Archive for March, 2009

31
Mar
09

An almost funny conversation

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Categories: Atheists, Humor and I recommend
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Well while discussing a few topics on another blog, a few things another person said made me chuckle inside. To start, it is important that you know what logical fallacies are. Here is a humorous example:

Now AV (the person I was talking to) links to these all the time. Just about every-other comment on the blog we were talking about had a link from him. Now that you know that, here was our conversation:

-Gordon- Evolution makes it very hard to believe in an interventionist God, but its perfectly possible to believe in evolution and still believe in God. Lots of people do, including the pope.

  • AV comments twice in between here, then I begin commenting.

-Me- AV, why didn’t you accuse Gordon of “Argument from popular belief fallacy”? He specifically said: “Lots of people do, including the pope.” Would that not be an appeal to authority as well? Do we only correct those whom oppose us?

-AV- Stop whining. If Gordon is guilty of arguing from popular belief, then the fact that you are able to recognise this reassures me that you have at least been capable of learning something from our conversation. But the notion that two wrongs make a right, which is where you appear to be heading now, is also a fallacy.

 

Now this is funny: I have been told to stop whining from somebody who links to these logical fallacies very often. Not only that, but he immediately accuses me of commiting another logical fallacy… 

Av, I would appreciate it if you would not accuse me of things you are far more guilty of.

27
Mar
09

What Darwinists Never Realize…

By Garrett Oden 9 Comments
Categories: Cool Sites and Current Issues
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Well I stumbled across this website while searching on Google for a couple things and I just had to visit thanks to the title.

 

http://www.darwinistsneverrealize.com/index.php

Wow this site has over 400 different “What Darwinists Never Realized” facts. I think some are a little odd but still most are accurate and sometimes even funny. It brought joy to my heart to read a well put together list attacking Evolution. It’s worth checking out.

So go and tell me what you think!

http://www.darwinistsneverrealize.com/index.php

26
Mar
09

Obama will require you to work!

By Garrett Oden 16 Comments
Categories: Current Issues, The End and Videos
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Sounds good at first, just wait till the end. This video made by Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com

“Barrack will require you to work!”

- Oh great.

25
Mar
09

The “Bathroom Bills”

By Garrett Oden 23 Comments
Categories: Current Issues
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Has anybody heard of the “Bathroom Bills”? A few states have passed these bills that allows a man who “feels like a woman” to enter a womans restroom with no conflict. So if I was living in one of these states, I could just walk into a woman’s restroom and could say I wasn’t feeling very manly.

This bill is supposed to protect transgender rights, but it totally destroys all the hetrosexual people out there’s privacy. I sure do not want a woman walking into the restroom while I am in there! Though this has yet happened in Texas, it has in several states. 

Does anybody else think this is just one of the most stupid things to do?

21
Mar
09

10 Most Common Arguments for Abortion

By Garrett Oden 53 Comments
Categories: Current Issues and Morals
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1. The sexually assualted shouldn’t have to pay for another’s crime

Here is something I found on a YahooAnswers page:

The first argument that always arises against the Christian stance on
abortion is, “What about cases of rape and/or incest?” As horrible as
it would be to become pregnant as a result of rape and/or incest, does
that make the murder of a baby the answer? Two wrongs do not make a
right. The child who is a result of rape/incest could be given up for
adoption to a loving family unable to have children on their own – or
the child could be raised by its mother. Again, the baby should not be
punished for the evil acts of its father.

Whether you like it or not, it’s a good answer.

2. The fetus isn’t a human

Oh brother, I hate this one. This is just one of those last resort excuses that people use to rationalize their stupid schemes.

“you know, everyone who is for abortion was once a fetus.” – http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080722144747AAQeYur

Here is a passage from Gospelway.com

Deuteronomy 24:16 says: “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.” Justice is one of the weightier matters of the law (Matt. 23:23). May we kill an innocent baby after it is born, because its parents sinned? No, and killing an unborn baby for his parents’ sin is likewise a miscarriage of justice.

3. The child will be born into poverty

My grandparents were dirt poor when they gave birth to my mother. I am oh-so happy my mother wasn’t aborted. Who is to say they cannot pick themselves up? Should we just kill all the poor people? Who are you to say that you cannot be poor but happy?

