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[–] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had a class in community college with a Christian "science" kid. He thought it was unreasonable that climate scientists could accurately measure things like global temperature and sea level rises. What really floored me about this is we were literally sitting in front of a computer controlled measuring machine capable of measuring sizes down to something like 0.001mm.

Real no critical thinking hours.

[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago

Then the Christian homeschooling was a great success, it did what it was intelligently designed to do

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

No one has felt it? No one? Has felt it? No one, not a single person this author has heard of, has had so much as a static shock? I'm actually freaking out. Like it's actually telling you to deny your own experiences. Like actual brainwashing.

The sun is the source of electricity? What "scientists" think that? Why not just leave it at no one knows? Why make up someone to be wrong? Is the point to say that EVERY actual scientific fact is wrong? I want to commit an act of violence against the authors for subjecting my eyes to this nonsense. I want to bully them.

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 30 points 4 days ago

You should be legally allowed to tase anyone who claims electricity can't be felt.

[–] lapis@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

I'm actually freaking out. Like it's actually telling you to deny your own experiences. Like actual brainwashing.

well yeah, it’s christianity-based.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

These are the people running circles around us in the culture wars btw.

Doing perfectly Euclidean victory laps, unbothered, because nautical miles are a lie made up by Satan-worshipping round Earthers

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago

It’s perfectly legal to teach this in Florida but not that trans people exist

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm not sure, but I remember seeing this exact image (though with a few more lines of resolution, holy shit it got crunchy) many years ago. At least as old as 2012.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Yes: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8217488M/Science_4

Published by Bob Jones University Press, 1990.

Chapter 1 is "History of the Moon."

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Yup, it's there on page 40...truly beyond parody.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

I this real Grok ?

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What about lightning?

Or do they just think that's god

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You are fucking with me ? Thats obviously Thor

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How can anyone even believe in christian god, completely untrustworthy, while Thor promised lightning and here it is, Odin promised no Jotunn anywhere and i never seen even a single one. Smh.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Sun worship is the best religion because

a) The Sun is right there

b) Literally all life on earth would die if it disappeared

c) It's inconceivably powerful and the only thing that prevents it from being an actual deity (for humanity) is its lack of sentience

Christian god? Fraud. Thor? Bozo. But if the 2 octillion ton fusion reactor in the sky ever tells me to bow, you bet your ass I'm gonna fall on my knees.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

lack of sentience

Allegedly

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

scared Almighty Sol, I have sung your praises longer than most

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

UN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN T

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

You've convinced me. Ever notice how sun haters deny the power of our god while all the food they eat would not exist of it were not for photosynthesis? If they really hate the sun so much, why don't they burrow deep below the earth?

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

sun worship should be hexbear's Official Religion (sponsored by Coinbase)

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's ridiculous. Obviously Odin and Thor exist because they have a day every single week. I don't recall there ever being a Jesusday.

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

lightning only happens when god is mad. he claps and its like BOOM, lightning

[–] GrafZahl@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago

Asking philosophical questions about scientific subjects and complaining that scientists won't engage in philosophy. Where "does" time come from?

Typing and printing made possible by generations of people who had to be really confident in their control of electricity through transistors. You're taking a massive leap insofar as electromagnetic energy being a fundamental force of the universe having an unknown origin in the ultimate sense. It's the same way we have had hundreds of years of perfectly useful Newtonian gravity - going so far as to map the solar system with satellites, but can't make our model of the galaxy work without dark matter.

Also, we do see, hear, and feel lightning. And we can explain it. The intellectual dishonesty of "some people believe this or that" like these are worthwhile perspectives. It's sickening. Even given the perspective that we don't know, there's a certain lack of onus on one to use the scientific method to go figure it out. Like the purpose of science is to be told what is and what isn't correct.

same people who say 'Islam doesn't belong in europe ,muslims have low IQ 🤡" btw

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Magic, just saying.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

i didn't go to a christian school or anything but I feel like having been forced to go to sunday school and church every weekend for 12 years of my early life really fucked up my brain where i would probably have been much clearer on everything in general had I never been forced to go

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Ya I was Catholic, and although it was much less bad that a lot of types of Christianity, I'm still of the opinion that all the absolute boredom must have done some damage (or at least lack of development) to my brain. I could have done much better things with my childhood than wait for the time to pass and stare at stained glass windows.

[–] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

Yes surely no one has considered this widespread phenomenon and developed knowledge through observation over generations, and harnessed that knowledge to develop their civilization. That would be ludicrous

https://www.zhaawanart.com/post/teachings-of-the-eagle-feather-part-36-fire-of-the-thunder-grandfathers