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Ken Ham Pissed That Carnival Referenced Evolution During Its Super Bowl Ad


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I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

 

 

As far as commercials go, I have to say it was pretty effective. I’d never heard those words before, but they really resonate.

 

Unless you’re Creationist Ken Ham and you saw this as evolution propaganda. Somehow, in his world, a beautiful harkening to the sea is really a reminder that our lives are just meaningless:

 

Don’t you just feel this “personal connection?” After all, your ancestor came out of the sea and evolved by natural processes to produce you. Don’t you feel the connection? Don’t you just want to go on one of their cruises so you can stand on the deck of a big cruise ship, look at the sea, and contemplate your accidental beginnings — and perhaps worship the sea, because it gave birth to you!

 

Oh — and really, you can spend a lot of money on such a cruise, but because you evolved from the sea and are just an evolved animal, and when you die you won’t even know you existed — so you won’t even remember the cruise — so what’s the point anyway? You just evolved to have an ultimately meaningless existence!

 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/02/01/creationist-ken-ham-is-angry-that-carnival-referenced-evolution-during-its-super-bowl-ad/

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I couldn't hold back my eye roll.

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Thinking isn't Ham's thing.  If dead atheists cannot remember what it was like to be alive then dead Christians cannot remember either. 

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You just evolved to have an ultimately meaningless existence!  Why yes, Mr. Ham, yes you did.  I have lost all faith in the process of evolution because billions of years results in.....Ken Ham!  You would think by now evolution could have really produced something grand.  Flying pigs, perhaps.  But no, all we got for billions of years of evolution is Ken Ham.  Either evolution has failed or the creator god is a moron.  Either way. 

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I have, for a long while now, felt exactly what the commercial described. Just looking around at the beach and across a large body of water is relaxing, mesmerizing and just feels "right".

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Lol, evolution propaganda. What do you call that crap mr. ham spouts? Christian propaganda! yay....wow a commercial that seeks to educate me versus christian garbage that seeks to condemn me. hmmm....

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I guess I'm wired differently from the Ken Hams of this world. I enjoy life while I'm living it, right this minute. And I expect lots more minutes like this tomorrow and the next day, and the day after that, and so on. Earlier in my life when my only hope was joy after death, I found the minutes of this life intolerable and the only way to survive till I was granted a natural death was to make major life changes. I somehow doubt Ham is in such desperate straits. I think he's just spouting crap to promote his own books and creation museum and what-not. It's the way he makes his minutes of this life enjoyable. It would be nice if he didn't insult and offend so many good people along the way just to make himself happy but there's not much I know to do about it.

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     I won a Carnival cruise once.  It sure didn't give meaning to my existence and I don't want or need to remember it for all eternity.  I probably did it wrong.

 

          mwc

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I've always felt that connection to the sea also.  My family came from Ireland, but I never knew much in the way of details.  Several years ago, I discovered that my ancestors came from a town on the coast of Ireland so I attributed that "sea" connection with my roots.  But I think JFK nailed it -- it's in our biological makeup. 

 

Leave it to Ken Ham and his ilk to devalue our humanity.

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     I won a Carnival cruise once.  It sure didn't give meaning to my existence and I don't want or need to remember it for all eternity.  I probably did it wrong.

 

          mwc

 

This is so funny but yeah, that line stuck me as ridiculous, too. Why devalue a cruise just because you don't want to or can't remember it for all eternity? It's one of those little (or not so little) things that make for a quality life, special minutes.

 

I've always felt that connection to the sea also.  My family came from Ireland, but I never knew much in the way of details.  Several years ago, I discovered that my ancestors came from a town on the coast of Ireland so I attributed that "sea" connection with my roots.  But I think JFK nailed it -- it's in our biological makeup. 

 

Leave it to Ken Ham and his ilk to devalue our humanity.

 

Devaluing the humanity of humans is what good Christians do. If they didn't, the salvation plan would go down the toilet and there would be no need for Christ and his redemptive powers. And--HORRORS!--no Christianity.

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I'm surprised no one mentioned that this was apparently a recording of a talk JFK made. If not it sure sounds like him. If so, it makes me like him a little bit more. He was our first 'Catholic president'. I never got the idea then or since that he really paid more than lip service to it. I think he was a realist and a humanist- and I for one am thankful someone like him was running things when the missile crisis went down. I sense he believed that it was up to us to fix things here on earth and tried his best to do his part.

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I'm surprised no one mentioned that this was apparently a recording of a talk JFK made. If not it sure sounds like him. 

 

I saw that somewhere in the link. It said it was JFK.

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I'm surprised no one mentioned that this was apparently a recording of a talk JFK made. If not it sure sounds like him.

 

I thought that was pretty obvious since his voice has always been very recognizable to me, but yes, that's JFK.

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Jesus has to be real, or our lives are meaningless is standard Christian propaganda.

 

What is the point of a cats life, or a dogs, even if Jesus is the winner of Mr Reality 2015. FFS.  What is the purpose of an ants life.........

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Jesus has to be real, or our lives are meaningless is standard Christian propaganda.

 

What is the point of a cats life, or a dogs, even if Jesus is the winner of Mr Reality 2015. FFS. What is the purpose of an ants life.........

For us to have dominion over, silly ...
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Jesus has to be real, or our lives are meaningless is standard Christian propaganda.

 

What is the point of a cats life, or a dogs, even if Jesus is the winner of Mr Reality 2015. FFS. What is the purpose of an ants life.........

For us to have dominion over, silly ...

 

Ah yes, of course........what am I to do with having dominion over  ants thou...... get it to ruin my enemies picnics!

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