Two things.
Thing the first
Neal Adams.
He's some kind of comic book artist, I think he's done some Batman or something, well he's decided he's not only an artist but the last stop in scientific info. I'm not going to go into the details of his "theory" you can google him if you want, I refuse to post a link mainly because typing his name makes me retch but also because he seems like the type of idiot that'd sue me for doing it, anyways needless to say this guy is quite possibly the most deluded creep I've ever come across.
Check out youtube, he's got some videos on there spreading his scientific abortions and you'll see that he actually replies to most of the criticisms. Now, unlike me who mostly performs ad hominems, some people actually have some genuine criticisms of his theory. His responses are some of the most dismissive and sophomoric "Nuh-uh" responses this side of preschool. Arguing with him is like debating a brick wall with ignorant graffiti scrawled all over.
There's no point in debating, so I just don't.
I could go in there with some scientific fact backing me up and I'd still get one liner's like "Nope. Earth Growing. New mass." So instead of actually addressing these valid concerns he dismisses them and then heads back to his throne and congratulates himself on being master of the universe.
This guy is an arrogant tard, he thinks that either the entire scientific community has just overlooked the information he's toting or, even worse, that they're, for some unknown sinister reason, are suppressing this truth of the geological make up of our earth.
Hey Neal what's more likely? Geologists all over the world are wrong , or that a lone quack artist that has no education in science and has absolutely no clue as to how the peer review or scientific discipline works, is wrong...I'm not a career academic, but I don't think you even have to be to see it's the latter.
In conclusion Neal Adams is a quack and he's pissed me off. So, I task anyone who's reading this to be soldiers in my army, and my war is with Neal Adams. We must stop this misinformation. We can do this by flooding him with emails and overloading his youtube videos with criticisms, screw that just insult the guy.
To actually listen to this dude in action listen to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast episode #51 and you'll see how much of a crap artist this guy is.
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=51
Thing B
Infomercials.
Why does religion need infomercials anyway? If all of this were true and these "televangelists" were actually spreading the word of god they wouldn't need them! God would not be pleased with wasting precious bling on televising some white haired child molester messing up his "word" when he could just answer our prayers.
I mean what an incredible marketing tool that would be.
Hypothetical man kneels at his bed. He brings his hands together in prayer and whispers "Please god, my wife just divorced me for our lawyer and left me with our two cancer ridden children, what do I do?" Silence, then an inhuman voice fills his thoughts, it seeps into his conscious and subconscious saturating his very being. The voice says "My son, please call 1-800-525-Holy, and purchase my book "Faith in God Heals All" The voice is gone almost as quickly as it appeared and the man is left feeling euphoric. The voice comes back again for one last bit of wisdom "Drink Mountain Dew" it says, then is gone. The man rests against his heels and ponders his encounter with the divine being himself, finally he leans over and picks up the phone. He dials the holy phone number of righteousness and orders three copies of "Faith in God Heals All", one for himself plus two stocking stuffers, all while sipping a two liter bottle of mountain dew.
Unfortunately none of that is happening. If it were I wouldn't be writing this blog, I'd be on a mountain dew binge in an alley somewhere performing Mel Gibson's version of the passion repeatedly.
So the true believers must fall back on the untimely art of the infomercial. I saw one of these travesties last night, I'm not even sure what the name of the product was, but it was a book of some kind, a book with all the answers no doubt, however it wasn't the book that irked me, but the the format it was being presented in. The spot looked more like the news then your average commercial, so that right there is intellectually dishonest enough, but even worse is they had this text scrolling across the bottom of the screen that said "Proof of Jesus' existence discovered" Now don't you think that is this were true we'd have seen it sprawled across every credible news sources instead of some two bit late night infomercial? I hope most people will spot this as garbage, but there's no doubt in my mind that there are true believers out there that will see this as truth and further justification of their faith, and because of this they'll order up five of copies these useless books.(Useless is an overstatement, I'm sure they'd work splendidly as kindling or bathroom tissue)
There's nothing wrong with peddling useless crap to true believers, I mean it's preaching to the choir basically, but selling it as though it were fact by trying to replicate a news like setting with the talking head and background window in window graphics, is just dishonest. Some poor guy who's down on his luck may come across this spot and feel enamored in the message and he'll spend his last thirty bucks on this book, and he'll find that there are no answers to his questions and it's just another pathetic rehash of the age old turn to god to be healed trick. In conclusion televangelists are dishonest greedy assholes.
Screw Neal Adams, screw televangelists, screw infomercials and finally Yop is delicious.
-Beaker
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I have deflated Neal Adam's Growing Earth theory on youtube. He is now much quieter, and hopefully reviewing his belief system. I used a direct simple fact, as he cant understand lengthy logical counter arguments given his capacity to create illogical fallacy. Thus, I had to show...
If X is true, then the Earth didn't grow...
"10 years of continuous monitoring of the Earth's gravitational field by an international network of ultra-sensitive Superconducting Gravimeters undeniably demonstrates that terrestrial gravity has not increased at all, and accordingly there has been no growth."
I actually got here looking for Neal's numbers to do the math on that very fact, anonymous. Rest assured, Neal is still going strong in the face of all the evidence thrown at him. The sheer amount of energy his crackpot theory requires, the gravitational issues, and all sorts of other things. He even thinks his theory killed the dinosaurs.
I debated all day some moron who cited this guys hypothesis (which I think is an insult to the word hypothesis). I threw out gem after gem of scientifically valid arguments only to be "refuted" by pure ignorance and stupidity.
I've spent days and weeks debating this guy and desperately trying to make sense out of the half-concocted strings of pseudoscientific jargon he spews at me. What I gather is that Neal Adams doesn't even know what he's talking about (state the obvious) but what I mean is that he doesn't understand what happens in the factual physics and the processes he splices together along with shit he just makes up.
I interpret his posts from Adams-logic to actual scientific thought and he responds with "You are speaking insanity and I will not argue with crazy ideas". Guess what, Neal? I WAS REPEATING YOU! Of course it sounds like bullshit, you even admit it yourself!
I to have had the pleasure(sarc) of the Neal Adams charm and wit. There is no fixing this level of stupidity. I love when he ends his screeds with FAILED! Oh Neal if I had girly parts they would be moist right now. I have my suspicions he is spewing this nonsense as a ploy for notoriety. He is a web stat whore of the lowest kind.
I find it ironic he claims to be a scientist, (his words not mine). Searching for educational credentials only shows a diploma from School of Industrial Art high school.
He is the master of pseudoscience bluster. he punctuates his crap with statements like: It must be so!, It is so obvious even a child can understand it. Knee-jerk scientific rejection and the global scientific establishment's conspiracy to hide the TRUTH! meh!
It is no wonder Gerald Hathrow, a lead physicist for CERN was quoted "Adams ramblings are gibberish and his lack of scientific knowledge is evident whenever he discusses sciences". (Pentha Particle Cookbook, 2004).
He is an oozing canker on the backside of the planet. Yes I am one of the army you wrote about. We need to chase this charlatan like a rat across the tundra.
I found this post by searching "Neil Adams is a jerk". I am listening to a podcast of his growing earth theory right now. But can't get past his angry tone long enough to understand what he's trying to say!
All the same though, you skeptic types are a funny lot yourselves. Not much better really. "We need to chase this charlatan like a rat across the tundra" Really? Is it really that important that some guy developed a pet theory as a hobby science enthusiast? Who gives a shit? You guys worship science the way some people worship Jesus. It's funny looking from the outside of both those worlds.
Neil Adams comics from the 70s are really great.
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