I actually have a uncle who is really smart and has 2 PhDs, he also believes in the Big Bang Theory. If you want to know the truth before Darwin died he claimed that all his theories were not true, and he accepted Christ right before he died. I followed my uncle around for three days trying to get him to talk about it and Christianity-he still isn't a Christian to this day but he's been rattled and not by me. I told him that pigs would fly if the theory of evolution was real. I asked what would make him believe in God and he said when pigs would fly. I prayed right there that a pig would fly out of the sky but nothing happened. I still prayed for him and that night his youngest daughter that was 3 years old ran into his bedroom crying for him saying that she saw pigs flying-no one had been around when my uncle made that statement so she wouldn't have known about it. God had answered my prayer but my uncle is still not a Christian and I can't force him into anything. The more you push the more hard headed some people get, but just keep praying and bring it up to the person everyone once in a while.
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I actually have a uncle who is really smart and has 2 PhDs, he also believes in the Big Bang Theory.
Well that's good to hear.
If you want to know the truth before Darwin died he claimed that all his theories were not true, and he accepted Christ right before he died.
No that's not the truth. In fact the exact opposite is true, Darwin never recanted his ideas on his deathbed. His brother who was there can claim it and if you want I can show you a link to the letter. In terms of evidence, I win.
I followed my uncle around for three days trying to get him to talk about it and Christianity-he still isn't a Christian to this day but he's been rattled and not by me.
Geez. Is this how you live your life? Bugging your relatives who obviously have a better understanding of the Universe then you do until they accept some archaic belief system.
I told him that pigs would fly if the theory of evolution was real.
I think it's really stupid how fundies make up these sort of imaginary animals and claim that they would exist if evolution did. And I guess that's kind of true, evolution is a pathway to an infinite amount of lifeforms, but again this is a pretty stupid arguement. I mean if God exists he could create flying pigs right now just to prove to athiests he exists. But he dosn't.
I asked what would make him believe in God and he said when pigs would fly. I prayed right there that a pig would fly out of the sky but nothing happened.
Like I said.
I still prayed for him and that night his youngest daughter that was 3 years old ran into his bedroom crying for him saying that she saw pigs flying-no one had been around when my uncle made that statement so she wouldn't have known about it.
Little kids have vivid dreams and large imaginations. There are tons of logical explanations for what she saw and lastly a three eye does not make a reliable eye witness.
God had answered my prayer but my uncle is still not a Christian and I can't force him into anything.
No, your prayers where for God to send flying pigs to your uncle, not your cousin. Clearly God messed up somewhere.
The more you push the more hard headed some people get, but just keep praying and bring it up to the person everyone once in a while.
Oh well, you could always go and waste your money at the Creation Musuem.
"Darwin died he claimed that all his theories were not true, and he accepted Christ right before he died."
No he didn't. This tactic is truly pathetic. You can't refute his ideas, so you make up phony stories that he "took them back," relieving yourself of the impossible burden of disproving them. Sad. Really, really sad.
"The more you push the more hard headed some people get, but just keep praying and bring it up to the person everyone once in a while. "
In other words, keep harassing them until they become so weary of your bullshit that they tell you to "FUCK OFF". Then you can take the moral high ground and claim they are persecuting you because they "fear the truth."
Shortly after Darwin death .A fundie douches bag name Lady Hope tried to spread this lie that Darwin recanted his whole life work and found Jesus on his deathbed .
His daughter upon hearing about this lie that this fundie bitch was spreading / Darwin daughter posted the following letter in response to Lady Hope lies and actuations.
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My father never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. I am upset that the U.S. Christians have fabricated this conversion nonsense. The whole story has no foundation whatever.” February 23, 1922.\
I bet you don't even know what PhD stand for and you don't even have a uncle that has doctrine any sciences do your just liar and bible thumping moron .
And pig do fly I saw them fly when I was at a Pink Floyd concert .
He leaves out the part where he told his little cousin about his conversation with her father and they formulated this little plan. Exactly what we can expect from a fundie, lying, deceit, conspiracy.
I told him that pigs would fly if the theory of evolution was real.
