For Socrates

[Sher]

http://members.aol.com/adobebill/Images/Goo2U_an.gif

:rofl:

[TheFiveSolas]

:thumb: :yipee: :rofl: :cheers:

[Socrates]

:thumb: :yipee: :tongue: :bonk: :cheers: :rockon:

[Tycho]

Ah, an excellent symbol of creationist tactics.

[tgamble]

Today @ 01:07 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=47681#post47681)
Tycho:

Ah, an excellent symbol of creationist tactics.

Indeed. They can't refute science so they resort to mocking it and hope that will be enough.

[Socrates]

It deserves to be mocked, and if the assorted misotheists can't take it, tough. The thread is titled "For Socrates", and that is me!

It also explains what evolution is REALLY about. Far too many evolutionary propagandists play dishonest bait'n'switch games (equivocation). I.e., they point to some example of gene frequency change over time, deceitfully insinuate that Biblical Creationists deny this, then use this as "proof" for goo-to-you evolution.

I've attached a color pic of the proposed evolutionary tree, but without SherBear's clever touches.

[WinAce]

Well, one funny pic deserves another:

http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/images/farside_ark.gif

[tgamble]

As long as this is a joke thread....

Noah's Ark in Today's Society...

The Lord speaks to Noah and says: "In one year, I am going to make it rain and cover the whole Earth with water until all is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the Earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark."


In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark.

Fearful and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark.

"Remember," said the Lord, "You must complete the Ark and bring everything aboard in one year."

Exactly one year later, a fierce storm cloud formed and all the seas of the earth went into a tumult. The Lord saw Noah sitting in his front yard weeping.


"Noah." He shouted, "Where is the Ark?"

"Lord, please forgive me!" cried Noah. "I did my best but there were big problems. First, I had to get a permit for construction and your plans did not comply with the codes. I had to hire an engineering firm and redraw the plans.

Then I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a fire sprinkler system and floatation devices.

Then my neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.


I had problems getting enough wood for the Ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect the Spotted Owl. I finally convinced the U.S. Forest Service that I needed the wood to save the owls.

However, the Fish and Wildlife Service won't let me catch any owls. So, no owls.

The carpenters formed a union and went out on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Union. Now I have 16 carpenters on the Ark, but still no owls.

When I started rounding up the other animals, I got sued by an animal rights group. They objected to me only taking two of each kind aboard.


Just when I got the suit dismissed, the EPA notified me that I could not complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They didn't take very kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of the Creator of the universe.

Then the Army Corps of Engineer demanded a map of the proposed new flood plain. I sent them a globe.

Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking godless, unbelieving people aboard!

The IRS has seized all my assets, claiming that I'm building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes.


I just got a notice from the State that I owe some kind of user tax and failed to register the Ark as a 'recreational water craft.'

Finally the ACLU got the courts to issue an injunction against further construction of the Ark, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it is a religious event and therefore unconstitutional.

I really don't think I can finish the Ark for another 5 or 6 years!" Noah wailed.

The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine and the seas began to calm. A rainbow arched across the sky.


Noah looked up hopefully. "You mean you are not going to destroy the Earth, Lord?"

"No," said the Lord sadly. "The government already has!"

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http://www.nmsr.org/noah.jpg

http://www.nmsr.org/creocar1.jpg

[RufusAtticus]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[WinAce]

Not to be outdone...

http://home.attbi.com/~fsteiger/cartoon.gif

[AtheistArchon]

- WA, that's my very favorite cartoon on the subject. I was wondering when it would find its way here. :smile:

[Socrates]

The first one of both Winace and Gamble were pretty good. :rofl: But then we get the usual deceitful misrepresentations.

Of course, the kangaroos could have come with people, or crossed land bridges caused by lowered sea levels in the post-Flood Ice Age.

And according to Richard Lewontin, evolutionary materialism is the conclusion, regardless of whether the facts support it (‘Billions and billions of demons’, The New York Review, January 9, 1997, p. 31):

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

And according to Yockey, chemical evolution is the conclusion, and all the origin-of-life researchers are doing is trying to find real chemical support for it (A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information theory, Journal of Theoretical Biology 67:377–398, 1977; quotes from pp. 379, 396):

Research on the origin of life seems to be unique in that the conclusion has already been authoritatively accepted … . What remains to be done is to find the scenarios which describe the detailed mechanisms and processes by which this happened.

One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written.

Finally, according to Dr Scott Todd, an immunologist at Kansas State University, an intelligent designer is decreed a priori to be inadmissible as a conclusion, regardles of whether the evidence supports it! (Correspondence to Nature 401(6752):423, 30 Sept. 1999.):

Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.

[Patroclus]

Socrates, it was a joke. Let it be.

[Socrates]

Hey Pat :eek:

So glad you're here to point out the obvious, :huh:

[Sher]

Yesterday @ 10:39 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=47764#post47764)
Socrates:

I've attached a color pic of the proposed evolutionary tree, but without SherBear's clever touches. Oops, sorry Soc .. I should have said that I "lifted" it off another site, not created it myself. I was browsing looking at the guest speakers for our upcoming Home Ed Con and got into some link surfing. When I came across that, I naturally thought of you and thought I'd share :cheers:

[Socrates]

:yipee: Thanx for the thought SherBear :cheers:

[WinAce]

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2003/nq030401.gif

[tgamble]

I wonder if there's a cartoon of God writing the Bible and saying to himself,

"Gosh, I hope nobody takes this stuff seriously....."



:lol:

[Dr.GH]

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/media/strangematter/Pb.gif

[kiwimac]

LOL:rofl: