“The tides go in, the tides go out. You can’t explain that.”
Tch. Can your science explain why it rains?
(it’s a Bill O’Reilly quote, so old it belongs in c/antiquememes)
And their quote is from the first Avatar series.
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Ah I didn’t know!
Also the source of this little beauty:
The guy he was talking to (I believe he was the president of some atheist group) made that face.
Aw yes that video is so fkn awesome
Yes it is.
Have you ever seen the rain. Coming down. Sunny day?
Checkmate science nerds.
What are birds? We just don’t know.
Lol, that was my first thought also
I’m sure some people have felt electricity.
Spoiler: that shit can hurt
I have felt electricity multiple times. It is never fun, but you definitely can feel it.
When I was a kid I used to shock myself with these lighter igniter things all the time. It was fun and didn’t really hurt.
True. I’ve shocked myself with those and put a nine volt battery to my tongue, neither of which are that painful and can be fun. I was more stuck on getting shocked by full mains current which hurts like hell and is anything but fun.
Your suspicions are confirmed. I have indeed worn wool socks and touched a metal item.
As a kid I one shoved dough hooks into an extension cord. Fun times!
Thank you for your service. 🫡
Yep. And it was no fun, I can tell you. But I definitely felt it!
At first I had a lot of questions, but the Bible verse at the end cleared them all up.
Yeah, I’m wondering what subject this “textbook” was written for.
This is a real textbook by Bob Jones University for home-schooling creationists. It’s just called “Science 4” and can be found on Amazon.
Good grief.
nobody has ever seen, heard or felt it
I’ve done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I’ve been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.
You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!
You know what you can’t see, hear and feel? God.
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…Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…
What kind of jokebook is that? “No one has ever […] felt it.” - you git, just grab a life wire and hold unto it - the next guy you will be talking to is probably God.
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Just like regular magnets, but… lewd?
By electricity
it says nobody has observed electricity, only to later mention lightning…
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Dumbasses never heard of lightning?
Next week on Stupid Shit Evangelicals Actually Believe: “Men have one fewer rib than women, because Space Dad used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. This cannot be disproven because there is no way to see inside a human body.”
Not only have they heard of lightning, it’s in the Bible quote at the bottom of the page!
Just baffling.
So this is the shit that evangelicals want taught in schools?
It makes sense, you need your sheep to remain dumb if you want them to believe and do dumb shit
Now I’m interested I want to know if they’re actually really dumb or if they’re just trying to make everyone else really dumb.
Do they actually not know where electricity comes from.
It comes across as someone who dropped out of highschool to become a barefoot pregnant wife, and sometimes hears snippets of science on the TV. “Some people think electricity comes from the sun!” Technically true, but not very accurate.
Why not both?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_speaker
You can literally see and hear it , you could even touch it briefly if you like.
The irony of this page ending with a bible verse that specifically references lightning …
I mean, this obviously has to be satire, as lightings are pretty much visible electricity
It’s rhetorical gaslightning
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I got some links for you, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wit
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/miss_the_point
😜
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The contents of the rest of the page generates lots of questions and continually proposed that electricity is just a fluke and there’s no understanding of how or why. But the article was written by either an idiot or a liar because the reasons are known. Nuclear reactors are purpose built to make electricity. It’s safe to say that the vast amount of electricity on the planet at any given time is manmade and deliberate.
The formatting of the page is familiar to all of us because it’s a common layout: ask questions, intrigue the reader, then show how a thing works to answer those questions. The Bible verse at the end is the button line that connects it all - it’s the thing that’s standing up the whole line that the page is describing. Electricity is simple and understandable but this textbook makes it out to be magic and then finishes the page by talking about a time when skydaddy make magic too.
The entire thing is disingenuous and if you aren’t able to see that then you are either trying to sell people on sky daddy or you don’t know how page educational literature works.
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You’re just proposing the God of the Gaps, and that god keeps shrinking every day.
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You are, however, currently standing several levels of seriousness too deep inside a shitpost-quarry. Oh… and please try to avoid doing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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Yeah but we literally know what lightning is, why it happens, etc. I’m no electrical engineer but I can tell you 90% of not only what electricity is but how it comes out of the walls.
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Variant quote: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic when observed by a sufficiently primitive person.
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TV comes on, TV goes off. You can’t explain that.
It’s the effing dog, sitting on the remote
I think this actually explains electricity pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEPnKYX5C0
I half expected this to link to a video for the song The Electric Boogie. This was better.
Also, the hand movements slay me!
"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."
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Now this “pressure” you speak of. Is it in the room with us now?
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If we don’t know what electricity is or where it comes from… How do we make all those wires splurge a bunch of it into your church’s organ where Mrs Abernathy plays the same two tunes every Sunday, eh?
The electrician was divinely inspired by God, obviously
The techpriests rigged it up after uttering a prayer to the Omnissiah
Priest: “Dear congregation, we have gathered here today to honor our Lord and Savior. Today’s prayer is read by the 9 year old Kevin”
Kevin: “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOOD!”
Priest: “And skulls for the skull throne, Kevin. Very good. Thank you!”
Necessarily. It’s the same dude that had already wired up the bulbs when God said “Let there be light” :D
