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There has been recent discussion about the merits of putting creationism in a museum, and I thought, "what a great idea!"

Click here to see the result (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/ssbmshadow/creationismmuseum.jpg).

Ba-ZING. :)

Burntacular!

Awesome.

Yus.

This is a priceless treasure, we want future generations to truly be able to study how natural selection wiped the creationists out (a bit of irony is always good).

Oh yes...you are going to need some ice for that burn...yo...

I'm sorry, I don't have the energy neccessary to go into liberal-pinko-commie-bastard mode right now...

There has been recent discussion about the merits of putting creationism in a museum, and I thought, "what a great idea!"

Click here to see the result (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/ssbmshadow/creationismmuseum.jpg).

Batten down the hatches mate! I sense an imminent band of angry creationists poised to come crashing down on this thread... :(

Batten down the hatches mate! I sense an imminent band of angry creationists poised to come crashing down on this thread... :(
Oh no! They might use their non-logic and non-science to embarass themselves in this public forum! RUN!!! :)

Batten down the hatches mate! I sense an imminent band of angry creationists poised to come crashing down on this thread... :(

I'm in a good mood, so their "arguments" will probably just amuse me.

Ok... Looks like another "attempted burn". THis is absolutely stupid.
I see no humour :confused: , and that is not because i am a creationist. I refuse to do anything about this... good*yawn*night.
:rolleyes:

oh the future finally looks bright. i cant wait until theyre extinct

I'm in a good mood, so their "arguments" will probably just amuse me.

Do they ever do anything else?

HAHA :rolleyes:
I am too tired and have a presentation on the Evolution of the Church due tomorrow. No reply

Ok... Looks like another "attempted burn". THis is absolutely stupid.
I see no humour :confused: , and that is not because i am a creationist. I refuse to do anything about this... good*yawn*night.
:rolleyes:

So, you don't like it. Big deal. Different people have different senses of humour. I'm not exactly heartbroken.

So, you don't like it. Big deal. Different people have different senses of humour. I'm not exactly heartbroken.
i never really said you would be...*yawn*

I refuse to do anything about this... good*yawn*night.
:rolleyes:

Yet you posted to let everyone know how you weren't going to do anything in response to this. How peculiar.

i never really said you would be...*yawn*

You sound tired. Maybe a lack of sleep is what's making you cranky. Go to sleep.

Nice

I would have gone with listing creationism as an endagered species making a comeback, not as extinct, myself. You're too idealistic, look at it realisticly.

I would have gone with listing creationism as an endagered species making a comeback, not as extinct, myself. You're too idealistic, look at it realisticly.They're not creationists any more--they're advocates of Intelligent Design. Same pseudo-science, same general riff, new title. I guess in that way, you could say that creationists are extinct, but they have arisen in the form of IDers.

They're not creationists any more--they're advocates of Intelligent Design. Same pseudo-science, same general riff, new title. I guess in that way, you could say that creationists are extinct, but they have arisen in the form of IDers.
So in a way they evolved? :rolleyes:

So in a way they evolved? :rolleyes:

Changing your argument is evolving? Damn women evolve every second of the day! ;)

Changing your argument is evolving? Damn women evolve every second of the day! ;)
Well, they haven't really changed their argument--that's the thing. It's creationism, but wherever you saw God before, you see Intelligent Design or irreducible complexity now. It's more like taking your company into bankruptcy court and coming out of it with a slightly changed name, but the same retarded business plan.

It seems no matter how fast I dig I am unable to keep this tired subject dead and buried.....stupid grave robbers.

This isn't even the stupidest. Do you know the some groups of creationists go to remote parts of the world to search for dinosaurs that they believe exist? GROWN MEN, HUNTING FOR DINOSAURS. As if finding a dinosaur in Darkest Africa will somehow debunk evolution. To them I say, Celocanth!

It might be funny to do an "Ascent of Man" version with the creationist following Modern man, but stooping or kneeling.

oh the future finally looks bright. i cant wait until theyre extinct

They're the human equivalent of the dodo - tiny, isolated population being rendered extinct by a more advanced species.

I am a Creationist and I found that pretty damn funny. Good zing.

But, then, I'm not the sort of "6 days, 6,000 years ago, dinosaur bones and age are tools of Satan, evolution is teh suck" kind of Creationist who would be in your little display ....

I believe we were created much like I "created" my children. I planted a seed ... growth is up to them.

I remember some quote of tv it was something like "Noah brought dinosaurs aboard the arch, he used to child dinosaurs to save space"

I am a Creationist and I found that pretty damn funny. Good zing.

But, then, I'm not the sort of "6 days, 6,000 years ago, dinosaur bones and age are tools of Satan, evolution is teh suck" kind of Creationist who would be in your little display ....

I believe we were created much like I "created" my children. I planted a seed ... growth is up to them.
I don't know that you'd be a creationist per se, but rather a rational person with spiritual beliefs. I would say a majority (out of my ass, not figures). Just going by the fact that the slowest moving body on the planet (contrary to what some believe, that is not me), the Vatican, accepts evolution as gods plan. And they just forgave Galelio...

