Chilidog wrote:
On a different planet of weirdness is WND's recent article explaining the science behind Noah's flood.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/does-science ... ahs-flood/Quote:
“As the crack raced around the earth, the 10-mile-thick crust opened like a rip in a tightly stretched cloth,” Brown explained. “Pressure in the subterranean chamber directly beneath the rupture suddenly dropped [and] caused supercritical water to explode with great violence out of the 10-mile-deep ‘slit’ that wrapped around the earth like the seam of a baseball.”
blah, blah, blah!!
Bullshit, bovine excrement, bullshit.....
Pseudo-science at its bestest!!
The peddlers of creation science are not too removed from the snake oil salesmen of the 19th Century or birthers. Whenever I engage these clowns about
their science, I start with the distinction between a ruling hypothesis (e.g. the Bible is a literal retelling of Earth's history) with the scientific method and the scientific necessity of multiple working hypotheses. Just ask those
wise scientists of the past who
knew exactly what the Missing Link had to look like. They were completely taken in when Piltdown Man was presented to them! "Well, gosh it has to be true 'cause that is what I thought it would look like!"
Science is a rational way of looking at and making sense of our natural world. If we do a good job, it provides insights into HOW things work. It falls short in explaining WHY things are the way they are.
This pseudo-scientific nitwittery is usually referred to as the Hydroplate Theory. It was developed by another crazy Walt. From RationalWiki:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hydroplate_theoryQuote:
Hydroplate theory is a creationist hypothesis - developed in 1980 by Walter Brown (PhD Mechanical Engineering[1]) - that the antediluvian Earth had huge chambers of water that encircled the planet's mantle. The whole idea falls nicely into the not even wrong* category.
Apparently, before the flood, the Earth's crust floated on the above mentioned chambers (rock floats on water! Perhaps it had lots of pumice in it?). Walls and tendrils connected the mantle and crust, allowing the inner and outer reaches of the planet to rotate on its axis at the same speed.
Quote:
*Not even wrong (or the full version "That's not right - that's not even wrong") refers to any statement, argument or explanation that can be neither correct nor incorrect, because it fails to meet the criteria by which correctness and incorrectness are determined.
The phrase implies that not only is someone not making a valid point in a discussion, but they don't even seem to understand the nature of the discussion itself, or the things that need to be understood in order to participate.
See
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrongDoes that sound like a group that you are all familiar with?