[One can look at the land masses today and see that they can go together to form a single land mass.]
That's a lie - Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory! Scientists will twist and turn anything to suit their agenda and gain a good pat on the back from the fellow contempories! Satan at work again.
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How can it be a lie? Our eyes may play trics on us, but they hardly lie to us. (Strange that they play the same trics for so many people.)
The only agenda scientists have is to understand the world better, to discover things that make our lives easier or that will cure diseases. All things to heighten our quality of life. Yeah, that must be a bad thing...
"That's a lie - Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!"
True (sort of). On maps the land isn't represented in quite the right size due to trying to represent something wrapped around a globe in a 2D space.
However, we have these nifty things called "satellites" now which can take pictures of the entire surface of the Earth. Even a satellite image shows that Africa, South America an so on would fit together if you could slide them around.
There's no sense in denying reality.
"Scientists will twist and turn anything to suit their agenda and gain a good pat on the back from the fellow contempories!"
Are you fucking serious? The only thing that makes a scientist more famous than making a discovery is proving conclusively that someone else was wrong about theirs.
Scientists don't just sit around patting each other on the back you jackass. They do everything they can to disprove one another. Not necessarily out of malicious intent but so that whatever holds up is almost certainly correct.
"That's a lie - Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!"
They do?! Wow! Where can I contact these Super Scientists with their Gargantuan and Colossal - Humongous and Titanic - super special Continental Shrinking Ray (Acme(tm))?
Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!
No, creationists make up utter nonsense like this out of thin air to allow the ignorant to keep believing the infallibility of Genesis.
I could have sworn the fundie line was that all continents were one landmass until the flood, when they broke apart from the pressure.
They claim that it was no problem for animals to get to South America and Australia from the Middle East because all the land was still close together just after the flood.
You fucked up the fundy talking points, sissco. Creationists are supposed to believe in "one continent before the flood" as supposed evidence for the flood. You got your own bullshit completely reversed.
Also, when I was six years old I first noticed that Africa and South America (and some other landmasses) seemed to "fit" together. So you're dumber than a six-year-old. And you can go fuck Satan yourself.
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Damn you beat me to it...but why not reiterate the point?
Hey dipshit your bible says all the land was gathered together, thats right the BIBLE says that the scientists are right. But like a stereotypical Christian the only parts of the bible you know are those you hear on Sunday.
As has been said elsewhere here your problem results from looking at paper maps and flat representations of the earth. Cartographers do not show the land masses to scale on flat maps, they are purposely distorted in order to give an approximation of the 3D veiw of a globe while keeping the latitude and longitude lines straight.
Please feel free to verify this for yourself, it is quite easy to do online. Or you could try the very simple method of comparing a flat map to a globe map. Apparently the results will be quite a shocking revelation to you. It is a pity you didn't try it before making an ass out of yourself in front of the entire internet. :(
Drat, another bottle of mirror polish has been used up. What do you fundies do, bathe in it? Okay, fine, I'll go to the store and buy some more.
While their church offers no evidence, use no professional standards and provide no evidence of their faith: They demand absolutely perfect explanations (double standard much?)
Continental drift is a proven reality, it happens, satallites show us still drifting, some continents being opened up.
God has no proof from any religion, the Bible contradicts itself, All religions disagree within and without. Religion has no more evidence than Brother Grimm, Dr Suess or Homers Epics.
They offer nothing but " If you don't believe in my God why should I believe in science"
Evidence (proof)
Educated professionals (You can be a church leader with no certification)
A desire for actual truth
That's a lie - Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!
No, you are either very confused about certain things or you are deliberatly lying.
On a Mercator Projection Map the African continent has indeed been shrunk, but not by not "scientist" with a duplicitous agenda, but by mapmakers trying to properly represent a 3-dimensional oblate sphereoid as a 2-D flat surface. The Peters Projection Map fixes most of the problems with the Mercator map, including the relative size of landmasses, and guess what? Africa still still fits.
Scientists will twist and turn anything to suit their agenda and gain a good pat on the back from the fellow contempories!
This coming from a creationist? "Judge not lest ye be judged". Do don't want to start compareing outright lies now do you? Not coming from people who only have the likes of Hovind to back them up. So whose twisting evidence? Continental drift and and the theory of a single landmass can be backed up by far, far more that just the shapes of continents. Care to try and refute all that evidence?
Satan at work again.
Typical fundie. So smug and self righteous that they have no choice but to blame everything they can on "Satan" rather that admit the possibility that they may in fact, be mistaken. So arrogant that they will break their own supposedly inviolable commandments and resort to outright lies and bearing false witness to assassinate someone's character rather than admit that they are wrong.
Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!
While I can give him the benefit of the doubt regarding that the "Africa shape" will have changed over billions of years , at one point there was almost certainly a Pangea landform .
It's not Satan, it's geology.
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You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes________Eagles
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So if the Pangea theory would seem to support the fundies' whole earth flood story, how does it become the property of evil science now? Is it just because there has been rational thought applied instead of blind faith? Satan! Oooooooohhh, the treacherous bastard! His demons are in labs everywhere.
Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!
'Anyone can make up statistics, 40% of people know that"- homer Simpson
(sorry whoever I stole this from)
One, no they don't. You need an accurate map projection.
Two, you assume that the continents have always been as they are now. Geology doesn't work that way.
AND NOW, BATMAN, MY SHRINKING BEAM WILL SHRINK AFRICA BY 40% SO I CAN FIT IT INTO THE ONE LAND MASS THEORY! AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO TO STOP ME! NOTHING! HAHAHAHAHA!
WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? NOOOOOOO!
Ok. You caught us. Yes, scientists shrank Africa
They came up with the idea at their Unbirthday tea party, hosted by the Mad Hatter and March Hare. Santa, the Easter Bunny, Darth Vader and Jesus were all there too.
Yeah scientists shrinking Africa by 40% is a sure sign of the End Times. But why bring that pipsqueak Satan into it? He couldn't defeat a mouse foetus. Although, admittedly, he can best an entire religion.
"That's a lie - Scientists shrink the continent of Africa by 40% to make it fit the one land mass theory!"
Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
(© Tom Stoppard, 1966. Used without permission.)
"Scientists will twist and turn anything to suit their agenda and gain a good pat on the back from the fellow contempories!"
That's actually the opposite of what scientists want to do. If they do that, they won't be remembered by anyone. If they, instead, contradict a well known theory with a superior answer that grows to be accepted, they go down in history forever. People like Einstein, Galileo, and Darwin will be remember as long as human civilization exists because they came up with something brand new, not because they accepted what was there.
As Bugs Bunny would say:
"See the Maroon."
"Satan at work again."
It sure is!
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Oh, come on . We cut out the continents, assembled them into Pangea, and glued them onto blue construction paper in fourth grade . And, fuck, I noticed they seemed to "fit together" before then.
Oh, that wacky Satan. What will he do next?
Certainly nothing practical, it seems.
Confused?
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