Creationists' Questions Explained...

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[phil89]

1. So sad

people actually believe such things. I do not respect irrational beliefs.

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2. The one about sunsets really made me

[NastyRiffraff]

4. She probably wonders

where the sun goes at night.

[Iggo]

13. Sun goes up. Sun goes down.

You can't explain it!

[11 Bravo]

27. But then someone tells her, "Their, they're, it'll be alright" and she's OK.

[Chellee]

19. At least she understands science equally as well as she understands grammar.

[calimary]

22. "…if their is no God?" WTF?????

She must be a graduate of Teabagger University or something.

"…if their is no God?" Hey little girl, please go back and review your grammar, usage, spelling, and especially the difference between pronouns and adverbs.

[NastyRiffraff]

26. Two words: Home schooled n/t

[calimary]

36. I'm afraid I went directly there in my mind, too.

I spent 14 years in Catholic school and never once cracked the Bible as a study guide during English class. Certainly nothing in there as far as guidelines for English grammar, anyway.

[NastyRiffraff]

37. 12 years for me

And you're right. We had a separate class called "Religion." We didn't study the Bible there, either, 'cause the nuns thought it was "dangerous." Worried about Song of Songs, stories of prostitution, incest and other very sexually explicit stuff in the "good" book I guess.

[DetlefK]

3. I liked this one:

[Vashta Nerada]

5. Creationists are idiots.

[progressoid]

6. Rec!

[Fred Sanders]

7. Not wanting to admit you are wrong seems to be a uniquely human trait. Also uniquely human

is wanting to annihilate anyone who points it out to you.

[Shrike47]

8. The sunsets one really bothers me because the answer is so available.

Maybe the poor thing is afraid of computors and books.

[napkinz]

9. Carl Sagan quote ...

[Walk away]

28. And yet we get the republican base....

we did something wrong!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Perfect answer in comments for, "If we came from monkeys why are there still monkeys?" question...

"If we came from the British why are there still British?"

[lastlib]

24. I like that one--will probably get to use it sometime.

[weissmam]

11. to the fool with the sunset question

in past years Sunsets weren't so dramatic since a lot of the colors are do to pollutants in the air, so according to her God likes polution

[Android3.14]

18. That doesn't sound right

I'd just like to know what is the unit of measure of drama in a sunset?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. According to The Lord of the Rings a red sky at dawn means blood has been spilled that night....

But then,....their gods in their fictional world were REAL.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. The tide goes in, the tide goes out...

you can't explain it.

[another_liberal]

14. How many fortunes have been made . . .

A question comes to mind: How many fortunes have been made selling used cars to people like these?

[RAM49]

15. STUPID QUESTIONS...

HOW CAN YOU BLAME PEOPLE FOR ASKING AND ANSWERING THEIR
OWN STUPID QUESTIONS... when they are told that no such thing exist...ie.,;
there is no such thing... as a stupid question! For those who beg to differ...
may I ask, 'how many angels can you fit on the end of a pin?' No doubt,many will attempt to answer this angelic inquiry without hesitation,however...this particular
inquiry is a textbook example of a stupid question! Once you can embrace the fact
they can and do exist... then maybe you can open your eyes to realize...
that every suicide in history... is the result of a stupid question being asked
and answered!

[calimary]

23. Welcome to DU, RAM49!

Glad you're here! As a reporter the conventional wisdom I remember was - "the only dumb question is the one that isn't asked." HOWEVERRRRRRR… that did not allow for some really sadly thick people who got hired onto reporters' beats, who didn't know their asses from grasses, or who slept through school, or some such thing…

DAYUM it was embarrassing sometimes. Granted, we all make mistakes. But when you're trying to make an "informed" or presumably "reasonable" point, you better have whatever ducks are in your general area - in a row. Otherwise it becomes easy to start generalizing what utter dumb-fucks tea baggers are, at their most basic.

One of my favorite quotes is one attributed to Adolf Hitler of all people. It's the best cautionary tale I've ever seen in one short sentence: "What luck for the leaders that men do not think."

[Rozlee]

16. I always liked the story of Noah and the ark.

They don't seem to realize that all living things in the ark would die from breathing in the methane from waste products produced by all the creatures and that it couldn't all be shoveled out from the one window in the ark as fast as it was produced (especially when they couldn't open the window because of the torrential rains). But, with so many organisms competing for oxygen in an enclosed space, they'd all suffocate from rebreathing carbon dioxide long before then.

[Curmudgeoness]

17. I am baffled.

How can the second law of thermodynamics disprove evolution????

[Lordquinton]

21. Somthing about ntropy and new information in a closed system

His smug little face makes me want to smack him. I am not a violent person, but He is just asking for it.

[whopis01]

29. The 2nd law states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases

So, by taking a very simplistic view, the idea is that evolution requires increasing organization, which is impossible according the the 2nd law.

Of course, there are a number of shortcomings in this interpretation. The overriding one is that the Earth is not a closed system since the Sun is constantly adding energy (which not coincidentally is the source of energy that powers virtually all life on Earth).

In my opinion it is best explained by the words of the MC Hawking from his rap "Entropy" on the album "A Brief History of Rhyme":

Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so f**k the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!

http://www.mchawking.com/

[Curmudgeoness]

31. Well, Hawking explained it well.

I just didn't see how they could use the 2nd law of thermodynamics. I know about that law and I know about entropy. But since we have energy expended to keep order in all bodies, it doesn't apply. For the life of me, I can't see how they are thinking. But then again, I should know better than to consider that they are thinking.

[whopis01]

32. "I should know better than to consider that they are thinking." - Bingo

I wouldn't waste any more effort trying to figure them out than they waste trying to figure out reality.

[TroglodyteScholar]

35. !!!

<3 MC Hawking

[JDPriestly]

20. Hey! This is science that even I with my partly Southern education can figure out?

Why can't the Christian fundamentalists?

[Rex]

30. 12 hell, I knew that stuff at 6.

I asked about the sunrise and understood the first time, it wasn't difficult. That was in 1977. Star Wars kinda blew stupid questions like 'what is a sunset' out of the water. Attentive minds pick up on things, dulled down minds tend to focus on simple notions.

'A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.'

-Jack Handy-

[surrealAmerican]

34. You were a lucky six-year-old.

You had someone who would answer your questions in a serious way, instead of either saying, "god made it that way", or "stop asking so many questions". I'm guessing none of these people were as lucky as you.

[HughBeaumont]

33. SONS DUSNT SET BUT TUCHER, ERTHS TERN.

That's not from science class, that's from freaking PEANUTS.