--NASA’S SPACE PROGRAM IS LABELED "ORIGINS RESEARCH" AND COSTS TAXPAYERS MEGA-BUCKS. COMPUTERIZED TELESCOPES ARE PROGRAMMED TO SEND BACK "SYNTHESIZED IMAGES". THE "IMAGE WARPER" PERMITS "GEOMENTRIC TRANSFORMATIONS" WHILE "ORIGINS TECHNOLOGY... CONFIGURES THE MULTIPLE SMALL MIRRORS..." IN THESE TELESCOPES. TALK ABOUT A CON JOB!
--THE BIBLE SAYS THE EARTH IS NOT MOVING AND CANNOT BE MOVED. WHAT’L IT BE FOLKS? FALSE SCIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH...OR GOD’S WORD??"
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A) I'm pretty sure that synthesized images doesn't mean what you think it does
B) I'm not sure what multiple small mirrors has anything to do with your argument, if it could be called that.
C) I'll take the reproducable science over the desert people fairy tales, thank you very much.
D) TURN OFF CAPS LOCK! IT DOESN"T MAKE YOUR RANTINGS ANY MORE TRUE OR CONVINCING!
LOOK AT ME, I TYPE IN ALL CAPS! AND I USE EXCLAMATION POINTS!! WHATEVER I SAY MUST BE TRUE!!! I ALSO TYPE IN BOLD, SO MY FACTS MUST BE SUPER TRUE!!!! I EVEN TYPE IN ITALICS, SO WHAT I AM SAYING MUST BE MEGA TRUE!!!!!TO TOP IT OFF, I AM TYPING ALL CAPS, BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINE, SO I MUST BE ULTRA-TRUE BEYOND ALL TRUTH!!!!!!
Hold on everyone, let's not be so harsh on this fellow's use of all caps. I personally beleive that he did not type this statement out himself, rather I beleive it was recorded by a friendly passer-by who heard him shouting it from a street corner. The capitalization is merely a conveiance of the "crazed prophet of the apocalypse" tone of Marshall's voice.
"THE BIBLE SAYS THE EARTH IS NOT MOVING AND CANNOT BE MOVED"
Yet again a fundie is foiled by his arch-nemesis that is reality.
Look pal, if the Earth doesn't move and cannot be moved what exactly do you think causes day and night, or the seasons for that matter?
By the way, I'll take science over "Gawd's Word" any day as one has a better track record than the other.
You know, technically, most undergraduate business degrees, like accounting, and management, get you a B.S., for some unknown-but-guaranteed-to-be-fucked-up reason.
What do you want to bet that Marshall graduated from business school? I mean, it's possible he got a real degree; many imbeciles do exactly that. But I have a hunch that, if he has a B.S., it's in something business related, not an actual science.
I'M SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS, PLUS IT'S BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINED, AND RED! IT'S AS TRUE AS IT COULD POSSIBLY BE! NO ONE CAN TRUMP ME UNLESS YAHWEH SETS UP A FONT SIZE FEATURE!
This guy should get an Argument from Caps Lock Award! I'm guessing his website is dangerously stupid, but I'll take everyone's word for it instead of going there myself. I'm just looking at the text of the link, but I'm far too close to the event horizon for that black hole of concentrated idiocy.
Trying to convince this guy that his complete lack of intelligent thought is wrong is a total waste of time. I actually feel sorry for someone this deluded and so far removed from reality. There is not one coherent "thought" on his website and even the one link he provides for reference leads to another that is based on denial of scientific fact but on Biblical literalism. Let them have their delusions. They are so deep into the crap, they've lost sight of reality. If nothing else, they provide those of us that have a clue endless chuckles and entertainment.
<<< WHAT’L IT BE FOLKS? FALSE SCIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH...OR GOD’S WORD?? >>>
Neither. True science. (And listing your degrees after your name doesn't help your case. It makes you look like a pretentious blowhard.)
If the Earth isn't moving, how come NASA uses the equations consistent with a heliocentric solar system and has consistently (at least, where unit mix-ups aren't involved) managed to get things exactly where they predict?
<<< THERE IS NO PROOF THAT THE EARTH ROTATES ON A "AXIS" DAILY AND ORBITS THE SUN ANNUALLY. NONE. >>>
Well, there's the above fact that every calculation NASA has done with the equations consistent with heliocentricity has worked ... and the fact that a fixed Earth, given our understanding of gravity (and assuming that "fixed" means that all the forces on it are magically canceled out by the hand of God or whatever), would result in vastly different positions of the planets than what we actually see.
The only way they can make the claim that their biblical fairy tales are true is to say that centuries of documented scientific observations are false, and that mankind as been lied to by generations of scientists.
Frankly, I need no more proof that people like that are totally insane. I recommend shock therapy.
