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#1209237
The Duelist
Yeah, inbreeding and genocide is much more logical than science.
9/18/2010 5:44:12 PM
#1209283
Skyknight
For the record, I have a feeling the Plymouth Brethren sentence is from the one Schlafly was castigating for not supplying enough (over-)credit to American invention. Hopefully, Schlafly's not billing himself as a telepath...
9/18/2010 8:42:04 PM
#1209284
Well since everyone has already slammed your argument in the mud, I must address one thing no one else really has:
"the Bible, the most logical book of all."
Even you don't believe that, since you're rewording it.
9/18/2010 8:52:55 PM
#1209311
Drax
Since the US has only been around for a few centuries, then yeah, I find it hard to see how the vast majority of inventions could have been American.
9/18/2010 11:23:41 PM
#1209333
SleepNeed
Seriously? The majority of inventions are American? Somehow I doubt that this country that has existed for less than 250 years has come up with the majority of inventions in the history of mankind.
You know the computer your using Andy to type? The so called father of modern computing (and rightfully so) was Alan Turing who was English for example. The idea of communications using geostationary satellites? Arthur C. Clarke, a Brit. The car you drive? The first modern automobile was not by Henry Ford but by Karl Benz, a German. And these are just in the past 200 years that I can think of off handed, there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) more and it increases the further back you go.
9/19/2010 12:43:12 AM
#1209339
Night Jaguar
Andy seems to think only one nationality can be good at any skill. For example, similiarly to the above quote, he wrote that most great composers were German. When given examples like Vivaldi, Verdi, Haydn, Tchaikovskhy, and Mozart
he dismissed them as "obscure composers".
He also said the British were notoriously weak at math. As you can imagine counterexamples were given and he rationalized then away: Newton (he was 'pre-British' and 'pre-modern'), Alan Turing (overhyped by liberals and a computer geek, not a mathematician(as if those were mutually exclusive)), Bertrand Russell (not a mathematician, a poltical hack), etc.
He lives in a completely different universe than the rest of us. A scary, scary, universe.
9/19/2010 1:06:32 AM
#1209349
Albionic
The ancient Chinese had rockets.They used them against the invading Mongolia armies.
Much later the Germans greatly improved them using London as a testing ground.
The first American space rockets were essentially modified German A4 rockets - or V2s.
9/19/2010 1:44:30 AM
#1209359
Andy seems to think only one nationality can be good at any skill.
Sadly, that sort of thinking not all that uncommon. I call it the one-hero-one-villain mindset. It describes, for example, why many conservative fundies lump atheists, socialists, communists, academics and liberals into one big, nebulous group, or why a lot of people can't see Apple for the corporate monstrosity that would dictate our lives to us that it is simply because Microsoft already fills that role; the idea that there could be more than one bad guy, or more than one good guy, or even many disparate groups that cannot ever be considered "all good" or "all bad," simply won't fit into some people's heads. Sadly, the bible and its ilk exemplify and promote this mindset; what with it only allowing for anything to be classified as either "godly" or "ungodly," with nothing in between and nothing exempt.
9/19/2010 2:26:34 AM
#1209363
Malth
>>the vast majority of inventions have been American
Seriously, WTF?
I mean, yes there have been a good number of egregious american inventors, but how far removed from reality do you have to be to believe something like this?
People, I'm more and more certain this man is a troll.
I have to keep tinking so.
9/19/2010 2:44:25 AM
#1209400
London Jew
Seriously, Assfly dismissed Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Verdi, and MOZART as 'minor composers'?
He's either the biggest troll evah or completely, absolutely, barking mad.
9/19/2010 8:22:35 AM
#1209586
Albionic
Paper money-Chinese
Banking-Knights Templat-international
But probably not American
First manned flight -French- (OK first heavier than air flight definitely American)
Positive plate photography -French-Daguerre
Negative plate photography-British-Fox-Talbot
Cinematography-French
This one could run and run!
9/19/2010 3:33:46 PM
#1209593
Shadoboy
How is denying that Americans invented most of the stuff in the world the same as denying the Bible.
Oh, I know, because you think God only cares about your country.
9/19/2010 3:40:56 PM
#1209722
Albionic
Paper money-Chinese
Banking-Knights Templat-international
But probably not American
First manned flight -French- (OK first heavier than air flight definitely American)
Positive plate photography -French-Daguerre
Negative plate photography-British-Fox-Talbot
Cinematography-French
This one could run and run!
9/20/2010 1:33:14 AM
#1209744
LC
Eilmer of Malmesbury invented a glider in 1010. Not necessarily the first one, but definitely not American.
