So, let's summarize the reasoning here.
Evolution must be fake, because (among many other crazy reasons supplied) it does not accurately explain the fossil record.
And, in the same vein, the fossil record must be fake, because evolution cannot be explained by anything at all.
Is anyone else picturing a petulant child holding on to the last bits of the notion that there is indeed a Santa Claus?
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Creationism must be fake, because (among many other crazy reasons supplied) it does not accurately explain the fossil record.
"Evolution must be fake, because (among many other crazy reasons supplied) it does not accurately explain the fossil record."
Am I the only one who thinks Southpaw018 is defending evolution here?
Is anyone else picturing a petulant child holding on to the last bits of the notion that there is indeed a Santa Claus?"
Hey, he ain't no fundie! The reasoning he is criticising is creationist 'reasoning'. Spot-on, too. Yahweh, please remove!
It's a summary of some fundie's reasoning. Apparently, someone was trying to disprove fossils with evolution, and evolution with fossils. Thus, Santa Claus.
Fark is definitely a political chop suey, and sometimes it's hard to tell who believes what. Consider Weaver95, an obnoxious old-school conservative/libertarian who's actually very nice in nonpolitical conversation, or elchip, who is a very talented political troll. Or the infamous Bevets, the notoriously repetitive and thickheaded fundy who doesn't know the difference between quotemining and scientific research.
Heh! This was a discussion of attacks on evolution. I was calling fundies children who desperately need something magical, like Santa, to justify their "criticisms" of evolution. It's a tad bit more ambiguous without the context, as noted above.
I'm on your side, FSTDT! Thanks to the folks who backed me up!
Southpaw018, are you like Southpaw023 now? Head into the forums in you like, not many fundies, but hey...
So, let's summarize the reasoning here.
Religion must be fake, because (among many other crazy reasons supplied) it does not accurately explain the fossil record.
And, in the same vein, the fossil record must be fake, because religion cannot be explained by anything at all.
Is anyone else picturing a petulant child holding on to the last bits of the notion that there is indeed a Santa Claus?
Fixed.
Evolution and the fossil record cannot mutually falsify the other...and Southpaw need a trip to a good natural history museum, with a tour of the millions of specimens in the basement.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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