Comment by Dustin on January 15, 2011 at 11:28pm

If they made that remark about science those people are completely lost to reality.  Any 'evidence' you put forth regarding the molestations and rape will be disregarded.  

 

What they are doing is making a conclusion (The Pope is great) , therefore anything that refutes that conclusion is by necessity invalid.  It's how creationists work and also how many religious work.  

 

Ironic that they would ever say anything so insane about science when they have not a clue what proof actually means.  *Facepalm*

 

 

Comment by Sam Manning on January 16, 2011 at 2:58am

I gave them site after site after site of legitimate sources that showed the Catholic Churches problem and covering up of child molestation cases and they kept telling me they were invalid I was like are you stupid. The part that really pissed me off was them saying that the victims of abuse should forgive the fathers that ruined their lives (It apparently helps the healing process) They asked me a tough ? because I am not as into astrology and don't really research a lot of science revolving the Earth's rotation they asked how did it get into that pattern. I just said that we are figuring that out by observing other galaxies out there. Does science have an answer as to how the rotation got there. The Catholics call it intelligent design but it really is creationism

Comment by Kenneth Montville D.D. on January 16, 2011 at 7:58am

They sound more like evangelical Protestants than Catholics. Tell them that they are morons if they believe in ID or biblical creationism  because Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have both spoken out to say that biological evolution by means of natural selection is how life started and that Genesis is just a story, written by people who didn't understand science.

 

Second, and I may butcher this as I am a student of social sciences and not hard sciences, rotation in space is caused by vectoring angles. Gravitation caused by larger bodies creates a pull on smaller ones which may be moving in different directions. In the accretion discs of solar systems most everything starts moving in the same direction and thus begins to have orbits in the same direction due to gravity caused by high mass at the center where the star will form.

Comment by Steve M on January 16, 2011 at 5:56pm

Facts will get you no where when going up against the"Neener Neener Neener I CAN"T HEAR YOU" line of logic  that they are using.  It trumps all fact.  I used to be Catholic  and my whole family is still Catholic and looking at it from the outside it has to be one of the most arrogant presumptuous of all of the religions. Once you see the emperor ( the pope ) has no cloths the whole thing looks ridiculous. Good luck trying to convince them of anything. They just let Galileo off of the hook in the 1990's.

Comment by Sam Manning on January 17, 2011 at 3:40pm

really that is interesting Johan I might have to bring that up I think it is dumb because only Catholics can be called into "saint" hood yet other great leaders such as Ghandi aren't as special according to the Catholics

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