Creationists Handing Out Packets Near Public HS

[Melendwyr]

Bacteria forming human beings over millions (or billions) of years through chance alone IS extremely unlikely.

Unfortunately for the creationist argument, the development of modern lifeforms didn't happen by chance alone. Nor did humans develop from bacteria - there was a split a very long time ago.

For decades, our schools have not only failed to teach the ability to think, but they have actively discouraged it. Those who sow embers reap wildfire, as the saying goes, and I think the harvest-time of consequences is nearly upon us.

 

[Darat]

I'm beginning to think these misconceptions are deliberate, intended to make scientists angry and behave in an un-Christianlike manner...

What like make them tell the truth...?

 

[Self]

Great Pamplet! It should be handed out in front of Churches not schools as it will make many creationists realize just how silly their arguments really are.

 

[Iacchus]

Evolution is merely a mechanism which, cannot stand up of its own accord.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Evolution is merely mechanism which, cannot stand up of its own accord.

I'm having a little difficulty with this statement. Is it devoid of meaning, or just poorly constructed?

 

[Iacchus]

I'm having a little difficulty with this statement. Is it devoid of meaning, or just poorly constructed?

Yes, I would agree that science may have discovered the mechanism for change. So what?

 

[Loon]

I'm having a little difficulty with this statement. Is it devoid of meaning, or just poorly constructed?

Both!

 

[cyborg]

I'm having a little difficulty with this statement. Is it devoid of meaning, or just poorly constructed?

Iacchus is merely a mechanism which,

produces poorly constructed - "sentences" accord.

 

[Cosmo]

Evolution is merely a mechanism which, cannot stand up of its own accord.

Stop trolling, laffus.

 

[Tony]

Wow. They expect high school kids to read through all that crap?

 

[TragicMonkey]

Wow. They expect high school kids to read through all that crap?

Wait, that was aimed at high school students? I had assumed they were aiming for elementary school students, based on the lack of sophistication and the reading level....

Wow. Patronizing on multiple levels, now.

 

[Bone_Vulture]

Both!

It's Iacchus!

 

[Darat]

Wait, that was aimed at high school students? I had assumed they were aiming for elementary school students, based on the lack of sophistication and the reading level....

Wow. Patronizing on multiple levels, now.

And the artwork is terrible as well!

 

[moopet]

All the links are clickable for the full-sized image if you can't really read it.

Page 11-12 is broken, missing the H from HTTP.

My personal favourites have to be defining a light-year as distance, and so irrelevant to the age of the universe, despite the definition directly involving the amount of time that would have to pass for light to reach us from such a distance... and informing us that the dinosaurs dies out by being buried, which is why we find their fossils in the ground.

Yes, I did force myself to read right to the end!

 

[Complexity]

My personal favourites have to be defining a light-year as distance, and so irrelevant to the age of the universe, despite the definition directly involving the amount of time that would have to pass for light to reach us from such a distance...

Errr... light-year is a distance - approximately 5.88 trillion miles.

 

[Wheezebucket]

That happened to me once in highschool as well. There were men standing on the sidewalk handing out little orange bibles. When I asked one elderly guy if what they were doing was legal, he said it was because he was on the sidewalk. I took the bible, walked a few feet in front of him, and dropped it on the ground.

Silly christians, school is for reality.

 

[Loon]

Errr... light-year is a distance - approximately 5.88 trillion miles.

Yeah, but the argument they make is that having quasars millions of light years away means nothing because that's not the same as being millions of years away. So they are overlooking the fact that the light had to start out millions of years ago to reach this point millions of light years away.

 

[brodski]

Errr... light-year is a distance - approximately 5.88 trillion miles.

yes, but they the go onto say that as it is a measure of distance, it is irrelevant in determining the age of the universe. If we know how far light has traveled, and we know it's speed, we know how long it has been traveling for, and can so give a minim age of the universe.

They argue, ah, you are using a measurement of distance in an equation abbot time, and therefore god exists, or something.

 

[TragicMonkey]

yes, but they the go onto say that as it is a measure of distance, it is irrelevant in determining the age of the universe. If we know how far light has traveled, and we know it's speed, we know how long it has been traveling for, and can so give a minim age of the universe.

They argue, ah, you are using a measurement of distance in an equation abbot time, and therefore god exists, or something.

Makes me wonder if they really do reject science, or if they just haven't understood any science since kindergarten.

 

[brodski]

Makes me wonder if they really do reject science, or if they just haven't understood any science since kindergarten.

I think that one can lead to the other.