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Post by Ian1732 on Jul 2, 2009 21:37:47 GMT -5
In that 5th comic, is that bearded guy supposed to be Chuck Norris? Or is it Ken Ham, desperately trying to make himself look manlier?
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 2, 2009 21:49:33 GMT -5
Any chance I can get a link to these After Eden things? I tried getting there from the site, but I could only get 1 or 2 without getting redirected to some weird video thing.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 3, 2009 9:30:24 GMT -5
Any chance I can get a link to these After Eden things? I tried getting there from the site, but I could only get 1 or 2 without getting redirected to some weird video thing. Try this.First comic is here.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 3, 2009 12:16:45 GMT -5
Any chance I can get a link to these After Eden things? I tried getting there from the site, but I could only get 1 or 2 without getting redirected to some weird video thing. Try this.First comic is here.Are these supposed to be funny? To Creationist Christians, I mean; I can't see how anyone else can chuckle without it being derisive.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 3, 2009 14:08:24 GMT -5
Are these supposed to be funny? To Creationist Christians, I mean; I can't see how anyone else can chuckle without it being derisive. Apparently. If the guy drawing them could get a single original idea (there are very few comics that aren't either "sin cursed world!" or "loldarwin"), it might be a little funnier.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 4, 2009 5:41:05 GMT -5
It's still a derisive chuckle, if you think about it. They usually end up coming out to, "Heh, isn't evolution stupid?" We do that sort of thing all the time. Granted, when we do it, it makes SENSE, but that's not the point. Also, there's usually some tiny (not very funny) joke in the ones about other subjects. I laughed a teeny bit in the one where Eve asks Adam what thorn bushes look like, while he's jumping up & down holding his foot.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 4, 2009 5:52:27 GMT -5
Wow. After Eden has a lot of literal foot-in-mouth statements. They make a joke about a couple missing the Ark. That roughly amounts to, "Haha! You're going to drown to death!" Then, later on, there's this: "It's amazing that God could have created the world in no time at all, but took such an enormous amount of time to do it!" "You mean 4.5 billion years?" "No, I mean 6 days!" Yes, there certainly is something odd about that logic, isn't there? This one isn't a logic fail, it's a grammar fail: "Timmy's next experience with 'cloning' involved writing 'I will not copy other student's papers...." In case anyone's wondering what I'm talking about, the apostrophe is in the wrong place. www.answersingenesis.org/aftereden/view.aspx?id=121Take a note, kids: Doing math out of the Bible will get you an F.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 4, 2009 12:46:10 GMT -5
It's cute how they think love works like that, too...and then bash others for the idea of "soul mates".
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Post by CtraK on Jul 4, 2009 13:19:44 GMT -5
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 4, 2009 13:36:54 GMT -5
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Post by Tiger on Jul 4, 2009 13:59:35 GMT -5
It isn't? One would expect eating a piece of fruit to bring good health, but they believe that doing so was responsible for the very existence of bad health. That seems ironic to me.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 4, 2009 14:19:10 GMT -5
Oh, THAT'S what they meant. Sorry, some of these you read, & it's just like, "What are they talking about?"
For example, "Isn't it ironic that fruit caused so many health problems?" is so much less clumsy than some rant about how ironic it is that Adam & Eve ate a piece of fruit & that caused the world to become sin-cursed & all the bad stuff to happen & that's why this guy's running on a treadmill & I'm supposed to pick a joke out of all of that.
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Post by Septic Sceptic on Jul 4, 2009 15:05:52 GMT -5
I did like one of the early ones where the artist talks about the importance of being able to draw plants in order to cover Adam and Eve's foul and corrupting genital areas. Makes me think the guy has a tough time keeping Eve's bush out of his head when he's supposed to be working.
YOU'RE GOING TO HELL, DAN!
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Post by Vene on Jul 4, 2009 16:11:17 GMT -5
I'm just amazed they had so many comics about where Cain's wife came from, but they never fucking answered the question. This is as close as they got. It's also one of the few times they don't include a verse.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 4, 2009 23:05:58 GMT -5
The one time I've ever gotten an answer to that question, it involved humans other than Adam & Eve. Well...humanoids. Apparently, Adam & Eve were the first humans with souls, or some such nonsense. So...yeah, this is one of the few times where I really HAVEN'T heard the argument a million times before.
I wonder if they have an article about that subject? Not saying it'll make me pass out in shock. In fact, it'll probably be similarly twisted, in terms of logic. And the fact that they have the character pointing at a Bible, but don't include some sort of verse is interesting.
And why DO they have so many comics about that? They make it out like it's some huge thing today. You barely ever hear about Cain, besides that he killed Abel. Noah's Ark, Jesus's tomb, the Garden of Eden, & many more are much bigger theological "where" questions than Cain's wife.
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