{"id":14316,"date":"2018-01-19T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2018-01-19T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:18:09","slug":"an-absolute-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/01\/19\/an-absolute-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"An Absolute Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In an attempt to deny &#8220;absolute truth&#8221;, a rather silly post by rather evangelical atheists managed to provide a list of non-sequiturs and patent ridiculousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/atheist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#atheist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gods?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gods<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/truth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#truth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t3LGUdSsLM\">pic.twitter.com\/t3LGUdSsLM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atheists of America (@AtheistsAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtheistsAmerica\/status\/947648660665524224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This means one thing: A fisking is in order!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div id=\"attachment_14179\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14179\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo.png 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisking!  A fisking!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the sake of argument, the accuracy of the &#8220;facts&#8221; will not be bothered to be gone over, simply their laughable use.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;you can see less than 1% of the electomagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So what?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometers per second across the galaxy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Monty Python said it better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/buqtdpuZxvk\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;90% of calls in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are no &#8216;you'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On a cell by cell basis, this seems a bit high percentage of the human biome. But then I guess they are assuming that we will take it on <em>faith<\/em> that this statement is an <em>absolute truth<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1<sup>st<\/sup>, That&#8217;s not how wave functions work; 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, again, a suggestion of <em>belief<\/em> via <em>faith<\/em>\u2026 at least you can enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/hk-phy.org\/articles\/caesar\/caesar_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caesar&#8217;s last breath<\/a>; 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, not all nuclei originate via fusion reactions (something something <sup>1<\/sup>H something).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Human beings have 36 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some human beings, due to various medical conditions, have more or sometimes less. Palm trees, IIRC, also have 36 chromosomes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don&#8217;t just look at a rainbow, you create it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Um, no. Something does not exist just because we haven&#8217;t perceived it yet. That some critter can&#8217;t see a rainbow does not mean that the rainbow does not exist, only that it can no perceive the existence of an objective phenomena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To suggest that something only exists just because one perceives it is <em>magical<\/em> thinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wait, if something doesn&#8217;t exist if you don&#8217;t perceive it, than how can 99% of the spectrum even exist if you don&#8217;t see it???<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, the disproval as an absolute truth of absolute truths is based on non sequiturs, misunderstandings, and facts so mis-used as to be unworthy of verification?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/absolute-truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/absolute-truth.jpg 540w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/absolute-truth-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"An Absolute Nonsense\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In an attempt to deny 'absolute truth', a rather silly post by rather evangelical atheists managed to provide a list of non-sequiturs and patent ridiculousness.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/absolute-truth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In an attempt to deny &#8220;absolute truth&#8221;, a rather silly post by rather evangelical atheists managed to provide a list of non-sequiturs and patent ridiculousness. #atheist #gods #truth pic.twitter.com\/t3LGUdSsLM &mdash; Atheists of America (@AtheistsAmerica) January 1, 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This means one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/01\/19\/an-absolute-nonsense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-science","tag-derp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14320,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions\/14320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}