"The Origin of Specious Nonsense"

bluewolf wrote: »

Irish times:

Madam, — Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland disapproves of Minister of Science Conor Lenihan’s appearance at the launch of a book arguing against belief in evolution. How times change! Fifty years ago we can imagine The Irish Timesreporting that representatives of religion are aghast at the idea of public figures appearing at launches of books promoting evolution!

It seems science has become the new orthodoxy and woe betide any humble person who takes a different view. The imposition of science over God is truly the exaltation of man, the created being, over and above his Creator.

Perhaps some scientists and humanists just cannot imagine any higher form of life than themselves. What arrogance! – Yours, etc,

JASON O’DONNELL,

St Michael’s Avenue,

Tipperary.



lolwut

Dougla2 wrote: »

hhhahah he finally gets questioned on air she owned him

darjeeling wrote: »

And if anyone's not heard enough of John J May yet, here he was yesterday on Phantom FM in debate with TCD Genetics lecturer Aoife McLysaght: link
(scroll down to 'Evolution Discussion')

J C wrote: »

Kevin Myers 'hit the nail on the head', as far as I am concerned ... "Theories of evolution when tested on the origin of protein molecules, not to speak of DNA, usually imitate Mr Gladstone when replying to Queen Victoria's question: "Yes, prime minister, but what is it exactly that lesbians do in bed?"

Evolution cannot explain the most basic question about how a simple protein like insulin could have first been formed. "Simple" is a relative term: insulin is composed of 51 amino acids and has a molecular weight of 5808. Water is just 18. You can boil the primeval molecular broth for an awful long time and put it under enormous pressures, but you will not spontaneously create an insulin molecule, never mind one of the titin molecules, that have a molecular mass of almost 3,000,000 and a total length of almost 27,000 amino acids."

Like I have said Geocentrism and Evolution complement each other perfectly, in the 'observationally challenged' stakes!!!

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

Did you even read my post a minute ago where I answered this
claim of his? Here it is again.

vibe666 wrote: »

i think he just assumes that because he himself hasn't evolved since he checked himself in the mirror last week that evolution doesn't exist. see, FACT!

thats the problem with believing this 6000 years crap. once you close your mind to the idea that things could have happened over a much wider time period than that, it's impossible to comprehend that life could be continually evolving slowly over the course of thousands of generations during hundreds of millions or years.

when you base your whole life and beliefs on a 2000 year old book written by a bunch of bronze age farmers and are told that this is the unimpeachable word of god and that you must never question it, you get to a point where you can't allow for even the tiniest possibility that it might just be a load of crap written by people living in mud huts who didn't know any better and that there might just be other explanations now that we're a little more knowledgeable about our world and how it (and we) work.

the rest of us however understand that the scientists of today are building on the work of those that have come before them. continually questioning their predecessors works and improving and changing them as required when new ideas and discoveries present themselves and then building more on top of that for the next generation in turn to build from.

thankfully for those of us happy to be living in a modern world, science demands that we question everything about everything, hence the word "theory" being used to often.

we leave open the possibility that ANYTHING is subject to change if new evidence comes to light, but when something like the theory of evolution has stood up to the brightest minds in the world for this long, we can be 99.9999999% certain it's correct and that the word "theory" is only there to remind is that nothing is ever 100% guaranteed in science and it always leaves room for the possibility for things to change, just in case.

having said that, i'm pretty sure that the millions of qualified scientists who've studied and dissected Darwin's work over the last 150 years would pretty much all agree that John May, who freely admits that he ISN'T a scientist IS ARE a total quacks.

Dougla2 wrote: »

you and me take her out for a drink and show her our appreciation afterwards ay? lol

Malty_T wrote: »

Yep he read it.

How to read a post creationist style

Malty_T wrote: »

Oh Gawd, people, this is the number TWO hit on the google search for the book title. Let's not make this good geneticist the topic of Kevin Myers disdain for dogmatic evolutionists and their repugnant erotic internet thoughts.

J C wrote: »

and speaking as scientist myself

Dougla2 wrote: »

Ididn't know such a thing existed , WITCHCRAFT I TELLS YOU WITCHCRAFT

J C wrote: »

'Queen Victoria's question' still hasn't been answered by any of these papers ... HOW did the specific sequences arrange themselves spontaneously ... when we find that insulin is tightly specified (or in Evolutionist Speak 'highly conserved during Vertebrate evolution')!!!

Stop ponsing about ... and answer the question ... you might even win €10 Grand!!!
... or lose your faith in Evolution!!!

Dougla2 wrote: »

he has been aggressive on every radio program he is like Bill O'Reilly

J C wrote: »

... stop nit picking and 'sweating the small stuff' ... this must be the Atheists equivalent of arguing how many angels could dance on the end of a pin ... or some other such irrelevancy!!!!

There is an enormous evidentially challenged evolutionist 'elephant in the room' ... and the best you can come up with is to cite a typo on my part ... the non-inclusion of the letter 'a' in one sentence!!!!:eek:

mikhail wrote: »

"Treats" is a bit of a strange choice of word. Diabetes is essentially the inability to produce the stuff yourself. That's why diabetics inject it.

I'm confused by what I've seen of Meyers excrement reproduced here. Our bodies make insulin from other stuff. It's not like we first licked it up off the ground after it spontaneously appeared among pond scum. Which brings me neatly back to Meyers...