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I grew up in the town that Sarah Palin was mayor of, so yes.
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did you gently caress her
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Apr 30, 2016 06:39
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:did you gently caress her i would like to gently caress sarah palin haha but no tho yeah haha really
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Apr 30, 2016 06:40
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What about Todd he got a real meaty rear end.
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Apr 30, 2016 06:55
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I made a joke that referenced dinosaurs being around 65+million years ago around my wife's aunt. She corrected me with well its more like 50,000. I just kinda laughed and said yeah some big number like that heh.... I thought that number was really odd.
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Apr 30, 2016 08:04
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I live in the south so I just assume that everyone i meet doesn't believe in evolution and is a goddamn moron
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Apr 30, 2016 08:16
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me and a good friend were watching youtube videos stoned as poo poo about 8 years ago and this snake was trying to eat an entire wildebeest, gives up and pukes the entire thing up. he turns to me and goes "and that's why evolution is bull poo poo". it was really hard to let that one go and it blew my stoned brain into a thousand pieces over how stupid someone i call a best friend is
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Apr 30, 2016 08:53
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Friendly Humour posted:I have two cousins. Everything else in my paternal and maternal family trees has been obliterated in wars or never borne offspring. I just realised that's a bit odd. In Norway we have accurate census data going back to the beginning of the 19th century and it turns out that everyone living here now (excluding recent immigrants) is descended from only about 25% of everyone who lived here then. Sure, there was a bit of emigration but that still means a shitload of family lines going extinct for one reason or another. My own anecdotal evidence of evolution which is semi-relevant to this is that most of my ancestors were fishermen since Odin slew Ymir, a pretty dangerous occupation when you have open boats and have to do everything by hand or wind power. I have a naturally strong grip and my theory is that this is genetic because all of the old-time fishermen who had weak grips got weeded out from the gene pool due to losing hold of important stuff like ropes or oars at critical moments and getting themselves drowned.
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Apr 30, 2016 10:00
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Holyshoot posted:What's the story behind people saying carbon dating is wrong? I remember when I was super young someone saying they threw a monkey bone into a hot springs for 3 hours and it got carbon dated at 12,000 years old and that was how carbon dating was wrong. Carbon dating narrows things down with a pretty wide margin of error, and yes there are all sorts of things that naturally (or intentionally) occur that can throw the numbers way the hell off. That's why we use radiometric dating, and plain old carbon dating hasn't been a thing since the early 60's or longer. Anyone bitching about the problems with carbon dating are really just letting you know that they don't even grasp a basic understanding of their own poor argument.
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My gf's family are that branch of christianty which take the bible very literally. Discussions about old testament stuff don't usually get very far before they change the subject, they simply don't feel that they need to argue for their beliefs. Her sister has just had a son, and her mother asked if she was going to tell him about dinosaurs, not because of evolution, but because dinosaurs are a boy thing and that might confuse him or something since they arent real. It was a very weird conversation to overhear. Fortunately my gf steered totally clear of that whole scene.
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Apr 30, 2016 10:18
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I know a guy who believes in "Microevolution" but not "Macroevolution". That is to say, he's an idiot. Booblord Zagats posted:Made funnier by the fact that Every Pope in the last 25 years has been super cool with evolution Not really. They believe something similar to evolution, but tack on an entirely unnecessary and untestable variable. "Evolution is true, but God started the process." That's not a very scientific theory. Fitzy Fitz posted:We've actually observed speciation, but these people either find a way to disregard the evidence or move the goalpost. They want to see something like a monkey giving birth to a human. Which would actually disprove evolution if it occurred. I guess people who disbelieve evolution often don't really understand what it even is. The Bible fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Apr 30, 2016 10:19
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Bushmaori posted:One of my old high-school friends went of the deep end and started railing about those drat evolutionists, all talkin bout where are the transitional fossils, huh!? Ask him to show you a fossil that isn't transitional.
