GOD to creationists: STFU! :()
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:52 am
Oh, this is one of my favorites. I've said it often, but not often enough, for there is no enough of this. If this was in a book or TV show, you'd chuckle but go "Yeah, but that'd never happen, would it."
Except when it does!
Of, reality, from your pen still flows the greatest hilarity.
Because...
Now, before you read on, don't get upset. He's basically fine:
But how cool is that! Hidden lightning! He wasn't just struck down by god's wrath, no - he was knocked over by an electric landmine that was just there, waiting for him, biding it's time, and when he wasn't suspecting anything ... silent but deadly ... lightning!
Except when it does!
Of, reality, from your pen still flows the greatest hilarity.
Because...
Okay, according to the article, that zip line was nearly 5 football fields worth, and about 15 stories up in the air, so lightning heading for it in a thunderstorm isn't exactly unlikely, is it. But the sheer symbolism! Where this guy worked, for whom, and then this ....David Ferguson rawstory.com wrote:Creationism museum employee injured by lightning strike while on the job
An employee of Petersburg, Kentucky’s Creation Museum was struck by lightning Wednesday while clearing guests from a zip line attraction at the museum during a thunderstorm.
Now, before you read on, don't get upset. He's basically fine:
So, he'll have a heck of a story to tell any priests visiting his bedside. And it wasn't just regular old lightning, no!David Ferguson rawstory.com wrote:He was taken to a nearby hospital, but his injuries were said to be superficial.
I had not known this was possible. But it does make sense, lightning is a big old capacitor discharging, isn't it, and if it doesn't get to the ground, there'd be a potential difference someplace still, wouldn't there.David Ferguson rawstory.com wrote:Museum officials reported that the worker touched a piece of equipment that had been charged by a lighting strike and the current slammed into his body, injuring him.
But how cool is that! Hidden lightning! He wasn't just struck down by god's wrath, no - he was knocked over by an electric landmine that was just there, waiting for him, biding it's time, and when he wasn't suspecting anything ... silent but deadly ... lightning!