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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I really do not see what is wrong with this. Disneyland is also a magical kingdom of fantasy and gift shops.

Unfortunately, Disneyland is entertainment for children. This park is "education" for adults and children.

No it's not.

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Originally posted by Lira It's just like the Onion But if it fulfils all the necessary criteria to receive the funding, I don't see why not. For all I care, they should also subsidise the construction of a Buddhist themed-park, a Muslim recreational centre and a Hindu shopping mall in the same city if that helps boost the economy.

I'd hate to bring in the "You're the weirdest atheist I've ever met" response again, but WTF Marcus?

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The biblical unicorn was a real animal, not an imaginary creature.

sure... except it was a fuckin' cow!... okay Aurochos really...



Hebrews say Re'em, Greeks don't understand the word but think the description is a lot like the traditional depiction of an Aurochos; call it a monokeros (one horn); stupid 17 century English guy assumes this means the medieval mythological unicorn uses "unicorn," 400 years later some in-bred creationist puts a horse with a horn on the ark and stands steadfast that...

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To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God�s Word, which is true in every detail

*insert Jesus facepalm pic here*

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On No it's not.

I could only wish that it was satire.

It can totally be satire. I actually want to go.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN that is better than state-funded woo poisoning young brains, absolutely. indeed seeing them irritated brings me joy.

If you're gullible enough to let your brain be poisoned by that without state-funding, do you really reckon a theme-park is going to change all that? If anything, it should be a blessing (lol, pun intended!) for all of us because those nutters will all be in one place far from anything remotely sane.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN yes, what i learned was that if you provide a suitable forum where woo can be created and disseminated, you get more woo.

All right, when was the last time you saw someone who wasn't already a nutjob convert to woo?

Can you really see Moral Hazard - who is already a Christian - waking up one day and say "Hey, those guys are totally right, the Bible is literally true!"? Me neither.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN the fact you would defend tax dollars being spent on something like this just makes me refer to my 2011 predictions

Insofar as the legal system of the United States sees nothing illegal there, then I don't see why we should even care: it's not even our tax money, we don't live there!

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Originally posted by Moongoose Oh they are going to claim that anyway. Its what they do. If there were only christians left in he world save for a single person who doesnt belive in that prick jc and hides in a came somewhere to avoid the death squads (the reason why there are only christians left in the world) they would claim that they are being persecuted by him.

Actually, I believe they'd become the persecutors then... and that's when it's time for me to annoy the hell out of them

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Originally posted by Moongoose Oh i think every living physicist, biologist, chemist...fuck it, every living scientist knows how frustrating it is to painstakingly study something and then have some asshole with a bible claim that his work is wrong because god said so...and then have other stupid people believe him and not the scientists because...well, god said so! This frustration is all to well know to anyone who has ever had to deal with religious people.

I just wanted to show PKC that they really get on my hippied-out tits, but I'd rather know they're free to be wrong and have the same rights we do (and, if the legal system is giving them an unfair advantage, we should totally revoke the privileges) than know they're silent because we don't let them speak and never have the opportunity to tell them how wrong they are.

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Originally posted by woscar I'd hate to bring in the "You're the weirdest atheist I've ever met" response again, but WTF Marcus?

If it's legal, and they're not out to hurt anyone, then why the hell not? If they start making bonfires with gay people, then I'll be the first to buy a plane ticket to Kentucky and Jake the hell out of their Bensons until they learn they need to deal with the existence of people they don't like.

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Originally posted by Lira If you're gullible enough to let your brain be poisoned by that without state-funding, do you really reckon a theme-park is going to change all that? If anything, it should be a blessing (lol, pun intended!) for all of us because those nutters will all be in one place far from anything remotely sane.

its the principle of spending tax dollars on it. if people wanna create their own bastion of stupidity from their own coffers, then that's their choice.

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Originally posted by Lira All right, when was the last time you saw someone who wasn't already a nutjob convert to woo?

well logically it follows tht every single one of them was at one stage a non-believer in woo.

