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Hmmm, god is an impurity invading an otherwise hermetically sealed
environment and effecting change and/or life. No thanks. I like my peanut butter just the way it is, scientific superstitions and all ... What a load of crap...
posted by
saul_relative
on April 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM
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This info is realy handy
Now we also know how to hide from God. Seal yourself in a jar.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on April 26, 2008 at 5:40 PM
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This is for me!
I would have thought they needed a microscope to check for new life in the jar!
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on April 26, 2008 at 5:36 PM
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Troosha - the part I don't understand is this:
Evil conspiring scientists eat peanut butter too don't they? How could they have possibly missed it? Maybe they were all keeping mum on the subject, hoping that amongst the billions of empirical experiments performed every day, no one would notice. They are evil conspiring scientists after all.
posted by
gomedome
on April 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM
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Xeno-x - it is the language used that makes it impressive
The author obviously has a good command of the English language but at the same time not even a rudimentary grasp of the scientific theory of evolution. The scariest part of it is that most words coming from persons that are ministers or pastors are given an undo validity. There are probably people that are buying what he is saying and in so doing passing along his nonsensical view to further pollute the collective knowledge base.
posted by
gomedome
on April 24, 2008 at 3:03 PM
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FineYoungSinger - we've seen that time and time again and it is baffling
How can anyone take a position against something without being able to adequately define it? Sadly, the answer is that in regards to evolution; there has been an entire generation spawned by persons such as the author of that website. An ever growing chorus looking only for consensus, that is not only ignorant of that to which they object but have been led to believe that the erroneous information they have been given is the actual scientific theory.
posted by
gomedome
on April 24, 2008 at 2:56 PM
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Sunnybeach7 - the part that astounds me is that this nonsense is not
written in crayon.
It is instead a lucid and articulate use of the English language which indicates post secondary education. How do people get through college with this lack of a basic reasoning ability?
posted by
gomedome
on April 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM
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gome
Yikes! Does that make me a shallow person that I don’t even recognize when I open a jar of jam, stick my knife into it, and slap it on a piece of bread that I’m participating in an empirical experiment. Thought I was just making a jam sandwich. 
posted by
Troosha
on April 24, 2008 at 1:47 PM
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that argument is very old
and almost impressive on the surface.
I belonged to a church that used that argument, but in reponse to previous attempts to explain evolving, such as observing flies seeming to arise from meat spontaneously.
Old responses to old disproved explanations cannot apply to what we now understand.
I've been through the whole kaschmiel -- Watchmaker, all that. It was good for its time and, I think ahead of its time (1950's -- 60's), but they are old, dried up critiques that cannot give an adequate response to what is know about evolution, etc.
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 24, 2008 at 10:54 AM
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What baffles me is that he never bothered to consult a book by the science community that actually discusses the theory he's attempting to debunk with this article. At the very least, a "belief system" should be represented for what it really is, not for what others perceive it to be.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on April 24, 2008 at 6:14 AM
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Gome
I recall reading about this before.
A very BAD example of trying to "prove" one thing, by inadequately "disproving" another.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on April 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM
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