I wonder which bit of the Bible has all the American inventions in?
9/20/2010 2:40:42 AM
#1209843
Anon-e-moose
@Albionic
"Paper money-Chinese"
Whisky: Chinese
Negative numbers: Chinese
Concept - and use - of '0' (Zero) in their numerical system: ancient Mayan (PROTIP: 0 - along with '1' is the basis of Binary. Without that, we wouldn't have digital computers, Andy Schaftafly).
Oh, and one more thing:
Algebra: Islamic
Have I blown your mind, Andy?
@Albionic
"The first American space rockets were essentially modified German A4 rockets - or V2s."
Messrs. Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins would never have made it to the Moon, if it weren't for a certain Wehrner von Braun, and his engine designs that contributed greatly to NASA's success in their space programme then, before and since. A captured Nazi rocket scientist. America never had a single V2 land on their soil, but they certainly felt the scientific - and Cold War political - benefit.
To say nothing of all those Fieseler Fi-103s - a.k.a. V1s - the US forces captured at Peenemunde; the reverse-engineering of such ultimately led to the technological evolution of the modern Cruise Missile.
And don't you think it curious Andy, how the engines in all early USAF jets looked exactly like those from captured Messerschmitt Me-262s?
9/20/2010 7:26:53 AM
#1209875
YesNoMaybe
I read quotes like this and am convinced Schlafly is a massively successful poe, but then I read more of his quotes and lose that feeling.
I don't know what to believe anymore!!
9/20/2010 8:19:17 AM
#1209962
Doubting Thomas
You still won't admit that the vast majority of inventions have been American?
Like the wheel, gunpowder, the printing press, sailing ships, fire, telescopes, paper, writing, music...
Please don't suggest these to Andy since he may add them as American inventions to Conservapedia. Or, on the other hand, let him add them and look like an even bigger idiot.
But I suspect you're more interested in trying to reject the Bible than giving it equal time in your activities.
I don't need to take time to reject as false any book that has a talking snake in it.
9/20/2010 12:34:41 PM
#1210164
Anon-e-moose
@Night Jaguar
"He also said the British were notoriously weak at math. As you can imagine counterexamples were given and he rationalized then away: Newton (he was 'pre-British' and 'pre-modern'), Alan Turing (overhyped by liberals and a computer geek, not a mathematician(as if those were mutually exclusive)), Bertrand Russell (not a mathematician, a poltical hack), etc."
Well, just three words can utterly destroy what Andy Schaftafly says about 'weak British mathematicians' (emphasis added):
Professor Stephen Hawking. Ergo...:
QED.
"He lives in a completely different universe than the rest of us. A scary, scary, universe."
Or his own dimension, what I call the USA: the Unimaginable State of Americentricism.
9/21/2010 6:48:44 AM
#1210349
albionic
@anon-e-moose
Whisky: Chinese
Please don't tell a Glaswegian this.Your life might be in danger if you do!
9/21/2010 11:56:09 AM
#1210360
SwedeThe wheel
Film
Canal building
Money
Agriculture
The guillotine
Coffee
Alcohol
Kerosene
Soap bar
Toothpaste
Oh, heck, I just post a link:
Inventions in medieval Islam
The Bible was invented in America? Is that what you mean?
9/21/2010 12:25:14 PM
#1210439
You still won't admit that the vast majority of inventions have been American?
You mean Americans invented more things in a couple of centuries than the rest of mankind did in 200 millennia? Wow man, you Americans are quite good, aren't you; especially (read: exclusively) in your own opinion.
9/21/2010 6:22:15 PM
#1210446
Moondog
The wheel, the sail, the chimney. All unknown.
Paper money, gunpowder, rocketry. All Chinese.
The steam engine. British.
Writing. Mesopotamian, Egytpian and Phoenician.
Navigation. Arabic.
Magnetic compass. Chinese.
9/21/2010 6:59:47 PM
#1211141
pretty puppy
One of the youngest countries on earth has produced the most inventions? Okay.
9/23/2010 9:04:18 PM
#1287798
M
The Bible? LOGICAL?
Spock would cry. Seriously, I'm appalled, Mister Schlafly. You fail.
5/10/2011 8:06:18 PM
#1337742
Apatheist
200 years dude. 200 chucklefucking years and you think the U.S. has overtaken anyone else in notable inventions?
I'm sorry, but I don't think many people will beat the Chinese for notable inventions anytime soon.
10/4/2011 9:50:19 PM
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