Deflecting from Topic, Ain't He?

Sorry for Americanism "ain't" - but I think the anonymous commenter under a post of mine is US American.

It made for a comments' section under a post wildly different from the actual content of the post, so, I'll be deleting our dialogue there, but giving you a taste. Or, giving as taste all so far:

Anonymous said...

May 30, 2021 at 8:30 AM

Finally! Someone with the courage to speak the truth! Thank you Hans: "So, it it a demonstrable fact that men and dinos did not coexist? It is rather demonstrated that they did”

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/flinstones/images/c/c6/Pterodactyl.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20201122182846

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

June 1, 2021 at 2:56 AM

While I think the fact is demonstrable, and while I think the Flintstones are great humour, I don't think the Flintstones are per se the demonstration. There are better ones, like carbon dates of dino bones matching carbon dates of Cro Magnon men.

Anonymous said...

June 3, 2021 at 7:24 PM

Blasphemy! The Flinstones operated an entire society in the direct company of dinosaurs, just look at Mr Slate and his quarry of rock crunching dinos. Cromagnons merely painted buffalo on their cave walls, as if they didn't even know of the dinos I know you have proven they coexisted with through your extensive knowledge of geology and c14 dating and all that other bullshit scientists claim to know better than you.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

June 8, 2021 at 4:31 AM

As said, my knowledge of the Flintstones is, it originated as comics or as cartoons.

Your sample seems to be consistent with that.

Obviously the mere existence of a cartoon wouldn't disprove sth as originating for entertainment only, like there are cartoons and comics of Biblical history, but my point is, you seem to know the cartoon I think of and Hanna-Barbera doesn't strike me as very serious historians.

Anonymous said...

June 20, 2021 at 6:22 AM

Where do you think the gravel used to pave the road to Making America Great Again comes from? Mr Slate and his rock crunching dinosaurs explains it all! Our hero Donald Trump comes directly himself from those great believers in biblical flood creationism. You should really read up on Intelligent Design, it explains all this with big science words even.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

June 22, 2021 at 4:25 AM

Donald Trump never came out as believing Young Earth Creationism or all of the Flood account.

Marco Rubio came closer, he at least came out as agnostic between thousands and millions of years. Trump won the primaries since Rubio was eliminated.

Anonymous said...

June 26, 2021 at 8:20 PM

Trump not believing YEC?!? I guess he's as dumb as he looks after all, you've convinced me with your persuasion. Clearly , every word of the biblical account is precisely true, that dotard Trump Lied when he said the bible was his favourite book. Damn, I learn every day about stupid idiots and their deluded misunderstanding of obvious facts like the biblical flood and dinosaurs and humans coexisting on that ark and in the Flinstones . Just like Oprah said.....

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

June 27, 2021 at 4:27 AM

One can have the Bible as one's favourite book (I wonder how much he prefers films over books, in Trump's case) without actually believing the most obvious readings of it.

Btw, I don't recall him saying he also believed it totally.

Anonymous said...

June 27, 2021 at 7:40 PM

Trump profesed to loving the bible, and his strong base is so enamoured by him, mostly because they are themselves YECs who have seen the incontrovertible evidence (The Flinstones played daily back when most of these people were growing up). Trumps favourite passage is ''2 Corinthians '. They know a hoax when they see it, yet they voted for Trump and know the only science worth teaching their kids is ID, not that crazy evolution stuff or biology of physics or chemistry or any other of those bunk fields you know are all false. I can't believe Trump hoodwinked all these high functioning scientific minds who know for a fact KNOW dinosaurs were on the ark, how could they let themselves be led to error by Trump if he doesn't himself believe it is literally true?

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

June 28, 2021 at 5:24 AM

It so happens, not all Evangelical Right Wingers are Fundies and not all Fundies are Young Earth Creationists. It also so happens, not all Young Earth Creationists are Right Wing and of those who are, not all are pro-Trump. Oh ... except perhaps as compared to Biden and Obama!

These comments taken from:

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : Answering Pismenny, More Than One Comment
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2021/05/answering-pismenny-more-than-one-comment.html