College graduates are creationists at the same rate as everyone else...

[Patrick Gerard]

http://www.thenation.com/article/168...er-creationism

Heck, 25% of college graduates think dinosaurs and human coexisted.

So much for liberal academia brainwashing the kids...

[Neil C.]

Just because they go to college, some people is stupid.

[Tyr]

http://www.thenation.com/article/168...er-creationism

Heck, 25% of college graduates think dinosaurs and human coexisted.

So much for liberal academia brainwashing the kids...

To say other wise would be to negate my Frank Cho/ Budd Root cavewoman and jungle woman fantasies. Therefore I cannot except that dinosaurs and people did not coexist at one time.

I also believe in the great flood.

[Patrick Gerard]

To say other wise would be to negate my Frank Cho/ Budd Root cavewoman and jungle woman fantasies. Therefore I cannot except that dinosaurs and people did not coexist at one time.

I also believe in the great flood.

Please tell me that, just to be consistent, the latter was just the world's biggest wet t-shirt contest.

[Tyr]

Please tell me that, just to be consistent, the latter was just the world's biggest wet t-shirt contest.

I believe the great flood is possible, especially given that several cultures have that myth. And no, I don't really want to discuss it ad nauseam, lets just pretend we had the whole argument beforehand.

And to answer your question yeah, it was meant to be consistent, I was thinking about wet jungle girls when I posted that.

[Hugin]

The thing about "Great Flood" myths is that, for a primitive culture that occupies maybe a square mile at any one time, any flood is a great flood. Especially if things like earthquakes reshape the land, or if a river shifts it's course and fills a low-lying valley, it could easily seem like the entire world is drowning. Much like rhinos becoming unicorns, there's usually at least a grain of truth in these stories.

[zemo]

Why should a lower percentage of college students be creationists than what you find in the general public? Apart from biology, no subject requires you to question the origin of life. A chemist can go on and believe that God made the molecules he's working with. A Physicist can believe the rules that shape his experiments were made by God.

Actually, even in some areas of biology creationism is possible. There's a bunch of creationists, or, as they have adapted now because creationism is too easily disproven, intelligent design followers, that bring out textbooks that are exactly the same as all the others, except for a tiny detail: The trees of life just start spontaneously, there is no development of species out of predecessors. They acknowledge evolution, but it's basically "God put everything as it is, and then stuff changed a little bit". Humans, apes, and monkeys do not share a common predecessor, but there were more primitive humans. That is how creationism survives in an academical setting.

Obviously bull. A scientist that sees something beautifully intricate and inexplicably complicated and then goes "This has to be designed, nothing can develope into this on its own!" is no scientist at all. It's the worst kind of observer's bias.

[sunbird]

I believe the great flood is possible, especially given that several cultures have that myth. .

Sooo, you latched onto the most imbecilic and disprovable aspect of young Earth creationism as the plausible bit?


Okaaaayyyyyy.......

I don't care what the hell you believe. But you wander into the domain of science and start claiming stuff that ain't science I'll fight you with every Goddamn breath I have.

[Hate_Prime]

No the thing about the great flood was you have several metric fucktons of water appearing out of nowhere to raise the sea level several thousand feet. Then all of a sudden disappearing. That kind of bombardment, even spread out over 40 days, should be ridiculously devastatly destructive (which I guess is the point), that a fucking boat built from wood and mud will not survive it. This wooden boat must have tech that rivals what we have now of course, what with it having artificial ecosystems to support every single species on Earth, which must include all the fish and whales and plants and worms and a host of other shit not mentioned that wouldn't survive not just being under water, but the chunky muddy soup that ought to have been the result. Collected by an old man who out steve-irwins Steve Irwin and armed with magic spells that must have allowed him to teleport all over the Earth.

When God decides to kill things, he sure does it with some dramatic flair. I would have just snapped my fingers and everything I don't like is relocated to the Sun now. I guess that's one reason I'll never be lord of all creation.

[sunbird]

By the way we and dinosaurs are coexisting, right at this moment.