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Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 36).

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Its funny, it really is, well to be honest hilarious. I really didn't think PCS was serious when he claimed 'Ive found a scientific discovery that has been sourced to the bible, and that proves its divinely inspired' or similar. The sad thing is you don't even need to think about it long to realize that hes full of crap. So his line one item for 'showing the bible to be true' is a fragment of a poem from psalms. A line that involves divinely revealed insight about 'the fish of the sea' and the 'paths of the sea'. Turns out the arguments weren't even his own anyway. They were copied, word for word off other creationist website. This is doubtless why he doesn't appear on camera. So 'he' claims that the discovery of the ocean currents was directly due to the Bible, and a guy called Maury read the Bible, and then went off to discovery them. Problem one of course is there are no citations to this outside creationist scribblings. Problem 2 is that according to Maury himself, the gulf stream was known about at least 200 years before he looked at the problem (face-palm). Problem 3, ocean currents have been known about since antiquity. Its one of the first thing you notice when you get out on the sea in a dead calm is that there are ocean currents. Indeed our word for ocean stems from the Greek, as they incorrectly believed the ocean to be a giant river called 'okeanos' (or similar). So yeah, his bold claim that I had no come back to this is kinda on the level of fractal wrongness ...

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