• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    What I find most amusing about this is he built the ark to prove it could be done, but it is not docked due to not being sea-worthy on account of being too heavy.

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    Hell yeah dawg let’s spend millions to benefit the human population!

    “NO! THATS SOCIALISMS! What I MEANT was hand it all to billionaires for absolutely no reason!”

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    I have been to the Ark. It’s weird.

    They have some interesting exhibits where it’s obvious that someone gave it a lot of thought. They dug in and thought about the tools and techniques that someone would have had available to build something like this 5000 years ago.

    In some ways, it’s a real monument to human achievement. But then the next exhibit just shrieks that there were definitely dinosaurs on the Ark and if you believe differently you’re dumb as shit.

    2/10. Food was awful.

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    Evolutionary research HAS been a massive benefit to the human population. Virtually all medical research requires evolutionary biology to some extent.

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      Does he believe the inventions that allowed modern medicine and telecommunications were all inspired purely by God? (who only seems to ‘inspire’ religiously ambivalent scientists and researchers)

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        I think it’s mostly a western thing that researchers and scientists are assumed to be ambivalent about religion.

        Allegedly, eastern cultures regard advancements in those fields, as in fact, inspiration from their god(s).

        Thats just what I hear. I’ve never left the western hemisphere, so I can’t say for certain.

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          Christian anti-science mentality is mostly an American (specifically Evangelical) thing. Non Americans don’t seem as fussed about science being in conflict with their faith.

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    The “lie” that we can physically observe happening in real-time?

    Is he actually that stupid, or just counting on other people being that stupid?

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      The “lie” that is one of the foundations that all modern medical science is based on?

      I agree with you. Imagine being that guy and thinking that scientists are pretending to do research and lying to the public for zero benefit.

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      Researching the Lie of Evolution

      is such a weird turn of phrase even on its face. It is anti-science in the strictest sense. “Any amount of money investigating the veracity of claims is a waste, because we should just intuitively know the truth of all things.”

      Taken to its logical conclusion, this implies Ken Ham is claiming to be omniscient.

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        Granted, I am in a bible belt rural city, but I’ve realized if you stick out the conversation with some of these Trumpy Christians long enough you’ll get to the heart - They really do just… want to be told what to think. You have to play nice to get them there, but they eventually drill down to some variation of “Gods word is law and my pastors word is gods word and anything else is satanic bullshit we’re not meant to know if we were it’d be in the bible or my pastor would tell me, as God intended.” Scientific advancement is either fake or heathens dragging us further and further from god because Satan guides them to knowledge about the world.

        I can’t speak for everyone of course but its nuts to see how many people really are still ALL IN on “the apple is knowledge, Eve ate the apple, and that ripped us away from god for eternity - we were meant to be nothing but sheep”

        I can’t speak for “everyone” of course

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        no, he’s saying god is omniscient so trying to figure out things is pointless because god already knows everything and protects us ✨✨✨

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    Ken Ham bitching about how tax dollars are spent is rich, since the fucker went to prison for not paying taxes.

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    does this guy have any tweets on the amount of money wasted on illegal wars? if he does, I’ll give this one a pass.

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      I mostly remember him from the debate on evolution he did with Bill Nye. Everyone told Nye not to do it, since there was no way Ham was going to debate in good faith. Surprise surprise, Ham did not debate in good faith. Outright said no evidence would change his mind in the middle of the debate, that he would always interpret any evidence in such a way that it fit with what he already decided was the truth. Anyway, all this to say fuck Ken Ham.

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    I read the bottom part first, and I was thinking, “Just because it was a film doesn’t mean that the Titanic wasn’t real.”

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    Poll: is “$102 million dollars” “102-dollar million dollars” or “102 million-dollar dollars”?

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      It’s the amount of millions of dollars stored at address 102 in the memory mapper.

      The dollar sign makes stating dollars again redundant, but that’s far from a big mistake.