The Winner of Christian Science Fair goes to "Creation Wins"

[CptStern]

lol and then they wonder why they're the target of so much redicule

Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project "Creation Wins!!!," says he disproved part of the theory of evolution. Using a rolled-up paper towel suspended between two glasses of water with Epsom Salts, the paper towel formed stalactites. He states that the theory that they take millions of years to develop is incorrect.

"Scientists say it takes millions of years to form stalactites," Benson said. "However, in only a couple of hours, I have formed stalactites just by using paper towel and Epsom Salts."

well obviously this 8th grade student is correct and decades of research is wrong ..goddam scientists why the hell didnt they come up with the rolled up paper towel trick? stupid egg heads always looking for rational explanations when they could have just jumped to an illogical conclusion


the explantion as to why the judges should be rounded up and shot for being so stupid:

* This experiment has nothing to do with biology.
* Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate; stalactites are made of calcium carbonate.
* Stalactite growth rates are estimated to be around 0.1-10 centimeters per thousand years. If we assume his 'stalactite' was 10 cm long and use the slowest growth rate, that's 100 thousand years, not millions.
* Even if he had demonstrated an accelerated rate of stalactite growth, stalactite length isn't the method used to date the age of the earth.
* To quote the unquestionable authority, Terry Pratchett: "And all those exclamation points? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head." Mister Benson comes perilously close to the underpants limit in his title.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/another_christian_science_fair.php

 

[jverne]

lol and then they wonder why they're the target of so much redicule




well obviously this 8th grade student is correct and decades of research is wrong ..goddam scientists why the hell didnt they come up with the rolled up paper towel trick? stupid egg heads always looking for rational explanations when they could have just jumped to an illogical conclusion


the explantion as to why the judges should be rounded up and shot for being so stupid:



http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/another_christian_science_fair.php

i was so blind....WHY DIDN'T I SEE THE LIGHT EARLYER!!!! *goes in the back yard to try disprove that the earth is 4.7 billions years old, using sand and a bowl of water*

 

[CptStern]

i was so blind....WHY DIDN'T I SEE THE LIGHT EARLYER!!!! *goes in the back yard to try disprove that the earth is old 4.7 billions years old, using sand and a bowl of water*

:O

sand and water?

Black magic!!! he's in league with SATAN! avert your eyes children he may take on other forms!!!

 

[Icarusintel]

What can I say about stupid Christians that hasn't been said already?


There's a good reason I'm an atheist.

 

[jverne]

What can I say about stupid Christians that hasn't been said already?


There's a good reason I'm an atheist.

that they excel in science?

 

[ríomhaire]

Where do stalictites feature in the theory of evolution?

 

[Mr Stabby]

Creationist generally make up their own versions of the theory of evolution and the nebular theory which can be refuted as they aren't true, as they can't refute the real theories.

 

[PvtRyan]

 

[Jack Thomas]

What can I say about stupid Christians that hasn't been said already?

Not all Christians are stupid.

 

[brink's]

great pic ryan.

I wish crazy creationists ( like hovind etc) would understand that even if the theory of evolution is found to be completely wrong( fat chance imo) that that doesn't make their wackjob theory any more plausable.


But some are thomas...and that makes them stupid Christians. There are stupid Evolutionists as well.

 

[CptStern]

Not all Christians are stupid.

probably because they're non practicing christians ..which would mean they're not really christian


btw Jack Thomas ..is that in reference to Jack Chick? Jack Thomas Chick, fundamentalist famous for his crazy evangelical comics?

 

[Sidewinder]

****ing christians.

 

[Icarusintel]

probably because they're non practicing christians ..which would mean they're not really christian

Thanks for the backup Stern, I knew I could count on you.

 

[Jack Thomas]

btw Jack Thomas ..is that in reference to Jack Chick? Jack Thomas Chick, fundamentalist famous for his crazy evangelical comics?

No. This username just suddenly came out of my head but now it bears a too close resemblence to Jack Thompson.

I am Christian myself but I believe in evolution.

 

[Gray Fox]

No. This username just suddenly came out of my head but now it bears a too close resemblence to Jack Thompson.

I am Christian myself but I believe in evolution.

Then your not a real Christian.

 

[Krynn72]

Then you're not really Christian.

EDIT: Beaten to it. I was replying to Jack Thomas

 

[Jack Thomas]

Then your not a real Christian.

Nooooo!!

*shoots himself*

 

[Neo_Kuja]

Basically, it boils down to this.

Still, if it's a Christian Science Fair, what do you expect ? Logic and Reason to prevail over the religious programming that is forced upon young children for discipline and/or because of the parent's views ? ("You break that ccokie jar one more time and God'll have something to say about it !")

 

[Sidewinder]

Nooooo!!

*shoots himself*

haha,atleast you aren't taking this to seriously

 

[Cole]

You see Jack Thomas, if you believe in the christian God so you wont go to hell, but you don't follow what Jesus taught you go to hell. Jesus taught creationism, and if you don't follow him you go to hell.

So what i'm trying to say is. Why are you even apart of the catholic faith?

 

[Jack Thomas]

Well these kinds of questions will mainly just stay open to me but I live my life through experience. Can we truely know whats going to happen after death?

If indeed after I die and John The Baptist or whoever it is up there tells me I am not worthy to go come to heaven then I will just have to go to hell. Nothing I can do about it anymore after that..

But I wish to remain open in these questions. I hope I would be a good Christian but everyday it is getting questioned by new scientific discoveries. But I also do not wish to be a blind zealot of my religion. I just hope science and religion would both be able to co-exist.

