Friday Fundies

Here's a good one. This is a perfect example of what many creationist types do when confronted with data that contradicts their beliefs, they resort to making shit up. Fundies have a special talent, an ability to melt your brain with their monotonous array of inanity. I think I should point out if any fundie stumbles across this, that both the Flood story and the Tower of Babel are considered by intelligent theologians as being mythical stories. The point behind their conception by the authors of the Old Testament was to convey the message behind it, not to tell a literal account of true events.

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[In answer to a question as to why there are no water stains in cave walls if there was a global flood]

It's likely the sea stains were erased just after the Tower of Babel. Sea stains are a form of language and it would have been confounded like everything else.

how are they considered language? well they convey meaning and anything (that is everything) conveys meaning in the universe. So it really does not matter if you do the research or not, if sea stains aren't found it's due to CONFOUNDATION not because they were never there.

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Homeopathy is...

Sometimes letting google just speak for itself is the best way to make fun of something.

It only took one day....

It only took one day before someone involved in the recent "ark" find exposed it as a fraud! Why am I not surprised at all? It couldn't possibly be because fundies have this strange tendency to lie and make shit up to try and prove their point could it? Anyway, I woke up this morning to find a blog post from P.Z. Myers at Pharyngula exposing this fraud. Apparently an American Fundie involved in the expedition got ripped of by the Chinese members of the crew, so he sent an email out explaining how they took some wood from another old site near the Black Sea and took it up into a cave on Mount Ararat. He also mentioned that some of the photos were in fact taken at the Black Sea site, not on Ararat at all.
All I can say is, I wouldn't expect anything less from compulsive liars like Young Earth Creationists.




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Some Clowns Think They've Found Noah's Ark

An article from Yahoo News yesterday has a "group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers" claiming they found Noah's Ark up on Mount Ararat. There are several things wrong with this story, so I'll just go ahead and point everything out that I can think of.

1) The story is mythological, not literal.
2) The story was not original, but was rather copied from surrounding cultures, notably the Epic of Gilgamesh from the Babylonians.
3) The group of people who discovered it, are bible-bashers on a mission to prove their faith, they aren't archaeologists, they aren't scientists at all, they aren't historians, they aren't scholars of any sort. The article specifically states that they are evangelical explorers, so who gives a damn about a piece of wood they found on a mountain??
4) This is not the first attempt that Fundies have made to try and prove the Biblical Flood story.
5) There is no geological evidence to support a region-wide flood up to 3000m and most certainly no evidence to support a worldwide flood

That's all I can think of that frustrates the hell out of me right now about this article. If anyone else can think of any other problems with this 'find' let me know and I'll tag them on the end with your name by it.

ThatAtheistChick: These bible-thumpers supposedly carbon dated the wood to say that it was from Noah's non-existent flood, too. Again, they're not scientists, so how exactly did they "carbon date" this wood? If no archaeologists or historians studied this and confirmed this, then obviously it's a hoax.

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As an apology, here's the one I found funny

Cringe-worthy Ignorance

I was browsing YouTube and I came across this video, parodying the Mac vs. PC ads, but instead it was Creationism vs. Evolution. I just have to ask a question (somewhat rhetorical, but if you have an answer go ahead), is un-laugh a word? because The video that linked me to this one made me laugh, it was a parody of Christian vs. Atheist, and as soon as I clicked onto this video and heard the words come out of their mouths, I instantaneously lost all sense of humour, and a blank stare was plastered on my face, and my jaw nearly hit the desk.

Well, here's the video if you want to numb your brain with Creationism babble.

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Born an Atheist

I remember a very distinct episode from my childhood where I was told by someone else about asking God/Jesus to come into your life. I was about 2 or 3 years old, and the whole idea didn't really make any sense, but it was an older kid that was telling me so I just took their word for it. If other people are anything like myself, they would have had a similar experience at a young age of someone else telling them about god, and just accepting it as true, because children are simply gullible and naive. Up until that point I was by definition an atheist. I had no conception of gods or religions. Sure, I had been taken along to church from a very young age, but that is one of the earliest memories I have, I can't really remember anything else prior to that, so if that event had never happened, and if no one else for the rest of my life had ever mentioned gods, religions, spirits, demons, souls, supernatural occurrences and the likes, and if I'd never come across any material vaguely related to them (yes I know it's implausible, just stick with me) then I would still be an atheist today.

So, my whole point is that everyone is essentially born an atheist, even those born into Christian families as I was.