[_ Old Earth _] Origins - you may be a fundy atheist if...

[Gary]

Is your great, great, great..... grandfather/mother an amoeba?

:-?

 

[huj05]

if there were a hell of alot of greats..... I dont know for sure. Let me find an evolutionary chart for you

small srry

 

[Gary]

IF your great, great, great............. great grandmother/father was an amoeba, when did he/she get a belly button? What sex was he/she?

:-?

 

[huj05]

belly buttons are man made. you are not born with them, it is merely what occurs after they cut off the feeding tube and tie it.. Hence, innies and outies.

And if you knew anythign abotu single cell organisms, the process of mitosis occurs and there IS no umbillica tube because they formed inside of the other cell, and split..

 

[Gary]

So at some point this "sexless" amoeba "evolved" a sex?

If belly buttons are man-made, which man made the first one?

:-?

 

[huj05]

ok, I guess i wasnt 100% acurate at the fact that they are "man made" belyl buttons can be chosen as innie, or outie(unless physically you are forced ot have an outie because of a hemorage.

Asking which man made it first is like if the chicken came fore teh egg, which is wrong because some bird like creature laid an egg, and its genetics were of a chicken (only slightly skewed from what laid it) and tada, chicken.


using "god did it" as an excuse is more wide open to criticism, because the only proof of god that we have is a book. we cant perform experimients like we can with science..

and if you say we can, pray, pray really hard, that a rock will sail through your window, and if you truly believe it, according to the bible, it will happen...

if it does, well, you got me. If it doesnt, then . hah!

 

[Barbarian]

So at some point this "sexless" amoeba "evolved" a sex?

Sex is much older than amoebae. Prokaryotes have a form of sexual reproduction called "conjugation." It is, for most of them optional, and they can reproduce asexually as well.

Later on, that became harder and harder, although plants can still do it well.

 

[Vic C.]

Quick, ask 5 people under the age of 50 and see if they know Inherit the Wind. Bet all five don't.

1- Vic, age 47...

2- Sonja, co-worker, under 40 (won't tell her exact age)

3- Jeff, co-worker, 44

It's after 5pm, so just about everyone has left the office. Three's better than 0. :-D

 

[Highlander]

Quick, ask 5 people under the age of 50 and see if they know Inherit the Wind. Bet all five don't.

1- Vic, age 47...

2- Sonja, co-worker, under 40 (won't tell her exact age)

3- Jeff, co-worker, 44

It's after 5pm, so just about everyone has left the office. Three's better than 0. :-D

Right. Pretty close to 50 though weren't they? Care to try for anyone under say 30?

 

[Featherbop]

Quick, ask 5 people under the age of 50 and see if they know Inherit the Wind. Bet all five don't.

1- Vic, age 47...

2- Sonja, co-worker, under 40 (won't tell her exact age)

3- Jeff, co-worker, 44

It's after 5pm, so just about everyone has left the office. Three's better than 0. :-D

Right. Pretty close to 50 though weren't they? Care to try for anyone under say 30?

Hey...isn't that moving the goalposts? :-D

 

[burtsweep]

You might be a 'fundy' christian if:

1. You use silly arguments like this.

2. You think what is said in this arguments is actually true.

Why don't you respond directly to the argument instead of making ad hominem assertions?

 

[burtsweep]

using "god did it" as an excuse is more wide open to criticism, because the only proof of god that we have is a book. we cant perform experimients like we can with science..

Right, and you can't perform experiments to prove evolution. I don't know if that's what you were implying, but it seemed that way.

 

[Barbarian]

You certainly can do experiments to test evolution. Undergrads in college do it. Just take a population of rapidly-reproducing organisms like bacteria or insects, apply selective pressure (like a toxin) and watch what happens.

Natural selection has been directly observed in such cases.

 

[keebs]

Why don't you respond directly to the argument instead of making ad hominem assertions?

Tsk, Tsk little boy. If you hadn't noticed, the whole thread was started to make a joke out of atheism...Asimov certainly has the right to do the same about fundy Christians.

 

[Gary]

You might be a 'fundy' christian if:

1. You use silly arguments like this.

2. You think what is said in this arguments is actually true.

Gary: What is so funny about this response is that it was predicted!

You may be a fundy atheist if....

(1) You have your own list of how to tell who is a Christian that itself runs on Fundy Atheist principles.

(2) You get apoplectic about being called a Fundy Atheist for believing all those self-evidently true propositions above. And you label all theists as "fundies".

(3) Last of all -- you respond to the list and try and include a rebuttal to the above listing!

 

[Barbarian]

It seems sort of childish to construct a strawman, post it, and then announce that anyone who posts to refute it has confirmed that the strawman is valid.

It resembles the "I'm rubber, you're glue" games third graders play.

Let's keep this at a higher level than that.

 

[Chupacabra]

It seems sort of childish to construct a strawman, post it, and then announce that anyone who posts to refute it has confirmed that the strawman is valid.

It resembles the "I'm rubber, you're glue" games third graders play.

Let's keep this at a higher level than that.

Shhh! You might hurt his ego.

 

[Featherbop]

It seems sort of childish to construct a strawman, post it, and then announce that anyone who posts to refute it has confirmed that the strawman is valid.

It resembles the "I'm rubber, you're glue" games third graders play.

Let's keep this at a higher level than that.

Keep? I don't think this was for more than humor purposes.

 

[huj05]

You certainly can do experiments to test evolution. Undergrads in college do it. Just take a population of rapidly-reproducing organisms like bacteria or insects, apply selective pressure (like a toxin) and watch what happens.

Natural selection has been directly observed in such cases.

exactly what I was thinking.. ( that wasnt sarcastic either)

 

[Pale^Rider**]

You might be a 'fundy' christian if:
1. You use silly arguments like this.
2. You think what is said in this arguments is actually true.

Let's have a contest. See who can find the most misconceptions about evolutionary theory in that mess.
Who's first?

Me

Gary: .... LOL

You may be a fundy atheist if....

(1) You have your own list of how to tell who is a Christian that itself runs on Fundy Atheist principles.

(2) You get apoplectic about being called a Fundy Atheist for believing all those self-evidently true propositions above. And you label all theists as "fundies".

(3) Last of all -- you respond to the list and try and include a rebuttal to the above listing!

:bday: :roll: :bday:

You fundy atheists are so predictable. These last 3 were on the link. But, as usual, you did not bother to even look further.... so you fell right into it!
Try again: http://www.tektonics.org/parody/fundyath.html



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: : : : ....classic, Gary.....absolutely hilarious.....