In short, I would want to believe but I just simply do not know should I or am I able to and am I gonna regret about it after I die. Or am I then simply following Christianity because of the fear of going to hell?

I guess I am more of an atheist than a Christian already. But I wish to respect both views.

 

[Stigmata]

I had a huge response typed up, but I guess it all comes down to this:

Question your views. Give your opinions and assumptions and faith and beliefs some serious critical thought. Look at your following of Christianity and ask yourself "why?" Then look at the answer you come up with, and ask "why?" again. The only way you can open yourself up to other possibilities is to question those that you already have.

 

[Jintor]

Well these kinds of questions will mainly just stay open to me but I live my life through experience. Can we truely know whats going to happen after death?

If indeed after I die and John The Baptist or whoever it is up there tells me I am not worthy to go come to heaven then I will just have to go to hell. Nothing I can do about it anymore after that..

But I wish to remain open in these questions. I hope I would be a good Christian but everyday it is getting questioned by new scientific discoveries. But I also do not wish to be a blind zealot of my religion. I just hope science and religion would both be able to co-exist.

In short, I would want to believe but I just simply do not know should I or am I able to and am I gonna regret about it after I die. Or am I then simply following Christianity because of the fear of going to hell?

I guess I am more of an atheist than a Christian already. But I wish to respect both views.

You realise science is a threat to all Christianity?

/EDIT Once you remove 'God' from the immediate equasion of how the world works, you move Him away from the world and put him out of sight - and, eventually, out of mind.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

I had a huge response typed up, but I guess it all comes down to this:

Question your views. Give your opinions and assumptions and faith and beliefs some serious critical thought. Look at your following of Christianity and ask yourself "why?" Then look at the answer you come up with, and ask "why?" again. The only way you can open yourself up to other possibilities is to question those that you already have.

Thats exactly what happened to me when I converted to athiesm. I thought "wait a minute, if god is forgiving, then why did he create hell? he must be a real bastard" after that, I began to question things in the bible everytime I read it. Until eventually I just knew the whole thing was bullshit - the same with the other religous texts.

 

[Nemesis6]

Hold on, you CONVERTED to atheism?

... I recall a discussion where a guy on this forum witnessed his teacher state that Atheism was just another religion. People generally agreed that he was a retard, so are you saying you agree with that stupid theory? Nitpicking rocks!

Revert would've been a better word!

 

[CptStern]

Hold on, you CONVERTED to atheism?

... I recall a discussion where a guy on this forum witnessed his teacher state that Atheism was just another religion. People generally agreed that he was a retard, so are you saying you agree with that stupid theory? Nitpicking rocks!

Revert would've been a better word!

Revert? ummm no that would imply he was an atheist before finding religion ..heh foiled at your own game ..if anything you look even dumber for trying to nitpick his post over semantics and then making the same mistake ....you're entertaining, I'll give you that

 

[Nemesis6]

It would mean that Atheism was here before religion, smarty.

 

[CptStern]

perhaps in a Bizarro world, revert would have that meaning but not in this world


revert:

1. to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
2. Law. to go back to or return to the former owner or to his or her heirs.
3. Biology. to return to an earlier or primitive type.
4. to go back in thought or discussion: He constantly reverted to his childhood.

 

[Ennui]

I'm going to find that kid and punch him in the face for being stupid.

 

[Nemesis6]

Now, that's not very Christian of you, Ennui.

 

[Jack Thomas]

I thought "wait a minute, if god is forgiving, then why did he create hell? he must be a real bastard"

Uh..God wasnt the one who created Hell. Wasn't it the fallen angel Lucifer and his other fallen angel friends? Atleast from the protestant view.

Just correcting you. ( ofcourse I am wrong )

 

[Stigmata]

Uh..God wasnt the one who created Hell. Wasn't it the fallen angel Lucifer and his other fallen angel friends? Atleast from the protestant view.

Just correcting you. ( ofcourse I am wrong )

Heh, nice disclaimer

 

[Taboo]

This story makes me want to laugh and throw up at the same time.

 

[Jintor]

Uh..God wasnt the one who created Hell. Wasn't it the fallen angel Lucifer and his other fallen angel friends? Atleast from the protestant view.

Just correcting you. ( ofcourse I am wrong )

If I remember correctly, God threw Lucifer and his buggers out of Heaven, and they fell for etenernity 'til eternity said 'bugger this' and dropped him in Hell. Oh, this is Protestant beliefs, btw - God made it to punish The Lightbringer.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

This story makes me want to laugh and throw up at the same time.

That's impossible, but if you throw up I can laugh for you.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Uh..God wasnt the one who created Hell. Wasn't it the fallen angel Lucifer and his other fallen angel friends? Atleast from the protestant view.

Just correcting you. ( ofcourse I am wrong )

God still permits its existence. That alone makes him an evil bastard, outside of all the people he killed and childeren he ordered raped in the old testament.

 

[Danimal]

"Christian Science Fair"

What a ****ing oxymoron.

 

[Adabiviak]

It's cute when Christians attempt to do objective science experiments in the same way it's cute when cats bat at screensavers of fish.

 

[mindless_moder]

the existence of hell might not conflict with god's nature. they explain it away by saying that since he is all perfect his judgement must remain objective ie he is the perfect judge.

however what i dont get is the amount of violence in the OT and the way god gave satan the authority to tempt adam and eve , or how he gave him authority to smite job, amongst other things....

http://russellsteapot.com/images/comics/2007/Image021.jpg

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

the existence of hell might not conflict with god's nature.

It doesn't. You see, by nature he's a dick.