Darwin vs The Bible

[moof]

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

 

Read this a couple of weeks ago, found it pretty funny. Peterson is a total fucking charlatan dressed up as a self help guru.

[PestiRed]

Just found out that Ken Hamm’s Creationist Science museum is just a short drive away from Cincinnati- always presumed it was in Texas or something rather than Northern Kentucky. Definitely going on my next trip there, I’m expecting to be fully converted

[moof]

Buddies? Have you listened to the podcast where they argue for 2 hours about what the word ‘truth’ means?

Presumably you have? Isn’t there something more valuable you could be doing with you time, like repeatedly punching yourself in the nuts for two hours?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Presumably you have? Isn’t there something more valuable you could be doing with you time, like repeatedly punching yourself in the nuts for two hours?

Multitasking, moof.

[Rico1304]

Presumably you have? Isn’t there something more valuable you could be doing with you time, like repeatedly punching yourself in the nuts for two hours?

Nope, it’s heavily caveated at the beginning, I think I lasted 10 mins of Peterson dodging and talking bullshit before giving up.

 

I’ve listened to him on a few podcasts and agree he’s a strange fella. Agree with him on some things but not on al lot of others. You know, like normal people do.

[Rico1304]

Multitasking, moof.

In fact I just listened to Rogan and Christopher Ryan on my run. Peterson dismissed a lot of Ryan’s work as bolloocks because it doesn’t conform to his strict religious viewpoint. Now, who do you trust, a bloke who drank, fucked and drugged his way round the world or a man with an invisible friend?

[magicrat]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1707396716013847&id=130148817071986

 

You never find wholly new forms of life in a jar of peanut butter, therefore evolution is bollocks and God created everything.

 

QED

 

It was the "you may laugh at this " that sowed the seed of doubt that what the fella was saying might not be the whole truth. Anyway just off to open the new jar of peanut butter ( crunchy , my fav) to check for primitive life,  I think it may be possible Donald Trump was found in a jar of peanut butter so I'm hoping at least for a Boris Johnson.  Will report back later

[TheHowieLama]

The oldest question in the history of mankind - yep easy stuff. You would think RiS could knock up a poll and this would be decided quicker than beans on a brekkie.

[aRdja]

If you want to see them both in London, they’re flying over in July.

 

https://www.theo2.co.uk/events/detail/sam-harris-jordan-peterson-douglas-murray

[s(k)aturation]

Darwin vs The Bible =  David vs Goliath

 

Home win.

[Hades]

Pseudo-intellectual garbage about God from one of Sam Harris’ buddy.

 

 

 

What are your issues with it, Ardj? I was on board until just after halfway through. Even after that I don't have a huge issue with it, although he's certainly pussyfooting.

 

@cdaargh

 

I especially love how Jordan Peterson calls everything he doesn't like "post-modernism" (&/or neo-Marxism), but when asked if he believes in God, deconstructs the words "God" and "believe" in a thoroughly post-modern manner to avoid answering.

[Rico1304]

@cdaargh

 

I especially love how Jordan Peterson calls everything he doesn't like "post-modernism" (&/or neo-Marxism), but when asked if he believes in God, deconstructs the words "God" and "believe" in a thoroughly post-modern manner to avoid answering.

Have you seen Peterson and Matt Dillahunty? It’s hilarious, especially the bit about whether having your head cut of is bad for you.

 

Harris and Peterson disagree on religion, but they are able to discuss stuff. How weird.

[Rico1304]

More mentalists

 

https://www.metro.news/parents-let-baby-girl-die-because-of-their-religion/1176525/

[Numero Veinticinco]

And it was to Moses that God said, 'kill your own kids by starving them'.

 

Rico 25:17

[Rico1304]

And it was to Moses that God said, 'kill your own kids by starving them'.Rico 25:17

Think that was Abraham, with a knife. Nearly though.

 

Although my all time favourite is Kings 2:23-24. Don’t fuck with the baldies.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Think that was Abraham, with a knife. Nearly though.

I think you need to read ya Bible!

 

Although my all time favourite is Kings 2:23-24. Don’t fuck with the baldies.

I like 'no FF on the GF'. My favourite is the eleventh commandment, 'thou shall not dodge beans'.

[Rico1304]

Catholic Church continues to delight

 

https://twitter.com/naomiohreally/status/1031659042907844611?s=21

[AngryOfTuebrook]

@cdaargh

 

I especially love how Jordan Peterson calls everything he doesn't like "post-modernism" (&/or neo-Marxism), but when asked if he believes in God, deconstructs the words "God" and "believe" in a thoroughly post-modern manner to avoid answering.

I saw something this morning about Peterson making a bit of a tit of himself by misusing an analogy about ants. No biggy, really; if your job is saying stuff, occasionally you'll say daft stuff. But I was amused by one description (which may or may not be fair - I neither know nor care) of him as "the stupid man's smart person".

[Pony Princess]

May I throw a cheeky one in here for the sake of god/no god bants and ask if anyone feels our existence shows any indication of intelligent design, or is the intelligent design millions of years of selective reproduction. Regardless, what do we do next?

[Numero Veinticinco]

May I throw a cheeky one in here for the sake of god/no god bants and ask if anyone feels our existence shows any indication of intelligent design, or is the intelligent design millions of years of selective reproduction. Regardless, what do we do next?

Just wait it out.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

May I throw a cheeky one in here for the sake of god/no god bants and ask if anyone feels our existence shows any indication of intelligent design, or is the intelligent design millions of years of selective reproduction. Regardless, what do we do next?

Whoever coined the phrase "intelligent design" never had piles.

[lifetime fan]

May I throw a cheeky one in here for the sake of god/no god bants and ask if anyone feels our existence shows any indication of intelligent design, or is the intelligent design millions of years of selective reproduction. Regardless, what do we do next?

 

Pony’s back!

[Rico1304]

Pony’s back!

It’s the mice I feel for.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Some interesting observations of what looks like evolution by natural selection, in the wild, right before our eyes.

 

https://www.du.edu/news/crick-cats-du-professor-dives-evolution-discovery-purring-crickets

 

Crickets in Hawaii had evolved to stay silent, instead of chirruping, because their usual noise attracted a parasitic fly.  Silence gave them the advantage of escaping the flies, but it also made it harder to find a mate.  Now some have been found which have evolved a type of chirrup in a lower register; it is hypothesised that this is inaudible to the parasitic flies, but audible to female crickets.

 

Here's the New Scientist article on it, but you need a subscription to read it all.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032023-500-crickets-rapidly-evolve-new-mating-call-to-evade-their-parasites/

 

And here's a bit of background info on the species of cricket, if you're an entomology nerd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleogryllus_oceanicus

[Rico1304]

Fucking hell.