Terrible news for the Creation Science museum (and Republicans)

Darth Omar said:
Most of the important advancements have come from engineering [automobiles, airplanes, light bulbs] and medicine [basically, applied biology] and little if anything to do with evolution, the age of the earth or etc.
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I can agree with this, but there are those that figure these are not advancements.
Darth Omar said:
The latter are actually more important in terms of philosophy and ideology.
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Philosophy doesn't have anything important other than the one basic rule: You must for your OWN arguments and the reasoning for it.
Darth Omar said:
If we want to fly to Mars, that’s an engineering problem. They don’t care how long Mars has been there.
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True. They DO care where Mars will be in the time it takes to get there, and that the angle of departure is correct at the time (what's known as a Mars Opportunity).
 
Darth Omar said:
I don’t care what they call themselves either.

I was pointing out that it’s ironic for lefties to make fun of creationists when lefties are some of the least sciencey people there are.
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Hypocrisy is always rampant with those on the extremes, meaning those who seek to deprive others of their inalienable freedoms.
 
Into the Night said:
I did not specify a choice. WTF are YOU talking about?
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Just stay in the dark. You look comfortable there. Dude, you proved to me you were either crazy or a liar when you couldn't back up your false accusations against me. It's your own posts that cause me to believe you are delusional and clinically insane, enough to require medical assistance.

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ThatOwlWoman said:
We learned about him in the Anthropology course I just finished. He calculated by adding up all the begettings in the Bible that the Earth was created in the year 4004 BCE. The Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher
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Thanks.

The sin the Fundies are committing is that they are limiting God to a book instead of using a book to achieve a better understanding of God.

If God created the Universe, then studying the Universe is to better understand God. It'd be a sin not to do so.
 
BidenPresident said:
Darth Omar said:
Most of the important advancements have come from engineering [automobiles, airplanes, light bulbs] and medicine [basically, applied biology] and little if anything to do with evolution/QUOTE]

All of biology is based on evolution.
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No it isn’t lol.

Evolution has to do with origins. Evolutionary biology is its own study and has nothing to do with what goes on inside living organisms and etc.
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Nordberg said:
In about 1640 Bishop Ussher in Ireland added up all the dates in the bible and decided the world was 6000 years old. That was enough for the Xians. It has been 6000 ever since. That is pretty damn stupid but believers gonna believe.
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I shall stick up for Bishop Ussher by saying it is easy in hindsight to use modern knowlege to point and laugh at somebody from the distant past and from a very different time.

I am sure to physicists 400 years from now, some of our scientific hypotheses will look utterly laughable.

Bishop Ussher made a commendable attempt using accepted methods of his time. He was not a stupid man, but was part of an intellectual tradition which tried to establish answers about the natural world using conventional method of scholarship of the day.

The problem is this: the fact the anyone would believe his estimate today, in light of scientific advances, highlights who the real idiots among us are.


Sidebar: I recall that the ancient Hindus thought the Earth was around 4 billion years old, so at least they were on the right track of conceptualizing an ancient earth.
 
Nordberg said:
In about 1640 Bishop Ussher in Ireland added up all the dates in the bible and decided the world was 6000 years old. That was enough for the Xians. It has been 6000 ever since. That is pretty damn stupid but believers gonna believe.
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95% of Christians agree that the 5% who believe in young earth theory are wrong........100% of Christians agree that atheists are wrong........
 
Darth Omar said:
No it isn’t lol.

Evolution has to do with origins. Evolutionary biology is its own study and has nothing to do with what goes on inside living organisms and etc.
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actually it is a mistake to say evolution deals in origins.......evolution is about change......it requires something to exist that transforms into something else......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
actually it is a mistake to say evolution deals in origins.......evolution is about change......it requires something to exist that transforms into something else......
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*Origin* of the species. The title to Darwin’s book is “The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”.

Maybe the wokies should cancel Darwin lol. Actually, they wouldn’t dare do that. Darwin is off limits.

And correct, it doesn’t start from lifeless matter; and in fact, evolution has nothing to say about how life originated. That’s a totally different subject.
 
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