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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Scott" wrote:
>
> I don't know anything about the Heartland Institute. All I know is all
> these genius scientists who can tells what happened fifty million years ago,
> don't ever tell us a thing about the greatest climate event in recent
> history, that happened 4000 years ago, the worldwide flood. And many of
??? I hope this is a joke. Science has nothing to say about a worldwide flood 4,000 years
ago because there is no evidence of such a flood other than a single description in a
religious text, and descriptions in religious texts don't count as scientific evidence
because they cannot be tested. Science is about things that can be directly observed and
tested, not about faith. Geological strata can be observed and their age tested via
measurement of radioactive decay products and other such direct observable tests, and
conclusions thus made about what happened 50 millions years ago, but thus far there has
been no directly observable evidence of a flood 4000 years ago that engulfed the entire
earth. Thus it's not science. If you can't see it or feel it, it isn't science, it's... something
else.
> them don't want to know, because then its makes their god likes egos
Science is about things that can be observed and tested. I agree that the scientists of my
aquaintance have big egos, but that doesn't affect their ability to observe and test. Just as
auto mechanics don't make medical decisions regarding heart surgery, scientists don't
make theological decisions regarding holy scriptures. Well a few do, but they shouldn't. It's
not part of their job description, which is to examine what is observable and testable.
> subjected to a higher authority, who already has the answers to all their
> questions about how EVERYTHING works, because He created it all.
Exactly. As a devoted member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti monster
(
http://www.venganza.org/), I know why scientists cannot observe evidence of the Great
Marinari Flood of 2000BC. It is because His noodly appendage reaches down and tweaks
the instruments that scientists use to observe things in order to give inaccurate results, as
any Pastafarian knows. That is also why scientists believe the world is billions of years old
rather than being created (along with trees, a mountain, and a midgit(sic)) only 16,000
years ago -- His noodly appendage reaches out of the ether and sets itself down on their
scale to make it give a false reading. Similarly, with the Great Marinari Flood of 2000BC,
His noodly appendages reached down and cleaned up all the evidence, so that's why we
can't find any. The Flying Spaghetti Monster loves pulling those kinds of tricks on humans,
but His Noodly Nature is not to be questioned by mere mortals, for He is a jealous deity.
I thank you for your assistance in helping me spread the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster. May the FSM be with you. Ramen!
-E