"You know the sky isn't really blue. And I'm also sure during the course of your elite education you have discovered, as your peers before you, that evolution isn't true either, a doctrine that defies the physical laws of entropy itself. A doctrine which also demands that you cling to the ridiculous theory of uniformity in the fossil record you no doubt know to be false due to all the edvidence of a universal flood. A flood which upset the fossil record with all its hydrostatic windstorms, volcanoes, cross currents, whirlpools and other hydraulic hemorrhages unleashed on this planet when the fountains of the deep were opened. And shall I comment on the cell structure of the human body as well, or the half-life of palonium halos in granite which also disprove Mr. Darwin? And lest I be remiss, shall I touch upon the Fibonacci phenomena in botany, music and art? Perhaps, since you are a quantum physicist, we should discuss just how much of our universe is constructed from dark matter? Or shall we talk about the introns and epigenetic marks of DNA? Or better yet, should we discuss the physics of the Roche Limit for the Earth's moon, and the retrograde motion of the planets? But even those providential laws, as consise as they are in light of the entropyric effects ordained to be inflicted upon them with the fall of mankind, cannot be compared to the Lord's supernatural superiority over his creations."
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""You know the sky isn't really blue.
I agree, it's doesn't really have a color.
And I'm also sure during the course of your elite education you have discovered, as your peers before you, that evolution isn't true either,
Uh, no. It hasn't been proven false yet.
a doctrine that defies the physical laws of entropy itself. A doctrine which also demands that you cling to the ridiculous theory of uniformity in the fossil record you no doubt know to be false due to all the edvidence of a universal flood.
There was no universal flood you asshat. Go back and do your homework.
A flood which upset the fossil record with all its hydrostatic windstorms, volcanoes, cross currents, whirlpools and other hydraulic hemorrhages unleashed on this planet when the fountains of the deep were opened.
Occam's razor dissagrees.
And shall I comment on the cell structure of the human body as well, or the half-life of palonium halos in granite which also disprove Mr. Darwin?
Since when does palonium halos have anything to do with Darwin's theory? You have yet to explain yourself.
And lest I be remiss, shall I touch upon the Fibonacci phenomena in botany, music and art?
Has nothing to do with evolution.
Perhaps, since you are a quantum physicist, we should discuss just how much of our universe is constructed from dark matter? Or shall we talk about the introns and epigenetic marks of DNA? Or better yet, should we discuss the physics of the Roche Limit for the Earth's moon, and the retrograde motion of the planets? But even those providential laws, as consise as they are in light of the entropyric effects ordained to be inflicted upon them with the fall of mankind,
What?
cannot be compared to the Lord's supernatural superiority over his creations.""
Again, Occam's razor dissagrees.
But then again, this book is complete FICTION!
"But then again, this book is complete FICTION!"
Yeah, but the author is a fundamentalist Christian and the character saying the above quote is clearly the author's mouthpiece, if not an idealized version of the author himself. In the book he often extolls the author's personal beliefs and humiliates other characters. The character is clearly the author's Mary Sue. He got a score of 101 when I ran him through the Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test http://www.springhole.net/quizzes/marysue.htm )
I'm currently reading this book. In this instance he's bringing down his uppity woman-scientist, love-interest, who is in awe of his God-Given knowledge. She admits that all scientists are part of a global conspiracy to keep the theory of evolution afloat in order to keep grant money rolling in.
evolution isn't true either, a doctrine that defies the physical laws of entropy itself.
*facepalm*
What part of "closed system" do you not fucking understand?
A doctrine which also demands that you cling to the ridiculous theory of uniformity in the fossil record you no doubt know to be false due to all the edvidence of a universal flood.
Strange, then, how none of the civilizations that existed at the time of this supposed flood seemed to notice.
The rest of this makes even less sense. And that's hard to do.
OK, we can all see that you're very impressed with your collection of words the big boys use. You really should find out what they mean before you try to use them in actual sentences.
There is no such thing as "palonium." Essentially everything you brought up is wrong and/or irrelevant.
I have discovered that evolution is the best explanation for the available evidence. Also, I have discovered that you are a pompous and bellicose shithead.
Entropy works when you're talking about a closed system. The earth is not a closed system; it's receiving energy from the Sun.
There is no evidence of your massive global flood in the fossil record. There is, however, evidence of a more local one in the Middle East that could well have been the basis for the Biblical account, though.
The polomium halos were most likely the product of decaying radon gas seeping into cracks in the rock.