Crosis, he covers that on his site:
"ALL CALCULATIONS FOR ECLIPSES, THE SPACE PROGRAM, NAVIGATION, SATELLITE MOVEMENTS--ANYTHING THAT DEMANDS PRECISION AND ACCURACY--ARE BASED ON A NON-MOVING EARTH."
So there you go.
@Maronan
I'M SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS, PLUS IT'S BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINED, AND RED! IT'S AS TRUE AS IT COULD POSSIBLY BE! NO ONE CAN TRUMP ME UNLESS YAHWEH SETS UP A FONT SIZE FEATURE!
I THINK I FOUND A WAY , MARONAN!
The Flat Earth Society seems to be very much alive and well, if somewhat small nowadays. I remember seeing an obituary article in the late 1980s for the guy who had, at that time, been the president (or a past president) of the organization for several years. He was an airplane mechanic in his day job -- yep, servicing airplanes that would fly beyond the horizon and come back again, constantly, and apparently saw no particular contradiction in that. He just had decided at the age of 8 that the world globe depiction of the Earth in his classroom was intuitively "impossible," and he had managed to function despite this pathological disconnect in his thinking all those years. It would appear that there are many people who can give a convincing appearance of sanity except when dealing with their particular problem issue.
~David D.G.
well, in that case the space shuttle can orbit the earth in every possible direction, east to west, north to south. Either they'll finally get it, or their brain will have a hernia, both of which are good results.
Geocentrism has to be an element of fundamental Xianity because it says so in the wholly babble.
I think this can be used as a "litmus" test of how pure a fundie's belief actually is. If they think the earth moves by a twitch then the whole caboodle can be said to be errent. If they think it is immovable then they are pure fundie.
The Coriolis effect would not be possible without a rotating Earth. See Wikipedia for the math.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect
Feminazi, be careful with your statement. The seasons are not cause by the Earth's rotation per se but by the tilting of the axis and the resulting angle of the Sun's rays striking the surface. Big difference.
"ALL CALCULATIONS FOR ECLIPSES, THE SPACE PROGRAM, NAVIGATION, SATELLITE MOVEMENTS--[snip]--ARE BASED ON A NON-MOVING EARTH."
Well, this technically is true (forget the part about precision and accuracy) because satellites, solar/lunar eclipses even going to the Moon are all relatively close to our main frame of reference, the Earth. But it's misleading to say they are calculated that way because of a non-moving Earth rather than we can simplify the math by assuming as such because of the localized reference. If we were to travel to, say, Alpha Centauri and back, we would definitely have to use some outside celestial reference for the calcs.
FALSE SCIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH...OR GOD’S WORD??"
Science doesn't do "absolute truth" -- science does "here's the best explanation anyone has come up with so far to explain the evidence we've been able to gather. We're still trying to do better." Which is why science works .
the earth does not move. Youtube video shows that if you take an orrary and hold the earth still, the sun and all the planets rotate around the earth , see PROOF !
few small problems with the concept though.
"--NASA’S SPACE PROGRAM IS LABELED "ORIGINS RESEARCH" AND COSTS TAXPAYERS MEGA-BUCKS. COMPUTERIZED TELESCOPES ARE PROGRAMMED TO SEND BACK "SYNTHESIZED IMAGES". THE "IMAGE WARPER" PERMITS "GEOMENTRIC TRANSFORMATIONS" WHILE "ORIGINS TECHNOLOGY... CONFIGURES THE MULTIPLE SMALL MIRRORS..." IN THESE TELESCOPES. TALK ABOUT A CON JOB!
--THE BIBLE SAYS THE EARTH IS NOT MOVING AND CANNOT BE MOVED. WHAT’L IT BE FOLKS? FALSE SCIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH...OR GOD’S WORD??"
Buzz Aldrin would like a word with you, Marsh(a).
...just after you've gotten up off the ground and picked your teeth up, that is.
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All churches pay no taxes. No income tax, no property tax, and no tax of any kind.
On top of that in America and Canada they recieve huge subsities on upkeep and improvements. Wanna fix your kitchen or bathroom? Fuck you, unless you're rich or A CHURCH. Wish I could keep my tax payments.
I really want to see the cost to taxpayers for organized religion but I haven't searched because I know it beyond ridiculous.
Texas cattle barons have nothing on Texas church land.
I live in mid-western Ontario,Canada and abondoned, boarded over church properties are bigger than campgrounds up here, and we're cottage country!
"World class astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle said we can take our pick between the two models. Other professional scientists are coming around on this pivotal subject."
What Sir Fred was talking about was The big bang Theory, and The steady State Theory. The irony is that Sir Fred chose to reject the Big Bang Theory because as a staunch (even dare I say, a militant atheist) it left open the possibility that a God may have caused the Big Bang.
Sad really Sir Fred Hoyle was a brilliant man, who chose to reject the growing evidence and consensus supporting the Big Bang. In his own way he was a fundie, albeit with a very high IQ.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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