The stupidest thing a creatonist has ever said to you

[kenandkids]

This is from a skype call between me EQuestions & Thunderf00t

Thunderf00t: Do you even know what nylonase is?
EQuestions: A bacterium that can digest Nylon

Lol, nylon eating bacteria wiki page is the first link that pops up when I googled nylonase. Perhaps he shouldn't take the very first link in a list?

 

[lordlandraid]

This is from a skype call between me EQuestions & Thunderf00t

Thunderf00t: Do you even know what nylonase is?
EQuestions: A bacterium that can digest Nylon

........ FAIL!!!!

 

[ShootMyMonkey]

Here's one I had last Friday while I was out to lunch. I kept the voice recorder on my phone going, and felt it was worth posting on my TGA blog --

http://grumpyantitheist.blogspot.com/2011/06/grown-ups-cant-be-healed.html

 

[Francis]

Atheistoes your ignorance of biology hinder you in your day to day life?
Creationist:No because I know enough about plants, and bacteria to know that they are to dependent on their natural surroundings to be consider living.

I'm not sure weather or not this is THE stupidest thing a creationist ever said to me but its definably in the top 5.

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

A comment left one of my videos.

bheadh[/url]"]So, your saying, life went from microbes to multi-cellular life in 80 million years? Where are the "life forms" in between. Science should stay out of philosophical and religious spheres. When your inquiring mind can come up with something other than a guess maybe people will start listening seriously to what you have to say. You weren't there "dude" so quit acting like what, you say is "true". Because it isn't.

 

[RigelKentaurusA]

A comment left one of my videos.

I'm sure there's a 1.5-celled organism fossil somewhere... :lol:

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

A comment left one of my videos.

bheadh[/url]"]So, your saying, life went from microbes to multi-cellular life in 80 million years? Where are the "life forms" in between. Science should stay out of philosophical and religious spheres. When your inquiring mind can come up with something other than a guess maybe people will start listening seriously to what you have to say. You weren't there "dude" so quit acting like what, you say is "true". Because it isn't.

The face fell 15 feet and landed into my palm.
:facepalm:

 

[Laurens]

[I don't remember the exact conversation, so this is slightly paraphrased]

Creationist: I believe that God can do anything [i.e: create the world in 6 days]

Me: So why is it out of the question that God created the universe 13 billion years ago, in the full knowledge that intelligent life would eventually arise after around 4 billion years of evolution, and be able to give praise to him? After all what is 13 billion years to an eternal being?

Creationist: Because that's just ridiculous...

 

[lordlandraid]

Here's a couple from an AronRa video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzVbfVDDpok

Oh, so you don't know who designed the geological column in the late 1700's and who hijacked it and add the eras to fit their unprovable, totally absurd evilutionary theory. Your right when you say "We have, very little idea". Than try some theoretical math and calculate the genetic mutations needed to form scum to man. Oh don't forget to give all your different type of mutations a value. Oh, that's right you don't have enough time the universe isn't old enough! LOL!

let's see if I'm understanging you. If your a Christian you can be a scientist and if your a YEC you can't even think about science, because no matter what they say or do, they are just wrong and only secular scientist have made and will make all the great discoveries in the science world. Wow I guess I should start believing the media, my government, and all the secular theory and question nothing. Become a secular lab rat and only then will I be able to make major discoveries.

I haven't heard from him in two weeks... It might be because I subsequently handed him his arse on this, or maybe he's just off to jebus camp for the summer... I don't know and don't really care...

 

[Finger]

A youtube creationist tried to cite a peer reviewed article once:

"DNA studies reveal no consistent evolutionary trend toward increased genomic complexity." Koonin, E. V. 2009 Darwinian evolution in the light of genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. 37 (4): 1011.

Apparently, all he had read of the article was the abstract. No, that's not accurate. All he had read of the article was that one sentence. Probably saw it on a creationist website and never bothered to look into it before copy/pasting it all over the internet.

Major contributions of horizontal gene transfer and diverse selfish genetic elements to genome evolution undermine the Tree of Life concept. An adequate depiction of evolution requires the more complex concept of a network or 'forest' of life. There is no consistent tendency of evolution towards increased genomic complexity, and when complexity increases, this appears to be a non-adaptive consequence of evolution under weak purifying selection rather than an adaptation.

