you put an acorn in the ground. it grows into a mighty oak. there is no dirt missing except the part where the roots are located. where did all the mass that makes up the mighty tree come from. for the human body to exist we must consume 1000's of time our body weight to get and maintain our body. yet with the mighty oak nothing else is missing. where did the oak tree come from. dirt isn't what the oak tree is built with or there would be a great big hole. if it is the sun and rain the all of the mass comes from then why don't we grow when we stand in the sun and rain. the mighty oak come from thin air. it can only be created by god
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Is this a joke or are you really that fucking stupid?
Try google, I don't have the time or he crayons to explain it to you.
This is easy, lay off you guys.
There's four angels, one at each corner of the Earth.
Bam! Mutha' Fuckin' Oak Trees Out Of Thin Air.
Actually, most of the mass in a tree comes from the carbon in carbon dioxide. It's a rather basic fact that I learnt way back when in primary school. So yes, in a way, 'the mighty oak come from thin air'. The reason that we don't grow when we stand in carbon dioxide is that we don't photosynthesise, due to us not being plants and all.
This is very early biology stuff. Apparently, the good doctor didn't pay much attention in school.
Here comes PhotosynthesisDenierMan!
This is truly gorgeous Poe, exactly what Poe should be - Grade A satire with that lingering doubt about its Poe status. You know, when you're 95% sure its Poe, but you know someone stupid enough to say this and actually mean it. Perfect.
Plants take in carbon dioxide from the air and put out oxygen. Where do you think that carbon is going? (Hint: Plants are mostly made of carbon.)
why don't we grow when we stand in the sun and rain.
As Mister Spak already so rightly said:
because we are not plants?
Does not know how plants, photosynthesis, the human digestive system, or even crapping works.
Wow. Does not know how CRAP works. Think about that, he doesn't realize that people crap. He must be positively full of it after holding it in for his entire life.
Last I checked, living beings on Earth are made of carbon, water, and nitrogen. The water comes from rain (and your hose) and Nitrogen is one of the nutrients found in the ground. Now, where does the carbon come from? Well, some of it comes from the soil but it's not nearly enough. Thankfully, plants are surrounded by CARBON dioxide in the air that they can use to produce sugars using photosynthesis. And thankfully plants do it that way because they get rid of the oxygen and we can then breathe it.
Plant an acorn in a pot, and you'll see that you have to add a bit of soil every year or so; the plant eats the nutrients in the soil.
Humans aren't built with carrots, rice, chicken and apples, either, dumbass.image
Let's deprive you of sunlight and water, and see how you fail to grow.
The mighty oak comes from energy, just as we do. We eat carrots, the oak "eats" compost made of carrots.
If there were a god, he wouldn't create anything as stupid as you.
it can only be created by god
Or by dividing cells being nourished through nutrients taken from the ground and created through photosynthesis. You know, elementary school science stuff.
This is just as bad as "tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it."
@Snide
Yeah, I've actually had this argument used on me in complete seriousness.
"if it is the sun and rain the all of the mass comes from then why don't we grow when we stand in the sun"
Vitamin D.
'Vitamin D refers to a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for enhancing intestinal absorption of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate and zinc. In humans, the most important compounds in this group are vitamin D3 (also known as cholecalciferol) and vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol). Cholecalciferol and ergocalciferol can be ingested from the diet and from supplements. The body can also synthesize vitamin D (specifically cholecalciferol) in the skin, from cholesterol, when sun exposure is adequate (hence its nickname, the "sunshine vitamin"). '
Where'd you get your 'Ph.D', Doc: From the back of a cornflakes packet?! [/Doug Piranha-levels of sarcasm]
@Jonathon
How is tree formed?! X3
@Thinking Allowed
Fluttershy would say otherwise. /)^3^(\ X3
> where did all the mass that makes up the mighty tree come from.
Air. The carbon in carbon dioxide, to be exact.
How is babby made?
This guy spells pretty well considering how stupid the claim is. Grammar sucks, of course, no caps.
Trees are 60% to 90% water, taken from acquifers constantly replenished by the water cycle. Their remaining mass is principally carbon acquired by respiration from the atmosphere (and again constantly replenished. Only trace nutrients are taken from the soils they're grown in--certainly not in usfficient volume to create an appearance of 'missing dirt'.
We don't grow when we stand in the sun and rain for teh simple reson we're not plants.
Next question?
Oh, so stupid...4th-grade science fail...either for real, even outdoing the TV psychologist of the same name, or an extremely clever Poe. Can't make up my mind which one...
Well, he's not wrong. Most of it DOES come from thin air.
And then he is wrong, by assuming that people are trees, or something. Shame. Trees are pretty neat and if he'd just stuck with that central point he'd have been okay.
"you put an acorn in the ground. it grows into a mighty oak"
The far smaller seed of an infinitely mightier Giant Sequoia:
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It needs forest fires, as part of it's reproductive cycle.
"yet with the mighty oak nothing else is missing"
PROTIP: With man's intervention, re. stopping forest fires, Giant Sequoia numbers drastically dropped , humans' anti-immolation measures were so effective. Thus something - Fire - was missing from these trees infinitely more mighty than any Oak, therefore man had to allow what was missing: Fire. Ergo you, your argument, and your 'God' no longer required. One word: Hydroponics.
How to recognise Annihilated Arguments from quite a long way away.
No. 1, The Larch...:
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The... [i]Larch[/i]. [/"Monty Python"] X3
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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