EPTList of Common Misconceptions - Page 8
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Igakusei
United States610 Posts
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Asdkmoga
United States496 Posts
It is not harmful to baby birds to pick them up and return them to their nests, despite the common belief that doing so will cause the mother to reject it. what have we been doing all this time? T_T... ...never forget... | ||
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Immanency
United States82 Posts
Creationists don't believe dinosaurs existed. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
On January 16 2011 13:20 KingSC wrote: Creationists don't believe dinosaurs existed. They do but with Saddles. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/400/526893292_e95eb57c10.jpg) | ||
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Kenderson
Canada280 Posts
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Igakusei
United States610 Posts
On January 16 2011 13:20 KingSC wrote: Creationists don't believe dinosaurs existed. What do they believe? I was raised as a Creationist and still know a huge number of them. I don't think I've ever met one who didn't believe dinosaurs existed. How would they explain the fossils? The difference lies in when they believe dinosaurs existed. | ||
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duk3
United States807 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death | ||
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CreditM
United States41 Posts
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Alexson
Belarus293 Posts
On January 16 2011 15:44 CreditM wrote: Here's another one. Ab exercises do not help you get a six pack. We already have abs, we just need to get rid of the fat surrounding it. Ab exercises help strengthen abs, but it does not give you a six pack... got this from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xRTID478I This is common sense. Anyone who has done sit-ups can find out that they aren't getting abs anytime soon with ab exercises, if they have any common sense. But if they're stupid they will keep on doing these exercises thinking they are helping themselves. | ||
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DJ Roomba
158 Posts
LIES!  | ||
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Jswizzy
United States791 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/edifG.jpg) Watermelon eating Dinosaurs | ||
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.Aar
2177 Posts
"YOU KNOW THERE'S ACTUALLY NO EVIDENCE VIKINGS WORE HORNS ON THEIR HELMETS. THAT'S A POP CULTURE FABRICATION." | ||
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YejinYejin
United States1053 Posts
On January 16 2011 16:35 .Aar wrote: Pretty interesting read. Too bad most of this is stuff I don't care about, and would make me sound like a huge douchebag for correcting others for. "YOU KNOW THERE'S ACTUALLY NO EVIDENCE VIKINGS WORE HORNS ON THEIR HELMETS. THAT'S A POP CULTURE FABRICATION." I learned most of this in that one cracked article of misconceptions. It would makes sense for Vikings to not have horns, of course, because they're basically handlebars for other people. If you're fighting a Viking that has horns on his helmet, you just grab them with your hands and you have pretty good control of his head. You steer it down, and either you bring him to his knees or he loses his helmet. Neither outcome is favorable. Also in the cracked article, I believe, was the fact that ninjas never wore all black, because that makes you stand out and says to everyone, "HEY LOOK I'M A NINJA." It would make much more sense for ninjas to just wear normal clothes, because that's what allows them to blend in. Also, those ancient Greek statues apparently were not all shining white. The paint chipped off over time, but apparently the Greeks painted them all sorts of trippy rainbow colors. And of course you don't go around blatantly correcting others for, but if you're already on the topic of misconceptions, somehow (hey, who knows, it's possible) and someone brings up vikings or something, it's interesting stuff to know. | ||
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TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
On January 15 2011 06:42 danl9rm wrote: I find the opposite to be true. Most people believe a theory is fact. Theory is a collection of facts. | ||
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The KY
United Kingdom6252 Posts
On January 16 2011 13:20 KingSC wrote: Creationists don't believe dinosaurs existed. http://www.answersingenesis.org/ | ||
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SareBear
Canada17 Posts
they make other things too.... [im allowed to say this. im female] | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
On January 16 2011 16:31 Jswizzy wrote: Okay this is just to sad. Watermelon eating Dinosaurs It actually seems pretty reasonable to me to say that you can't conclude with certainty what kind of diet an animal had based solely on its teeth bones. It's still pretty likely that T-Rexes were carnivorous, but you can't really know for sure. | ||
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Jswizzy
United States791 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/ik5rC.png) Science does not deal in absolutes. IE: Facts | ||
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Generic SC
New Zealand179 Posts
That is not quite true, here's an extract from my last semester Antirealisim essay. The Pessimistic meta-induction is an argument brought forth by Larry Laudan (1981) in which he states that for a theory to be true, it must be empirically successful, and that its terms must refer to actual phenomena in the objective world, furthermore, if the theory is not empirically successful, it cannot be true, since it appears to contradict what we know of the world. Past theories that where once empirically successful and which were deamed to refer to phenomena that existed in the real world are now are considered to not be true and the phenomena to which they refer to not exist. Since previously accepted and empirically successful theories were later considered to be false it then seems to follow that current and future accepted and empirically successful theories will also subsequently be considered false. Althought it might seem that modern theories may currently have empirical and predictive accuracy, but so to did previous theories of their time. If a theory relies on "facts" to support it, but those facts are later falsified, were they really true to begin with? History shows us that they were not and gives a warning against casually accepting current and future scientific theory as ironclad truth. | ||
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Danjoh
Sweden405 Posts
On January 16 2011 17:38 DTK-m2 wrote: I learned most of this in that one cracked article of misconceptions. It would makes sense for Vikings to not have horns, of course, because they're basically handlebars for other people. If you're fighting a Viking that has horns on his helmet, you just grab them with your hands and you have pretty good control of his head. You steer it down, and either you bring him to his knees or he loses his helmet. Neither outcome is favorable. Also in the cracked article, I believe, was the fact that ninjas never wore all black, because that makes you stand out and says to everyone, "HEY LOOK I'M A NINJA." It would make much more sense for ninjas to just wear normal clothes, because that's what allows them to blend in. + Show Spoiler + Also, those ancient Greek statues apparently were not all shining white. The paint chipped off over time, but apparently the Greeks painted them all sorts of trippy rainbow colors. And of course you don't go around blatantly correcting others for, but if you're already on the topic of misconceptions, somehow (hey, who knows, it's possible) and someone brings up vikings or something, it's interesting stuff to know. What if the Ninja was operating in the middle of the night? Wouldn't it make sense if he wore black clothes then to easier blend in with the shadows? | ||
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