If intelligent design was real, you wouldn't exist.
"his youngest daughter that was 3 years old ran into his bedroom crying for him saying that she saw pigs flying"
You were supposed to convert the uncle, not the daughter. This is more proof in the "god has bad aim" theory.
Flying pigs? You obviously have your Bible confused with Lewis Carroll. "The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things, of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and WHETHER PIGS HAVE WINGS"!PS Sounds like you would be better served by shutting up and listening to your uncle, you might learn something. Or listen to Pink Floyd, Budd T's right, that definitely might teach you something.
If you want to know the truth before Darwin died he claimed that all his theories were not true, and he accepted Christ right before he died.
Even if this were true, which it's not, so what? Scientists no more look to Darwin for the modern ToE than they do to the Wright Brothers for modern airplane design.
I think that, if your uncle exists, it sticks out a mile why he's such an brilliant man, and you're a total looney who believes in Urban Legends(that story of Darwin rejecting his very theory has been debunked long ago)
Even if 300 pigs flew, your uncle wouldn't have believed it. That his 3 years old toddler told him so, doesn't mean that it has to be true that pigs fly. Dreams are weird and don't prove that God has answered your prayers. You're being a little arrogant and willingly ignorant.
You said, and I quote, "I told him that pigs would fly if the theory of evolution were real."
So if you and your "uncle" are to keep your word, you should both be theistic evolutionists right now.
I so cannot resist:
If you didn't care what happened to me,
And I didn't care for you,
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain.
Wondering which of the buggars to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing.
This site is starting to seem more and more repetitive to me. All the fundies say all the same stupid things, and it does seem like there's less and less of anything that can surprise me.
Especially the three year old girl bit... there go the religious acting as if the very young are morally and intellectually the equal of adults... or was the recent collapse of all those day care abuse cases in the 80s not a factor of trying to take kids more literally than they should be?
"I actually have a uncle who is really smart and has 2 PhDs, he also believes in the Big Bang Theory." Then why don't you at least hear him out instead of assuming that you have the Truth-with-a-capital-T and need to educate him?
"I told him that pigs would fly if the theory of evolution was real." No, but if fundamentalism were true, donkeys would talk, and insects would have four legs.
Just an aside, I'm pretty sure it's "sealing wax" and not 'ceiling wax', as 'ceiling wax' makes zero sense.
Then again, it is Lewis Carroll..
I know for a fact that pigs can fly.
All it requires to test this is a catapult.
WarriorOfGod's still lying for Jesus, though. Or crazy. Or both.
That entire thing of "Even Darwin said that the evolutions were wrong on his deathbead LOL. He didn't want to go to hell" infuriates me. Firstly, it's not true.
Secondly, if it is true, so what? A scared, dying old man who is afraid about whats going to happen to him may not be the best source for scientific facts. It's like saying "Newton, on his deathbed, said that his theories about gravitation were completely false, and that what keeps us on the ground are angels sitting on our shoulders." Unbelievable.
Conclusion from WarriorOfGod's claim:
He stalked his uncle for three days, that man then talked about this and the ridiculous "flying pigs" argument with his wife, their child overheard this and had a nightmare.
Not to mention advertisements on TV with flying pigs, the status of "when pigs fly" as a cliche, et cetera . When you get down to it, a child having a dream about a flying pig is about as substantial an argument as my roomie's six-year-old daughter having a nightmare about an evil face in a wall because she disobeyed instructions to stay out of my personal stuff and saw the front cover of Silent Hill 4.
"Daddy, daddy, why is cousin keep bothering you?"
"Well, kiddo, he's got some silly ideas, and won't be happy until pigs fly"
"Oh, ok."
Anyone else out there wonder if Darwin "recanted" to appease his idiot religious relatives, make them happy?
Rather than taking the entire post apart, I'll simply take one point.
The Lady Hope story cannot be verified, and Charles Darwin's family categorically denied it.
Google is your friend.
Sooo... Neither creationism or evolution is real? Or are both real? Since you, Warrior, said evolution was real when pigs could fly, and your uncle said creationism was real when pigs could fly? Hm?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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