4. The child will suffer from down syndrome

I agree with this one. Let us just kill all the people that aren’t all there. We can make a race without people will a little difficulty. We can put them all into concentration camps, and murder all the incoming ones. Soon there will be none left! Sound familiar at all?

Continue reading ‘10 Most Common Arguments for Abortion’

12
Mar
09

Picture Art

By Garrett Oden 5 Comments
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This has nothing to do with our usuall topics and discussions, but I feel like I need to show you my amature photoshopping skills =D

Started with the first picture, then edited to make the second!

09
Mar
09

A bunch of Guesses

By Garrett Oden 39 Comments
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In biology today we did an excercise to help each other better understand ‘natural selection’.

There were three groups. Each one had 10 members. The first person (I happend to be that person) went up to our teacher and drew the picture he had shown us. We then turn around and show the next person our drawing, and they draw it. After all 10 people of the group, we turned our cards in.

Next, all 10 cards were taped onto the whiteboard, and another group was chosen to guess which ones came first and put them in order of how they ‘evolved’.

The first group got it right (we had numbers on the back so we could check). The second group (my group) was quite a bit off. Then it hit me:

Nearly that entire idea is based of guesses, which may be right, but could very well be wrong.
Some aspects of “natural selection” make sense, but there is no telling really how factual it is.

Another thing then popped into my head:
We drew the pictures. The drawings didn’t just changed, we had to shape them into what they were becoming, it didn’t just happen on its own.

04
Mar
09

The Red Envelope Project

By Garrett Oden 26 Comments
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Well it’s about time a new idea has come around

http://www.redenvelopeproject.org/

Here is what I would like you to do:
Get a red envelope. You can buy them at Kinkos, or at party supply stores. On the front, address it to:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington , D.C. 20500
On the back, write the following message.
This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life was unable to offer anything to the world. Responsibility begins with conception.
Put it in the mail on March 31st, and send it. Then send this website to every one of your friends who you think would send one too. I wish we could send 50 million red envelopes, one for every child who died before having a a chance to live. Maybe it will change the heart of the president.

And interesting idea! Not really a demonstration, or a petition. I like it.

02
Mar
09

Mutations – Billions of years?

By Garrett Oden 45 Comments
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Ok now this is going to act as some of my responses to a few comments made.
I am reading a book called The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity. It’s a pretty informative book and there is something I want to quote from it that is damaging to the theory of evolution.

Microbiologist Dr. Geoffery Simmons explains to us:

Once in every 10 millions cell divisions, a cell makes a copying mistake. The chance of the mistake passing into the next generation is one in two. The odds are six to one that it will disappear by the tenth generation, and 50 to one that it will be gone by the hundredth generation. According to F. B. Livingston, it would take 400,000 years, for an advantageous gene to spread among the hominid populations of the Pleistocene Era. If we are descendants of the famous Lucy, the australogpithecine skull found it Ethiopia in 1974, and thought to be 3 million years old, then there would have been time for only seven advantageous genes to have changed. That’s barely enough time to make a difference, let alone make a monkey a man.

Forgive me, it’s possible I made a spelling error somewhere or something, I don’t feel like going back over the whole thing again… But I rechecked the numbers, they are correct.

So what do ya’ll think?

02
Mar
09

Whoa!

By Garrett Oden 10 Comments
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Well after being gone for two hours after writing about the t-rex and chicken post, I came back to 12 comments! That’s a lot of comments!

I really didn’t expect this blog to be difficult to maintain, but boy was I wrong!

You have challenged me, Matt, AV, Spectator. And this is my thank you.
Thank you!

You have greatly increased my knowledge of these issues and have multiplied my patience as well. You have revealed to me that I know very little about how things work and such, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to stop… I am just beginning!

I look to further discussions with you, and pray that you will be able to understand there are works more powerful than just science can show.

I also wanna brag a bit too! I had 1,200+ views last month, and that is a 300% increase from the previous months.

I couldn’t have done it without your help advertizing my blog and writing about me!

So whoa! This blog has become something and I have learned a lot since its creation!

God bless you all,
Garrett Oden

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