Evolution Test
Created on: August 8th, 2006
Evolution Test
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August 8th, 2006
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Yer a lar, EVILution is a lah, mah TRUTH FISH eats yer darwin decal on the back of mah FORD TRUCK.
August 8th, 2006
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Awesome site. Your contribution to this YTMND 'debate' is fantastic.
August 8th, 2006
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not bad at all
August 8th, 2006
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-1 for a totally enlightening kickass YTMND that ends in cheap-shot stereotyping of southerners and republicans (of which I am neither).
August 8th, 2006
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Thanks for shedding some light on this subject to those that won't open their eyes.
August 8th, 2006
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-1 for ya rly. I mean christ.
August 8th, 2006
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You choose to believe in evolution the same way fundamenalist christians choose to believe things happened suddenly. It's still a theory and not a fact.
August 8th, 2006
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5 for raptor jesus.
August 8th, 2006
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Good sh*t. I believe all of that.
August 8th, 2006
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+1 for republican joke
August 8th, 2006
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Almost all the answers were "B".
August 8th, 2006
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Yeah... this will be less effective because of the Republican comment (which I am not).
August 8th, 2006
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WitchPirate, for reference, what do you consider an example of "fact"?
August 8th, 2006
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You are SO going to get Left Behind when Jesus sees this.
August 8th, 2006
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Change Republican to George W. Bush.
August 8th, 2006
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evolution is a fact, natural selection is the theory.
August 8th, 2006
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Evolutions stares each of in the face every day, not just life but culture, technology, thought, everything evolves. To deny it is true blindness.
August 8th, 2006
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@WitchPirate - Except we've seen evolution occur, such as in the species of plants and fruit fly that I mentioned in my YTMND. Its an accepted fact in science, as much a fact as other theories such as cell theory, atomic theory, continental drift theory, etc. In science, we only give the title 'theory' to things that are facts and massively supported by facts.
August 8th, 2006
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YES YES. Eat sh*t sh*teating fundies!
August 8th, 2006
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"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night" - Isaac Asimov
August 8th, 2006
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What we call gravity is a fact. The name gravity and all the constants associated with it are observations, as is the theory of evolution.
August 8th, 2006
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Yeah . . . maybe that last slide will lose you some love. If you care.
August 8th, 2006
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WitchPirate- the thing about those that believe in the teory of evolution accept that they may be wrong. Religious nuts think that a book written a couple thousand years ago is the absolute truth, and there is no way that it can be wrong. Science accepts that nothing is 100% certain. Religious people assert that their "truth" is divinely 100% true and there can be no other way about it.
August 8th, 2006
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+4 for effort, -1 for random assholism in the last frame. Not all Christians are raving fundamentalists, and not all republicans are christians. I for one believe in a very non-literal interpretation of the Bible. You have to remember it was written by less-than-perfect people who were limited by their own understanding of science, or lack thereof. BTW, science once insisted the world was flat, too. Can't dodge all the blame for that one.
August 8th, 2006
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~~Gravity is/was a theory itself~~
August 8th, 2006
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You make me smile....
August 8th, 2006
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evolution and itelligent design are both hard to believe, if we all evolved from single celled organisms how the hell did those organisms get here in the first place? they just popped out of nowhere?
August 8th, 2006
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Right WitchPirate, and what we call evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution we use today is the modern synthetic theory. It explains the fact of evolution the same way cell theory explains the facts of cell biology.
August 8th, 2006
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holy crap! you knew i was a republican!
August 8th, 2006
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The heathen and Anthropology major in me salutes you.
August 8th, 2006
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P.S. >>>>>> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512 (old, but still relevant and hilarious.
August 8th, 2006
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nice...like the music
August 8th, 2006
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DUDE TH EEARTH CANT' B ROUND
August 8th, 2006
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Dumb. I scored 7 btw. A Theory is NOT a fact, because it only aplies (sp?) to a specificplace OR it hasn't been proved that it appies in other parts of the Eth/Galaxi/Wharever.
August 8th, 2006
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lol, Resident of Alabama and passed, hoorayyyy!!!
August 8th, 2006
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If Christians have open minds, we can see that evolution does not contradict the bible. Does anyone else think it's interesting that the order that things were created in Genesis is EXACTLY THE SAME as the order that scientists say the universe formed and life evolved? (IE: first stars, then earth, then water, then fish, then simple land animals, then humans?)
August 8th, 2006
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For example, la gravity theory. It states (IIRC) that the gravity constant is of 9.8 (meters or kilometers?) per hour. This isn't true on other planet (Actually, it isn't even true in some parts of this planet) so it can't be stated as a fact.
August 8th, 2006
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In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation.
August 8th, 2006
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There is no physical evidence of evolution. It's just a way to rationalize where everything came from. The theory grows when they come up with something new that fits. They certainly didn't come up with the Promordial Soup on their first try.
August 8th, 2006
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Wamg, my spelling sucks. Earth* Galaxy* The* >_>U
August 8th, 2006
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It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation.
August 8th, 2006
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Artema- give it up. it is 9.8 meters per second squared. It is also based on the mass of the object (planet) which is causing the gravity. Therefore, the larger the object, the larger its gravity. That is why the gravity on the moon would be lesser than the gravity here on Earth.
August 8th, 2006
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"holy crap! you knew i was a republican!" - Raptor Jesus told me you were. Folks, the reason I included Republicans, Fundamentalist Christians, and those three states in the last frame is because those are the leading political and religious groups that have fought against evolution. Republcians do it to follow party lines and win constituent support, the populations in those states have voted against teaching evolution/for teaching ID, etc. There are exceptions from the rule, but they are just that.