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Originally posted by Lira Can you really see Moral Hazard - who is already a Christian - waking up one day and say "Hey, those guys are totally right, the Bible is literally true!"? Me neither.

unfortunately for the world at large, most christians are not like craig. i dont see how you can defend the state pushing creationism onto its people.

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Originally posted by Lira If it's legal, and they're not out to hurt anyone, then why the hell not?

if you can't see how propogating anti-science bollocks ends up hurting people, then i really have nothing else to say.

It's the lack of separation of state and church that's the biggest problem.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN its the principle of spending tax dollars on it. if people wanna create their own bastion of stupidity from their own coffers, then that's their choice.

Precisely. If the American legal system, which exists to serve the American people, doesn't see a problem, then let them be.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN well logically it follows tht every single one of them was at one stage a non-believer in woo.

But I find it hard to believe that they were not already raised as wooddites most of the time. Here, let me give you an example.

All the females in my family (weird division, I know) and a good friend whose relationship with me has become strained recently all subscribe to something I consider to be the most threatening woo in Brazil: Kardecism. It's an endemic woo in Brazilian culture and, unlike Creationism in the US, and it's got even a couple of recent blockbusters as you can see in the Wikipedia article. Let's check their backgrounds:

• Granny Lira: Claims to be a medium, but lost her powers after some incident in the 80's.
  
• Younger Lirettes: Were raised under the spell of the matriarch. The men for some reason all rebelled against it.
  
• Lira's friend: Studied in a (private) Creationist school. Need I say more?

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Originally posted by Lira Precisely. If the American legal system, which exists to serve the American people, doesn't see a problem, then let them be.

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Originally posted by Lira It hurts the proponents themselves. But, for all I care, if they want to take swimming lessons in a pool with acid, I'm not going to stop them. But, does the existence of this theme-park hurt anyone that isn't already a creationist?

of course it hurts other people. it undermines the credibility of science. one day its scientists being wrong by a factor of a billion regarding the age of the universe, and the next day its scientists being wrong about vaccines, global warming, AIDS etc. its a cesspool that spreads woo all over the place. it indoctrinates children who probably already had an uphill battle to get out of the cesspool. it forms part of the overall political climate where people think its ok for christianity to be a/the foundation of the public sphere (the more extreme US states have all but banned abortion for instance).

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/view/

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Originally posted by Lira The way I see it, and the way I think the legislators apparently see it as well, this would be a problem if the church was interfering with the law. However, the problem here is much much more subtle than that.

because legislators in kentucky wouldn't be theistic cretins at all, right?

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On WWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhaaaattttttt

I pretty much expect the legal system to keep social cohesion as the governed society sees fit. If that's really the case, however, that's a whole different story: mind you, I said it exists for that reason, not that it does what's expected from it

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN of course it hurts other people. it undermines the credibility of science. one day its scientists being wrong by a factor of a billion regarding the age of the universe, and the next day its scientists being wrong about vaccines, global warming, AIDS etc. its a cesspool that spreads woo all over the place. it indoctrinates children who probably already had an uphill battle to get out of the cesspool. it forms part of the overall political climate where people think its ok for christianity to be a/the foundation of the public sphere (the more extreme US states have all but banned abortion for instance). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/view/

You know what? That's actually a good point, and I don't have anything to counter it right now except for my Millian liberalism that says we shouldn't suppress ideas that may be useful in the future even if it's just to show us why we're right. I'm going to ponder about this for a while because I did already have to deal with this issue tonight (but off-line).

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN because legislators in kentucky wouldn't be theistic cretins at all, right?

I never expected them to be enlightened individuals: The place is known for its chicken, not for its geniuses

(No offence, Jori and Nick, I guess you know what I mean).

In retribution for your criticism,
here's something I think you'll like:



Click to enbiggen

• Religion -> Philosophy: I know you've got nothing but disdain for philosophy, but science wasn't created in a vacuum, and we've got to thank philosophers for that. And, the point is, when a systematised analytic philosophy appeared in Ancient Greece, an overconfidence in the local religion led to the suppression of the best intellectual tool they had (namely, philosophy) and Socrates was executed. Later, religion once again hampered the efforts of philosophers by suppressing Aristotle's body of work until some sort of syncretism emerged in the Middle Ages, making the otherwise pagan philosophy more Jesus-friendly. Here we learned that relying on religion too much was an awful idea. Those who knew they were right turned out to be horribly wrong.
  
