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photo essay from Juggalo Nation....
But Matt Stopera of Buzzfeed really managed to extract an unvarnished good from the whole thing, which is to use the occasion to expose the self-satisfied intellectual incuriosity of the right. He asked the Ham supporters at the debate to write little notes to the reality-based world, telling us what they think we need to hear. It was a great project, because the contrast between their self-satisfaction and their idiocy is just so horrible it turns around and becomes wonderful again. It reminded me of nothing more than the Insane Clown Posses infamous demand that magnets are a miracle because no one knows how they work. Indeed, many of the questions that the creationists seem to think were slam dunk gotchas are just as easily resolved by a Google search as the question of magnet magic.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... I believe Bill's term was "troubling".
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... but "scary" for those Michele Bachmann eyes.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Misspelling and all
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Aristus
(66,509 posts)progressoid
(50,011 posts)I've met people like that.
And of course there's Billo...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Especially when you hold the "debate" surrounded by others who believe in the "magic".
And pointing to a book and saying "cause it says so in here" is not a valid argument in a scientific debate.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)but your answer is more tactful.
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)Every time Bill Nye would ask Ken Ham a question his standard reply was we have a book that answers that.
Bill Nye did an excellent job!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Fortunately she is reborn on the other side of the world every morning.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)Misspellings reveal the ignorance with these folks.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)I thought we had this sunset issue figured out. But maybe 'their' is more study to be done.
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)Sad frightening individuals.
How do you explain "God" if you use the word their incorrectly ?
Her question was not the worst one out of the 22 questions.
Off topic: She has Michele Bachmann eyes.
Why do so many believers have Michele Bachman eyes ?
phantom power
(25,966 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)It's pointless to debate with people who completely ignore reality.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)Iggo
(47,586 posts)world wide wally
(21,758 posts)Moon did not give off it's own light and merely reflected light from the Sun. This is first grade science, but full grown adults were outraged at his heresy. The most "troubling" thing is that these are the same people who's answer to any international dispute is to "Nuke 'em" and suddenly rely on science because it is wonderful.
Perhaps, even more troubling, is that these are the people so many politicians cater to and they have a frighteningly unbalanced influence on America's foreign and domestic policies.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)They're walking around in 21st century clothing, using 21st century technology, but it's an illusion. Their world view is... I don't know what. Bronze age?
For fuck's sake, even Aristarchus had a heliocentric model of the solar system.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)They revel in their ignorance.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)I particularly like the idiot who goes "Well how come we found only ONE Lucy but a whole bunch of other things? Checkmate libs :smug:".
Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)This dude, Agassiz, really, really is in Ham's Creation Science Hall of Fame, and it proves God has a wicked cool sense of humor.
http://creationsciencehalloffame.org/deceased/louis-agassiz/
frylock
(34,825 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Who can't do grammar.
And we say Amen.
(Lady that is so basic SCIENCE somebody did you a disservice)
frylock
(34,825 posts)aduh.