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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 01/19/2007 : 21:00:51
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This is great stuff! Some examples: quote:
The ideas about science quoted below were taken from the essays, exams, and classroom discussions of 5th and 6th graders. They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the 'most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.'
Q: What is one horsepower?
A: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.
Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 21:34:43 [Permalink]
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That was funny.
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Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Sounds like something a creationist would say. 
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Neurosis
SFN Regular
USA
675 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 21:50:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
That was funny.
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Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Sounds like something a creationist would say.
Obviously, that kids parents didn't want to answer the question or had no idea themselves!
It is cute when kids say strange stuff, but when they grow up still thinking the same illogical things about how our world works, its just sad. My favorite example is the one less rib thing in men, the answer is right there is every anatomy book, and if you don't have one, JUST COUNT! |
Facts! Pssh, you can prove anything even remotely true with facts.
- Homer Simpson
[God] is an infinite nothing from nowhere with less power over our universe than the secretary of agriculture.
- Prof. Frink
Lisa: Yes, but wouldn't you rather know the truth than to delude yourself for happiness?
Marge: Well... um.... [goes outside to jump on tampoline with Homer.] |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 21:53:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
That was funny.
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Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Sounds like something a creationist would say.
This one's a little Creationistic in reasoning, too:
"I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing."
They form, because they believe.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 22:31:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
I remember arguing with a Creationist years ago on SkepticTank, and one of the things this particular Creationist remarked on is how we still don't know how clouds float in air.
My personal favorite:
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Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.
Edited to add: Sure glad I'm rather weak.
Another good reason to discourage face-licking by dogs!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 02:21:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
This is great stuff...Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
A critic once wrote of my "Suite" from "Incidental music to Euripides: The Bacchae" - "Don't try to understand it, just listen.  |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 03:03:42 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Chippewa
quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
This is great stuff...Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
A critic once wrote of my "Suite" from "Incidental music to Euripides: The Bacchae" - "Don't try to understand it, just listen.
And that is as true as it gets, with aesthetics.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 11:00:17 [Permalink]
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When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
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"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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