Evolution

[DLJ]

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man appears to be getting bigger!

Dutchman ... taller. Yup.

In the Philippines they're getting shorter.

Murikans ... wider.

It's called UPFS (unnatural processed food selection) which is a process of natural selection.



The trick with the typically under- or mis-educated bible believer is to make them think it was their idea all along ... like with christmas and easter.

Call it ... Begatting.

[possibletarian]

How about nogodneededism

[Pat Mustard]

To be fair, I don't think Haipule is a troll at all.

Whatever radioactive spider bit Little Rik might have made a cobweb in his house, but he isn't a troll by any stretch.

The only way to know for sure is to see if we can build a bridge out of her.

[Cyberman]

Ah, but can you not also build bridges out of... stone?

[Pat Mustard]

Ah, but can you not also build bridges out of... stone?

Ah...Umm..Ah.

Last week she turned me into a newt!

[Haipule]

...
man appears to be getting bigger!

Dutchman ... taller.  Yup.

In the Philippines they're getting shorter.

Murikans ... wider.

It's called UPFS (unnatural processed food selection) which is a process of natural selection.



The trick with the typically under- or mis-educated bible believer is to make them think it was their idea all along ... like with christmas and easter.

Call it ... Begatting.

You make me jealous--The art of saying so much with so few words! I could learn from you!

As far as UPFS, some of the process you said is "natural selection" is economic. As a long time, sometimes poor, surfer, I maintain that Top Ramen and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese are a delicious unique and vital economic food group all their own that is unduplicatable in the home kitchen!

P.S., I didn't vote for her either!

[DLJ]

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Call it ... Begatting.

You make me jealous--The art of saying so much with so few words! I could learn from you!

As far as UPFS, some of the process you said is "natural selection" is economic. As a long time, sometimes poor, surfer, I maintain that Top Ramen and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese are a delicious unique and vital economic food group all their own that is unduplicatable in the home kitchen!

P.S., I didn't vote for her either!

Jealousy is a mortal sin, my friend. You are going to hell!

I've not experienced Top Ramen and or Macaroni and Cheese ... if they cannot be replicated in the home lab, does that mean they were created by the 'invisible hand' of a god?

Ha! I wrote "I didn't vote for her either!" in 2013 when I joined AF and was referring to Aphrodite. Now it looks like it's referring to Clinton. But I didn't vote for her either. Or Trump (who I maintain is the best thing to happen to US politics in decades).

[Jollocks]

There are a couple of errors here.
Firstly, it's true that the term "evolution" was first used by a Christian in the sense of biological speciation, but it wasn't Darwin. It was Charles Lyell, a creationist, I'm 1882. Darwin himself (as well as Lyell other than two mentions of "evolution") used the term "transmutation", which was a more accurate description of what he was describing (adaptive morphology leading to speciation).
Although the word "evolution" was used in English a few centuries before Darwin was born, the definition "relating to gradual change" had been born before 1800, and the concept of evolution within organisms had been hypothesized earlier in the 19th century. Darwin was the first to provide objective evidence using the scientific method.
Lyell himself, a geologist, used the word in the 1830s with regard to gradual changes of geological features. Of course the Theory of Evolution wasn't that of Darwin. Darwin published his theory of natural selection, whilst the earlier theory of I herited characteristics was the work of Lamarck, in 1801.