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The Hazards of Belief

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  • #4862
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    mechanical movement of wind can be quicker for solids

    After a night on the Guinness?


  • #4863
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    endacl wrote: »
    After a night on the Guinness?

    That wind could become liquid storm too easily, for use near a computer


  • #4864
    the_eman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭the_eman


    Hello Atheists, its been a while....

    Last time I was on here, you still refused to believe there was an Ark, here is some more information.

    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/et-cetera/noahs-ark-may-have-floated-without-sinking-report/articleshow/33184489.cms


  • #4865
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    At least you are not trying to claim that this is evidence


  • #4866
    timbyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭timbyr


    the_eman wrote: »
    Hello Atheists, its been a while....

    Last time I was on here, you still refused to believe there was an Ark, here is some more information.

    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/et-cetera/noahs-ark-may-have-floated-without-sinking-report/articleshow/33184489.cms

    This appears to be a less than serious paper.

    https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/issue/current

    The specific paper is titled "The animals float two by two, hurrarh'

    The other papers are also quite funny.


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  • #4867
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    the_eman wrote: »
    Hello Atheists, its been a while....

    Last time I was on here, you still refused to believe there was an Ark, here is some more information.

    No, we don't disbelieve the ark, we accept the reality that there was none.

    You're the one with the faulty belief system.


  • #4868
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    the_eman wrote: »
    Hello Atheists, its been a while....

    Last time I was on here, you still refused to believe there was an Ark, here is some more information.

    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/et-cetera/noahs-ark-may-have-floated-without-sinking-report/articleshow/33184489.cms
    These students calculated how much weight a boat with the dimensions of the ark from the christian bible could carry.

    They didn't take into account weight such as water, food, bedding stuff, structure of the boat such as internal walls or supporting beams (it's dubious if they included the weight of the roof also) etc etc - they simply theorised an open box with those dimensions.

    And then they assumed something else:
    A previous investigation conducted into the feasibility of Noah’s ark suggests that an average mass of all the animals aboard the ark is approximately equal to the mass of a sheep [8]. As such, assuming the average mass of a sheep is 23.47kg [9]; our calculations prove that buoyancy force of the ark could support the weight of 2.15 million sheep.

    They don't mention that these sheep have to be squished into a tiny space, with zero room to move or breathe, they simply crunch numbers, of which are based on a previous investigation which also looks wonky.

    Why don't you just say 'god did it, you can't explain it', the_eman? Wouldn't that just be simpler for you?


  • #4869
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,570 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Gordon wrote: »
    They don't mention that these sheep have to be squished into a tiny space, with zero room to move or breathe, they simply crunch numbers, of which are based on a previous investigation which also looks wonky.
    Liquidiser! If we were talking about cattle I'd have suggested a smoothie maker...

    In an introductory physics lecture on guesstimation we worked out at the request of the professor that he could fit roughly 14 liquidised students in a metre cubed tank under his shed. Not an entirely different thought experiment to the one those University of Leicester students performed.

    Needless to say not everyone returned to those lectures...


  • #4870
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,251 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    the_eman wrote: »
    Last time I was on here, you still refused to believe there was an Ark,

    The one just up the road from the Irish Film Centre..?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #4871
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    ninja900 wrote: »
    The one just up the road from the Irish Film Centre..?

    As a young 'un I used to go to D'Ark in Cork - saw The Specials, The Cure, The Virgin Prunes (and their baby brother's little band), Five Go Down To The Sea, Micro Disney... ahh happy days.

    But it's 'student' flats now :(


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  • #4872
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Turned out that the venue failed several fire safety regulations and was not worth rebuilding as a venue. Pity


  • #4873
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,458 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Moralfailingitis strikes megachurch leader

    One blogger has reported:
    Michael Newham wrote:
    We have confirmed that Coy has admitted to at least two affairs in the past year alone and has had a long standing ‘problem with pornography. There are suspicions among leadership that he has not yet fully confessed to all his infidelity.

    http://www.religionnews.com/2014/04/06/pastor-one-nations-largest-megachurches-resigns-moral-failure/


  • #4874
    lazza14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭lazza14


    Anyone else think the % of creationists will rise after the release of this Noah film ?

