Greeks

[Andrelj]

The reason I think the evolution theory is so dumb, is that the ancient Greeks came up with it. It's just so old and out dated, and there's been nothing to prove it.

 

[Grey Eminence]

It is unfortunate that being some 2600 years old you have not bothered to keep up with the literature on the subject. There have been some considerable advances since Philip of Macedon overran Greece.

 

[235U92]

You know, Christianity is fairly old. Does the same apply to it? Is it that all things that you consider to be "old" are worthless?

 

[Vastavus]

How about democracy? That is an old Greek invention.

 

[David Gould]

The reason I think the evolution theory is so dumb, is that the ancient Greeks came up with it. It's just so old and out dated, and there's been nothing to prove it.

Setting aside the fact that the ancient Greeks did not come up with the modern theory of evolution, the ancient Greeks came up with pythagoras's theorem and euclidian geometry. Do you think those ideas are dumb?

Further, there have been many evidences discovered for evolution. You can find out about them in this forum. Or you can go examine talkorigins.

 

[BeamMeUpScotty]

The reason I think the Genesis is so dumb, is that the ancient Hebrews came up with it. It's just so old and out dated, and there's been nothing to prove it.

 

[random_guy]

You know what else is dumb? Some dead Greek guy Eratosthenes thought the Earth was a sphere, and his guess of the Earth's circumference was something between 39,690 km to 46,620 km (we don't know his actual estimate because he measured stuff in stadia, stupid Greeks and there non-metric system). It's actually 40,008 km. He so overestimated it.

 

[Lucretius]

And that Greek moron Aristarchus calculated the diameter of the moon to within 5% of it's accepted value today. But he was Greek and old, so what he says is meaningless.

 

[neverforsaken]

*throws book of plato out the window* OLD!!!! hehe, sorry man, the argument isnt a very good one.

 

[Praxiteles]

That's what I reckon, anyway.

 

[raphael_aa]

Firstly Andrelj, welcome.

Secondly, what the heck are you doing here? Why does a 12 year old feel qualified to have input into a scientific debate? Do your parents know you are here? Do you have some thoughts on quantum mechanics you'd like to share with us? Or fluid dynamics? Or string theory? Or complex numbers? Or Van der Walls's forces? Or surface tension?

 

[Jet Black]

The reason I think the evolution theory is so dumb, is that the ancient Greeks came up with it. It's just so old and out dated, and there's been nothing to prove it.

go back to school. no I mean really. you're 12. get a proper book and learn what you are on about before you make stupid mistakes like that. I have been reading about evolution since before you were even born and believe me, everything you said there is just wrong.

 

[BeamMeUpScotty]

I didn't even realize he was twelve. Kinda gives me a creepy feeling to have replied like I did.

 

[mikeynov]

Posts like these bother me. Not because of the ignorance of the poster - the kid is 12. I can't imagine the **** I probably believed at that age.

But, being 12, and sounding so much like your average creationist here, we can make an inference or two about where this information is undoubtedly coming from. Home. Church. Community.

It honestly sickens me to see kids like this brainwashed with the usual YEC nonsense. These are the same people who, 20 years from now, will write an article for AIG or ICR about all the "evidence" against evolution, and how absurd it is, and maybe even how they "used to be an evolutionist" (maybe at 8?).

 

[Herman Hedning]

Now, let me say up front that I don't doubt that this particular poster is actually 12 years old, but just beware that not everybody puts their real birth date in their profiles. We do have a couple one year old posters here, and I don't think that is their real age.

 

[neverforsaken]

in truth, it kinda reminds me of when i was 12.

 

[punkrockthumos]

Setting aside the fact that the ancient Greeks did not come up with the modern theory of evolution, the ancient Greeks came up with pythagoras's theorem and euclidian geometry. Do you think those ideas are dumb?

Further, there have been many evidences discovered for evolution. You can find out about them in this forum. Or you can go examine talkorigins.

actually, aristotle thought about darwinism, and then rejected it. he said that things don't happen by accident (a tooth doesn't come into being by chance or accident) but things have a pointedness (a tooth comes into being because there is this action called chewing).

 

[Hydra009]

The reason I think the evolution theory is so dumb, is that the ancient Greeks came up with it. It's just so old and out dated, and there's been nothing to prove it.

The interesting thing about these kinds of threads is that right after logical devestating arguments like the OP, creationists will also claim that the ToE is wrong because it is (relatively) new and that the Bible (their interpretation of it, to be specific) is right because it is old. This OP is the appeal to novelty fallacy, and previous creationist claims fit the appeal to tradition fallacy.

 

[Self Improvement]

You know what? The Earth is pretty old. I think we should get rid of it and go live on another planet.

What do you guys think?

 

[HRE]

You guys, lay off the "Well he's 12" stuff.

Seriously, he's probably never been addressed as a thinking person before -- I know I hadn't when I came to the internet. That's probably why he has his ideas -- no one has taken the time to engage him in earnest discussion because of his age.

Give him some time, treat him with a measure of courtesy, and maybe he'll surprise you. He obviously cares enough about the subject at 12 to dig up this forum, register, and post...