No. I have no reason to believe gravity as we know it existed. The forces and balance of forces may have been quite different. Ever wonder how they built the early pyramids?
No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???
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I can't... I don't know what to...
What the fuck.
Can christians be any more stupid? Are they actually proud of their ignorance?
I am so ashamed of my country for allowing this horseshit to endure.
Kepler's Laws, which accurately describe the motion of the moon, the apparent motion of the sun and the procession of the seasons - all of which are mentioned before Noah - can be accurately derived from the Law of Gravity. What better explanation would you offer for them?
Percy Q. Shunn wrote:
"I can't... I don't know what to..."
"What the fuck."
Smoke a joint and settle down.
"Can christians be any more stupid?"
I'm not sure. They keep outdoing themselves every day.
"Are they actually proud of their ignorance?"
I'd have to say 'yes'. No doubt about it.
"I am so ashamed of my country for allowing this horseshit to endure."
Meet yer neighbor! :D :D :D
I'm afraid this isn't as bizarre as we'd like to think. This is just an extreme form of one of the most common failings of logic we see in people who haven't been taught, or managed to teach themselves, critical thinking - which is a whole hell of a lot of people. They lack understanding of the basic concepts of "burden of proof" and "Occam's razor."
Honestly, before I'd read explicit explanations of these two concepts, I would have had trouble explaining exactly why dad's reasoning is wrong, although I would have recognized that it was faulty somehow. (And I learned that stuff from my own reading, not because any science or philosophy or other class had taught them to me... our schools are lousy at this stuff, if they even try at all, which is rarely.)
Oh, and with regards to this...
"Can christians be any more stupid? Are they actually proud of their ignorance?"
Come on, you know perfectly well there are plenty of Christians smarter than this, and plenty of non-Christians with little grasp of critical/logical thinking. Sure, there's a disproportionate amount of this silliness in the thinking of certain varieties of Christians, but let's not act like fundies and run around painting with mile-wide brushes.
@Wehpudicabok
The episode deals with Peter and Lois going on a second honeymoon trip and eventually getting the film for Passion of the Christ 2, which Peter is determined to destroy.
The quote refers to Mel Gibson walking off the edge of Mount Rushmore.
As for the quote, I can only say that I wish this sort of attitude from a fundie surprised me. Really hoping this one is a poe.
That doesn't even...he just....what.
And later in the forum, someone asked him if rain falling was proof of gravity: "No. The earth was atwered from below. Further proof it had to be very different." I just couldn't read past that.
If this is a Poe, he's hilarious. If he isn't, on the other hand...
Is that the same "Dad" whose inane comments were always good for LULZ back in the earlier days of FSTDT. Glad to see you're still as fucking nuts as ever, Dad.
Please - for the love of all that is human - please, please, PLEASE tell me you can't be this staggeringly, monumentally, heartbreakingly STUPID
This feels like a poe. Even hardcore fundies tend to believe in gravity since it's a force that's more than proven itself time and time again every day of our lives.
Luckily the vast majority of Christians aren't this stupid (since the majority of the US is Christian, if they were all this stupid then the US wouldn't be a world power).
Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that modern, "grocery store" bananas prove the existence of God.
But, seriously, no one thinks like this . . .
It's quite obvious that gravity exists because it pulled your cranium to the ground when your mom accidentally released you from her grip as a baby.
Subtitle for stupid people--Your mom dropped you on your head as a baby--
No. I have no reason to believe gravity as we know it existed. The forces and balance of forces may have been quite different. Ever wonder how they built the early pyramids?
... Slave labour disproves gravity?
No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???
You can check out the existence of gravity for yourself: simply find the tallest building you can and jump off its summit.
Actually, in the last few years there has been a very workable solution to the pyramids. I know because I did wonder and tend to read up on stuff like that. You might try doing the same.
Any who, if the forces could change willy nilly, wouldn't there be evidence? If not, what can we base these supposed changes on?
There is evidence that gravity, as we know it, hasn't changed much for several billion years.
15,321 posts - looks like the same old dad once more to entertain us.
'You have no way of knowing, and certainly not by science that gravity affected all equally, in the days of Noah, as it does now. Be objective, and honest.'
Rimmer: "...like the pyramids. How did they move such massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology?"
Lister: "They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips."
I suppose, since you're from a completely different universe, gravity may actually not exist there at all. However here, it certainly does exist. You need nothing more than any object to prove it.
Gravity exists.
The evidence for gravity is this; An object tossed up, will return to the ground
Oh, dear... We must get rid of this man and anything/anybody related to it. If he IS in fact dad, that means that this man has procreated, and we just can't have that.
ERASE dad's PROGENY - 2010!!
This is mother fucking GRAVITY we're talking about here, dad. It's no "theory". I can demonstrate easily. Stand at the top of your mobile homes stairs. Close your eyes and jump out. You feel those? Those are stairs! The ever-loving force of gravity is introducing your ribs into each and every one of them. And now that you've reached the bottom, my experiment is concluded! Thank you for your participation!!
Now limp your ass over to the fridge and gitcha a ice pack!
Then what is it that makes things stay on the ground? Intelligent Falling?
Actually, don't answer that...
I think I agree with dad. Every 24 hours about 5000 lbs. of space dust falls to Earth; that increases the total amount of gravity.
I wonder if any creationists will pick up on this.
"No. I have no reason to believe gravity as we know it existed. The forces and balance of forces may have been quite different. Ever wonder how they built the early pyramids?"
How the pyramids were built:
http://www.touregypt.net/construction/
"No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???"
List! What is yon sound in the distance? Why, it's the sound of bones rattling against wood as Sir Isaac Newton's remains revolve at high speed in his grave.
He was a Christian too.
No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???
Because if gravity didn't exist in the same manner that exists now (or at all, as you seem to imply), you suddenly have more problems to explain:
1) How did solid objects remain on the ground, without flying off into space.
"No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???"
If gravity didn't exist, neither would the words 'up' and 'down'.
Perhaps it's just the word that dad objects to. 'Gravity', however, is easier to say than 'a local curvature in space-time'.
Levity is the opposite of gravity. Perhaps dad is attempting to be funneh.
"No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed"
Indeed. As the old graffiti says, 'Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks'.
/sarcasm
@Sagan's Ghost
"So tell us dad, just exactly how does your family tree not branch."
In dad's case, it loops in on itself, like Ouroboros. Just sayin'.
(*Walks away, whistling "I'm My Own Grandpa" *)
"No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???"
Isn't you not floating in space proof enough?
"No. I have no reason to believe gravity as we know it existed."
Every Astronaut, Cosmonaut and Taikonaut would like a word with you, dad.
"No evidence exists for gravity as we know it, to have existed, why would I need to disprove it???"
1- Go to Chicago.
>:D
Albert Einstein once said:
"There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Yeah, I'm seeing that here.
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