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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 1:20 pm
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(May 5, 2014 at 1:04 pm)LastPoet Wrote: His god is too small.
Indeed.
Carl Sagan, in "Pale Blue Dot", Wrote:How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
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: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:13 pm
(May 5, 2014 at 12:04 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: (May 5, 2014 at 1:35 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: You rev I'm wondering, since what you would called micro evolution is readily observed, what is the mechanism that prevents these changes from accruing?
Show me the evidence that it accrued.
Why? If you read it you wouldn't understand it.
You just keep believing that your god did everything in 6 fucking days. It's all you can handle.
Leave the heavy thinking to the adults.
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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:15 pm
I don't see how Revelation777 can expect more effort dismissing his posts than the off topic one-liners he uses to dismiss every other post.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:16 pm
(May 5, 2014 at 12:04 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: (May 5, 2014 at 1:35 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: You rev I'm wondering, since what you would called micro evolution is readily observed, what is the mechanism that prevents these changes from accruing?
Show me the evidence that it accrued.
I believe steel curtains link in the first reponse does that aptly. However I was not necessarily saying that they do, but rather I was asking if you accept changes with in these species "Micro evolution", then what stops the changes from "piling up" and eventually leading to much bigger changes "Macro evolution"
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(May 5, 2014 at 3:17 pm)Beccs Wrote: Evolution is a fact. It's not only managed to get to first base, it's scored with the chick and is enjoying an aftersex smoke.
And it's ready for another go!
Oh, and Rev -- about those retroviral insertions? Still waiting, champ.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:34 pm
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:37 pm
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"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
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:37 pm
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 5, 2014 at 3:39 pm
Tune in next month for Argument number 3 - once Rev's pastor or person of similar distinction has told him what it is.
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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