PM
Mar 2013

ThingsGottaChange

(1,200 posts)
6. I couldn't even take the full 3:29 minutes of this bunk! n/t
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:43 PM
Mar 2013

Moostache

(11,171 posts)
9. Until society wakes up and PROSECUTES men like this for child abuse, we are doomed.
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:20 PM
Mar 2013

People all KNOW that religion in its organized and systematic forms - whether this ass-clown with the chimp-like appearance and the addled brain that discounts modern science in favor of agrarian fables; or the papal enclave in Rome last week, with the golden laced linen dresses for the participants, while they simultaneously condemn millions to die of AIDS in preventable African transmissions; or the monstrosities of the religious wars in the Muslim world to prove whose interpretation of Mohammed's dehydration hallucination fantasy is more correct - ALL organized religions are a boil on the ass of humanity and it must be lanced!

 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
13. these people need to be put in jail
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 04:28 PM
Mar 2013
 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
14. Indeed they are. Like InfoWars junkies, climate doomers, and members of the so-called "militias"....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 04:33 PM
Mar 2013

They represent a very small, yet extremely vocal part of American society that just won't ever quite go away on their own no matter how much we try to ignore them.....the best thing to do IMO, is to confront this fringe of society, and expose & debunk their nuttiness for what it is.

Only then, will people like Glenn Beck, Guy McPherson, Kent Hovind, and Norm Olson, face the possibility of true irrelevancy.....

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
15. err...
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 05:19 PM
Mar 2013

What is a "Climate Doomer?" Do you mean "Climate Denier"

 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
20. It's a complicated issue, but if you really want me to explain.....
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 08:12 PM
Mar 2013

In simpler terms, however, they tend to have an extremely pessimistic view of things.....but to be more specific: they are absolutely sure that we are just totally screwed no matter what, because fate, because humans dumb monkeys, etc., etc.(and, in the minds of many of them, that anyone who disagrees with them is a denier or "minimizer".

More specifically:

1.)The absolute worst case scenarios of climate change, or something even supposedly worse, WILL come to pass, no ifs, ands, or buts.
2.)That we cannot do anything to mitigate climate change.
3.)That nothing more will be done to mitigate climate change, and that this is esentially written in stone.
4.)That the IPCC and certain other organizations are purposefully "downplaying" the potential severity of climate change in their studies and other research.
5.)And that actual human extinction due to climate change alone is possible, and/or that global civilization's collapse solely due to same said thing is inevitable, and/or imminent(they usually go together).

(Although yes, I'd agree with you that climate deniers are their own brand of nuts as well)

SidDithers

(44,333 posts)
17. Ken Ham is an endless source of comedy gold...
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 05:57 PM
Mar 2013

his picture books are hilarious.



From Ham's book "Dinosaurs of Eden"

Seriously, you can't make this shit up.

Sid

hatrack

(64,878 posts)
28. Ah, yes, the conveniently placed shrubs!
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 09:21 AM
Mar 2013

How well I remember them from the anthropology texts of yore.

Of course, those were actual anthropology texts . . . .

02potato

(175 posts)
18. CHILD ABUSE!!!
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 06:22 PM
Mar 2013

Why is he not in prison?

Along with evolution there are other theories like;

GRAVITY,CONTINENTAL DRIFT, RELATIVITY

We use all of them until someone comes up with a better theory.

(that is then SCRUTINIZED by peers in the same field)

the word "THEORY" doesn't mean that its wrong...

Thats progress.................

Wise Child

(180 posts)
22. I thought this was the history book of the Universe:
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 10:54 PM
Mar 2013

jimlup

(8,010 posts)
23. barking mad as Dawkin's would say /nt
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:11 AM
Mar 2013
 

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
24. Child Abuse
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:38 AM
Mar 2013

They don't believe in Science; but these freaks have NO problem using Computers; Microphones; Air Conditioners; Small Planes; Cadillacs.....

 

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
25. Wanna see what real science can do?
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 02:53 AM
Mar 2013
 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
26. The parents of these children should be arrested.
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 05:45 AM
Mar 2013

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
27. Just dumb and ignorant. nt
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 07:42 AM
Mar 2013
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