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Aw, More Trouble For Creationism...
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Ever wonder why birds have no teeth? This may be part of the answer.
These Dinos Had Teeth As Hatchlings Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
Not just that, but they still have the genes for teeth.
Quote: All birds have a gene that deactivates the formation of teeth (yep, birds can grow teeth, we’ll get to that in a minute). The researchers, from the University of California, Riverside, found that this gene can be traced back to a common ancestor of all modern birds, which lived some 100 million years ago.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  (December 23, 2016 at 7:03 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: More Trouble For Creationism... What? evidence? Considering that creationism is not based on evidence, but on psychology of people that believe in it I say creationism won't be stirred.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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But such an avatar candidate!
 
I'm thinking of cousin Hank's ex for some reason . . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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