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RE: Just got this PM on reddit to pray to Gaia so the system will collapse.
June 20, 2014 at 6:14 am
Gaia contacted me last night and asked me to pass along this message to the world: "stop sending prayers. Send money. Lots of money. Send it to Tonus, along with your finest young woman and at least one box of Oreos."
"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: Just got this PM on reddit to pray to Gaia so the system will collapse.
June 20, 2014 at 6:21 am
I won't pray, but I might be convinced to spill some seed for a cause. They're both equally effective, but I get some benefit from the latter.
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RE: Just got this PM on reddit to pray to Gaia so the system will collapse.
June 20, 2014 at 7:50 am
I'm glad he was careful to say that wasn't spam, or else we might have thought it was spam. That was a shrewd move.
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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