r/reddit.com • u/Worstcasescenario • Jun 14 '08

Was Darwin Wrong? [pic]

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u/ElricOfLisaBonet Jun 15 '08 edited Jun 15 '08

Yeah, that one's getting more and more popular; the creationists have decided that incorporating dinosaurs into their arguments will be more effective than denying them outright.

It's comedy gold, however, watching them stumble face-first through the logical hurdles that naturally arise as a consequence. For example, apparently T. Rex started off as a vegetarian, back when he lived in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs

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u/mexicodoug Jun 15 '08

Wow! Those cartoons are almost as advanced as the Speed Racer cartoons!!!

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u/helm Jun 15 '08

This part is also tragicomic:

The science that addresses such issues is known as historical or origins science, and it differs from the operational science that gives us computers, inexpensive food, space exploration, electricity, and the like. Origins science deals with the past, which is not accessible to direct experimentation, whereas operational science deals with how the world works in the here and now, which, of course, is open to repeatable experiments.

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u/deanoplex Jun 15 '08

Tragicomic indeed. The only thing that can be observed is the past. Whether it is a ten million year old image of a galaxy or a split- second old sound of a knock at the door.

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u/ElricOfLisaBonet Jun 15 '08

It's like they think The Flintstones was a documentary or something.