quote: hyperbole said:
My chiropractor has said that he thinks we would all be a lot more comfortable if God had spent an additional twenty minutes thinking about our design before creating humans.
Exactly - the back is a great example of poor "intelligent" design. The creator chose sub-standard materials when he assembled the discs between our vertebrae ? as a result the back is prone to mechanical failure. Discs don?t actually slip ? they dry out, they bulge, they herniate ? all the time.
But what if we were products of evolution? Creationists love to ridicule our ancestors ? monkeys and missing links ? but they don?t go back far enough in time to our real ancestors ? quadrupeds.
That?s the key to this problem ? we are bipeds but our backs evolved from quadrupeds. Not a good combination. Our sedentary couch potato lives ? lack of muscle tone, too much computer time, bad posture, daily stress ? all these aggravate modern man?s back problems ? this is our evolutionary legacy, not poor design from an apprentice creator.
I'm surprised the writers of CSI haven't pickee up on the fact that corpses quickly fossilize. It would make for a pretty good episode. And all this time I thought stone statues had been made by humans.
My fav is the fossilized cowboy leg...one moment you're at the honky tonk bar making small talk with the ladies, the next you are turned to stone.....god, that site makes me proud to be Canadian.
From: The Land of one Headlight on. Insane since: May 2001
posted 02-23-2007 23:23
quote: SleepingWolf said:
the other site was Canadian too...so now I'm doubly proud.
Go back to DL's link. each word is a different link so I think you may in fact be something close to being septennially proud (a word??) Count'em up. 6 there plus your 1 = 7 =)
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d'oh - didn't notice that your link was also canadian sleepingwolf - thought you were holding on to the common delusion that these things only happen in the US
quote:
A Tennessee lawmaker proposes to use the legislative process to get an answer to the question of whether the universe was created by a ?Supreme Being.?
Under the measure, introduced by Republican state Sen. Raymond Finney, the answer would come from state Education Commissioner Lana Seivers ?in report form? no later than Jan. 15, 2008.
quote:On Monday, the Ventura County Board of Education postponed a vote on the textbook, "Focus on California Life Science," because board member Ron Matthews objected to its discussion of evolution.
While the book talks about "the theory of evolution," it also uses the phrase "students know" when discussing aspects of evolution, Matthews said.
"This is taught as theory, yet it's taught as fact," he said.
Fascinating. he objects to the fact that it is taught as both theory and fact...when it is (as we've covered) both theory and fact...
quote:Soon, now, we will no longer be living in a time where men are in the slightest doubt about the existence of God. Soon, now, and Christ will rend the heavens, and appear at the helm of His invading, conquering army, to OCCUPY this earth, and rule it with a rod of iron! At that time, there will not be a single skeptic, agnostic, or atheist left anywhere on earth!
Well, if "7 days" can in fact be billions of years, then "soon" could be millions...
Yeah, but when he does come back with his army (orcs? or angels?) and his iron rod, lots of us will be in really deep shit!
I like the shouted OCCUPY - just like the Nazis occupied most of Europe and North Africa. Can you image a gestapo angel squad that sends Agnostics and Atheists to concentration camps?
Just curious though, if his soldiers are only equipped with weapons from circa 30 AD such as stones and iron rods, would we have a chance to wipe out his army with say AK-47s? Just thinking....
Edit/Afterthought: if 7 days can mean billions of years, can rod of iron mean Metal Gear Rx?
quote:We know a house had an architect and a builder. We know an automobile had a manufacturer. We know a child had parents. We know a watch had a maker. We know that an airplane was designed by aeronautical engineers, and that crystals form the same way every time, according to their properties. We know that mosquitoes hatch from larvae, which were laid by adult mosquitoes, which were hatched from larvae, just as we know chickens were hatched from eggs, which were laid by adult hens, which were hatched from eggs. We know that all life exists in a cycle, and that life comes only from pre-existing life. Further, life comes only from pre-existing life of the same kind.
I was unaware that Engineers and airplanes were of the same species. I wonder if airplanes are as good at foosball?
quote: Dan said:
I was unaware that Engineers and airplanes were of the same species. I wonder if airplanes are as good at foosball?
Well, they are, and while I've heard they're not so good at foosball (given the lack of digits capable of manipulating the tools of the trade) they are excellent at flying through the omfg sky and dropping bombs. See, the cycle of life wraps there too--we know a scientist developed the bomb, an engineer developed the plane, and surely with each major bombing attack at least one or two scientists and engineers are killed. Circles, man. Circles.
The coming of Christ. Maybe the song had it right afterall.
quote:Every time I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand.
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned.
Why'd you choose such a backward time in such a strange land?
If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation.
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.
Don't you get me wrong.
I only want to know.
Gotta love that!*hears another nail being hammered in*WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles
not really - a reptile ate a mammal and during the fossilization process the middle ear bones of the little mammal got "fused" to the jawbone of the reptile, giving the wrong impression they belonged to the reptile and that it was a transitional form...all of this took place over a few days....gotta love them creationists.
From: Happy Hunting Grounds... Insane since: Mar 2001
posted 03-21-2007 12:28
quote:not really - a reptile ate a mammal and during the fossilization process the middle ear bones of the little mammal got "fused" to the jawbone of the reptile, giving the wrong impression they belonged to the reptile and that it was a transitional form...all of this took place over a few days....gotta love them creationists.
Prove it
WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles
quote: WebShaman said:
Prove it WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles
I read it in the bible (I forget the page number)
Disprove it.
OZONE Asylum
posted 02-21-2007 23:15
and one pun that falls flat, one.