Great Minds Think Alike

[Aella_]

Speaking about (even though not entirely related to) creationism.
From what I've seen online:

I'm a bit baffled by how polarized the US political/religious arena appear to be and to be going . You have so many "radicals" (be they conservatives, liberals, religious, atheists etc.). And (from youtube channels) a lot of them seem to be permanently at each others' throat, no middle ground.
Whereas in Au/Nz, discussions around politics and religion are much more moderate and tolerant of each others' view.

But I found the reverse to be true with the everyday, lay person: americans seem more liberal and australians- more conservative.

Strange.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Speaking about (even though not entirely related to) creationism.
From what I've seen online:

I'm a bit baffled by how polarized the US political/religious arena appear to be and to be going . You have so many "radicals" (be they conservatives, liberals, religious, atheists etc.). And (from youtube channels) a lot of them seem to be permanently at each others' throat, no middle ground.
Whereas in Au/Nz, discussions around politics and religion are much more moderate and tolerant of each others' view.

But I found the reverse to be true with the everyday, lay person: americans seem more liberal and australians- more conservative.

Strange.

We aren't polarized, actually. Few embrace Creationism. Such people have always been ridiculed for their untenable convictions. That said, I can make a convincing case in support of the Clay Hypothesis. Clay is a crystal, Dna is a crystal.

Most Americans are liberal in the sense that all of us want to be left alone to do our vices in peace. Most Americans are conservative in the sense that we want killers executed, want others to leave our money alone, and want no one to butt in line ahead of us.

 

[Sean]

Dna is a crystal.

What?

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Ben Carson is a Creationist. No Creationist can be described as a great mind, by definition.

He is a very smart man and a very good doctor but his views are so out there it really boggles the mind. How can someone so smart be so fucking dumb?

 

[Aella_]

We aren't polarized, actually. Few embrace Creationism. Such people have always been ridiculed for their untenable convictions. That said, I can make a convincing case in support of the Clay Hypothesis. Clay is a crystal, Dna is a crystal.

Most Americans are liberal in the sense that all of us want to be left alone to do our vices in peace. Most Americans are conservative in the sense that we want killers executed, want others to leave our money alone, and want no one to butt in line ahead of us.

Thanks for that.
This thing L vs. R wingers (conservatives vs. liberals or whatever one wants to call it ) --. and whether people are polarized or on a continuum.
I'm quite interested in it & read around it, since I butt heads but also saw it too many times around me . In so many areas.

Hope you will be online (or, alternatively, anyone else interested in discussing) tomorrow as well.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

What?

Do your homework, check it out.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v342/n6248/abs/342456a0.html

 

[Sean]

Do your homework, check it out.

Explain to me how two chains of nucleotides can be a crystal?

 

[Sean]

Do your homework, check it out.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v342/n6248/abs/342456a0.html

Oh you fucking moron. Crystalography is a way that dna is studied, not the structure of the molecule itself.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Do your homework, check it out.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v342/n6248/abs/342456a0.html

You didn't understand that at all, did you?
It's ok, it's hard and I don't understand it all either but I understand enough to know that DNA is not a crystal in any sense and they are talking about ways of studying it not what it actually is.

 

[doctor_insanus]

You're trying to be Noir, but you're more of a Stooge.

http://products.culturenik.com/img/products/detail/136-377.jpg

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

You're trying to be Noir, but you're more of a Stooge.

http://products.culturenik.com/img/products/detail/136-377.jpg

The Stooges were kind of noir, in a way. I mean as noir as slapstick goes anyway.