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Apr 30, 2016 10:24
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genesplicer posted:Pretty much all of my extended family most of them work for churches in the Bible Belt and such. If evolution is so true then how come you haven't evolved better posting?? HAHA 
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Frankenstyle posted:Ask him to show you a fossil that isn't transitional. I'm no biologist, but I think most fossils aren't transitional. Most species go through long periods where they don't change, with a few isolated episodes where there is relatively rapid evolutionary change.
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Celluloid Sam posted:My mom doesn't believe in evolution and goes so far as to not accept that mental conditions can be inherited genetically. I tried to explain as simply as I understand that many things have been identified in the human genome like certain alleles definitely effect things like anxiety disorders or schizophrenia but she just kind of waved it off and said that she still thinks environment is the main thing that effects people. If I spelled effect wrong and it should be affect than suck my dick op. Affect is a verb, effect is a noun, generally.
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I've met several "it's just a theory" types, but in almost all cases what they really mean is "you can't tell me monkeys just morphed into humans overnight! why are there still monkeys!!???". So they deny evolution, but they really don't understand what it actually is and actively don't want to find out.
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Apr 30, 2016 11:19
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The idea of someone not believing in evolution, like as an actual person you could meet in the street, is just weird to me
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The Midwest is weird.
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My sister-in-law's ex husband, OP. He was a Christian, not so much because of the deep and abiding faith he had in Jesus Christ and the Bible, but because he lacked any sort of critical faculties and would believe the first thing he was told unquestioningly. In addition to not beliving in evolution, he also belived in chemtrails, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, UFOs, Jackalopes, the illuminati, ghost hunters, chupacabras, mermaids (basically all cryptids and cryptid sightings), the cataclysm theory of geoformation, that dinosaurs and humans coexisted (and still coexist) and is an avid Trump supporter. In the few times he came over before I stopped allowing him on my property, he tried to convince me that if dinosaurs still existed, it would disprove evolution, and that dinosaurs had been sighted in the jungles of Africa many times. He also tried to explain that 5000 years ago, Earth was surrouned by a much thicker layer of atmosphere that shielded us from the harmful effects of the sun and thus allowed much longer lifespans, and that the Biblical flood was the atmosphere condensing into the oceans (which did not previously exist). He offered me a steak dinner if I would come with him to the Creation museum and I told him that he could shove it.
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criscodisco posted:The Midwest is weird. I'm in Virginia, and roughly two thirds of the people I have to deal with are Young Earth creationists or pretend to be in order to fit in. It's a goddam freakshow.
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Apr 30, 2016 12:23
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The Bible posted:
You're not going to see them completely write out the existence of God based on anything. Faith isn't like picking character stats on WoW, it's a need for hope. My old priest once said it best. To attempt to quote "We always assume God has his hand in our lives. He might have made the big bang, he might not have. He could have used the Yucatan meteor strike to wipe the world clean for us, he could have ended the ice age to help us flourish after the floods. And if he didn't then atleast we wasted our time trying to help others and act outside our selfish thoughts. Faith is just as much for man to believe in his own ability to change the world for the better as it is in God himself. We have to assume God works in the details because that's where change matters the most and what we can affect our selves one day at a time. " So really, ragging on the Catholic Church for one of its more intelligent stances because it's not the exact same as Richard Dawkins is kinda petty. But ragging on them for the whole child rape and 3rd world AIDS things are pretty spot on
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Apr 30, 2016 12:49
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Applewhite posted:and that the Biblical flood was the atmosphere condensing into the oceans (which did not previously exist). he got this part wrong  In the beginning, darkness was upon the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the waters.
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Apr 30, 2016 12:50
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I took an anatomy and physiology class and the otherwise really cool professor kept talking about how evolution was fake and the human body was perfectly designed and how "that monkey ain't no kin to me."
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Apr 30, 2016 13:00
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Booblord Zagats posted:he could have ended the ice age to help us flourish after the floods. Except he couldn't have because we are still in an ice age that has lasted over 2 million years.
