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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

Unread postby PrestonSturges » Mon 28 Jul 2014, 13:13:09

[quote="JV153"]
Being a scientist or Christian doesn't mean you have clarity, but certainly Max Planck and James Maxwell, James Joule, Isaac Newton, Davy Humphry, Thomas Edison, Cyrus McCormick, Alessandro Volta, Benjamin Franklin and Philo Farnsworth were Christians, or at least scientific deists.
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Franklin wrote that he doubted the divinity of Christ.

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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

Unread postby PrestonSturges » Mon 28 Jul 2014, 13:23:34

It's pretty much mandatory to claim persecution in evangelical huckster circles - it provides instant street cred. It also solidifies the group identity to see themselves as persecuted.

Claiming to be persecuted is classic projection in the sense that the group agrees it is permissible for them to persecute others. If you want to read woeful tale of persecuted Christians, look up "The International Jew," an antisemitic tract published around 1920 about how the Jews were persecuting Christians. It sounds almost exactly like the complaints of today with only minor changes. A copy of the book was kept on the nightstand of that-german-guy-who-must-not-be-named.
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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

Unread postby timmac » Mon 28 Jul 2014, 21:09:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', '
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WOW you just showed your total hatred towards those that don't believe in evolution by hoping we are banned, do you really hate God that much, you must have a sad pathetic life..


Timmac, we have had some serious threads here at PO.com regarding the role spirituality will play in the future. Lot's of varied opinions. Polite dialogue.

The problem is you only get back as much as you dish out. This is perhaps a spiritual principal for you to contemplate.

Adolescent responses is about as much as you can hope for when you start threads merely to poke and provoke.

Are you truly a man of god? Or just another huckster like most Christians in the US who have not yet been able to untangle their spiritual beliefs from their dreams of consumerism and american exceptionalism.



Just showing another perspective of science, but it seems to get certain folks all fired up, you don't see me on the evolution threads on here beating them up but when we/I post our threads we seem to come under attack.
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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

Unread postby timmac » Mon 28 Jul 2014, 21:30:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', ' ')You'd make a better impression if you were to desist from personalizing your hatred (for Obama, liberals and democrats) ..



There fixed it for you.. 8)
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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Mon 28 Jul 2014, 21:36:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Herr Meier', 's')everal other (not only Creationism) theories can explain the world.
What are those? Are they science or magic?
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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

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Re: Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Foss

Unread postby PrestonSturges » Tue 29 Jul 2014, 11:17:09

The comments in that article are interesting because several people know what they are talking about, including that the horn would not have contained "soft tissue" even when the animal is alive.

BTW, the guy claiming he was fired was an electron microscopy technician, which doesn't make him an expert in other fields.

The Creationist comments are good because they go straight to Sharia law, homophobia, GMOs, chemtrails and other conspiracies. Although they are entertaining, people like that are also scary because they can be manipulated to do horrible things. Go to some of the sites where people like that flock for discussions of how "it" is going to happen and when "it" happens they will be able to kill other people without hesitation because of their perfect love of Christ.
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