This story is such a SEB story that I thought I had first heard about it from here.

I read most of those posts about a month ago. People like that need to be taken out back and shot to put them out of “our” misery!

Although, I was getting quite a laugh out of the “facts” this guy pushed out.

However what is also bothersome is that this goes on for 27 pages, 27 PAGES!

“Bothersome” doesn’t even begin to describe it. The forces that seek to further dumb down our nation are doing their damnedest.

The best part was:

how do you evolutionsts explain gravity???

Maybe he will jump off a bridge to prove gravity is only a theory. One can only hope.

number 3. on earth we see things that defy “gravity� on a daily basis. birds and airplanes for example. are you going to tell me that the gravity of the sun is strong enough to keep PLUTo in orbit but not an airplane or a little bird??????

Again with the ignorance and stupidity.  “Gravity” in scare quotes?  I sold general aviation aircraft for 7 years, so I do know something about it. Don’t make me launch into the principles of flight, aerodynamics, lift and thrust - without which, of course, an airplane will not defy gravity. It’s not a mirace, it’s not a fluke - it is SCIENCE.

I have to agree with you Sadie.  It’s rather frightening that the dumbing down of this country has become its official public policy.  No wonder other countries point and laugh.

Wow.  Just wow man.

I read most of the 27 pages at xian forums and was quite relieved to see no one else was as stupid as the OP (Original Poster - I had to look it up ). I got an interesting science lesson.

No wonder other countries point and laugh.

Not all the time … usually only at your ‘president’, evangeliclods and dumbed down masses.

Why do so many people fail to see something wrong with these people; they seem to have some sort of education and some of them even have college degrees, but they have an irrational distrust of science and an irrational religious belief in supernatural beings?

I liked a thread in the “apologetics” section which started:

should christians care about protecting the environment?

if the world is going to be destroyed anyway is there any point in protecting the environment? protecting endangered species, stopping global warming ect? does it matter if we pollute the earth if the end times are coming? people say it is up to us to save the planet for future generations, but does it really matter?

Are these people so brainwashed that they actually believe this shit?

I found one interesting quote, also in the apologetics section:

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Too true. 
I liked that quote the moment I saw it.
Steven Weinberg: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Economic left/right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

In plain language, I’m very liberal.

Aaaaaaaagh--my above post is in the wrong freaking thread!

*feeling like an idiot right about now*

Yeah, but you’re still really sexy, so it’s all right. 

I didn’t read the story you refer to, but it sounds like it was written by a bonehead.

But that doesn’t dispute the fact that GRAVITY WAS DISPROVEN BEFORE WORLD WAR II! You seem to be hanging on to Newton’s theory a little to strongly. Not that Newton was dumb, not any dumber than Aristotle, but since his time, we have aquired better theories, that more closely resemble what happens around us.

Feel free to continue to use gravity. The equations are much simpler than more accurate ones, and with small distances and forces, they work almost as well.

Just goes to show, that even crazies get it right once in a while.

Bob: GRAVITY WAS DISPROVEN BEFORE WORLD WAR II!

No references, Bab?

Not that Newton was dumb, not any dumber than Aristotle

Are you on the panel judging IQ levels now, Beb?
Have you got an IQ, Babe?

but since his time, we have acquired better theories

What are they, Beeb?

Just goes to show, that even crazies get it right once in a while.

Which crazies, Bib?
Right about what, Bub?
Hell-oh-oh??
Have you still got one running loose in the top paddock, Bebe?
Did you miss all the branches on the way down and hit the roots with your head, Boob?
Please enlighten us with your superior wisdom, Bube. 

Please enlighten us with your superior wisdom, Bube

What a tease. LJ, if you want to appreciate the spin, read up on classical mechanics and special relativity.

from the 2 pages ive read (i would have ripped my hair had i finished reading)i can gather the knowledge that this guy is the most ignorant person on the internet and that he obviously doesnt care that people like me hate the little cockroaches that cant think for themselves...i hate it when people do not research things properly.

KPG: Yeah, but you’re still really sexy, so it’s all right. 

You are simply too sweet. I like your new gravatar, by the way.

Bob:  GRAVITY WAS DISPROVEN BEFORE WORLD WAR II!!

Oh, really? Tell that to the GIs who jumped out of airplanes.

Not that Newton was dumb, not any dumber than Aristotle, but since his time, we have aquired better theories, that more closely resemble what happens around us.

Oh, really?

Feel free to continue to use gravity.

It’s not really a choice.

Sadie: You are simply too sweet. I like your new gravatar, by the way.

Bob:  GRAVITY WAS DISPROVEN BEFORE WORLD WAR II!!

Feel free to continue to use gravity.

Ford Prefect would have a ball with this guy. Hey Bob, the secret to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Now get to practicing.....

KPG: Hey Bob, the secret to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Now get to practicing.....

Yeah, and mid-air sex is simply the best! Just ask Arthur and Fenchurch. 

my above post is in the wrong freaking thread!

What, another one? Go get a room, you.

Apropos (gr)avatar, those who care to can also upload a photo that’s visible in the profile only.

KPG, you’re getting a bit too worked up about a clever joke. Most of Bob’s comment is technically correct, although I think he was just a tad too careless with his wording.

What, another one?

Yeah, I know, I’m hopeless. 

Not hopeless. Single-minded and nothing wrong with that.

Actually, Elwed, I was just joking around. If you want to see me worked up, look in the other thread I was posting in last night.....

The poster on the CF site who described it as a car crash was spot on- ‘I shouldn’t look, but...’

I thought 27 pages, nah- read a bit then skip but he kept coming back for more. BRILLIANT.  What do we think- Troll or Fundie. No one could be that stupid, surely.  The scientist took him to pieces on science, the Christians took him to pieces on theology.  Troll, surely.