Anybody else ever notice that the only thing separating the word "mormon" from "moron" is an extra "m?" Today I've realized that, in practice, the division is even less substantial.
So it's a bright and sun-shiny day on the interwebs when a former friend, but current acquaintance and mormon "science major" decided to challenge my disbelief in his mythic Stalin-in-the-sky. How does he start? "What is your problem with religion?" I chuckled a bit as I replied: "It exists." It continued on something like this:
mor(m)on: god exists, the bible says so, and I have science to prove it, for I am a science major!
Me: Okay, what sort of science?
mor(m)on: Computer science. Did you know that if Earth's orbit was just a quarter-inch closer or farther from the sun, we'd all DIE?!
Me: (shows a diagram of the Habitable zone that the orbit of Earth occupies, with a generous buffer) A quarter-inch on the diagram scales up in real life, you know.
mor(m)on: ...I need to go pick up my sister.
That's right. No bullshit. Welcome to the facts, folks. Maybe next time he'll try and prove his bronze-age ghost using HTML; at least it's something he knows.
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