Evolution

[jeff]

I'm confused - every once in a while this thread is marked as 'just changed', this morning supposedly last updated by firebrand, but when I look at it I don't see a new post or an edit from today. What's happening?

Not to mention, I still haven't been able to parse any meaning from the preceding post.

[CutLass]

Originally Posted by jeff

I'm confused - every once in a while this thread is marked as 'just changed', this morning supposedly last updated by firebrand, but when I look at it I don't see a new post or an edit from today. What's happening?

Not to mention, I still haven't been able to parse any meaning from the preceding post.

It's the poll effect. If someone votes in the poll the thread comes back up as changed even if no one added any text.

[Tireur]

No, the time on the "last post" constantly changes to a newer time in the thread list.

When I go to that thread, it's frequently an old post with its correct time now showing.

[Strytllr]

hmm. as in, someone has edited what they had previously typed??? It's a possibility.

Firebrand:

Hmm. Yes, I do happen to remember that chapter and verse now that you point it out to me. However, I think your interpretation of the events is a little bit off... but that's personal opinion and the most abundant reason that we have so many christian denominations in this silly world.

I sometimes have trouble reading 1 and 2 Kings. God and the prophets don't always act normally in those books... *blink* the prophets do strange things that don't make sense, God says weird things... There's this litany of evil or corrupt monarchs everywhere... I just usually take everything in those books with a grain of salt and try very hard to keep the big picture while glossing over some of the more minor deviations.

*shrug*

Strytller

[firebrand]

Strytllr, have you heard of Randy Clark? He preaches in St Louis. And Joyce Meyer too.

[Strytllr]

Joyce Meyer rings a small bell... Can't remember where I've heard of her. I've never heard of Randy Clark at all. That's not too surprising though. As a catholic, I don't get out too much... hehe. All that following the pope's evil edicts and whatnot. j/k.

[geezer]

Just a reminder...evolution is the genetic transference of acquired characteristics. Testable and predictable. The only thing mysterious about it is why it scares so many?

(Yes, HELP is NOT on it's way, nor will there be any reinforcements. It's spelled A-L-A-M-O, not "a la mode". "...and when your head leaves your body, it's over." Sort of like the search for unpolluted water, or livable habitat...not coming back soon to your local planet.)

As to refutation and rebuttal, I ask rhetorically, when did you start believing all that propaganda and ignoring your senses?

[telkanuru]

Ah. yes. The er... pope has kinda issued a Papal Bull (hehe, I love that term) to the effect that evolution is correct and not incompatable with the christian god.

In any case, why why why is this thread still active? I was making/refuting these arguments back on page 5 when I was actually interested. A bible quote for you, then: "...usque huc venies et non procedes amplius..." -Job 38:11

[geezer]

...apparently not. Poor Popey, that must have hurt.

[Black Jeebus]

I have always liked the story of Coyote wandering around and humans formed from a piece of **** he was kicking around.

[Black Jeebus]

Originally Posted by S. Hunter

Butting in late in the discussion, but presenting a different viewpoint. I am a christian, and I accept that there are some things God does not wish us to know. In Relevation, He states that no one will know the time of the end, and in His eyes I believe it would be ignorant to declare absolute knowledge about the past, save that all is created by Him. I believe that the world would be a much more peaceful place if we could stop being so arrogant is assuming that we can ever possibly know the specifics of the origin of earth and just accept that God was behind it, or that He was not, and agree to disagree.

I'm quite happy that humanity on the whole has not just given up on understanding things. Personally I don't know what I would do without my computer...or I guess my shower...or my canned foods...or well the stick I used to retrieve a doo-dad from out behind the TV.

[telkanuru]

Lewis Black had the best pro-evolution argument ever (he performed at UMass this very night). It went:

"Fossils!
fossils!
fossils!

fossils!

I win."

[geezer]

I promote your observation, but it's useless without physics and chemistry to describe what's there and how it relates. Geology and paleontology are to physcis and chemestry as statistics is to mathematics...structures used to make inference from data.

n i c

[Inquartata]

It's the Thread That Would Not Die!

( P.S. The fossils were all planted by the godless Communists. )

[sabreur]

Originally Posted by Inquartata

It's the Thread That Would Not Die!

( P.S. The fossils were all planted by the godless Communists. )

Because it keeps evolving!!!! Has anyone mentioned Hitler or muslim terrorists yet? Because then it would be DEvolving....

MR

[Artisan]

Hitler, Nazi, Osama.

There...now the thread is dead (again)

[geezer]

Not so fast!!! Let's hear from those commie fossil planters! They might be able to get George Weasel elected again...you never can tell about the spiritual power of totalitarian dillusion.

[Inquartata]

Dillusion? Is that an imaginary pickle?

[40Saberthieves]

Evolution has been observed in controlled experiments.

Search for David Reznick and John Endler.

[geezer]

It's the 'rill' dill.