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How do they rise up
May 25th
Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days…
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
My new year in gifs...
Are you really Wil Wheaton?
No. It’s Becky.
21 “Facts” that Evolutionists can’t Answer
Challenge accepted.
1. Why are the planets round?
Wait, what? I thought you said Evolutionists? planetary formation has nothing to do with Evolution, would you ask a botanist about how plant pots are made? Okay, so I’ll answer anyway, because gravity.
2. Go to a zoo and tell me - why doesn’t a chimpanzee give birth to a man?
Maybe it’s having a girl instead? Or maybe it’s because they’re two separate species that share a common ancestor.
3. Have you ever seen a mountain form?
Again with the unrelated to evolution questions. No, I actually haven’t seen a mountain form, have you? Oh you haven’t either? So obviously the default position must be ‘God done it’ in spite of the fact that I don’t believe the formation of mountains is actually referenced anywhere in the bible. Plate tectonics clearly had nothing to do with it </sarcasm>
4. Why doesn’t new life show up in a jar of peanut butter?
Because if I wanted new life, I’d order crunchy peanut butter. Oh wait, no, that’s not the reason, the reason is that we don’t even really know for sure what the circumstances were when life first formed, it might not be possible to replicate them in a lab, let alone in a jar of peanut butter.
5. If the big bang started as a singularity, who held up the singularity?
What? what the fuck? just what? are you high?
6. A painting had a painter, therefore the universe had a maker
false equivalence. With a painting, you can see the signature, you can check the paperwork that comes with it to confirm its validity, you can take off tiny flakes of the paint to check that they conform with the paints that would have been used at the time, please do enlighten me as to how you plan to do that with the universe, I’d love to know.
Apparently the number 7 is against their religion.
8. How can you explain gravity?
With science.
9. If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
Please see my answer to question 2, or better yet, hit yourself with that bible of yours a few more times, kthx.
10. If the world is millions of years old, why is it 2008?
Oh no, the killer question, you’ve got me, I repent! Wait, no, I’ve just remembered we have this thing called a dating system that started (now) 2015 years ago based on (someone’s best guess of) when Jesus was born (making the generous assumption that he lived in the first place).
11. If I throw dirt up in the air, what are the odds that it will come down in the form of a living man?
Almost exactly 0%, y’know why? because when you throw dirt in the air, all you get is dirt in your eyes, but hey, in the spirit of science why don’t you try it a few hundred times while we all watch? won’t that be fun.
12. Can you see Electricity?
Yeah actually you can, ever seen lightning or a tesla coil?
13. Science changes, the book of Genesis is perfect
Yes, science does change, you’re right, when it discovers something that contradicts something it already knew or just something new entirely, it changes, that’s called learning. I find it amusing that you consider Genesis perfect, I’d like to know which of the two creation stories in Genesis is the true one?
14. The holy bible is the truth, because the bible says it’s the truth
Well that’s nice, it must be true if it says it in a book, enjoy your circular logic.
15. Evolution is a religion, Science leads to killing people
Oh no, we’re not going there, Evolution is a Scientific theory, science is a tool that people may occasionally use to kill each other, but then you could say that about a lot of tools. You know what’s been used to incite most of the conflicts that the products of science were used in? religion.
16. Scientists around the world are jointly involved in a conspiracy against God.
I was right earlier, you are high.
17. Bananas are perfectly designed for the human hand.
Yeah, we tailored them to be easier to grow and easier to eat, using a thing called selection. Coincidentally a natural version of that is a mechanism of evolution.
18. Millions of years for a monkey to turn into a man? Monkeys don’t live that long.
Yeah, high as a kite.
19. Why would a man have sex with a monkey?
I’ll counter this with a non-sequitur of my own; Why are religious people obsessed with sex?
20. Archaeologists want to remove the human remains first when they find a dinosaur so they can lie
Evolution can’t melt steel beams man.
21. If a monkey gave birth to a man, who would he or she mate with?
Please see question 2 and resume hitting yourself with your bible.