    I'm talking about Americans mainly here, but I'd love to see stats before and after ...


  • #4875
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,907 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    lazza14 wrote: »
    Anyone else think the % of creationists will rise after the release of this Noah film ?

    I'm talking about Americans mainly here, but I'd love to see stats before and after ...

    Wonder did the practice of witchcraft increase after the Harry Potter movies? Could you imagine if anyone told their wide eyed kids that it was all true and Hogwarts was a really place. Noah or Dumbledore? Tough call ;)


  • #4876
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,251 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    smacl wrote: »
    Wonder did the practice of witchcraft increase after the Harry Potter movies?

    Remember when the usual religious nuts were saying that kids would be turning to satanism in their droves as a result of HP?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #4877
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    ninja900 wrote: »
    Remember when the usual religious nuts were saying that kids would be turning to satanism in their droves as a result of HP?

    Because of the molasses?!?


  • #4878
    lazza14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭lazza14


    smacl wrote: »
    Wonder did the practice of witchcraft increase after the Harry Potter movies? Could you imagine if anyone told their wide eyed kids that it was all true and Hogwarts was a really place. Noah or Dumbledore? Tough call ;)

    :D ... but you know what I mean, it's like the time The Passion of the Christ was released, you had a load of these born again christian nuts coming out of the woodwork ..


  • #4879
    Qs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Qs


    lazza14 wrote: »
    :D ... but you know what I mean, it's like the time The Passion of the Christ was released, you had a load of these born again christian nuts coming out of the woodwork ..

    To be fair since his resurrection in that film (was that in the film, I never watched it) Jesus has done a great job saving people in New York with the help of a magical, all seeing, all knowing being that gives him instruction. Well if gives Ben Linus instruction and he passes it on. Jesus just has to take the instruction on faith.


  • #4880
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Jesus is now an ex-CIA cold blooded killer marauding the streets of NY as a vigilante fighting crime and corruption at every turn.


  • #4881
    lazza14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭lazza14


    Jernal wrote: »
    Jesus is now an ex-CIA cold blooded killer marauding the streets of NY as a vigilante fighting crime and corruption at every turn.

    That the one with Chris Tucker ? :P


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  • #4882
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    No the one with the dude from lost.
    person_of_interest_season_1_episode_8_foe_9-6204-590-700-80_595.jpg


  • #4883
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Cool show


  • #4884
    lazza14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭lazza14


    what show is that ?


  • #4885
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Person of Interest


  • #4886
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,458 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    USA Today does an article on the effects of vaccine-denialism.

    The linked video contains upsetting scenes.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/06/anti-vaccine-movement-is-giving-diseases-a-2nd-life/7007955/


  • #4887
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Let you guys decide whether this is more appropriate to Interesting Stuff or Here. Sad that these things have to be published. (And are ignored)

    10 persistent myths about cancer debunked.

    Also, people fundraising for expensive quackery treatments (mostly to the US) are a heck of an ethical dilemma. :(


  • #4888
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,251 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    We have moved on slightly from when it was commonly held here that cancer was contagious, or even mentioning the word was risky (hence 'the big C' :rolleyes: ) or that it was best to tell everyone except the bloody patient what was wrong with them.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #4889
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,779 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Quite liked this...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26328105

    MrP


  • #4890
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Jernal wrote: »
    Let you guys decide whether this is more appropriate to Interesting Stuff or Here. Sad that these things have to be published. (And are ignored)

    10 persistent myths about cancer debunked.

    Also, people fundraising for expensive quackery treatments (mostly to the US) are a heck of an ethical dilemma. :(

    I like the "tabloid" pill in the photo accompanying myth no.6
    MrPudding wrote: »
    Quite liked this...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26328105

    MrP

    Hey, don't diss the panic, it gave Tom Hanks to the world!


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  • #4891
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    US Pastor who hosts a radio talkshow falls for Waterford Whispers story, here's the story

    http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/21/church-hires-jk-rowling-to-rewrite-the-bible/
    Church Hires JK Rowling To Rewrite The Bible

    The latest PR coup for Pope Francis has seen him hire famous and revered children’s author JK Rowling to rewrite the Bible.

    Here's the talkshow

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0fI3q6PB0


    sighhh


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