A chap called Joe sent me a link to a site that collects stupid comments. It seems to focus on “Christian Fundamentalists”. This one made me laugh until I wet myself. Luckily I have a wipe-clean chair. Emphasis added.
One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn’t possible: UNLESS there is a giant outside source of energy supplying the Earth with huge amounts of energy. If there were such a source, scientists would certainly know about it.
awesomestnerd
It’s inconceivable. Where would we keep this gargantuan energy source??? FLOATING UP IN THE SKY???!!
I have to confess that my mind got slightly bent while I was trying to assimilate the concept of “someone who understands what entropy is but thinks that the sun is just a yellow man in the sky who smiles at us”.
I came across this earlier in the week, and it’ll be hard to beat as the single most retarded statement in all of 2008.
This is what happens when people read, but don’t bother to try to understand.
Strange, I thought exactly the same thing when I read that particular pearl of wisdom…
BWAAHHAHAHAHAAA
Actually to be fair to this moron I read a “science” textbook in the States which said much the same thing on the subject of evolution.
It’s still incredibly dumb though.
My seat is sadly not wipe-clean, more soak-in.
Goodness, I’ve seen the light. These 4 years doing a physics degree have been wasted.
However it does explain why I got a third in Thermal and Statistical Physics for answering everything as ‘God knows’.
That has a rather beautiful wrongness to it. So bold, so confident, so utterly wrong.
Fair play to him/her,
To put yourself on the line with such a pathetically retarded point really requires a level of courage I don’t think i’ll ever achieve.
I foolishly thought that we had reached the pinnacle of stupidity with the risible outpourings of Atom John.
Nothing could have prepared me for the ‘fundies’ comments. Surely, please, someone assure me that it’s really some normal people just having a laugh.
OF COURSE its a fucking joke. i truly despair sometimes, although i love this place a good chunk of whats published is clearly pisstakers winding up the hys numpties. come on nelson, pull your head out or im reporting you to the fuckwit police *stomps off*
Some of the published witterings might be made up for a laugh but it certainly doesn’t account for ‘a large chunk’. I don’t think we should let our guard down for a minute here, the world is chock full of these jelly backed idiots. We can’t let any of em slip through the net by mistaking them for fellow piss takers.
Also lets not let things slide and start typing in supposed actions like *scowls at Nelson* or *wags finger at Yusef* it makes me feel like I’m properly spending time on an internet forum and I don’t want that from Speak Your Branes.
Eggsackly.
At the risk of actually entering into a debate, I should add that I do usually check that they’re not pisstakers (usually by reading a few of their other posts). I guess it could be that some people are so devoted to their pisstaking that they build a facade of everyday, boring comments to make the mad ones seem more authentic… but that would be slightly more bizarre than doing it for real.
If it spews misinformed arsequack like a semi-literate racist, it probably IS a semi-literate racist.
if i want to use an asterix action thats up to me, i havent told you to stop licking nelsons scrote have i? spending time on yahoo answers has shown me just how easy it is to get people to bite when you post ridiculous twaddle. sorry to whine.
Wow - the guys on the fundies site really put the HYS whingers to shame. There’s some proper mentalists on there
Wow. nelson, yusef, i take it all back. just visited fstdt and now im scared. really scared. apologies. your humble servant, bill. *resists the urge to use action asterisks*
Their username is “awesomestnerd”. It’s wrong on just about every count. A nerd is generally someone who knows what the sun is. Plus this person is clearly not awesome.
Oh, and “awesomest” is not a word.
If you haven’t already been there - go and spend an hour browsing
http://www.fstdt.com
It’s quite nice in that in puts the Beeb’s SPEKE YOU’RE BRANES into context - demonstrating that British nutters who tap shit into messageboards with their penises are actually delightfully parochial, and relatively restrained, compared to our Good Ole Boy allies across the pond in the mighty mighty U.S of A.
This one just doesn’t stop making me laugh.
there’s a giant outside? where?
“This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase”
yes, but it caveats that with it being an isolated system
now just to find that elusive energy source, eh?
“Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn’t possible”
er, yes it is. and that’s the watch-maker argument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy
The second law of thermodynamics is DON’T TALK ABOUT THERMODYNAMICS
Thank you for providing me with a near death experience.
Fortunately i was able to laugh the piece of biscuit free from my windpipe, having suffered only minor brain damage, which may or may not have been previously present, there may also be some loss of short term memory, though that may be due to something else.
Please consider posting a disclaimer somewhere on the site highlighting the dangers inherent in reading this material.
Seem pretty clear from the phraseology that this is a sarcastic attack on one of the standard creationist counters to evolutionary theory. A pisstake, as you put it. No mind bending required, this is irony pure and simple. Are you telling us, Nelson, that you found plenty under this moniker consistant with the opposite interpretation?
Nope. This is from another site that collects stupid comments. There’s a link in the original post. Perhaps you should get over there and ask them some probing questions about their methods?
I’m only bothering to reply because I am sat on the bog with my laptop right now and I have only two things to do. One of them I can do with no hands.
Hang on, so it’s ill-researched, misapprehended AND lazy? Sort of hand-me-down, thrift store laziness?
Righto.
Sounds like a nice trick you can do, though. Must look a lot like the Ouroboros, only less snakey. More pink and wobbly and hairy and with your cock in your mouth.
I had to look up “Ouroboros”. It created such a compelling image that I nearly tried it.
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I get it - according to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics then, atmospheric H2O CANNOT turn into snowflakes, as snowflakes are clearly more ordered than vapour.
Anybody who claims that snowflakes are real is clearly in league with the devil.
Thermodynamics = The movement of energy and how energy creates movement (i.e. twatting an evangelical tit with a sledgehammer and the distance they move is based on how pissed off you were when you swung the hammer)
Evolution = Random mutations appearing in a species. Then add in something that kills off those that don’t have what it takes to survive and hey, evoluton. Darwin put it a lot better but I ain’t Darwin.
Thermodynamics has very little to do with evolution. If it did then sad evangelical twats would have developed the fireproof heretic and witch during the old burning at a stake form of rehabilitation.