I fail to see how the Fibonacci sequence has any bearing on the age of the earth or the validity of evolution.
This is really getting tiresome.
Why do I get the impression that this is the fundie version of Star Trek technobabble? "We need some scientific sounding words. Resonance is good. Damping field is better. And a lot of science has words ending with -ium, so let's pick one of those. Okay, got it. Activate the rubidium resonance dampening field!"
Similar phenomenon, except I doubt he makes up his own balonium. He buys wholesale from Hovind.
Irene
Irene: "Balonium"? I love it! Balonium! Oh, that's priceless -- and so appropriate!
Regarding the original post, that is indeed some of the purplest prose I have read in a long time, presenting a veritable panoply of pomposity and a positively sesquipedalian lexicon. It reads as if it were written by Oscar Wilde on acid.
~David D.G.
As stated before, the sky hasn't got a color. But... isn't the color something has a direct effect of the wavelengths of light it absorbs/reflect/allows to pass? So if you reason like that, either the sky has a color which changes during the 24 hour cycle, or nothing has a color since they just reflect and absorb light, just like the atmosphere of the earth.
I am a quantum physicist Actually it is nuclear and particle physics.
Dark matter? Well, the galaxies rotate too fast for the number of stars we observe. One (the most straight forward) explanation for this is that there is matter which we cannot see. Hence, dark matter. And your point is?
Never, ever talk about entropy. Although I have to admit your are a quite knowledgable on this topic. Without the cosmic backround radiation your brain temperature would be 0 Kelvin. Zero brain activity, but your brain reads a temperature of 2 Kelvin. If this is not proof of the Big-Bang, I don't know what else could prove it.
... the half-life of palonium halos in granite which also disprove Mr. Darwin
It's hard to see how this disproves evolution, unless you believe in the old "false history" theory. Dickens kind of spoils the effect by misspelling "polonium"
A flood which upset the fossil record with all its hydrostatic windstorms, volcanoes, cross currents, whirlpools and other hydraulic hemorrhages unleashed on this planet when the fountains of the deep were opened.
But the fossil record isn't upset. It's remarkably well-sorted by age - an impossibility if the fossils were created and tossed about by a world-wide flood.
shall I touch upon the Fibonacci phenomena in botany ...
Many living things exhibit a logarithmic spiral growth pattern. It's a natural consequence of simultaneous linear growth and rotation. The analogy to the Fibonacci series, which approximates one type of log spiral, is exaggerated in popular science books.
David: I'm afraid I can't take credit for balonium. I first read about it in a book on how to write science fiction.
That being said, I think Mr. Dickens is using a particularly dangerous and unstable isotope of balonium, capable of causing a cranial meltdown in any rational entities around him.
Irene
Polonium: n. (Symbol: Po) is a naturally radioactive metallic element, occurring in minute quantities as a product of radium disintegration and produced by bombarding bismuth or lead with neutrons. It has 27 isotopes ranging in mass number from 192 to 218, of which Po 210, with a half-life of 138.39 days, is the most readily available. Atomic number 84; melting point 254°C; boiling point 962°C; specific gravity 9.32; valence 2, 4.
Phew. Had that trapped in my brain and boy, am I glad I got it out! (Praise be the American Heritage Dictionary .. RAmen)
The closest I could find for palonium was the spanish word, palomino, which means young pigeon. Making more sense now? Maybe?
That said I'd like to share a fact about me. I like fried balonium sandwiches.
"Without the cosmic backround radiation your brain temperature would be 0 Kelvin. Zero brain activity, but your brain reads a temperature of 2 Kelvin. If this is not proof of the Big-Bang, I don't know what else could prove it."
Um, no, you're not a physicist. First off, your brain temperature isn't 2 K -- it's 310.15 K, or 98.6 F. Second, we've never measured any matter, ever, that had reached 0 K. If it had, action upon it from either active instruments or the energy passive instruments detect, would raise it above 0.
""Without the cosmic backround radiation your brain temperature would be 0 Kelvin. Zero brain activity, but your brain reads a temperature of 2 Kelvin. If this is not proof of the Big-Bang, I don't know what else could prove it."
Um, no, you're not a physicist. First off, your brain temperature isn't 2 K -- it's 310.15 K, or 98.6 F. Second, we've never measured any matter, ever, that had reached 0 K. If it had, action upon it from either active instruments or the energy passive instruments detect, would raise it above 0."
...and the award for missing the joke goes to...
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