Notices
Current Events, News, Politics Keep the politics here.

Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:12 PM
  #21  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
Surely there is a reason we were put here on this perfectly designed earth...


To troll n00bs on the world wide net.
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:14 PM
  #22  
NA6C-Guy's Avatar
Elite Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 7,930
Total Cats: 44
From: Birmingham Alabama
Default

Originally Posted by 18psi
The ape in you has still not evolved enough to comprehend this. Give it a couple billion years bro
I ain't no goddamn monkey!



Well, if we came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys? Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that. Checkmate.
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:17 PM
  #23  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

and just because I like to drail threads:











Attached Thumbnails Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-aaw5q4z.jpg   Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-yfc7au6.jpg   Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-hklgwih.jpg   Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-acqqm5i.gif   Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-ttqbkt4.gif  

Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-pehjk8i.jpg  
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:17 PM
  #24  
NA6C-Guy's Avatar
Elite Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 7,930
Total Cats: 44
From: Birmingham Alabama
Default

Originally Posted by Braineack
To troll n00bs on the world wide net.
Everything around us was designed by god for us. Like this banana for instance. It fits perfectly in the hand with a non slip surface and a freshness indicator. You also get an easy open tab on top, and a biodegradable wrapper.




I can't help but be enraged daily in my browsing of the internet. Anything that is good, goes well for someone, or someone survives an accident or natural disaster, it is automatically god, without any sort of thought process. It's like people race to try and be the first one to leave a comment about god and how good he is. SHUT UP! There is no thought process in some of these peoples heads. Living in the bible belt certainly doesn't help.
Attached Thumbnails Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-mt6iqwf.jpg  
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:21 PM
  #25  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default







Name:  P4MVGT5.jpg
Views: 150
Size:  374.9 KB

Name:  yFqu1Og.jpg
Views: 61
Size:  84.8 KB

Name:  tXdToPm.jpg
Views: 65
Size:  158.2 KB

Name:  qtV3q71.png
Views: 60
Size:  322.7 KB
Attached Thumbnails Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-wdkqak7.gif   Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-xodrj.gif   Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-nc5aiip.jpg  
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:21 PM
  #26  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
You also get an easy open tab on top
every ape knows you open them from the bottom.
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:23 PM
  #27  
18psi's Avatar
VladiTuned
iTrader: (76)
 
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 35,821
Total Cats: 3,482
Default

Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
Everything around us was designed by god for us. Like this banana for instance. It fits perfectly in the hand with a non slip surface and a freshness indicator. You also get an easy open tab on top, and a biodegradable wrapper.




I can't help but be enraged daily in my browsing of the internet. Anything that is good, goes well for someone, or someone survives an accident or natural disaster, it is automatically god, without any sort of thought process. It's like people race to try and be the first one to leave a comment about god and how good he is. SHUT UP! There is no thought process in some of these peoples heads. Living in the bible belt certainly doesn't help.
Watching you rant like an ape makes a pretty compelling argument for evolution actually
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:26 PM
  #28  
mgeoffriau's Avatar
Elite Member
iTrader: (7)
 
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 7,388
Total Cats: 474
From: Jackson, MS
Default

Originally Posted by Braineack
every ape knows you open them from the bottom.
You open apes from the bottom?
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:31 PM
  #29  
Joe Perez's Avatar
Boost Pope
iTrader: (8)
 
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 34,402
Total Cats: 7,523
From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Default

I have never understood why so many of the people who are strongly impassioned on both sides of this debate feel that the two ideas- divine providence and Darwinian evolution- are fundamentally incompatible and must therefore be mutually exclusive.

One is a philosophical concept which describes the "why" of the fundamental origin of life on earth, while the other is a very simple physical description which addresses the "how," and explores the underlying mechanics of the process by which life, once already extant, progressed from A to B to C.

These ideas are not in conflict.

For those who would stereotypically consider themselves to be of the "pro-evolution, anti-creationism" camp, I cannot understand why one must eliminate the other. Darwinian evolution describes the physical process by which life changes from one for to another- it makes no effort to explain the origin of life itself. It's almost as though they are not so much in support of any specific scientific theory as merely opposed to the concept of religion.

Likewise, adherents to the Judeo-Christian faith need not reject the ideas put forth by evolutionary science, as the Genesis story of creation is inherently allegorical in nature. It never describes the exact physical process by which the various forms of life on earth took shape, there is nothing in it to be contradicted by an evolutionist description of the process. So for these people as well, I cannot see why they must consider evolution to be an attack on their beliefs.


I mean, let us presuppose, for the sake of argument, that God exists and that the Christian bible is more-or-less accurate, if more in a figurative than a literal sense. Given that, answer me this:

If God said “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky,” who is to say by what physical process this command was actually implemented, or argue that Darwinian-style evolution did not take place during this act of "creation"?
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 01:41 PM
  #30  
NA6C-Guy's Avatar
Elite Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 7,930
Total Cats: 44
From: Birmingham Alabama
Default

Originally Posted by 18psi
Watching you rant like an ape makes a pretty compelling argument for evolution actually
**** off, or I'll check you for flees.
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:16 PM
  #31  
Meeners's Avatar
Junior Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 226
Total Cats: 1
Default

I want to hear the religious explanation for how to evolve Pokemon without trading them.

Originally Posted by Braineack
every ape knows you open them from the bottom.
evolved apes snap them in half first...
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:18 PM
  #32  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

Originally Posted by Meeners
evolved apes snap them in half first...
Attached Thumbnails Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-tumblr_lcodinfyot1qbgb3co1_500.gif  
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:18 PM
  #33  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

Originally Posted by Meeners
evolved apes snap them in half first...
Attached Thumbnails Bill Nye and Ken Ham to debate evolution vs. creationism 2/4/14-tumblr_lcodinfyot1qbgb3co1_500.gif  
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:23 PM
  #34  
Meeners's Avatar
Junior Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 226
Total Cats: 1
Default

Originally Posted by Braineack
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:27 PM
  #35  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

what? that's your response!? do you understand how perfect that gif was?!

It's Macho Man Randy Savage in a loop so he looks like a grunting ape holding an imaginary banana. He also *SNAPS* into slim jims.
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:37 PM
  #36  
Joe Perez's Avatar
Boost Pope
iTrader: (8)
 
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 34,402
Total Cats: 7,523
From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Default

So, is the "sane and rational discussion" part of this thread already over?
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:47 PM
  #37  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

Originally Posted by Joe Perez
So, is the "sane and rational discussion" part of this thread already over?
what part of internet do you not understand?
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:50 PM
  #38  
Joe Perez's Avatar
Boost Pope
iTrader: (8)
 
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 34,402
Total Cats: 7,523
From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Default

Originally Posted by Braineack
what part of internet do you not understand?
What can I say? I'm an idealist.
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:52 PM
  #39  
18psi's Avatar
VladiTuned
iTrader: (76)
 
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 35,821
Total Cats: 3,482
Default

There was at some point a sane and rational discussion?
Old Feb 5, 2014 | 02:52 PM
  #40  
Braineack's Avatar
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 80,552
Total Cats: 4,368
From: Chantilly, VA
Default

Originally Posted by Joe Perez
What can I say? I'm an idealist.
Rule 41.



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:16 AM.