Genesis is scientific....much more scientific than ToE.
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Okay. God creates the heavens and the earth, no explanation of how. Speaks everything into existence, creates a man from dirt and a woman from his rib. Yep, science...
Genesis: My childlike mind can comprehend that.
Theory of Evolution: OMG, I actually have to think and it HURTS!
scientific
adjective 1 relating to or based on science. 2 systematic; methodical.
noun 1 the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. 2 a systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject.
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Yes, magic snakes, magic fruit, talking serpents, angels with flaming swords, hmmm, I see your point.
Put your hat back on, and it won't show.
The sad thing is...I don't think this one's a Poe....
And I'd like to see your test results on fruit killing you, talking animals, bats being descended from birds, and bones from the male sex growing into female members of the species.
Sure, because women bones are related to men's ribs, man's body is made of clay, snakes speak and you can create the world in six days.
This poster, and those whom he parrots, don't have the faintest inkling what "science" and "scientific" actually mean -- to them, these are just buzzwords for authority that seem to mean something to other people, so that's how they try to use them.
@Jake Steel:
The bad news is, there ARE people that stupid walking around without qualified supervision. Stuporsquirt isn't the only one. Look up Robert Byers on IIDB. An individual who is so palsied that his basic literacy and command of English alone is inferior to that of several Down's Syndrome patients I know . This is before we move on to his fantasy world view in which a marsupial mouse and a placental mouse, for example, are just "variations on the same kind", and that "DNA is based upon false premises".
Stuporsquirt at least possesses some basic language capability. Though what he does with it is excruciating to watch. Try his dissertation on why stars billions of light years away aren't really billions of light years of way because he can see them in an instant . Yes, it's THAT bad.
no, genesis is metaphorical; a simplified description to explain to people who hadn't discovered the concepts necessary to understand the facts. lets see you explain to a person from
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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