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Evolution, a myth for non-theists
Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 10:59
From: Kendra Bancroft
your duck is a herring.


:eek: Does it swim?? Is it red??
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Kendra Bancroft
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03-10-2006 11:00
From: Sally Rosebud
So if all fish don't swim, what to the rest do? :confused:


watch television

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Lucifer Baphomet
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03-10-2006 11:01
From: Kevn Klein
What color is the Sun?
The simple answer to this question is that the Sun is yellow. Go outside and see for yourself. (But don't hurt your eyes by looking for a long time.)
For our purpose of determining the temperature of the surface of the Sun, a more precise answer is that the intensity versus wavelength curve for sunlight peaks near 500 nm.

But the question "What color is the Sun?" raises an interesting issue that is more closely related to biology and psychology than to physics. Physically, sunlight is a mixture of photons of different wavelengths. This particular mixture is very close to the color we call white. This is particularly true if we put back the predominantly blue light that is scattered out of a sunbeam as it comes from the Sun and passes through the Earth's atmosphere before it reaches our eyes. Why do we call this color white? Presumably, it is because after many hundreds of millions of years of evolution, our eyes and brains are adapted to viewing things that are illuminated with this particular mixture of photons. Then when humans started giving names to colors, they chose a special name for the special mixture that their eyes and brains were adapted to seeing.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Light/yellow.html





Applauds Kevn, for using evolution to back up his argument



Kevn, did you actually read it before you posted it?



Well noticed too rick :)
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Kendra Bancroft
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03-10-2006 11:01
From: Sally Rosebud
:eek: Does it swim?? Is it red??



No -- but it's well read.

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Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 11:03
From: Lucifer Baphomet
Applauds Kevn, for using evolution to back up his argument



Kevn, did you actually read it before you posted it?


Dude, don't you know that's not the evolution he's been talking about in this thread? :rolleyes:
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Kendra Bancroft
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03-10-2006 11:03
From: Lucifer Baphomet
Applauds Kevn, for using evolution to back up his argument



Kevn, did you actually read it before you posted it?



classic! :D
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Vivianne Draper
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03-10-2006 11:04
From: Kevn Klein
Do you normally post to useless threads? I don't even read them myself.


all the time. note my participation in the two that you started :)
Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 11:04
LOL Kendra!!!
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03-10-2006 11:11
From: Vivianne Draper
all the time. note my participation in the two that you started :)



Touche!

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Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 11:13
Hmm, what happened to Kevn? Is he wondering how he could have actually used evolution to prove a point?
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03-10-2006 11:14
From: Kevn Klein
No, it's pure white. The purest of white.



and you got your PHd in Astronomy where????
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03-10-2006 11:15
From: Magnum Serpentine
and you got your PHd in Astronomy where????


From God.... ;)
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03-10-2006 11:17
:confused:
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Kendra Bancroft
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03-10-2006 11:18
From: Taco Rubio
:confused:



Yayyy Nacho dip~!!
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Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 11:19
From: Taco Rubio
http://www.anatomorphex.com/picts/shatter/FX013_PRINT.jpg :confused:


Now I need to go get chips!!! :mad:
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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03-10-2006 15:34
Saul was traveling to Damascus one day when he was struck with a bolt of "electricity" from the "clear blue sky".
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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03-10-2006 15:36
I'm not sure what electricity, the color of the sky and the color of the sun have to do with demonstrating that "The myth of evolution is clearly a religious belief for those who reject the notion of a creator. "

Please, enlighten us.

Oh, wait. Is it our job to prove that these things are not proof of the original claim?
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Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 15:47
From: Zuzu Fassbinder
I'm not sure what electricity, the color of the sky and the color of the sun have to do with demonstrating that "The myth of evolution is clearly a religious belief for those who reject the notion of a creator. "

Please, enlighten us.

Oh, wait. Is it our job to prove that these things are not proof of the original claim?


Sorry about the "why is the sky blue question" I was trying to be sarcastic... who knew he would answer it...and take it so far... But he did use evolution to try to defend why we see colors! :eek:
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Kendra Bancroft
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03-10-2006 15:49
From: Zuzu Fassbinder
I'm not sure what electricity, the color of the sky and the color of the sun have to do with demonstrating that "The myth of evolution is clearly a religious belief for those who reject the notion of a creator. "?



It all has to do with that creepy Sun Baby from Teletubbies.

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Sally Rosebud
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03-10-2006 15:50
From: Kendra Bancroft
It all has to do with that creepy Sun Baby from Teletubbies.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/Chasewaterhouse/sun.jpg


:eek: :eek: :eek:

That IS creepy!
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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03-10-2006 15:51
*giggles*
I see the light now. :)
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Kendra Bancroft
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03-10-2006 15:54
From: Zuzu Fassbinder
*giggles*
I see the light now. :)



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Rickard Roentgen
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03-10-2006 17:24
This thread has evolved into a nonviable state and as such should be put to death.
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Lucifer Baphomet
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03-10-2006 18:35
Every Id or creationist thread he starts now, we need only refer to that moment.
It was a classic moment he must never be allowed to live down, lol.
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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03-10-2006 20:21
From: Rickard Roentgen
This thread has evolved into a nonviable state and as such should be put to death.

I agree, the OP has abandoned all pretense of the original topic and has switched to useless trolling.
*sigh*

I have to say that at least I tried to have a serious discussion.
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