That is disingenuous of you Michael. You know exactly who the term "Creationist" applies to in this context.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Other people's hypocrisy doesn't threaten the education of children. > They don't? I know of a hypocrisy that threatens the education of > hundreds of millions of people across the world. > >> The root argument is that it shows that Creationists are either plain >> ignorant, or wilfully ignorant, of the science they claim to deny. > Or, as I said, they believe that the science is wrongly applied or > wrongly interpreted. > >> And no, Creationists do not get to claim that the Theory of Relativity is >> correct in one instance, but wrong in another without bringing the >> scientific proof and furthering the scientific debate on the topic. > They do get to claim that the theory is a theory and can be modified > and/or supplanted by better theories when they become available. > > But just for a second, lets take a step back and define who these > creationists your talking about are. Are they people who believe in > God? Those who believe that God created reality? Those who believe > that 6000 actual 24 hour days went into creation? I know I belong to 2 > of those categories. Replace God with "Goddess/Allah/Jesus/Zeus/the > Force/etc." and you may cover most people on earth. > >> On 4 August 2011 19:32, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Easiest answer around. Because someone will say that the results are >>> flawed. Nothing against the technology, everything against the >>> people's interpretation of the results and/or how the technology was >>> used to get the (flawed) results. >>> >>> The root of the argument is that creationists are hypocrites. All I >>> can say is "pot. kettle." Show me one person on earth who is not a >>> hypocrite in some way to some person. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341254 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
