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Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Well, damn. I'll take his money.
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 26, 2013 at 6:22 pm
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 27, 2013 at 6:34 am
Isn't this guy picking the list of potential judges himself? I mean, kinda poisoning the well, there...
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 28, 2013 at 2:08 pm
It's almost as if he's scared of a real debate, isn't it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 28, 2013 at 7:53 pm
(March 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: He thinks that evolution has a direction!
Evolution does have a direction. Simple --> More Complicated. It doesn't go the other way...
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 28, 2013 at 7:59 pm
(March 28, 2013 at 7:53 pm)Aractus Wrote:
(March 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: He thinks that evolution has a direction!
Evolution does have a direction. Simple --> More Complicated. It doesn't go the other way...
Sure it does. If external circumstances favor a return to simpler forms, then simpler organisms will have a higher chance of reproducing.
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 28, 2013 at 8:22 pm
If there was an "equal" chance of going up or down, then life could never get as complicated as it is, thus it certainly can be said that evolution is directional.
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 29, 2013 at 2:11 am
(March 28, 2013 at 8:22 pm)Aractus Wrote: If there was an "equal" chance of going up or down, then life could never get as complicated as it is, thus it certainly can be said that evolution is directional.
But it's not equal. It's not a 50/50 chance that a species would evolve to be either more complex or simpler, it depends on the pressures that the environment puts on the species and thus, only the ones that are able to adapt best will be able reproduce.

Kind of like how the snakes lost their legs when they didn't need them anymore, or other examples of unneeded appendages withering away.
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 29, 2013 at 3:43 am
(March 29, 2013 at 2:11 am)Sagasa Wrote: Kind of like how the snakes lost their legs when they didn't need them anymore, or other examples of unneeded appendages withering away.

Are you fucking kidding me? Snakes aren't lacking appendages because of evolution. Genesis is quite clear about this. Serpents only lost appendages as divine punishment after convincing Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. Fact. Genesis says so.
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RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 29, 2013 at 4:19 am
(March 29, 2013 at 3:43 am)cato123 Wrote: Fact. Genesis says so.
Well, damn. That pwns me like the little bitch I am. Big Grin
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