Posted on 04/16/2003 6:26:06 PM PDT by ContentiousObjector
They are looking for donations so they can send this poster to every school in America, unfortunately this school didn't want it and after laughing at it in the science staff room for a few weeks they gave it to me. It is now destine to be put on the wall of my basement office between my "Animal House" and "Ferris Buellers Day Off movie posters"
These are just the doozies I could pick up off the top of my head;
Earth's moon has a hot interior. This is evidence of a young origin.
Uhh... Right
Dinosaurs allegedly disappear suddenly (according to the evolutionists) in a catastrophic event. In reality most dinosaurs were killed in the worldwide flood about 4400 years ago, but some did survive on the ark. Dinosaurs have been sighted and recorded throughout history and are even seen today in some areas.
Only if you live at Universal Studios dude, the fact they would even dare say that shows how far removed from reality these dudes are.
I am just laughing so hard at this damn thing to think straight at the moment, Get to work warriors of science!
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If the universe began with a "big bang," all the planets would spin in the same direction.
Um, no. No they wouldn't. There's nothing about the Big Bang that would cause "all the planets" (all the planets in our Solar System, or all the planets in the Universe?) to spin in the "same direction". Or not. The Big Bang would impose no "preferential" direction on planetary spin.
Venus and Uranus do not!
"Do not"... what? Spin in the same direction as a) each other, b) Earth, c) the other planets, d) pick one?
If they mean a), it's false.
If they mean b), it's true, but so what?
If they mean c), they're wrong again, since Pluto also has a rotational axis greater than 90 degrees (in fact, its tilt is greater than that of Uranus).
The sad part of this is that some people actually believe this drivel!
Hard to tell from the pic. I wish I could see it up close, but I think its a SAR composite image of venus from the Magellan spacecraft.
LOLOL!!!!
Oh, I've seen this one before. Along with a critical misunderstanding of the second law of thermodynamics, there is apparently a school of creationist thought that critically misunderstands the big bang and the law of conservation of angular momentum.
IIRC, the "argument" goes something like this: if you take a rotating object, such as a planet, and cause it to explode, then the resulting pieces left over will be rotating in the same direction as the original planet was, because of conservation of angular momentum. But, since we see planets and such rotating in all different directions, angular momentum from prior to the big bang cannot have been conserved - or, alternately, if there was no angular momentum at all prior to the big bang, but there is now, the angular momentum of zero has clearly not been conserved - and therefore the big bang is false and must have never occurred.
I know, I know - I don't invent this stuff, I just report it...
Between the slick graphics and Phinneas T. Barnum's observation* about the nature of people, it looks like you can sell almost anything.
*"There a sucker born every minute."
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