[Under Essay: Best New Conservative Words ]
New Term : uncertainty principle
Origin date : 1929
Comments : an underlying chaos (uncertainty) at the atomic level in the physical world after the Fall of man, which renders a perpetual motion machine and life beyond 120 years impossible
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All the uncertainty principle states, is that you can't know the position and the direction of a subatomic particle at the same time.
Oh, and Jeanne Calment lived to 122.
Tortoises have been known to live over 200 years.
To borrow a fundie phrase, if you are asserting that the Uncertainty Principle did not exist before the Fall, where you there? What measurements were taken at the time? What experiments conducted and repeated?
@rubber chicken
The fundie worldview is largely about rejecting "modernism," which involves pretty much all social, cultural and intellectual developments since the mid-1920s. Hence 1929 is "new."
Oh please, PLEASE try to tackle quantum theory. Knowing it well enough to know that nobody really understands it, I'd LOVE to see someone who doesn't even understand what the Uncertainty Principle is give his take on one of the most difficult branches of science.
"uncertainty principle"
So, along with a satnav - which you don't have in your car, nor does the liberal US Armed Forces (in their M1 Abrams, Humvees, Strikers etc; also their enemy of the US-destroying Precision Guided Munitions ), because of Relativity , you no longer trust the meteorological organisation(s) in the US - least of all outside your precious country, who share their data with everyone else (Which is Communistic , natch!) - even with the savage Chaos Theory mathematics involved in analysing said data, that even the most powerful supercomputers can barely handle?
Yet, your precious 'God' promised that he would never allow floods to happen again. There's a lot of people here in the UK who would like a word with you - and your 'God' - concerning said 'Promise': in the south & south-west of my country. The mainly Conservative parts of the UK.
As a Frenchman I have to mention Jeanne Calment, even if Mudak beat me to it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it turned out that Andy thinks that she doesn't count, since as a French woman she'd be pretty much automatically too liberal for his tastes...
@aebars
HOW DOES THIS GUY COME UP WITH THIS STUFF?!?!
Brain damage and/or drugs (or lack of the appropriate ones, e.g. antipsychotics), I suspect. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Phyllis had fed baby Andy paint chips in an effort to build the perfect little conservative...
Turritopsis dohrnii, your argument is invalid.
Many species of sponge and coral can live for hundreds and sometimes thousands of years.
Then there's Hanako, who was a 230 year old koi fish that died in 1977.
This doesn't even bring up the tortoises that can live for 200 years or more, or the fact that the oldest person to ever live was 122 at the time of her death.
Thomas Parr (1483 (reputedly) 14 November 1635) was an Englishman who was said to have lived for 152 years. He is often referred to simply as Old Parr or Old Tom Parr.
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I love the story.
uncertainty principle
Andy's writing about the uncertainty principle, but I bet he's never heard the name Heisenberg.
He probably also thinks a "two slit" experiment is something dirty.
In a way the uncertainty principle applies to Andy's conservative Bible project, inasmuch as the process distorts the results.
In the Bible, all of the patriarchs from Adam through Jacob (Adam's 20-times great-grandson) lived to be over 120. In fact, all but the last three (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) lived to be over 200. Adam himself lived to be 930 (Gen. 5:5). So even the Bible says Andy's full of it.
I'm pretty sure life beyond 120 years wasn't rendered impossible until right before the flood (Genesis 6:3).
By the way, the author of Genesis was probably rounding to the nearest multiple of ten, but the oldest human, Jeanne Calment, lived to one hundred and twenty-two.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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