Originally posted by ThinkOfOneThis is nothing like a Young Earth Creationist's attitude toward evolution.
It only sounds really daft since you took it out of context and didn't provide the explanation.
[quote]After high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying chemical engineering, until he got into an argument with a professor about what one times one equals. "How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that tw ...[text shortened]... e toward evolution. For that matter, the line of "reasoning" bears similarities to that of YECs.
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Originally posted by ThinkOfOneso much stupid in that quote.
It only sounds really daft since you took it out of context and didn't provide the explanation.
[quote]After high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying chemical engineering, until he got into an argument with a professor about what one times one equals. "How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that tw ...[text shortened]... e toward evolution. For that matter, the line of "reasoning" bears similarities to that of YECs.
"If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect."
sure it does. it obeys the rule that 1 times any number is that number.
"what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two"
nobody is told the square root of two is two. ever.
"This did not go over well"
yes, being a dumbass tends to not go over very well.
"I mean, you can't conform when you know innately that something is wrong."
yes, because personal instinct trumps mathematical proofs. and not in something complex like calculus. or string theory. noo, he "knows" something is wrong with basic arithmetic.
On a side note, even the proof to 1=2 that at some point divides by 0 is more intelligent than this.