 

[kenandkids]

I heard the idiot evolution ideas of Comfort again today from a christian I know. It is honestly just the most stupid mischaracterisation of evolution I've ever heard. For the original stupidity, start at 3:00.

 

[RedYellow]

I was trying to tell a creationist that God could have easily created an animal that would at least present a huge problem for evolution, such as a monkey with bird wings. He replied that scientists would just call it 'convergent evolution,' and further stated that we should expect to see animals look the way they do if ID was true. I granted him that science would be obligated to find a natural explanation for anything, but a monkey with the wings of a bird would at least force us to rethink biology a great deal. I further stated that there can be no expectations with supernatural design, because a god could design anything in any way he wanted to, and that even if god was responsible for the current state of life on earth, then he must have intended it to look like evolution happened or he could have easily baffled us with some sort of chimera. The creationist hasn't gotten back to me yet.....

 

[televator]

I heard the idiot evolution ideas of Comfort again today from a christian I know. It is honestly just the most stupid mischaracterisation of evolution I've ever heard. For the original stupidity, start at 3:00.

Wow, he's fine tuned his arguments into something Glenn Beck would be jealous of... I would hate to be someone who has to debate his way out of that tangled mess misdirection, emotional appeals, and straw men.

 

[nemesiss]

from our old pals conservapedia...

The magnetic field of Earth is directional nearly north-to-south, although slightly askance, meaning that "magnetic north" is not the same as "true north," and a person who is orienteering must take into account this change of declination, although it is truly only marginally relevant, unless you are close to either pole. This field has been decaying at a rapid rate of about about 5% per century, which casts doubt on the theory that the Earth is billions of years old.

 

[televator]

from our old pals conservapedia...

The magnetic field of Earth is directional nearly north-to-south, although slightly askance, meaning that "magnetic north" is not the same as "true north," and a person who is orienteering must take into account this change of declination, although it is truly only marginally relevant, unless you are close to either pole. This field has been decaying at a rapid rate of about about 5% per century, which casts doubt on the theory that the Earth is billions of years old.

I'm starting to wonder if every conservative in the US simply skipped every science class since grade school. First the tides, then the moon, and now the magnetic field.

They're getting awfully close to living up to the "fucking magnets" scenario in self parody.

 

[Pulsar]

No fish has become a bird. The flying fish is still a fish.

 

[lordlandraid]

A comment left one of my videos.

bheadh[/url]"]So, your saying, life went from microbes to multi-cellular life in 80 million years? Where are the "life forms" in between. Science should stay out of philosophical and religious spheres. When your inquiring mind can come up with something other than a guess maybe people will start listening seriously to what you have to say. You weren't there "dude" so quit acting like what, you say is "true". Because it isn't.

I'm currently arguing with the twit on your video

 

[Dean]

I heard the idiot evolution ideas of Comfort again today from a christian I know. It is honestly just the most stupid mischaracterisation of evolution I've ever heard. For the original stupidity, start at 3:00.

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWBC0AnAAT0"

I am equally, if not more so; adamant with creationists such as this man as I am with his polar opposites, the devotees of 'scientism'. They're just as bad as each other; so far as I'm concerned... However, I cannot stand willful mischaracterizations of science such as this, orchestrated by Ray Comfort. I wonder when he'll come to realize that ignorance is not a form of proof, and parading around his proud ignorance will get him nowhere. At the end of the day, I don't really care what he thinks, unless it has direct influence on the educated pubic, and other than the fact that he should be preaching his religion like a Christian would, and not his anti-science. :roll:

 

[Bearcules]

I am equally, if not more so; adamant with creationists such as this man as I am with his polar opposites, the devotees of 'scientism'. They're just as bad as each other; so far as I'm concerned...

I've heard the term 'scientism' bandied about, yet have never seen a single example of one of it's "devotees". Would you be kind enough to provide one?

It occurs to me that someone extolling "scientism" would be astoundingly hypocritical, as the connotation would be that they accept the "dogmas" of science without question. Which pretty much is the antithesis of science.

 

[lordlandraid]

I'd like to see one of these 'scientism' devotees myself. I'm not exactly sure if that's even possible... It just sounds like more bs that's being tossed around to make science look like another religion or on the same level as a religion... I'd like an example of one such 'devotee' :|