I don't know that you'd be a creationist per se, but rather a rational person with spiritual beliefs. I would say a majority (out of my ass, not figures). Just going by the fact that the slowest moving body on the planet (contrary to what some believe, that is not me), the Vatican, accepts evolution as gods plan. And they just forgave Galelio...

Well I tend to call myself a Creationist because I do believe in a prime mover that cannot be unmoved and I believe that prime mover to be the god of Abraham - or Allah, if you will. However, I've also studied Genesis extensively and from a very early age and nothing about scientific reason, Big Bang, evolution, erosion, fossils, geophysics, or thermodynamics in any way contradicts the account of Creation in Genesis; but rather brings man's understanding ever closer to just how it was done. The other kind of "Creationist", the ones who believe in a 6,000 year old universe, I call what they are: Lunatics.

Yeah ... the Vatican is pretty slow. But they have that reputation to uphold and all. Soon as they forgive all the scientists and mathematicians and all that, then they're going to have to be held accountable for why they allow starvation from a golden throne. No Pope wants that to happen on his watch.

There has been recent discussion about the merits of putting creationism in a museum, and I thought, "what a great idea!"

Click here to see the result (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/ssbmshadow/creationismmuseum.jpg).

As a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist I salute you! Carry on!

Well I tend to call myself a Creationist because I do believe in a prime mover that cannot be unmoved and I believe that prime mover to be the god of Abraham - or Allah, if you will. However, I've also studied Genesis extensively and from a very early age and nothing about scientific reason, Big Bang, evolution, erosion, fossils, geophysics, or thermodynamics in any way contradicts the account of Creation in Genesis; but rather brings man's understanding ever closer to just how it was done. The other kind of "Creationist", the ones who believe in a 6,000 year old universe, I call what they are: Lunatics.
Wait, you mean you understand that the Biblical Creation myth might not be intended as a literal description? That it is, perhaps, a metaphor rather than a detailed attempt at a scientific depiction of factual events?!

Oh my god. Please become a religious leader NOW. We really really really really need more people who can grasp this concept!

Wait, you mean you understand that the Biblical Creation myth might not be intended as a literal description? That it is, perhaps, a metaphor rather than a detailed attempt at a scientific depiction of factual events?!

Oh my god. Please become a religious leader NOW. We really really really really need more people who can grasp this concept!
We certainly do. It never ceases to amaze me that plenty of religious people who so willingly, eagerly even, accept the symbolic language in other parts of the bible (the prophets, Revelation, etc.) can't even begin to consider the creation myth as symbolic as well. I'm really starting to believe that courses in comparative mythology and comparative religion should be required in high school.

Well I tend to call myself a Creationist because I do believe in a prime mover that cannot be unmoved and I believe that prime mover to be the god of Abraham - or Allah, if you will. However, I've also studied Genesis extensively and from a very early age and nothing about scientific reason, Big Bang, evolution, erosion, fossils, geophysics, or thermodynamics in any way contradicts the account of Creation in Genesis; but rather brings man's understanding ever closer to just how it was done. The other kind of "Creationist", the ones who believe in a 6,000 year old universe, I call what they are: Lunatics.

Yeah ... the Vatican is pretty slow. But they have that reputation to uphold and all. Soon as they forgive all the scientists and mathematicians and all that, then they're going to have to be held accountable for why they allow starvation from a golden throne. No Pope wants that to happen on his watch.
You fall more in the hands of ID range then actual creationism (which really is the 6 days 6k years ago thing) you believe an intelligent being set things in motion (god)

But oh well

And good zing thread creator :)

We certainly do. It never ceases to amaze me that plenty of religious people who so willingly, eagerly even, accept the symbolic language in other parts of the bible (the prophets, Revelation, etc.) can't even begin to consider the creation myth as symbolic as well. I'm really starting to believe that courses in comparative mythology and comparative religion should be required in high school.
I have been thinking that for years … I may not be a fan of religion in the science class room but I am all for theology courses

I have been thinking that for years … I may not be a fan of religion in the science class room but I am all for theology coursesI remember blowing the minds of my students when teaching a world lit class a couple of years ago--college students, we're talking about here--by having them read Gilgamesh and the following it up with Noah and the Greed flood myth. They were really struck by the similarities and we were able to discuss how unrelated groups can have similar mythologies, etc. There was one person in the class who, as one might expect, took the similar mythologies as proof that there had indeed been a world flood and that the biblical account was the most accurate representation of it, but hey--can't win them all.

Oh my god. Please become a religious leader NOW. We really really really really need more people who can grasp this concept!

Hey I'm workin' on it. Oh, sure, I can just go get ordained at ulc.net and have a jolly good time, but I'd rather people actually take me seriously. :D

Right now I'm on a letter writing campaign in a major attempt to bring about a massive Islamic Reform movement. I've just about written every Imam, Mullah, Mufti, and various other clerics I can find addresses for and will continue to do so until they either kill me or listen.

These things take time, though. Religions move slowly.

There has been recent discussion about the merits of putting creationism in a museum, and I thought, "what a great idea!"

Click here to see the result (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/ssbmshadow/creationismmuseum.jpg).


Bam! take that!