Made up stuff
I can understand little children happily believing their parents when it comes to the tooth fairy and Father Christmas, but what absolutely astonishes me is that billions of people believe in one god or another.
There are qualified science teachers here, in the US and elsewhere teaching kids that the Earth is no more than 6000 years old! If I was a maths teacher and insisted on telling my classes that 10 + 10 = 30 I'd expect to get the sack pretty soon!
I mean, really.
Just goes to show that there are many many more gullible fools in the world than those who have the ability and reason to question the bullshit they're told.
( BobbyParadise, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 16:39, 7 replies)

I'm surprised
it's taken 17 pages to come up with this one.

Although despite the lack of evidence of the existence of one or more gods, it's impossible to disprove his/her/its/their existence, so there's no use trying to convince believers.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 16:44, closed)

Believers of any stripe.
Richard Dawkins is just as much a pain in the arse as the bloke who sat next to me on the tube with a big Bible colouring book and tried to convert me the other week.
(davywavy, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 16:50, closed)

While the replies are true...
...I feel the OP was trying to point out that science teachers are teaching the 'Earth is 6000 years old' as science fact - dispite all the evidence to the contrary.

I mean, I've no problems with people believing whatever they like, but that's quite different to totally ignoring the provable evidence to teach hearsay to schoolkids.
(NoveltyCondomHead Clanks Wams., Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:22, closed)

"Devil's Advocate"
www.b3ta.com/board/8680570

(includes free unexpected Saddam!)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:32, closed)

It's impossible to disprove anything.
Saying it's impossible to disprove something is utterly meaningless.
( Zuowan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:33, closed)

correlation
unsuprisingly there is an inverse correlation between religiosity and intelligence.....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-102
(imallamallama looking forward to llamageddon on, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 20:57, closed)

How can you doubt
the existence of the flying spaghetti monster?
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 22:48, closed)