King Solomon’s Mines are not are not diamond mines as commonly believed, but a series of land annexations that King Solomon made by pointing around and declaring, “mine.”
...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Star Trek TNG 2x01 "Peak Performance"
Riker: "You're outmanned, you're outgunned, you're outequipped, what else have you got?"
Worf: "Guile"
The sleigh slewed around at the end of Money Trap Lane. COME ON, ALBERT. "You know you’re not supposed to do this sort of thing, master. You know what happened last time." THE HOGFATHER CAN DO IT, THOUGH. "But… little match girls dying in the snow is part of what the Hogswatch spirit is all about, master," said Albert desperately. "I mean, people hear about it and say, ‘We may be poorer than a disabled banana and only have mud and old boots to eat, but at least we’re better off than the poor little match girl,’ master. It makes them feel happy and grateful for what they’ve got, see." I KNOW WHAT THE SPIRIT OF HOGSWATCH IS, ALBERT. "Sorry, master. But, look, it’s all right, anyway, because she wakes up and it’s all bright and shining and tinkling music and there’s angels, master." Death stopped. AH. THEY TURN UP AT THE LAST MINUTE WITH WARM CLOTHES AND A HOT DRINK? "Er. No. Not exactly at the last minute, master. Not as such." WELL? "More sort of just after the last minute." Albert coughed nervously. YOU MEAN AFTER SHE’S— "Yes. That’s how the story goes, master, ‘s not my fault." WHY NOT TURN UP BEFORE? AN ANGEL HAS QUITE A LARGE CARRYING CAPACITY. "Couldn’t say, master. I suppose people think it’s more… satisfying the other way…" Albert hesitated and then growned. "You know, now that I come to tell someone…" Death looked down at the shape under the falling snow. Then he set the lifetimer on the air and touched it with a finger. A spark flashed across. "You ain’t really allowed to do that," said Albert, feeling wretched. THE HOGFATHER CAN. THE HOGFATHER GIVES PRESENTS. THERE’S NO BETTER PRESENT THAN A FUTURE. "Yeah, but—" ALBERT. "All right, master." Death scooped up the girl and strode to the end of the alley. The snowflakes fell like angel’s feathers. Death stepped out into the street and accosted two figures who were tramping through the drifts. TAKE HER SOMEWHERE WARM AND GIVE HER A GOOD DINNER, he commanded, pushing the bundle into the arms of one of them. AND I MAY WELL BE CHECKING UP LATER. Then he turned and disappeared in the swirling snow. Constable Visit looked down at the little girl in his arms, and then at Corporal Nobbs. "What’s all this about, corporal?" Nobby pulled aside the blanket. "Search me," he said. "Looks like we’ve been chosen to do a bit of charity." "I don’t call it very charitable, just dumping someone on people like this." "Come on, there’ll still be some grub left in the Watch House," said Nobby. He’d got a very deep and certain feeling that this was expected of him. He remembered a big man in a grotto, although he couldn’t quite remember the face. And he couldn’t quite remember the face of the person who had handed over the girl, so that meant it must be the same one. Shortly afterward there was some tinkling music and a very bright light and two rather affronted angels appeared at the other end of the alley, but Albert threw snowballs at them until they went away.
Hogfather, Sir! Terry Pratchett (via zombeesknees)
"Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?"
"It's... it's... IT'S ADORABLE"
"What? Adorable?"
Gods dammit Frank, you had ONE job.
We are gathered here today because SOMEBODY *glares at coffin* couldn’t stay alive.
Yeah I'm late to the Omegle party but this is far too fun to pass up...
"by the power vested in me by the state of Brorida, I now pronounce you bro and bro, you may fist bump"
Sam Burt... [gets down on one knee] [takes out can of Monster] will you be my bro?
I reach down and grab the can… Our fingers brush and I say…
"No homo."
I'm throwing all of my money at the screen but nothing is happening, halp pls.
Check out the announcement trailer for Civilization: Beyond Earth
Finally, a sci-fi/future themed Civ game! You know how in every Civ game, you’re blowing through time periods and then you get to “the future”, where all you have left is a few generic futuristic upgrades and then you’re researching “Future Tech” until someone wins? Not this game.
