"The tides go in, the tides go out. You can't explain that."
Tch. Can your science explain why it rains?
(it’s a Bill O'Reilly quote, so old it belongs in c/antiquememes)
Have you ever seen the rain. Coming down. Sunny day?
Checkmate science nerds.
What are birds? We just don't know.
Lol, that was my first thought also
I’m sure some people have felt electricity.
Spoiler: that shit can hurt
Yep. And it was no fun, I can tell you. But I definitely felt it!
nobody has ever seen, heard or felt it
I've done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I've been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.
You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!
You know what you can't see, hear and feel? God.
That's interestingly, the point
...Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
Dumbasses never heard of lightning?
Next week on Stupid Shit Evangelicals Actually Believe: “Men have one fewer rib than women, because Space Dad used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. This cannot be disproven because there is no way to see inside a human body.”
Not only have they heard of lightning, it's in the Bible quote at the bottom of the page!
Just baffling.
So this is the shit that evangelicals want taught in schools?
It makes sense, you need your sheep to remain dumb if you want them to believe and do dumb shit
it says nobody has observed electricity, only to later mention lightning...
seen, heard or felt it??? Bobby, they would be very upset if you showed them an AC-Sub Station.
What kind of jokebook is that? "No one has ever [...] felt it." - you git, just grab a life wire and hold unto it - the next guy you will be talking to is probably God.
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Just like regular magnets, but... lewd?
By electricity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_speaker
You can literally see and hear it , you could even touch it briefly if you like.
The irony of this page ending with a bible verse that specifically references lightning ...
All it's saying is that, well if God is the Supreme Creator, then He created the phenomenon lightening. The heavens sent down the rains, so too was is believed that God cast down the lightning sometimes. It shakes the Earth, lights up the sky, and does make a mighty boom when it strikes, no? This verse is a poetic description of a natural phenomenon if anything. But too, does it beg the question, "Where does lightning really come from? What makes it strike? It brings an enourmous flash of light, thunderous booms, and Earth shattering, tree splitting force everytime."
The contents of the rest of the page generates lots of questions and continually proposed that electricity is just a fluke and there's no understanding of how or why. But the article was written by either an idiot or a liar because the reasons are known. Nuclear reactors are purpose built to make electricity. It's safe to say that the vast amount of electricity on the planet at any given time is manmade and deliberate.
The formatting of the page is familiar to all of us because it's a common layout: ask questions, intrigue the reader, then show how a thing works to answer those questions. The Bible verse at the end is the button line that connects it all - it's the thing that's standing up the whole line that the page is describing. Electricity is simple and understandable but this textbook makes it out to be magic and then finishes the page by talking about a time when skydaddy make magic too.
The entire thing is disingenuous and if you aren't able to see that then you are either trying to sell people on sky daddy or you don't know how page educational literature works.
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Now I'm interested I want to know if they're actually really dumb or if they're just trying to make everyone else really dumb.
Do they actually not know where electricity comes from.
It comes across as someone who dropped out of highschool to become a barefoot pregnant wife, and sometimes hears snippets of science on the TV. "Some people think electricity comes from the sun!" Technically true, but not very accurate.
Why not both?
TV comes on, TV goes off. You can't explain that.
It’s the effing dog, sitting on the remote
I think this actually explains electricity pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEPnKYX5C0
I half expected this to link to a video for the song The Electric Boogie. This was better.
Also, the hand movements slay me!
"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."
But we know wind is caused by a temperature/pressure difference, and displacement through the motion of other, material matter. Where did the force of electricity come from? What creates more of it? Especially considering neurons in life
If we don't know what electricity is or where it comes from... How do we make all those wires splurge a bunch of it into your church's organ where Mrs Abernathy plays the same two tunes every Sunday, eh?
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You'd know you'd felt - and probably seen/heard - electricity if you ate a nice big arc of it. Not even counting lightning; I've seen high voltage arc several meters in a nice blinding line that would kill anyone it touched fucking dead. Maybe whoever wrote that nonsense should try it out for themselves. Even 120 from an outlet would do - it'll certainly wake you up in the morning.
I can hear electricity and I can kinda feel it. I sense it through plugs and things. Others around me don't get the same feeling I get.
You can have magnets implanted that can "feel" the flow of electricity.
You know how walking under electrical cables or when a plug isn't fully in.
Definitely can feel it shocking you. Oooft
Checkmate, atheists!
I really want to know the title of this book
It's a "Science" textbook for Christian schools (although probably more often used in Christian home-schools) published by Bob Jones University. I don't remember exactly what grade it's for, although 2nd or 3rd seems about right. I'm only remembering bits about it from seeing this posted elsewhere online. Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents and had the 2nd edition of this textbook around 25 years ago when I was in that grade. IIRC it had improved a bit by then, but it was still similarly shallow and had just as much religion sprinkled throughout.
Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents<
In my country we do not have home schools, so I am really curious and hope you don't mind the question: How is your education history - when did you get in touch with real science, what did you think about it and did home schooling have an influence on the career you chose?
The fuck? I was 100% this was satire
Someone needs to show whoever wrote this lightning and tesla coils
Let me guess: America.
nothing more wrong could be said
