RE: Can anyone debunk this?
May 3, 2016 at 8:38 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2016 at 8:40 am by Cyberman.)
-Polar bears are not white. Their fur is actually translucent, similar to snow, and can take on the hue of whatever light they happen to find themselves in.
-"Survival of the fittest" does not mean "the winner is the one left standing". Fittest means "most appropriate for the niche which the species occupies". Humans are a social, herd animal - all else being equal, we survive best as a group.
-Cursing, in the swearing sense, isn't merely invoking a magic name. It derives from the swearing of oaths, as in taking 'sacred' words "in vain" and turning them profane. Hence "bloody" is a linguistically slurred "by our lady"; "strewth" is originally "(by) god's truth"; the sadly archaic "zounds" and "odds bodkins" come from "(by) god's wounds" and "(by) god's bodkins" respectively. Saying "Jesus Christ" is a similar act of profanity. Not all people even say that anyway, or if they do they add a flourish - "Jesus fucking Christ on a spunky cracker", for example.
-Humans didn't evolve from primates, we are primates. If the internet exists, why do we still have stupid people?
-Richard Dawkins does not believe we were made by aliens; and nor did he believe that when Ben Stein quote mined him for his paranoid propaganda wankfest. He was asked if he could think of a possible scenario in which intelligent design might conceivably be true, and out of fairness he came up with a scenario involving an actual intelligence plausibly capable of meeting the requirements for a designer. Then he went on to clarify that even in this scenario, the designers would have to come from somewhere; so if they were themselves designed, then those designers would again have to come from somewhere else. Eventually you are faced with the original designers having to have evolved through some analogous process of Darwinian natural selection - and you 'only' have the current lifetime of the Universe to play with. It didn't take much for the egregious Stein to twist that into "Richard Dawkins, the respected biologist and atheist leader, believes in aliens?!" It takes even less for mouth-breathing idiots to swallow the shit whole and then go back for seconds.
I would like my prize in the red ones please, as long as they're made from real blood. Babies' blood for preference.
-"Survival of the fittest" does not mean "the winner is the one left standing". Fittest means "most appropriate for the niche which the species occupies". Humans are a social, herd animal - all else being equal, we survive best as a group.
-Cursing, in the swearing sense, isn't merely invoking a magic name. It derives from the swearing of oaths, as in taking 'sacred' words "in vain" and turning them profane. Hence "bloody" is a linguistically slurred "by our lady"; "strewth" is originally "(by) god's truth"; the sadly archaic "zounds" and "odds bodkins" come from "(by) god's wounds" and "(by) god's bodkins" respectively. Saying "Jesus Christ" is a similar act of profanity. Not all people even say that anyway, or if they do they add a flourish - "Jesus fucking Christ on a spunky cracker", for example.
-Humans didn't evolve from primates, we are primates. If the internet exists, why do we still have stupid people?
-Richard Dawkins does not believe we were made by aliens; and nor did he believe that when Ben Stein quote mined him for his paranoid propaganda wankfest. He was asked if he could think of a possible scenario in which intelligent design might conceivably be true, and out of fairness he came up with a scenario involving an actual intelligence plausibly capable of meeting the requirements for a designer. Then he went on to clarify that even in this scenario, the designers would have to come from somewhere; so if they were themselves designed, then those designers would again have to come from somewhere else. Eventually you are faced with the original designers having to have evolved through some analogous process of Darwinian natural selection - and you 'only' have the current lifetime of the Universe to play with. It didn't take much for the egregious Stein to twist that into "Richard Dawkins, the respected biologist and atheist leader, believes in aliens?!" It takes even less for mouth-breathing idiots to swallow the shit whole and then go back for seconds.
I would like my prize in the red ones please, as long as they're made from real blood. Babies' blood for preference.
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.'
