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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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This is Darwin's two hundredth year and Ken Ham, the skeptic's toy, just can't get enough of it. He writhes in orgasmic delight as each day brings him closer to the 12th of February, the magic date of Darwin's birth. Passing odd, is it not, that it is he and his fellow travelers who do the orgasmic writhing and not the "godless evolutionists," most if not all of whom take the whole thing pretty much in stride. Crack a jug, drink a toast, and get on with life.
Anyhow, here is his latest, nigh poetic ad hom aimed at Darwin and Darwin's -- not supporters; what support can a dead guy need? -- let us say: "students of his theory."
"Our Answers in Genesis theme for 2009 is the above headline, “Life Doesn't Evolve Around Darwin.”
Why this theme? First, let me make a few observations about the culture in America today. At Christmas, we don't sing carols such as the following, do we?
Silent Night, Holy Night,
All is calm, All is bright,
For Charles Darwin we just want to say
Thanks for showing us the evolutionary way,
We're glad we know we're an ape
We're glad we know we're an ape
And we have never heard of anyone constructing a calendar like the following, have we?
BC (Before Charles) and AD (After Darwin)
If someone used this kind of calendar, we would of course be living in the year AD 200 On this basis, Abraham lived around 3,800 BC.
Here is another thing as it relates to the calendar. Our culture (as well as cultures around the world) base the workweek on a seven-day period, and it's not something arbitrary. Ever wonder why? (The answer in a moment.) The real “Silent Night” carol is about a special baby born in Bethlehem around 2,000 years ago, certainly not Charles Darwin. Jesus was the Son of God who became the “God-man” to be the Savior of the world.
BC means “Before Christ” and AD is Latin for “In the year of our Lord.” Although some secularists have tried to change these designations, the event of Christ's birth had such an impact on the world that we still date our calendars from that miraculous event in Bethlehem.
Some people have also unsuccessfully tried to change the seven-day week (basically, six days of work and one day of rest). The seven-day week is not based on some arbitrary division of time, but on the Creation Week in Genesis. While the division of times we call day, month, and year come from astronomical observations, the seven-day week is based on the Bible—specifically the fact that God created the universe and all life in six literal days and rested for one literal day. That is why God, through Moses, used the Creation Week in the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:11) as the foundation for our seven-day week today.
This past December, I was thinking about how almost all Americans once celebrated a special time of the year, Christmas, and its wonderful significance. Over the years, however, secularists have been increasingly successful in “gutting” the meaning of Christmas. They now refer to this time in December with the generic term “holidays.” The media have followed suit, and today the reason for Christmas—to celebrate Christ's birth—is ignored by a greater number of people.
It has come to the point that I wouldn't be totally surprised if one day, secular Darwinists (who are about to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday on February 12) came up with their own carols, with lyrics such as what was presented earlier, tongue in cheek."
Read on and oh, and don't bother to count; I lost track of the fallacies early on. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2009 : 07:57:06 [Permalink]
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To many words for me to bother counting, Fil. However many words there are, that's about the sum total of fallacies. Very dense crappola.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2009 : 08:35:26 [Permalink]
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So... What's his point?
That the war on Christianity is paranoid BS? |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 02/04/2009 : 09:04:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
So... What's his point?
That the war on Christianity is paranoid BS?
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Ham's point was near the bottom of that page: | Help keep these daily articles coming. Support AiG. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
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USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2009 : 13:46:36 [Permalink]
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Fair enough, I guess...
I guess, we should not honor Darwin, because the society has already decided that Jesus was the important figure...
That is a non sequitur, of course, we can honor more than one person.
But, just for laugh, let's take Ham's advice and cancel Veteran day and President's day and MLK's day and Colombus day. Funny how the hypocritical bastard has no problem with these ones. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2009 : 16:17:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Simon
So... What's his point?
That the war on Christianity is paranoid BS?
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Ham's point was near the bottom of that page: | Help keep these daily articles coming. Support AiG. |
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Exactly right! I gotta hand it to him; he never misses a trick.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Let's play a game: find the fallacies & count 'em!
