At 12/31/07 03:27 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: fuck u noob u dont no wut ur talking about. jesus created and loves u and u need to agree with what i say if u want 2 be saved
if you havent noticed by now, no one pays attention to me except to flame me, but i jump on the coattails of any topic i fancy!
I will now bombard you with links.
http://reallylongurl.com/you-are-a-fucki ng-idiot-for-thinking-like-that
http://politicalcirclejerk.com/our_membe rs_agree_with_us_so_we_must_be_right
also wall of text (courtesy of the Wikipedia artice on Omphalos)
The Omphalos hypothesis contains a powerful philosophic problem, one that troubles even those who have applied it in recent times. Since the hypothesis is based on the idea that apparent age is an illusion, it is a consistent extension to then suggest that the world could have been created as recently as five minutes ago. Any memories a person has of times before this were created in situ, in exactly the same fashion that the fossils were. This idea is sometimes called "Last Thursdayism" by its opponents, as in "the world might as well have been created last Thursday." The concept is both unverifiable and unfalsifiable through any conceivable scientific method - in other words, it is impossible even in principle to subject it to any form of test by reference to any empirical data because the empirical data themselves are considered to have been arbitrarily created to look the way it does at every observable level of detail. This philosophical approach, extended to other areas, has serious negative implications for science as a whole, if it is to explain anything.
From a religious viewpoint, it can be interpreted as God having 'created a fake,' such as illusions of light in space of stellar explosions (supernovae) that never really happened, or volcanic mountains that were never really volcanoes in the first place and that never actually experienced erosion, and the idea that God would create appearances that are so completely deceiving to every level of detail is not consistent with most benevolent theistic theologies.
This conception has therefore drawn harsh rebuke from some theologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against Bertrand Russell's projection of Gosse's concept:
