tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post6338652660732332421..comments2023-10-04T11:47:45.212-04:00Comments on The Flying Trilobite: Artwork Mondays: two by two all twistedGlendon Mellowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-92164699851538984142008-09-15T18:44:00.000-04:002008-09-15T18:44:00.000-04:00Ahh, Robot Chicken. It is my dream to one day be ...Ahh, Robot Chicken. It is my dream to one day be mocked with a squeaky Seth Green voice.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-519147860868327932008-09-15T16:09:00.000-04:002008-09-15T16:09:00.000-04:00One of the best Robot Chicken sketches ever: "God ...One of the best Robot Chicken sketches ever: "God hates freaks!"Zachary Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05035947146927565746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-84084905440469150962008-09-11T21:43:00.000-04:002008-09-11T21:43:00.000-04:00Eric, Eric, of course there was a surplus of wood ...Eric, Eric, of course there was a surplus of wood to eat, and Noah let the termites munch on it from time to time. <BR/><BR/>Traumador, weren't you there? How old are you? <BR/><BR/>The logical inconsistencies baffle talking dinosaurs. Another way we can see it points to human fable instead of reality.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-10279777743344092552008-09-10T00:35:00.000-04:002008-09-10T00:35:00.000-04:00Speaking of those of us who got left behind... I s...Speaking of those of us who got left behind... I state the obvious... DINOSAURS!<BR/><BR/>So this flood how did it kill the marine reptiles off but not the marine mammals? I don't get it.traumadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-31383462158430052502008-09-09T14:56:00.000-04:002008-09-09T14:56:00.000-04:00I made a huge comment and forgot to say something!...I made a huge comment and forgot to say something!Haha.<BR/><BR/>What did all the termites eat for almost a year?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860867689257635059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-44369203569516471772008-09-09T14:55:00.000-04:002008-09-09T14:55:00.000-04:00Thanks for dropping in, 1minionsopinion!I agree, I...Thanks for dropping in, 1minionsopinion!<BR/><BR/>I agree, I can't fault people from a couple of thousand years ago for their belief. I think too many modern people overlook the horrors of too many myths. Ring around the rosie is popularly known to be a rhyme about the plague. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps one of the reasons I object to this sand sculptire, is it actually <I>underscores</I> the fictional murder of all these animals by basically saying, "haha! Stupid unicorns!". And its on display for kids and families to marvel at. <BR/><BR/>Leslie, I totally agree with you. I agree art can be provocative in the public sphere, but this seems doltish and infuriating, not deep and infuriating. <BR/><BR/>I just don't get it.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-15134646273919147742008-09-09T14:23:00.000-04:002008-09-09T14:23:00.000-04:00The Noah story is a great contributor to my precoc...The Noah story is a great contributor to my precociously inquisitive mind.<BR/>Being an animal lover from as far back as I can remember (about the time of the bristlecone)<BR/>I had real plausibility problems with the ark story.<BR/>Being a pragmatist as well as an animal lover, I am sure I was irritating to the Sunday school teachers when I questioned how Noah could possibly provide all the varied diets required by that diverse a group of animals, and handle manure removal, and how did they keep the varieties of animals from eating one another, and if they didn't eat each other on a tiny little boat, why did they start eating each other once they had plenty of room to get away from one another? And how did they fit all of nature's diversity on that little boat in the first place??<BR/>Hmmmm? Answer me that...<BR/>I'm waiting...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-65775485041140949092008-09-09T09:04:00.000-04:002008-09-09T09:04:00.000-04:00In Findlay's version, the unicorns actually were o...In Findlay's version, the unicorns actually were on the Ark but Noah decided to do something horrendous with his virgin daughter and a unicorn and that's what killed them. Or something. I've been meaning to read that again, actually. I read it in university when a friend of mine actually dropped an English class that was studying it. I don't recall being overly horrified or traumatized by it.<BR/><BR/>My take on the whole flood thing has always been to consider how much of the world was known about back in the day. If the flood was relatively local but seemed to take up a large area that could have felt like the whole world was sunk.. <BR/><BR/>Actually filling up an ark with the thousands and thousands of species around the world seems beyond believable. I can't fathom why people can live their lives as if it were true. It's ghastly.<BR/><BR/>Good try with the trees, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-84416847484161361272008-09-08T22:18:00.000-04:002008-09-08T22:18:00.000-04:00Wow! Such a story. Tree rings, that's amazing, I...Wow! Such a story. Tree rings, that's amazing, I hadn't thought about bristlecones as a tool for skeptics before. Good for you for trying, Eric. <BR/><BR/>I agree. <BR/><BR/>Stupid flood story.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978531190643365040.post-31100491043948321742008-09-08T21:33:00.000-04:002008-09-08T21:33:00.000-04:00I was just talking about the flood with a very rel...I was just talking about the flood with a very religious friend of mine. Actually, we were talking about tree rings and dendrochronology. <BR/><BR/>He had never heard of the concept and I explained it very simply starting with short time lines. I gradually introduced trees that were living, and us watching the rings grow every season. Then I added that all trees in an area would have similar tree rings. and that they could be matched up. I then asked what we could know if a tree that was dead lined up with a living tree, but went back further than the living tree. He said it must be older by at least however many extra rings it had. <BR/><BR/>Yes! I was getting through to a young earth creationist! This was the crack in his logic that I would drive a wedge through! Maybe he could see the light and realize that evolution and the age of the earth were true facts! Maybe he would realize that some bible stories were either flat out lies, or at least only allegorical. <BR/><BR/>I kept calm. We discussed what could add extra rings. We discussed why you would not use certain trees because of their unreliable tree rings, or the climate. He was tracking with me and even pointed out that it wouldn't work really good in a tropical climate with out much of a season. <BR/><BR/>I really thought that I was getting through to him. I had the wedge placed nice and firm. I lifted the sledge hammer and drove down as hard as I could. I asked him how far back did he think it was possible to go counting tree rings? He said a few hundred years probably. Slam! The hammer hit the wedge. I introduced him to bristle cone pines in California and told him how they have tree ring data for the last nearly 10,000 years. I looked at the wedge. Huh? it was shattered to pieces. What happened? I set it up perfectly. How could that not have cracked his logic wide open? <BR/><BR/>I looked at his face. He looked perplexed. Then he said, "but if the trees go back 10,000 years, that would mean they didn't die in the flood". Yes, yes, I still have him. Then, "Well that can't be right then. There must be something wrong, otherwise it would show when they died from the flood. They couldn't possibly be that old."<BR/><BR/>Oh there is something wrong alright. The flood didn't happen. Damn, I lost him entirely, and now he knows why I was introducing the subject. Oh well. Stupid flood story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860867689257635059noreply@blogger.com