[After being linked to an article in Science on Carbon dating calibration]
OK this is the website you sent me too. First of I like how they use complex words as if they are going to try and sound smart and confuse everyone. IF it was proof of evolution they would speak in plain terms so everyone could know they are right.
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I'm a humanities major who hasn't taken a science class since 11th grade, yet, reading carefully, I have very little trouble understanding what is written about evolution. Don't blame science for your own failings.
IF it was proof of evolution they would speak in plain terms so everyone could know they are right.
Like the bible?
The difference is, 'complex' words are just words you haven't learned yet. You can, and then the article WILL make sense.
But even though I understand the words printed in the bible, unlike science it is written in, parables, allegory, dreams, and contrast to known physical laws. Kinda makes a diff there, Mikey.
They use words to explain something that you, apparently, don´t get but works, not to look intelligent, which you ALWAYS try.
Mike. Please, sit down here and read this with me:-
Once upon a time there was a buch of little daddy animals and a buch of little mummy animals. Like most mummies and daddies, they had little baby animals.
After a while, some of the babies were able to grow up and be mummies and daddies of their own because they lived long enough to have babies. But the sad little ones who had something wrong with them went to heaven because they were too slow to run away from the tigers.
After a long time because only the bestest and fastest animals lived long enough to have babies their babies got faster and faster with each new bunch of kids, the tigers were too slow to catch any of the little animals and because the tigers did not have enough to eat the baby tigers started going to heaven before they could grow up and have babies of their own!
But - and here is the really smart bit! - some of the baby tigers were fast enough to catch the little animals and they all grew up to be mummies and daddies. So the tigers and the little animals all got to be very fast runners.
Now these tigers lived a long way away from all the other tigers in the Jungle in India and because they got to be faster runners, every time they had a new gen-er-ation (remember that word Mike? - it means each new batch of babies born; like you and your brother is one gen-er-ation, your Mum and Dad is another and your Gran and Grandad is another one again), each new gen-er-ation looked a bit different until after a lot of new gen-er-ations we had big strong tigers in India ('cos they did not have to chase little fast animals but big strong ones) and fast tigers in Africa.
Because they looked different we call the African ones Leopards.
If a leopard and a tiger were to meet and get married and want to have babies, because they are so different now it would be very very hard and probably the baby would not grow in the mummy's tummy like when your little brother was born.
It would be like on Star Trek if Deanna and Worf got married and wanted to have babies, it would probably not happen.
That is how e-vo-lu-tion works Mike.
Oh, dearie me. So what, Mr. Jones? Because you can't be bothered to look up the words, it's wrong? How's about you read the Bible, huh? Plenty of stuff there that's even more ambiguous.
Why should we care if information, knowledge, education or intelligence frighten you, Mike? The whole world is not going to slow down to a first grade reading level to coddle you. The people who study science are smart and educated and use big words to explain complicated concepts. If you want to keep up, you gotta get with the program.
And I would dearly love to see you try this argument out on your employer: "I can't do my work because the instructions are all in complex words just to sound smart and confuse me. I need to have them in plain terms that even a fundie retard can understand."
I'm sorry, Mikey, but somethings cannot be accurately explained using 3-letter words.
Also, by your logic, the Bible suffers from the same problem. The Bible is a morass of badly written, confusing and pointless stories supposedly written or at least inspired by your omnipotent, omniscient God. Can't your God write better than that?
There are a few stipulations for understanding anything:
You must actively make the effort to wrap your brain around the concept in question. Understanding does not work like bible brainwashing. You can not learn a logical system through rote or repetition or threats.
First, learn the vocabulary. This happens when you expose yourself to the authentic literature authored by experts.
You want it real simple? OK.
Take a generation. Any generation. Among them, some suck, some don't. Those that don't get to boink and have kids. That's the next generation. Among them, some suck, some don't. Those that don't get to boink and have kids.
Get the pattern?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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