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Blind faith and evolution
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#281
RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 2:23 pm
(August 2, 2013 at 2:00 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Captain Colostomy, would a more apt name, perhaps, be Captain Colonoscopy?

I just turned 40, so my wife says 'yes'...with a little too much glee, I might add.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 7:19 pm
(August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole.

An apt reaction, after the pic of the overflowing toilet was posted. Angel
"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."

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#284
RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 7:43 pm
(August 2, 2013 at 7:19 pm)Tonus Wrote:
(August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole.

An apt reaction, after the pic of the overflowing toilet was posted. Angel

You lost me on that one.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Asshole... shit... toilet... etc

One just, uh, flows to the next.
"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."

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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Ah. I love that it all comes back to shit. It seems shit has hijacked this thread.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 9:54 pm
(August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole.

Maybe for your birthday.
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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#288
RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 2, 2013 at 10:29 pm
(August 2, 2013 at 8:16 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Ah. I love that it all comes back to shit. It seems shit has hijacked this thread.

Scroll back to post #268 and try not to be munching on an English muffin with jam. Your bunny slippers will thank me.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 3, 2013 at 2:02 am
(August 2, 2013 at 8:16 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: It seems shit has hijacked this thread.

No, the thread was never hijacked. It started out as shit.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: Blind faith and evolution
August 3, 2013 at 2:57 am
(August 2, 2013 at 8:16 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Ah. I love that it all comes back to shit. It seems shit has hijacked this thread.

Nah, it was shit to begin with.
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