Cancer and other ailment is a result of the body being once good, and now in a state of constant decay. Second law of thermodynamics.
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...wut?
Is this even supposed to make sense? Or is this guy so unbelievably stupid he's just throwing random words together in the hope that it makes sense?
Edit: I read parts of that thread. This guy is incredibly obstinate, dense, ignorant and an all around jackass. So in other words, a stereotypical fundie.
And like usual with fundies, he doesn't even try to argue properly. Instead resorting to repeating himself, saying non sequitors, making up crap on the spot and threatening people with hell.
Honestly, they should stop argueing with him. It's a waste of good electricity.
Giving off heat gives us cancer? Shit, if only we knew that earlier we'd be able to cure cancer by moving everyone to Ecuador. That's what you meant, right? I mean, someone as smart as you probably already knows that thermodynamics deals with the movement of heat (as the name implies) and wouldn't just toss around the name of an established and well-defined law of science without knowing what it actually deals with, right?
And yet, HeLa lives on, potentially forever, proving once and for all, that Adam and Eve were, in fact, tumours, and only the Fall turned them into recognizable humans.
That's funny, always thought cancer was abnormal cells that are growing out of control.
Oh, well. What do I know?
If I were incredibly generous, I might interpret this as His_Mingency trying to say that ongoing DNA replication in our cells inevitably leads to a build up of replication errors, causing unregulated, malignant cell division.
Of course the link between replication errors and malignancy was noted as far back as 1974 (Loeb et al, Cancer Research, vol. 34 pp. 2311-2321), but the vast majority of cancers are caused by damage to the genome by external agents (UV, for example), which can overwhelm or disable the cell's repair and response mechanisms. Cells have multiple mechanisms for handling disruption to their chromosomes, and in extreme circumstances will either shut down or self-destruct. Cancer is the outlier - the vast, vast majority of disruptions to DNA are either repaired, neutralized, or of no significant effect.
But however charitable I am about HM's intent, this clearly has absolutely nothing to do with the 2LOT, so he's still just as wrong.
This is one of those rare occasions when I looked at the original page. In response to this statement: "This god is alleged to be omnipresent -- yet you cannot find hide nor hair of him.", we get this gem of an answer from His_Moronjesty: "Um...of course you can't hide from something/someone that is omnipresent." Since goomy seems to be in charge of what this nitwit fails at, I would like to suggest we add "reading comprehension" to the list. Goomy... is that cool?
@ZB
*spits out water* Goomy damn it, the stupidity of his reply made me spit out the water I was drinking!
But yes, I give my seal of approval. Even if I have a computer monitor I have to clean up first.
What you can't seem to stop, in terms of entropy (the operating change between the two Laws of Thermodynamics) is how a fundamentalist brain simply REFUSES the extra energy/information.
I've tried to explain to a couple with the scenario of being born and growing. They accept you become bigger and more self reliant as you grow due to food intake, they'll accept that around ten you can possibly (in areas where supplies exist and skills have been learned) can continue to not just grow but thrive, grow bigger and stronger and reproduce.
But EVERYTHING falls to ever increasing loss.
I really don't know how we can get past this explaining simple scientific principles (the Sun matters) when their pastor just has to say, "nope, doesn't count."
You are in a countdown to death the day you're born but it's certainly not a waste away progressively state, it's only a time frame of losing a day every day, or as the rest of us see it: Living.
They can't even get that because it destroys their "constant decay" mindset that they need to misrepresent the Thermodynamic/ Entropy Laws.
Talking to a wall's more productive.
His thought process can be summed up with one word: Crimestop.
Perfectly executed, any unorthodox concept becomes automatically incomprehensible, no matter how simply it is explained. In layman's terms, the heretical is literally unthinkable.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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