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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

14 comments:

Mike aka MonolithTMA said...

Ack! Great poster except for the "loose" which should be "lose".

VV said...

Thanks for my first laugh out loud moment all day and here it is almost 4 in the afternoon. I knew I should have visited your blog sooner.

CyberKitten said...

mike said: Great poster except for the "loose" which should be "lose".

Duh! Didn't spot that [rotflmao] I bet the theists will pick up *that* particular ball and run with it [grin]

v v said: Thanks for my first laugh out loud moment all day and here it is almost 4 in the afternoon. I knew I should have visited your blog sooner.

My pleasure. I do like making a lady laugh. Always happy to oblige - just don't expect me to be funny every day [grin]

Stephen said...

Reminds me of the Lewis Black sketch...

"Whenever anybody tells me that they believe (creation) took place in seven days, I reach for a fossil and I say...'Fossil.' And if they keep talking, I throw it. Just over their heads. [...] These people are watching the Flintstones as if it were a documentary."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0gAcbAGPH4

Laughing Boy said...

So...the mere existence of fossils proves evolution and simultaneously disproves creation. Who woulda thunk it?

CyberKitten said...

LB said: So...the mere existence of fossils proves evolution and simultaneously disproves creation.

Basically.....? Yes. [grin]

Karlo said...

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Laughing Boy said...

Fossils are good evidence that formerly living things died a very long time ago (although dating methods are somewhat dubious and self-referential). Have you proved evolution is true simply by saying that certain plants and animals lived and died a very long time ago? Not to me.

Mike aka MonolithTMA said...

Methinks Laughing Boy needs to do a bit more laughing.

Of course fossils alone don't prove evolution and they certainly don't disprove intelligent design.

They do, however, poked quite a few holes in the Young Earth Creationism model of ID as I understand it.

That said CK's [grin] indicated to me, not a serious debate answer, but a light hearted humorous one.

I vcould be wrong. ;-)

Laughing Boy said...

Laughing Boy appreciates the lighthearted intentions of the Evolution poster. Hethinks, however, that it isn't funny, it's stupid. Hethinks "God is Slightly Gay" was funnier, although hethinks that was pretty stupid, too. Laughing Boy has always said, "If you are going to make a good joke using only six words, you'd better choose those six words judiciously."

Being funny is hard work. He knows. He's Laughing Boy.

Mike aka MonolithTMA said...

I can see finding it unfunny, but stupid?

Laughing Boy said...

Things that aren't funny aren't funny for a reason. While "stupid" may have an overly derogatory connotation (for which I apologize), the whole premise is, let's say, an intellectual wild pitch—which is why it isn't funny.

CyberKitten said...

LB: This post is not intended to be all *that* serious - see previous posts in this category.

However, I do think that the fossil record blows Young Earth thinking completely out of the water along with any *literal* interpretation of Genesis. Coupled with Darwinian Evolution it also - in my opinon - blows the idea of Special Creation sky-high too.

What neither does is necessarily *disprove* the existence of God. They do, however, call into question Gods function in the development of life on Earth and His apparent responsibility for our place in it.

To my mind the God of Darwin is a very strange being indeed and I for one cannot conceive of much reason to *worship* Him for what He has apparently done.

I'm sure that you'll be glad to know that equally annoying postings are forthcoming.

Merry Christmas to you and yours...

Karlo said...

Of course God could have stuck all these carbon-dated bones in the earth simply to deceive us--a disturbing thought. In this case, God ends up looking much like Descartes' demon.