(August 27, 2010 at 11:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: One has only to look at the craters on the moon to see how good a job the alleged creator god did with setting everything in a proper orbit. The moon has been carpet bombed by errant asteroids that ole god fucked up on.
and who knows how many jupiter has picked up in the years since the solar system's formation, as the Gas Giant is attributed by astronomers as being responsible for gravitationally attracting or pushing things out from going into the inner portion of the solar system and (along with mars) stabilizing the asteroid belt to a certain extent like how shepherd moons stabilize their rings.
(Speaking of which, the sun does have several rings - one of them is the asteroid belt.)
Still, despite several gas giants and the moon helping to filter out most asteroids and comets, we still get pummeled on a regular basis solidly enough to kill more than half of all species on earth.
Still, without asteroid impacts and a god reference, I'd have no objective measure in which to measure just how hard I would 'hit that' when referring to the ladies.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
