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1 posted on 03/16/2019 6:52:07 PM PDT by Simon Green
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I only pseudobelieve in pseudoscience.


2 posted on 03/16/2019 6:53:51 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Because the media says it’s settled.


3 posted on 03/16/2019 6:55:37 PM PDT by chrisser
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Your arguments leave me flat, much like the Earth.
5 posted on 03/16/2019 7:01:31 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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Because they can’t fit in with anybody else. I watched a documentary (OK, I could only stomach half of it) about the Flat-Earthers. Ever seen footage of their conference? It’s like the bar scene from Star Wars. They’re 40 year olds that live in their mothers’ basements and have odd-sided dice rolling around on the floorboards of their cars. I’m sure a good percentage of them have asked a girl to marry them on the jumbo-tron at a sporting event and got rejected.


6 posted on 03/16/2019 7:06:39 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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There’s always that 5% that will believe anything. 5% of everything is huge and it’s the same 5% that are VERY vocal, low-IQ people typically are. That’s why YouTube is so infected with 9-11 truther and contrail BS.


7 posted on 03/16/2019 7:08:45 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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On what basis does any sentient being accept a given proposition as true?


9 posted on 03/16/2019 7:15:11 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (String. Her. Up.)
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I don’t believe in anything having to do with a flat earth,I only believe that our earth may have considerably less mass and less gravity at some points.

Most of my bs theories have to do with the very distant past,not the present state of the world.

Also I do believe in Underground Oceans at the Center of the Earth,but it is stuff we can’t really measure or observe.


10 posted on 03/16/2019 7:15:38 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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I still remember the scientific claim there were CANALS on Mars, and submerged cities off the coast of Peru.

How things suddenly change and the old claims are covered up so fast you now have to dig to find them, and even then, people will not believe such claims were ever made in the first place.


12 posted on 03/16/2019 7:24:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I accept as likely true

Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Momentum
Laws of Thermodynamics

Laws of Logic
If A implies B, not B implies not A

I find Quantum Mechanics weird, but a useful construct

I’ve placed myself in the Hands of Jesus
I must attend to His Word

Almost everything else comes under useful approximations,
awaiting further confirmatory data, or not

13 posted on 03/16/2019 7:26:09 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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Well, considering that the author can’t even accurately describe creationism I suspect the remainder of the article is equally farcical so I shan’t bother to read it.


14 posted on 03/16/2019 7:28:01 PM PDT by fluffy
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the claim is made that God created the earth with that evidence of a prior existence already in place (e.g., fossils in rocks, light in transit from distant stars, rings in trees in the Garden of Eden).

No creationist scientist that I know of claims that God created the world with pre-existing fossils. The existence of fossils in and of themselves is not evidence for evolution or an old earth. I have no idea what "rings in trees" refers to. Does he mean that is evidence for millions of years?

Some people do think that God created "light on the way" from distant stars, but they aren't necessarily scientists. Evos tend not to distinguish creationist scientists from creationists with no scientific background (wonder why that is). Creationist scientists generally reject "light on the way".

Speaking of theories that are non-falsifiable, the theory of evolution is exhibit A for that. It has lots of ad hoc modifications needed to explain all sorts of unexpected things. A defining characteristic of pseudo science is ad hoc modifications.

15 posted on 03/16/2019 7:29:21 PM PDT by lasereye
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People believe in whatever reinforces their already-held concepts. That’s why the Left desperately wants to continue to control education.


16 posted on 03/16/2019 7:30:38 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Simon Green; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Corky Ramirez; CopperTop; ...
Thus purveyors of medical pseudoscience will freely use terms like energy, vibrations, frequencies, resonance and so on...


You see, you are in disharmony.
The throat is the gateway to the lung.
Tonsillitis, adenoiditis, is, in Chinese medical
terms, an invasion of heat and wind.

17 posted on 03/16/2019 7:32:10 PM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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Good courses in, and close reading of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and the Bible.


19 posted on 03/16/2019 7:37:27 PM PDT by onedoug
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“Some pseudosciences are inherently non-falsifiable. A good example would be so-called Scientific Creationism.”

Or evolution, for that matter.

There is a huge market for pseudoscience and woo.

That ostensibly legitimate science is now pseudoscientific is not a good thing.


20 posted on 03/16/2019 7:38:09 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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An article with a transparently preconceived purpose and conclusion.


28 posted on 03/16/2019 7:54:11 PM PDT by Chaguito
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Finally, pseudosciences are popular so because they often provide people with beliefs that they would like to be true—anything from miracle cures to the existence of a benevolent God to life after death and much else besides.

Seeing is believing. I have seen it.

31 posted on 03/16/2019 8:04:09 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Because they're LAZY!


34 posted on 03/16/2019 8:30:37 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'SCENTER>AY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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Partly because those who teach are trained in pseudo education departments.


39 posted on 03/16/2019 9:23:45 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddella)
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Because science has been so corrupted that people have lost faith in that.


44 posted on 03/16/2019 11:26:42 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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