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Apr 30, 2016 13:21
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Groke posted:In Norway we have accurate census data going back to the beginning of the 19th century and it turns out that everyone living here now (excluding recent immigrants) is descended from only about 25% of everyone who lived here then. Sure, there was a bit of emigration but that still means a shitload of family lines going extinct for one reason or another. The North is a bloody place.
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Apr 30, 2016 13:37
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Groke posted:In Norway we have accurate census data going back to the beginning of the 19th century and it turns out that everyone living here now (excluding recent immigrants) is descended from only about 25% of everyone who lived here then. Sure, there was a bit of emigration but that still means a shitload of family lines going extinct for one reason or another. look at this dirty nord coming from a long line of retard masterbaters trying to cover it up
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Apr 30, 2016 13:46
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Skeleton Ape posted:Did you work at the Field? I did indeed. The best place.
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Groke posted:In Norway we have accurate census data going back to the beginning of the 19th century and it turns out that everyone living here now (excluding recent immigrants) is descended from only about 25% of everyone who lived here then. Sure, there was a bit of emigration but that still means a shitload of family lines going extinct for one reason or another. Something like a third of Norway's population immigrated to North America during the 19th century. It was more than a bit, I think.
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Apr 30, 2016 14:58
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Profondo Rosso posted:idk guys seems like theres a pretty convincing argument against evolution... 
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Apr 30, 2016 15:01
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The Bible posted:I know a guy who believes in "Microevolution" but not "Macroevolution". this is about as sophisticated as they get, but it takes a decent education in genetics to explain why this is a false distinction
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qbxtkcGYc
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Applewhite posted:My sister-in-law's ex husband, OP. He was a Christian, not so much because of the deep and abiding faith he had in Jesus Christ and the Bible, but because he lacked any sort of critical faculties and would believe the first thing he was told unquestioningly. sounds like quite an interesting character can't believe you turned down a steak dinner and a trip to a creation museum. also jackalopes and chupacabras are real
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Strategic Tea posted:The idea of someone not believing in evolution, like as an actual person you could meet in the street, is just weird to me wasn't there a poll that said like 40% of Americans deny evolution?
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Apr 30, 2016 15:08
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Keep Autism Wired posted:wasn't there a poll that said like 40% of Americans deny evolution? 
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Applewhite posted:My sister-in-law's ex husband, OP. He was a Christian, not so much because of the deep and abiding faith he had in Jesus Christ and the Bible, but because he lacked any sort of critical faculties and would believe the first thing he was told unquestioningly. this dude sounds pretty awesome I gotta say
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i had no idea that "dinosaurs being sighted in the jungles of Africa" was a part of creationism until that post but i did some googling and its a whole thing and, imo, pretty convincing. also pterodactyls flying around during the american civil war? good stuff
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I almost dated a woman in college but she chose my Christian friend instead, so she was still around occasionally. She didn't believe in evolution, global warming, or large scale government corruption. She said she had never seen convincing evidence of any of those three things, which I believe because she never read anything besides Facebook and buzzfeed. Turns out she was also impressively alcoholic.
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Earwicker posted:i had no idea that "dinosaurs being sighted in the jungles of Africa" was a part of creationism until that post but i did some googling and its a whole thing and, imo, pretty convincing. also pterodactyls flying around during the american civil war? good stuff I remember when I was a kid going to a sold-out conference center and listening to a guy talk about the evidence for dinosaurs still living deep in African jungles. He played sound recordings and quoted local myths about strange animals in the forest. Someone bought me a book there called "Bomby the Bombardier Beetle" that disproves evolution for kids (because bombardier beetles are too amazing evolve).
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Apr 30, 2016 15:23
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I used to work with this pakistani guy who didn't believe in evolution. It was weird he was like a naturalized redneck muslim, spent his free time doing karate and muddin. Wore those jackets with pictures of leaves and poo poo on them. I've met other people who didn't believe in evolution but those people were boring so I'm not gonna say any more about them.
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Jim Barris posted:Wore those jackets with pictures of leaves and poo poo on them. are you referring to camouflage
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