  
• Philosophy -> Science: Philosophy helped develop science, but it didn't do so without giving the poor natural philosophers some headache. When Galileo made his discoveries, the Church wasn't the only institution that gave him trouble. Francesco Sizzi, a Florentine astronomer, showed some of the arguments (now considered stupendously stupid) against his discoveries of moons in other planets: "There are seven windows in the head - two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth; so in the heavens there are two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist". As you can see, he was placing reason before empirical evidence (something philosopher often do) reason why Gali whined to Kepler saying that "the professor of philosophy at Pisa labor[ed] before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky". Even in Einstein's day, philosophers would often complain because Brt's system didn't fit their worldviews and was therefore wrong. Once again, those who knew they were right turned out to be horribly wrong.
  
  
• Science -> ???: Mind you, it need not be something other than science, but the established belief against a novel revolution. What is to keep us from making the very same mistake theologians and philosophers have made in the past?

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Originally posted by Lira If anything, it should be a blessing (lol, pun intended!) for all of us because those nutters will all be in one place far from anything remotely sane.

You mean like this guy getting to a place "far from anything remotely sane"?

"Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about," he said, according to an official transcript of the session. Bush added: "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...5080201686.html

Stupid Lira & his posts giving me boners.

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Originally posted by Moongoose It's spelled criticise.

war of the worlds lol

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin You mean like this guy getting to a place "far from anything remotely sane"?

What?

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Originally posted by Lira Click to enbiggen All right, PKC, here's what vexes me about a possible over-reliance in science and why I don't feel comfortable with suppressing ideas just "because we're right".

yeah we've had this discussion before and i still feel you are complete bonkers if you think we should tolerate (even fund!) stuff like creationist museums for the infinitesimally small chance it would ever actually have something to offer. not when we can look at the various negative impacts it or other woo has right now.

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Originally posted by Lira [*]Religion -> Philosophy: I know you've got nothing but disdain for philosophy, but science wasn't created in a vacuum, and we've got to thank philosophers for that.

yeah, i probably overstate it because its the internet. basically what it boils down to is i fucking hated studying it even if it was at times really fun and informative (and of course underpinned virtually everything that i was actually interested in). i do like to tease you though

and i think you're conflating philosophy and woo, when woo is illogical, dishonest, lacking in evidence etc. ie its everything that philosophy opposes. thinking outside the box is fine until you're pissing away tax dollars on theme parks for liars and frauds. this of course from the 'small government, low taxation, low spending' wankers as well.

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Originally posted by Lira And, the point is, when a systematised analytic philosophy appeared in Ancient Greece, an overconfidence in the local religion led to the suppression of the best intellectual tool they had (namely, philosophy) and Socrates was executed. Later, religion once again hampered the efforts of philosophers by suppressing Aristotle's body of work until some sort of syncretism emerged in the Middle Ages, making the otherwise pagan philosophy more Jesus-friendly. Here we learned that relying on religion too much was an awful idea. Those who knew they were right turned out to be horribly wrong.

socrates and plato sucked each other's wangs.

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Originally posted by Lira [*]Philosophy -> Science: Philosophy helped develop science, but it didn't do so without giving the poor natural philosophers some headache.

true, but learning how to make tools or light fires probably trumps existentialism for first contributions to mankind. it was also way easier for early man to look at the stars and wonder 'who am i?' or 'where did i come from?' than it was for him to build the combustion engine or paint the periodic table on his cave's loungeroom.

none of that, of course, is relevant to woo apologism under the guise of intellectual tolerance or philosophical enquiry.

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Originally posted by Lira [*]Science -> ???: Mind you, it need not be something other than science,

well at least we agree on something. as long as science is putting food on the table, games onto hard drives, music into speakers, i see no reasons to go off into fantasy land chasing non-falsifiable nonsense, in some misguided wankathon against demonstrable reality.

