FSTDS
Warning! This quote may cause spontaneous headdesking, especially if you happen to be a physicist of some sort.
"If it [earth's magenetic field] repolarizes, as you claim, why don't birds ever migrate NORTH for the winter? Also, magnets of a like polarity REPEL each other, so why don't animals that eat a lot of iron fly off into space? As to the magnetic field, this would pull the moon closer because the Moon has iron in it. Therefore, it's magnetic. The magnetic field 3 billion years ago would destroy ALL life forms, and a repolarization would send EVERYTHING into space."
Yupp. Welcome to bizarro land. This is a quote from Fundies say the Darndest Things, think bash.org for fundamentalists of mostly Christian belief and American origin. Another one would be:
"When I request that the Evolutionist show me living specimens of Robustus or Erectus (not to mention the many other so-called ancestors), the usual response would be, "Bible Thumper, haven't you ever heard of extinction?"
...Extinction. What a convenient excuse..."
Judging by the contents of fstdt.com there are quite a few people that refuse to believe in gravity! I don’t know about you, but my inner science major is sitting weeping in a corner. The sheer amount of stupidity is completely overwhelming. But that might be because I’m German and have never been exposed to people that seriously believe the earth is 6000 years old and that evolution is a conspiracy of godless atheist liberals to destroy Christianity/ the United States/ Capitalism.
Not that we don’t have our own idiots. Believe me, we do. It’s just that they generally don’t lecture scientists on science. Or maybe I have never met German creationists because I think religions in general are somewhat weird and tend to keep away from churches.
This whole thing is scary. Really scary. And yet I go there and read the quotes at least once a week. Maybe I have some masochistic tendencies I don't know about or a bad case of train wreck syndrome. Or I just enjoy all the snarky comments. Who knows?
"If it [earth's magenetic field] repolarizes, as you claim, why don't birds ever migrate NORTH for the winter? Also, magnets of a like polarity REPEL each other, so why don't animals that eat a lot of iron fly off into space? As to the magnetic field, this would pull the moon closer because the Moon has iron in it. Therefore, it's magnetic. The magnetic field 3 billion years ago would destroy ALL life forms, and a repolarization would send EVERYTHING into space."
Yupp. Welcome to bizarro land. This is a quote from Fundies say the Darndest Things, think bash.org for fundamentalists of mostly Christian belief and American origin. Another one would be:
"When I request that the Evolutionist show me living specimens of Robustus or Erectus (not to mention the many other so-called ancestors), the usual response would be, "Bible Thumper, haven't you ever heard of extinction?"
...Extinction. What a convenient excuse..."
Judging by the contents of fstdt.com there are quite a few people that refuse to believe in gravity! I don’t know about you, but my inner science major is sitting weeping in a corner. The sheer amount of stupidity is completely overwhelming. But that might be because I’m German and have never been exposed to people that seriously believe the earth is 6000 years old and that evolution is a conspiracy of godless atheist liberals to destroy Christianity/ the United States/ Capitalism.
Not that we don’t have our own idiots. Believe me, we do. It’s just that they generally don’t lecture scientists on science. Or maybe I have never met German creationists because I think religions in general are somewhat weird and tend to keep away from churches.
This whole thing is scary. Really scary. And yet I go there and read the quotes at least once a week. Maybe I have some masochistic tendencies I don't know about or a bad case of train wreck syndrome. Or I just enjoy all the snarky comments. Who knows?