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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

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    Pretty sure the point of creationism is that everything was put on the earth when it was created, including fossils etc. You can’t argue this with logic. My favorite spin off of this is Last Thursdayism where the earth was created last Thursday (regardless of what day it’s now) which basically uses the same argument.

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      That does explain why I can never get the hang of Thursdays

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        What, were you born today or something!

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          deleted by creator

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        Hence the first and only commandment of Last Thursdayism: Don’t Panic.

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      “God did it to trick you” is pretty hard to disprove

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        It’s also hard to argue while also claiming your god is moral, which is why creationists usually scapegoat the task of planting fossils to Satan.

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      “It Is Useless To Attempt To Reason A Man Out Of A Thing He Was Never Reasoned Into.” - Jonathan Swift

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      It’s an ad hoc argument. You can’t argue against any ad hoc arguments with logic

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