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[flabort]

Well my point is that the Teacher was not very well educated on their own beliefs, and known little about the opposition, too. Know thy enemy, but first Know Thyself, and all that.

KKK members are those people who cover their faces and wear giant white dunce caps for the sake of "racial purity", right?

Flabort is a creationist and yet believes in evolution (or at least agrees some form of evolution exists)? wat.

The issue is that the two are obviously not mutually exclusive.
I believe that micro-evolution exists, but evolution is not the reason we are here or what drives us; I digress, this is turning into a derail, although I guess the topic IS "WTF is Flabort saying?!".

[Putnam]

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For those of us who don't frequent wherever this is, what game is that for?

League of Legends

[flame99]

-idiotsnip-

...
And I thought the shitty pseudoscience they handed us in Health was bad.

* Tawarochir flips through his spellbook to find the best one to destroy whoever the hell came up with that stuff

What do you guys think, Meteor Swarm his house or use Dominate Monster and tell him to jump off a cliff?

Nah, Dominate Monster to make them cast Meteor Swarm while falling off of a cliff.

[Putnam]

I believe that micro-evolution exists

"i believe that advances in technology exist, but i don't believe that cell phones came from computers"

[Graknorke]

I believe that micro-evolution exists

Okay I can sympathise with greatorder now. This particular statement grinds my gears even though there's no reason why it should more than anything else.

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For those of us who don't frequent wherever this is, what game is that for?

League of Legends

Doesn't LoL render things in 3d though? So it's perfectly possible to distinguish body shapes without sticking water balloons on the front.

[EnigmaticHat]

[sarcasm]An abstinence education‽ What are they teaching kids these days‽ That abstaining from sex keeps you from having babies? The very thought![/sarcasm]

No, abstinence only education, which actually results in teenagers having more babies.  Its what happens when adults care more about stopping premarital sex than they do about the health of children.

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I want to insult it but it insults itself.

[tahujdt]

Flabort, speaking as one Christian to another: you're not gonna win an argument here. Bay12 is a place that would be more accepting to others than most, but it's still pretty durn left-wing. I'm not saying don't defend your beliefs, I'm saying know when to fold them. 'When to fold them' may not be now, but I guarantee you that pursuing an argument will not end with you winning.

[Dutchling]

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I want to insult it but it insults itself.

I read that as boots as first.

It actually still made sense.

[Putnam]

Also, they brought in Guinsoo? The guy who thought that a hero with two summons, one of which revives dead bodies that the hero can generate himself every 2.5 seconds and the ultimate of which makes self-replicating units which don't get damaged by 90% of attacks thrown at them was a good idea?

Flabort, speaking as one Christian to another: you're not gonna win an argument here. Bay12 is a place that would be more accepting to others than most, but it's still pretty durn left-wing. I'm not saying don't defend your beliefs, I'm saying know when to fold them. 'When to fold them' may not be now, but I guarantee you that pursuing an argument will not end with you winning.

I respect beliefs, but denial of reality is a bit far.

[Orange Wizard]

Speaking as a Christian; young-earth creationism is silly. Granted, that doesn't mean I like to think humans evolved from apes, but the general idea of interpreting a book as scientific fact when it was written thousands of years before "science" existed...

Hang on, let's not pile up of flabort. Sorry, flabort.

[Frumple]

Flabort, speaking as one Christian to another: you're not gonna win an argument here. Bay12 is a place that would be more accepting to others than most, but it's still pretty durn left-wing. I'm not saying don't defend your beliefs, I'm saying know when to fold them. 'When to fold them' may not be now, but I guarantee you that pursuing an argument will not end with you winning.

I'unno, you might be able to manage a truce of some sort so long as you're not a young earth creationist. There's a relatively large amount of shrug room involved in the big bang and whatnot.

And... Putnam, your vaguely fetishistic obsession with LoL is showing again. Can't be healthy, that. Just... just go play the bloody game, once, so you can say you did, and then go back to playing DotA and ignoring LoL, like sane people that dislike the latter do.

[EnigmaticHat]

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I want to insult it but it insults itself.

I read that as boots as first.

It actually still made sense.

I like big boots and I cannot lie.

[Iceblaster]

@Sex Ed:

Abstinence only education?

And on masturbation? Pray tell, what would happen if you had sex a lot. Same thing or different because reasons.

[sarcasm]An abstinence education‽ What are they teaching kids these days‽ That abstaining from sex keeps you from having babies? The very thought![/sarcasm]

What I got was that sex did all these bad things and that only abstaining kept you safe from stds. I did not mean to imply that teaching people about mod having babies is a bad thing. Apologies. Again.

Damn I am late getting to this. Damn you tf2

[flabort]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I believe that micro-evolution exists

"i believe that advances in technology exist, but i don't believe that cell phones came from computers"

Cellphones came from phones, which originally were not computers at all, though they became more viable when they were integrated with computers. Computers are as related to cellphones as humans are to apes. They may have had a common ancestor, and share a wide range of components, but they didn't start out the same. Technology also isn't biology; technology advances through research and knowledge, with some blind luck, not purely on random chance and survival-of-the-fittest.

Take a platter of bacteria and watch them. They do mutate. MUTATION exists, and within small communities, this mutation can cause some genes to be more common then others (such as one bacteria resistant to UV rays becoming more common then the others); viola, micro-evolution.

Evolution is not mutually exclusive with creation. Micro-Evolution is proven. It's MACRO-evolution on a worldwide scale that can't be proven, which is mutually exclusive to creation. The great argument is Creation vs MACRO-Evolution. On which I take the Creation side, on which you can blame my upbringing.

I believe that micro-evolution exists

Okay I can sympathise with greatorder now. This particular statement grinds my gears even though there's no reason why it should more than anything else.

I choose to believe what I believe, and am willing to research and back up my statements. My extended family still doesn't believe that Micro-evloution can possibly be a thing. I have researched and witnessed it in action.
I acknowledge that I may be wrong, though. But until we can prove that the Theory is more than a Theory on the macro scale, I choose to believe that it's not pure luck but pure love that I am typing this.

Can we please talk about the other two teachers? I seriously don't want to derail this any further.

Flabort, speaking as one Christian to another: you're not gonna win an argument here. Bay12 is a place that would be more accepting to others than most, but it's still pretty durn left-wing. I'm not saying don't defend your beliefs, I'm saying know when to fold them. 'When to fold them' may not be now, but I guarantee you that pursuing an argument will not end with you winning.

I bow to your wisdom, and I hide my argument in the spoiler.
Heh. It's a good way to kill time, though, I'll admit that.

I'unno, you might be able to manage a truce of some sort so long as you're not a young earth creationist.

The heck is that? *googles*
Ah.
That's an essay for another day. Not going to touch that issue with a ten-thousand foot pole right now.

[Descan]

saying it needs to be worldwide change to be proven is moving the goalposts

* Descan paps flabort on the face with a dictionary

theory doesn't mean guess you dingus