For the Confused
I know it can be hard sometimes to tell the difference between science and religion, so to help you figure it out, I present this easy study aid.
I found this over at the excellent but dormant Red State Rabbble. I had to overshrink the thing to make it fit within my margins. You can see the original version here.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Those reasearchers and their “evidence”. When will they ever learn that it’s just not relevant? *eye roll*
June 13th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
This flowchart is based on data from the fundie research institute “IPIOMA” - I Pulled It Out of My Ass.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
The flowchart actually has two different arguments built into it. I’m trying to remember which, if any, fundies use both simultaneously.
Kent Hovind fits the “This is science!” pathway. Because he was once a high school teacher, he acts like that makes him qualified to tell people about science.
The other pathway is one I hear mostly from creationists on the internet. “Evolution is a religion too!”, “Evolution requires as much faith as the Bible does!”, etc.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:17 am
This flow chart would imply they actually put thought into the science vs religion debate…
June 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
(sarcasm hat on) Official polls declare that 1 in 5 Americans find this to be utterly false. 4 in 5 Americans consider it the absolute truth. And lastly, 4 in 5 Americans have the intelligence of an amoeba dancing the cha-cha to the tune of “Don’t Trust Them New Niggas Over There.” (sarcasm hat off)
I’m not entirely sure the sarcasm hat was warranted there. I don’t want to see actual polls, because I fear that real numbers may confirm my IPIOMA ones. At the very least, the presidential nominee election seems to suggest that at least a portion of them wouldn’t consider that song to be something decent and good. But on a darker note, there are still way too many that think like that. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have the Minute Men.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Improving primary education will fix that in a generation or two. The problem is that whenever the evolution (or global warming or whatever) is “debated” in the classroom and then the teevee “debates” both sides, and THEN Sunday School reaffirms only one side, guess which one is believed? Because suddenly it seems that science doesn’t know crap. Afterall, if they can’t predict if it will rain tomorrow, how can they know the earth is warming let alone prove we is done come from munkeez? duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh AGHGHHGH BRAIN EXPLODING