August 8th, 2006
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Woamg* And I can't believe that I forgot that it was 9.8 m/s
August 8th, 2006
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lol, education
August 8th, 2006
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"There is no physical evidence of evolution. It's just a way to rationalize where everything came from." There is, we've witnessed evolution in plants and animals. A long list of physical evidence can be found at this page: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
August 8th, 2006
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Again artema, give it up. It is 9.8 mss or approximately 32 feet per second per second. If you need help, I will give you a class on this
August 8th, 2006
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Well done.
August 8th, 2006
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Crap. 1'd
August 8th, 2006
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Just for the record, I do believe in evolution. But I think that another ytmnd bashing religion was unnecesary.
August 8th, 2006
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3'd for first question and results "failed" page. First page should have a third answer, in which you describe and the failed results are incredibly demeaning and a failed attempt at being funny.
August 8th, 2006
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I'm not denying that there are kooks out there, but still, you've got to keep in mind there's a lot of jerks on both sides. I'm willing to listen to arguments on both sides, but I've met a lot of people on the internets that think Christians are insane fundamentalist bigots without exception or that athiests are satan-worshipers or something, neither of which are true.
August 8th, 2006
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A scientific theory is not always necessarily a fact. It MAY be both, but it does not have to be. I think this remains a little bit unclear in the answer to the first question. Of course evolution is both theory and fact. But the Ęther theory for example was a scientific theory which was not a fact. It was wrong, but believed to be true until the 1960s. If there was no proof for evolution (but, as you mentioned, there is)... well, and if you're a Christian fundamentalist and reject this proof...
August 8th, 2006
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Ok, upped to 5 because the downvoters are pissing me off.
August 8th, 2006
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i agree that it would be better with the redneck and republican parts removed. i'm not a republican, but i'm not a democrat either, both parties are retarded. and politics has nothing to do with it anyway. people aren't creationists because they're republican, they're republican because they're creationists! perhaps 'fundamentalist muslim' or 'fundamentally a moron' or 'mullet man brought you back to the future from 1578' etc would be suitable replacements.
August 8th, 2006
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What seperates the theories from the facts is belief. Most people believe that gravity is correct. But what about Herby the Hobo Hermit? He believes that a giant million mouthed creature lives at the center of the earth and has enourmous sucking power. So enormous that all things close to the surface of the earth accelerate towards it at 9.8 meters per second squared. He's not wrong in his belief, but it's not necessarily fact.
August 8th, 2006
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You don't "believe in" evolution or global warming - you believe in intelligent design or unrestrained capitalism.
August 8th, 2006
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[quote]In science, we only give the title 'theory' to things that are facts and massively supported by facts.[/quote] I am a scientist, and as I said above, this is not the case. Except you believe in the Ęther theory and have proof for it being true, lol.
August 8th, 2006
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So the thing we observe as gravity, which can't really be given a name without becoming the start of a theory, is fact. The name we give the observation which allows us to study it in depth is a theory.
August 8th, 2006
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I'm not a scientist but I do own a labcoat, goggles, and rats, some of which are even white.
August 8th, 2006
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Thanks Shinryuu, for explaining was I was trying to say. 3'D because I'm felling nice.
August 8th, 2006
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Feeling* >_
August 8th, 2006
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I scored 8/8 and Im from Kansas, I demand that you change it to " resident of kansas, excluding Lawrence"... please?
August 8th, 2006
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"I am a scientist, and as I said above, this is not the case. Except you believe in the Ęther theory and have proof for it being true, lol." You've just found an exception to the rule with Ęther theory. Its also an example from about 100 years ago, so its nonsensical to compare it to the way 'theory' is used in modern science. The definition I used was taken out of an anthropology textbook, "Understanding Physical Anthropology & Archaeology" 8th edition.
August 8th, 2006
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-1 for the republican jab
August 8th, 2006
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I got them all and I'm a republican. ZOMG impossible!
August 8th, 2006
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You're mostly right, but your definition of "theory" is slightly misleading. A theory is a scientifically accepted explanation for a phenomenon, backed up by factual evidence and sound reasoning. Technically, it is not a fact, as it can still be disproven; however, it's so well-researched and proven and accepted that it is *assumed* true for the purposes of instruction and future research.
August 8th, 2006
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Evolution for the win. I got them all correct.
August 8th, 2006
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Thus, it's technically correct to say "It's a theory, not a fact," but the statement doesn't actually mean anything. Both are treated the same way scientifically, unless someone can provide evidence that casts doubt on the theory.
August 8th, 2006
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evolution is fact, natural selection is the theory for god's sake
August 8th, 2006
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You win the internets. Al Gore would be proud of your brilliant use of his creation.
August 8th, 2006
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I got them all right. I win.
August 18th, 2006
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August 26th, 2006
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Wasn't a fan of your Quran quiz but this one is absolutely right on the nose!
September 6th, 2006
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YAY
September 6th, 2006
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I like question 1.
September 25th, 2006
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This argues points against creationism that aren't there. I would explain, but I tend to only answer questions asked. I downvote this because it's just bashing.
September 28th, 2006
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"Does anyone else think it's interesting that the order that things were created in Genesis is EXACTLY THE SAME as the order that scientists say the universe formed and life evolved?" Wrong. http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Genesis_1_got_the_order_of_events_right
November 13th, 2006
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Pure dog sh*t.
February 20th, 2007
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You rule, hopefully creationists will GTFO YTMND and the internet, they don't belong! lol