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#1 2003-09-22 1:20 pm
- Troutski
- Dutuwende
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Is this satire or real?
Either this is really good satire (Landover Baptist Church Style) or it is real and really disturbing.
Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001
Example:
Patricia Lewis displays her jar of non-living material, still non-living after three weeks.
1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"
Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.
2nd Place: "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.
Honorable Mention:
"Mousetrap Reduced To Pile Of Functionless Parts" - Kevin Parker (grade 7)
"Dinosaur & Man Walked Together" - Donny Findlay (grade 6)
"Rocks Can't Evolve, Where Did They Come From Mr. Darwin?" - Anna Reed (grade 6)
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#2 2003-09-22 1:22 pm
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Re: Is this satire or real?
It's the former.
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#3 2003-09-22 1:26 pm
- NokX
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Re: Is this satire or real?
yah...because we all have seen the evidence that proves evolution. oh wait...nevermind. there is none.
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#4 2003-09-22 1:29 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Is this satire or real?
Whatever you think of evolution, I can't believe anyone would take these things seriously.
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#5 2003-09-22 1:29 pm
- Jaligard
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Re: Is this satire or real?
It seems real to me, but I'd love to find out for sure.
George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
George Bush: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to try to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
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#6 2003-09-22 1:33 pm
- fizzwinkus
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Re: Is this satire or real?
have we all seen evidence of creationism? i'm not satisfied until god himself comes down here and pops another adam right next to me. either that or jesus christ comes and gives me a bigger penis.
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#7 2003-09-22 1:33 pm
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Re: Is this satire or real?
There's no evidence for evolution? I find no evidence for creationism. Actually I think evolution is the explanation for creationism.
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#8 2003-09-22 1:44 pm
Re: Is this satire or real?
yah...because we all have seen the evidence that proves evolution. oh wait...nevermind. there is none.
lol, it may not prove it, but it at least "highly suggests" it. Give me ANY evidence that highly suggests creationism...
Odd...I didn't see any ninjas...
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#9 2003-09-22 1:46 pm
- DaBeav
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Re: Is this satire or real?
Landover is religious satire. I love it. Makes be proud to be an unsaved heathen... 
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#11 2003-09-22 2:08 pm
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Re: Is this satire or real?
yes its a fake site
in true MiniThink "Argue for the sake of arguing" style:
Isn't that what I said in post #2? Hunh? Hunh!!?
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#12 2003-09-22 2:15 pm
Re: Is this satire or real?
yes its a fake site
What is the evidence for it being fake? Certainly not the extremeness nor wackiness, and I couldn't find a "HaHa we're joking page"
It's a paradox of how sharply dull I am.
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#13 2003-09-22 2:31 pm
- The Great Prophet Omega
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Re: Is this satire or real?
Landover is a sartire site.
And women evolved to do housework.
Their feet are shorter so they can stand closer to the kitchen sink and stove... 
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#14 2003-09-22 2:32 pm
- jondaris
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Re: Is this satire or real?
The fact that people believe in creationism is the best argument against evolution.
"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian" -- Pat Paulsen
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#15 2003-09-22 2:46 pm
- fizzwinkus
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Re: Is this satire or real?
thats surprisingly powerful as an argument
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#16 2003-09-22 2:47 pm
- fizzwinkus
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Re: Is this satire or real?
yes its a fake site
What is the evidence for it being fake? Certainly not the extremeness nor wackiness, and I couldn't find a "HaHa we're joking page"
i find that to be a problem when dealing with the religious
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#17 2003-09-22 2:50 pm
Re: Is this satire or real?
yes its a fake site
What is the evidence for it being fake? Certainly not the extremeness nor wackiness, and I couldn't find a "HaHa we're joking page"
Just like back in Saigon! Eh, slick?
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#18 2003-09-22 2:53 pm
- Troutski
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Re: Is this satire or real?
I knew Landover was fake (read the 1st post), but the more I look at this site, the more I think it is real. Just read the Halloween page. One would expect that if it were satire, this page would be an obvious one to spot it. It seems way too serious and too real to be satire.
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#19 2003-09-22 2:54 pm
Re: Is this satire or real?
I knew Landover was fake (read the 1st post), but the more I look at this site, the more I think it is real. Just read the Halloween page. One would expect that if it were satire, this page would be an obvious one to spot it. It seems way too serious and too real to be satire.
Well its not so you better learn to deal with it
Just like back in Saigon! Eh, slick?
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#20 2003-09-22 2:55 pm
- NokX
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Re: Is this satire or real?
yah...because we all have seen the evidence that proves evolution. oh wait...nevermind. there is none.
lol, it may not prove it, but it at least "highly suggests" it. Give me ANY evidence that highly suggests creationism...
did the house you live in evolve from nothing, or did someone build it?
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#21 2003-09-22 2:59 pm
- Troutski
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Re: Is this satire or real?
He,he,he.
Had you going ...
(ya right)
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#22 2003-09-22 3:00 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Is this satire or real?
Ah, but who built the builder?
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#23 2003-09-22 3:00 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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Re: Is this satire or real?
If you wanna do this Evo vs Creation thing correctly, go get a new thread.
And oh yeah, it's satire
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#24 2003-09-22 3:00 pm
- NokX
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Re: Is this satire or real?
according to the evolutionary theory... life came from something (they haven't figured that part out yet), and then somehow, that one "organisim" managed to live and duplicate with itself. then because being an organisim floating around wasn't adequate, it decided to grow fins and gills and because it knew it needed to see, it grew eyes. then, living in the water wasn't cutting it, so after a few million years of flopping onto land, it grew lungs and fur and/or scales. some decided to become really slow sloths, some into mosquitos that just live for a day, some into birds after millions of years of attempting to be airborn, and now we have all the billions of species all over the globe we have today.
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln
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#25 2003-09-22 3:03 pm
Re: Is this satire or real?
according to the evolutionary theory... life came from something (they haven't figured that part out yet), and then somehow, that one "organisim" managed to live and duplicate with itself. then because being an organisim floating around wasn't adequate, it decided to grow fins and gills and because it knew it needed to see, it grew eyes. then, living in the water wasn't cutting it, so after a few million years of flopping onto land, it grew lungs and fur and/or scales. some decided to become really slow sloths, some into mosquitos that just live for a day, some into birds after millions of years of attempting to be airborn, and now we have all the billions of species all over the globe we have today.
And yet, it's a million times more likely than creationism.
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