flaviomatani: (seventhseal chess)
flaviomatani ([personal profile] flaviomatani) wrote2008-10-12 12:08 pm

for god's sake. No, really.

Right. I bet you hadn’t thought of this use for peanut butter (no, not that :



Such breathtaking ignorance and conceit has to be admired, I suppose...
(and people like these may have a degree of power and influence in the most powerful country in the world..)

borrowed from [livejournal.com profile] kingtiger

[identity profile] untermensch.livejournal.com 2008-10-12 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Those arguments would take me substantially longer than the video's runtime to debunk, largely because they're based on reams of flawed assumptions, and statements with zero evidence to back them up. Sure, if you could take the words at face value, the logic might mean something, but they're disguising some pretty complicated errors of fact and understanding.

That's why I fucking hate dealing with people like that. You have to spend so long breaking them down before you can start rebuilding.

[identity profile] flavius-m.livejournal.com 2008-10-12 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
There is no way of debunking those arguments really, as they are not based in reason. Logic, reason, the current state of science, the fossil record won't suffice one bit. They can make a slick presentation of such juvenile arguments and... unfortunately, it probably works. Aah, so that's what evolutionists think? They're a crazy bunch, aren't they...

[identity profile] untermensch.livejournal.com 2008-10-12 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
All the parts of their arguments that they purport to be science -- those are the easiest to debunk, because they are asking for scientific reasoning and processes to be applied. That's the part that actually gets me riled: charlatans purporting to be carrying out or explaining science.

The rest is a bunch of crap that anybody in their right mind would reject.