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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #45 on: March 09, 2010, 05:46:07 pm »
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Did you order it from the site humph? HAVE YOU MET RANDALL? If you have you should feel the jealously coming from Melbourne pretty soon.
Speaking of stuff: Did anyone else get their free copy of The Origins of Species By Charles Darwin with a special introduction by Ray Comfort?. Creationists handing out books on evolution oh the irony

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #46 on: March 09, 2010, 06:06:53 pm »
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Did you order it from the site humph? HAVE YOU MET RANDALL? If you have you should feel the jealously coming from Melbourne pretty soon.
Speaking of stuff: Did anyone else get their free copy of The Origins of Species By Charles Darwin with a special introduction by Ray Comfort?. Creationists handing out books on evolution oh the irony

Oh damn I would have loved a copy!
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #47 on: March 09, 2010, 06:21:54 pm »
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Did you order it from the site humph? HAVE YOU MET RANDALL? If you have you should feel the jealously coming from Melbourne pretty soon.
Speaking of stuff: Did anyone else get their free copy of The Origins of Species By Charles Darwin with a special introduction by Ray Comfort?. Creationists handing out books on evolution oh the irony

hahaha yeah I got it, there was a bookmark in it by a christian group.
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #48 on: March 09, 2010, 06:26:02 pm »
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Yeah! I thought it was just a Monash bookmark I didn't even realise until I opened the book.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #49 on: March 09, 2010, 06:53:06 pm »
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I played 'dodge the Christian clubs' at the Club carnival again this year... their favourite trick is a quick "survey" where they corner you, ask you about your beliefs and then try to get your contact details.

I guess I'm a fail Christian... *sigh*
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #50 on: March 09, 2010, 10:19:52 pm »
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Did you order it from the site humph? HAVE YOU MET RANDALL? If you have you should feel the jealously coming from Melbourne pretty soon.
Nah, it was a birthday present last year from my friends; they ordered it off the website.
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #51 on: September 19, 2010, 01:28:44 pm »
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Global warming is a left wing conspiracy to stage a passive revolution against the big oil companies. Hahaha, oh wait. I actually believe that.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #52 on: September 19, 2010, 01:35:18 pm »
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What is it with mathematicians and being high and mighty? I thought physicists were meant to be the arrogant ones :P

You obviously haven't seen this:

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There is also a joke where physicists think they are god and god thinks he s a mathematician.

wouldn't philosophy be ahead of the mathematicians? =P

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #53 on: September 30, 2010, 10:19:02 pm »
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http://www.youtube.com/user/qualiasoup?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/9/5wV_REEdvxo a friend sent me this video a while ago. thought it might belong here, and could provide a basis for any future religious arguments :)
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #54 on: September 30, 2010, 10:34:13 pm »
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http://www.youtube.com/user/qualiasoup?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/9/5wV_REEdvxo a friend sent me this video a while ago. thought it might belong here, and could provide a basis for any future religious arguments :)

interesting video
thats why you shouldn't force someone to adopt your religion
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #55 on: September 30, 2010, 10:47:48 pm »
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http://www.youtube.com/user/qualiasoup?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/9/5wV_REEdvxo a friend sent me this video a while ago. thought it might belong here, and could provide a basis for any future religious arguments :)

Brilliant video

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #56 on: November 19, 2010, 06:05:11 am »
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I played 'dodge the Christian clubs' at the Club carnival again this year... their favourite trick is a quick "survey" where they corner you, ask you about your beliefs and then try to get your contact details.

I guess I'm a fail Christian... *sigh*

Lol!

At the start of this semester me and my mates were enjoying lunch outside the union house when this person came over and handed us a 'student well-being survey'. Anyway the survey sounded ok and I started it:

1) The question asked about when you started uni

2) the question asked how your finding uni and life

Then...

3) This question asked whether you see yourself as spiritual

4) Do you believe in god?

5) Would you like to be closer to god? Something I felt like saying to the person lol.

At the end they wanted your address, phone number, student email, etc and that's when I let my imagination go wild! I hope I didn't enter a real address... :S

Ok so I guess I'm becoming more accepting to the fact that people have different views and actually have friends that are religious but don't have that self righteous pushy attitude towards others.

So I want to finish this post by saying that I don't go around trying to convert people to string theorists, but I would like to bring up string theory the next time I get confronted by these religious freaks.
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« Reply #57 on: November 19, 2010, 08:14:48 am »
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