I asked 22 self-identifying creationists at the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate to write a message/question/note to the other side. Here's what they wrote.
I saw this article and I must admit, there was a lot of facepalm. After my initial facepalm session, I decided to redirect my despair and actually provide some answers.
Caveat: I make no claims of being any kind of expert, I just wanted to form my own ideas gleaned from a lot of miscellaneous reading into some kind of an answer that wasn't an incoherent stream of rage.
1. “Bill Nye, Are you influencing the minds of children in a positive way?”
I would argue yes, Bill Nye espouses an evidence based, critical thinking centric way of looking at the world, is this a good thing? I’d argue yes, teaching children to look at things critically rather than just believing the first thing they’re told sounds fantastic to me – okay you might not want your children to ask awkward questions, but man the fuck up, that’s what children are for.
2. “Are you scared of a divine creator?”
Being scared of something is an acknowledgement and admission of its existence, so I doubt it very much. Besides, have you actually read the bible lately? The God of the Old Testament isn’t exactly warm and fuzzy. The question I ask in return is this: are you more afraid that ‘he’ does exist, or that he doesn’t?
3. “Is it completely illogical that the earth was created mature? (I.e. trees created with rings, Adam created as an adult”
In a word: yes. In more words: that makes absolutely zero fucking sense and presents a serious cosmic mindfuck.
4. “Does not the second law of thermodynamics disprove Evolution?”
Citation: “The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases, because isolated systems spontaneously evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium”
Short answer: not really, no. more here: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/thermo/probability.html
5. “How do you explain sunset if there is no God?”
Well, the Earth revolves around that giant gaseous ball in the sky called the Sun, this is handy for us to see things by because the Sun produces light (as a by-product of a process of nuclear fusion and fission using hydrogen)
Due to certain other factors, the Earth also spins around a central axis (whilst revolving around the Sun too) meaning that only half of its surface points towards the big shiny thing in the sky at any given moment. This means that on the side that’s pointing away from the Sun it’s dark. On the edges between these zones you have either a sunrise (where that point of the earth is coming towards the Sun) or a sunset (where it’s moving away).
Ask a four year old’s question, get a four year old’s answer.
6. “If the Big Bang theory is true and taught as science along with evolution, why do the laws of Thermodynamics debunk said theories”
See 4. Additional childish answer: “Because you touch yourself at night.”
7. “What about Noetics?”
What the actual fuck do they have to do with anything?
8. “Where do you derive objective meaning in life?”
From its brevity. You get one chance. There is no ‘round 2’ there’s no take-backsies, you live for an amount of time and then you’re not there anymore, to me the only real meaning we can derive is to make the best of it, to try and leave this tiny lump of rock better for our fleeting presence.
9. “If God did not create everything, how did the first single-celled organism originate? By chance?”
There are thousands of possible hypotheses that can be (and are being) made on this subject, we may never actually know for sure – that’s one of the redeeming features of science, it doesn’t claim certainty until all the results are in (and often not even then.) What I’m driving at however, is that just because we don’t presently know for certain how the first cellular life arose, does not automatically default to “God did it!”
10. “I believe in the Big Bang Theory… God said it and BANG it happened”
While this is an admirable attempt at marrying up Evolution and creation, it is an entirely unscientific one, I reiterate from above, just because we don’t know exactly how or why something happened doesn’t automatically mean “God did it!”
11. “Why do Evolutionists/Secularists/non-God believing people reject the idea of there being a creator God but embrace the concept of intelligent design from aliens or other extra-terrestrial sources?”
Holy straw-man Batman! How about you ask these people this question? Perhaps you’ve just invented them for the purpose of this question or perhaps they believe in another religion (yes, those exist!)
12. “There is no inbetween… the only one found has been Lucy and there are only a few pieces of the hundreds necessary for an ‘official proof’”
Wow… just wow, there are thousands of transitional fossils, just literally thousands – go and ask any university biology department, they have drawers full of the fuckers. But I know that creationists love transitional fossils, as soon as you’ve found one; now you have two gaps to be smug about.
