For you "Creationists"...

[RawAlex]

Galaxy Song

Spoken: Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

- Monty Python

[Linkster]

The problem with the whole concept that started this thread is that you put any credence in a storybook that was written to justify a religion - anyone can write "tales" and publish them for the readers enjoyment - to create a story and then try to pass it off as a true historical account of reality is entirely idiotic
Anyone wanna explain to me how Adams son (I believe this story was called Genesis) married and had children when Adam and Eve only had two sons? Either he was the first true Oedipus complex afflicted human (incest at its best) or someone just forgot a few little details in their storytales.
If you need religion to explain life you are definitely missing out on the big picture here.

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by Linkster

The problem with the whole concept that started this thread is that you put any credence in a storybook that was written to justify a religion - anyone can write "tales" and publish them for the readers enjoyment - to create a story and then try to pass it off as a true historical account of reality is entirely idiotic
Anyone wanna explain to me how Adams son (I believe this story was called Genesis) married and had children when Adam and Eve only had two sons? Either he was the first true Oedipus complex afflicted human (incest at its best) or someone just forgot a few little details in their storytales.
If you need religion to explain life you are definitely missing out on the big picture here.

Stop asking questions. You are not supposed to learn you are supposed to have faith. I bet you read too