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Originally posted by Lira What is to keep us from making the very same mistake theologians and philosophers have made in the past?I'm not sure this is something you care about, and I wouldn't be surprised if you just said "Fuck them, scientists know what they're doing". However, this is a problem I actually have to deal with in my life, reason why I probably give it way more thought than most people

no guarantees, but that's a price we should be willing to pay to stamp out mistakes we know are going on right now.

again, i must draw your attention to the topic of this thread, and it would aid your argument greatly if you could demonstrate some stellar contributions to humanity provided by the philosophy of creationism.

Wasn't the USA founded as a secular country? lol

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN yeah we've had this discussion before and i still feel you are complete bonkers if you think we should tolerate (even fund!) stuff like creationist museums for the infinitesimally small chance it would ever actually have something to offer. not when we can look at the various negative impacts it or other woo has right now.

This is what makes me feel I might have to change my mind. Seeing the impact of woo around here, it seems to stifle progress more than anything else. Yesterday I heard scientist can't tell how humans evolved, whereas the spiritual world provided us with much more reliable answers.

And this is the most scientifically-friendly woo in my country.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN yeah, i probably overstate it because its the internet. basically what it boils down to is i fucking hated studying it even if it was at times really fun and informative (and of course underpinned virtually everything that i was actually interested in). i do like to tease you though

Hah!

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN and i think you're conflating philosophy and woo, when woo is illogical, dishonest, lacking in evidence etc. ie its everything that philosophy opposes. thinking outside the box is fine until you're pissing away tax dollars on theme parks for liars and frauds. this of course from the 'small government, low taxation, low spending' wankers as well.

No, no, I'm not even taking woo into consideration here.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN socrates and plato sucked each other's wangs.

And shoved it up their bums. Them faggy Greeks...

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN true, but learning how to make tools or light fires probably trumps existentialism for first contributions to mankind. it was also way easier for early man to look at the stars and wonder 'who am i?' or 'where did i come from?' than it was for him to build the combustion engine or paint the periodic table on his cave's loungeroom.

It's unfair to compare them because Existentialism doesn't even seek to answer the same problems scientists do. Most woo, on the other hand, claims to be either above or with science... though it doesn't seem to occur to them that if scientists are not playing along with you, there's probably something wrong with the game you brought to the table.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN none of that, of course, is relevant to woo apologism under the guise of intellectual tolerance or philosophical enquiry.

Well, of course it is - Galileo was taken to be a woonatic in the very beginning.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN well at least we agree on something. as long as science is putting food on the table, games onto hard drives, music into speakers, i see no reasons to go off into fantasy land chasing non-falsifiable nonsense, in some misguided wankathon against demonstrable reality.

Sure, we do agree about that. It'd be pretty dishonest for me to study science and believe revelation is just equally as valuable.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN again, i must draw your attention to the topic of this thread, and it would aid your argument greatly if you could demonstrate some stellar contributions to humanity provided by the philosophy of creationism.

It's never contributed with anything. This, however, can't be a reason for dismissing ideas, because the atom, evolution, and heliocentrism were all conceived in Ancient Greece but waited millennia until something worthy came out of them. Though, of course, the contribution made by the original Greek thinkers is disputable, except in astronomy.

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Originally posted by Lira What?

What don't you understand?

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Originally posted by Comrade Stalin What don't you understand?

Oh, got it now. I thought you had just echoed my words and didn't understand what George Bush was doing there.

Well, yes. If all nutters want to go to a nutty place to found nutterland, and stay there where we can be protected from any undesirable effects - move them all to Kentucky and they'll be happy not to leave.

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Originally posted by Lira Oh, got it now. I thought you had just echoed my words and didn't understand what George Bush was doing there. Well, yes. If all nutters want to go to a nutty place to found nutterland, and stay there where we can be protected from any undesirable effects - move them all to Kentucky and they'll be happy not to leave.

Dude, we had a closet creationist in the White House for 8 years.

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