13. “Does metamorphosis help support Evolution?”
I don’t see why not, it’s an example of how animals change over time, how their forms are not fixed and how two animals of the same species will not necessarily develop the same way – sounds pretty good to me.
14. “If evolution is a theory (like creationism, or the bible) Why then is evolution taught as a fact?”
Because creationism is at best a hypothesis, in basic terms it’s what you have before you get any supporting evidence. Evolution is a theory, one step below absolute fact – it’s taught as such because until evidence that discredits it is brought forward, it is considered as such. Remember please that gravity is referred to as a theory, did you leave your house this morning from the ground level or the top floor?
Additionally: the bible is what we call ‘a book’, not a theory.
15. “Because science by definition is a “theory” – not testable, observable, nor repeatable. Why do you object to creationism or intelligent design being taught in school?”
What the actual fuck? ‘testable, observable and repeatable’ are exactly what science is. You throw a ball upwards, does it A) continue rising indefinitely? B) hover, ominously? or C) fall back to the ground, hopefully hitting you in the face? Congratulations, through a very basic bit of scientific reasoning you’ve just proved gravity and hopefully been hit in the face (saving me effort)
Why do people like myself object to creationism and ID being taught in schools? Because they are exactly opposite, they make zero scientifically provable claims, present zero evidence and are a waste of tax payers money.
16. “What mechanism has science discovered that evidences an increase of genetic information seen in any genetic mutation or evolutionary process?”
The answer was in your own question: ‘mutation’. See: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html
17. “What purpose do you think you are here for if you don’t believe in salvation?”
I wouldn’t say we have a purpose; we’re here to be here, what we make of it from that is up to us.
18. “Why have we only found 1 “Lucy” when we have found more than 1 of everything else?”
Because we haven’t? Multiple fossils of Lucy (Australopithecus) were found in the 70’s – Lucy is just the most famous of her kind.
19. “Can you believe in ‘the Big Bang’ without faith?”
Believe is the wrong word, science has no use for faith. The scientific method at its very core is based on doubt, it’s based on asking the questions and finding out where they lead, not taking a stab at the answer and having faith that you’ve found the right one.
20. “How can you look at the world and not believe someone created/thought of it? It’s Amazing!!!”
While I agree, it’s amazing, that doesn’t mean it has to have been intelligently designed/created. The existence a watch is in no way evidence of a watchmaker – upon further examination, you can provide a receipt to prove where the watch came from and then their records will show who made it. Just because that works for a watch doesn’t mean it works for a planet, do you have a receipt?
21. “Relating to the big bang theory… where did the exploding star come from”
Okay, so the big bang was not caused by an exploding star. We’re talking about all the matter in what is now the universe compressed into a point, things that are compressed get hot and all that energy has to go somewhere.
Where did it come from originally? I don’t know, but again, that doesn’t automatically mean “God did it!”
22. “If we came from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?”
We came from a common ancestor, that’s like saying “If me and my brother both came from the same parents, why do I still have parents?” the answer: you’re a fucktard.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Ouch, right in the feels
I can only apologise.
This guy just needed a hug forever. And ever. And ever.
TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!
Pokedex Entry: Charchamp, the Holy-Balls-I’m-Going-To-Die pokemon
This pokemon came straight out of hell. It is known to burn villages, decimate armies, and drown small children. The devil himself weeps when it sings its doomsong.
Dear people crying over the Red Wedding
Welcome to the fandom. Sincerely, People who’ve read the books already.
I must object to the use of 'Phobia' in this context. If you identify as trans/homo/whatever-phobic, you are not afraid - you are an asshole.
Five Ways to Spot Somebody Suffering from Transphobia
Lego Game of Thrones please!
Daily Discussion: What other movies or franchises would you like to see get the Lego game treatment?
There’s been several Lego Star Wars games, Lego Batman, Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Harry Potter and more. What movie, comic book or other franchise would you like to see as a Lego game?
