Dumbest Protest Signs

[Ultimate Paragon]

[booley]

Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.

[Caitshidhe]

Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.

I remember hearing that story! I even want to say it was on an episode of Bill Nye.

[LeTipex]

Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.

Guy in Greece, actually. It was Eratosthenes around 240 B.C..

[RavynousHunter]

The things you learn while watching Cosmos, part XXVI.

[lord gibbon]

Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.

Guy in Greece, actually. It was Eratosthenes around 240 B.C..

You're both right! Eratosthenes was a Greek, but he lived in Egypt.

[booley]

Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.

Guy in Greece, actually. It was Eratosthenes around 240 B.C..

You're both right! Eratosthenes was a Greek, but he lived in Egypt.

I figured because I know one of the places involved was alexandria and the rest of the story is he paid a guy to walk from his city to where his friend lived, counting all the steps he took. 

Thats how they learned how big the earth was.

Walking from greece to egypt might have been a bit impractical.

[Ultimate Paragon]

[kefkaownsall]

already posted still not any smarter

[Ultimate Paragon]

You don't understand either of those theories, do you?

[JohnE]

Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?

[Cerim Treascair]

Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?

After slugging him with a dictionary.

[Ghoti]

Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?

Kinda, but it'd be better to ask him about the other laws of thermodynamics and snicker at the deer-in-the-headlights reaction.

[Sigmaleph]

Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?

Kinda, but it'd be better to ask him about the other laws of thermodynamics and snicker at the deer-in-the-headlights reaction.

Hell, ask him about the second and he won't tell you much either beyond perhaps stating it, if he has Wikipedia handy.

Quick experiment: Every time a creationist brings up the second law of thermodynamics, ask them to explain the equivalence between Kelvin's and Clausius' postulates*. If they cannot, demand to know how the Hell they think they are qualified to say what thermodynamics has to say about evolution.


*If you've never heard of that, look it up. The proof is really quite elegant and doesn't require much in terms of background physics knowledge.

[Raymond Dullaghy]

You don't understand either of those theories, do you?

"Does not the..."
There is something wrong with English vernacular when using proper grammar comes off as smug. That guy's smirk and phrasing make me want to give him a wedgie something fierce.

It isn't just the message, it's the presentation.