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So ............ if we get rid of trailer parks we won't have tornadoes?
@David Killens: That was my thinking as well. Then the aliens would go away and after that...... well......... what in the hell do we need God for? Oh Yea! The platypus.
I've always thought the Platypus, together with many other Australian fauna is simple proof of evolution. Everything on our island developed in isolation from the rest of the world.
The platypus is a clear demonstration that evolution can be a lousy engineer. THE most important feature for evolution is that it produces organisms which work, not necessarily looking elegant.
A few years ago, literalists demonstrated their usual intellectual grasp of science generally by trying to argue design by the back door with 'irreducible complexity' .
Unfortunately for them, one example they chose was the human eye. Richard Dawkins, self appointed atheist spokesperson, happens to be an evolutionary biologist.---------------- check the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5PmOGtM34
cranky47: My awakening was the discovery of the Coelacanth. I wanted to be a marine biologist at the time. Oh those youthful days when I went about informing people that sharks were not fish. Because of its life in caves, it lost its eyes. Then there was the vestige limbs of whales and I was hooked on the diversity of life through natural selection and adaptation to the environment. No one ever said it better than Douglas Adams and his puddle of water that achieved consciousness.
'coelacanth' was one of the first difficult words I learned, at age 11, in a book I had received as a gift. I found the creature fascinating then and still do.
Something of which you may be aware ; There is no such thing as 'a fish', in the sense that we use the word. As a group or groups of creatures which share the same genus.EG Ape, horse, pig----------------Many of the things we call 'fish"are more different from each other genetically than the animals I've just mentioned. The term "Fish" has no biological meaning.
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Actually, there is no such thing as a fish
Meghan Bartels, Tech Insider
Aug. 5, 2016, 2:40 PM
sad shocked betrayed goldfish Shutterstock
Fish.
They seem so innocent and harmless. But secretly, they're subverting scientific law and order.
That's according to a group of scientists nicknamed cladists for their support of a scientific classification system of species based on clades.
A clade is a fancy term for all of and only the modern species descended via evolution from a specific common ancestor.
To make that a little easier to understand, picture your own family tree: Your maternal grandmother, your mom and all of her siblings, and you, all of your siblings, and all of your mom's siblings' children — they're a kind of clade. Take away your siblings or add your father, though, and it's no longer a clade.
This is where fish get into trouble. A lot of trouble. Trouble the size of an elephant, a whale, and an emperor penguin all put together---------read on."
https://www.businessinsider.com/fish-do-not-exist-2016-8?IR=T
The clip below is from QI and perhaps more entertaining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwcEvMJz1Y
The Creationist god invented the Hokey Pokey so you could turn yourself around and shake it all about. Obviously a sign of design.
@Cog Re: "The Creationist god invented the Hokey Pokey so you could turn yourself around and shake it all about."
Yep, that's what it's all about.... *sudden look of realization*... Holy shit, Cog! Do you see what this means? I think you have just revealed the TRUE meaning of life! You are a fucking GENIUS, man! And it has been right there under our noses in plain site all this time.... *shaking head in amazement*... Wow! How was this missed in The Da Vince Code???
@Tin: You know the ole saying,,,,, "A monkey with a typewriter." I was too busy learning the Chicken dance to even notice what I wrote.
When getting married 30 years ago, I had only one demand:
NO Hokey Pokey
Thinking back now, that should have obviously labeled me an atheist to anyone, including the Catholic priest that married us. I mean, I was rejecting the majesty of God and blatantly refusing to shake it all about.
Does that make my marriage a fraud, null and void???
RE: "No hokey pokey."
I have always been under the impression that the Chicken Dance was the one true dance and the Hokey Pokey only a historical ripoff. I think as long as you occasionally do the Chicken Dance your marriage is on solid ground.
Some final options would be polkas and American Square Dances. While these are minor beliefs they are still mainstream dances and fully acceptable by mainstream believers. What you don't want to do is engage in those heathen Cha Chas, Rumbas, or Tangos. You will go straight to hell for your blasphemous beliefs should you begin following heathen ways.
Re: "What you don't want to do is engage in those heathen Cha Chas, Rumbas, or Tangos."
Yep. Good call, Cog. But don't forget that Disco, Break Dancing, The Robot, and Popping are are distinctly Satanic and demonic and should definitely be avoided. Practice any of those and your soul will be sent to a place that makes hell look like a vacation spa resort.... *shudder*...
@NewSkeptic
Was there any Pokey?
No Pokey, no consummation.
@David Killens: "No Pokey, no consummation." The only thing wrong with this comment is the fact that I did not think of it first! ROFLMAO
@Killer
Well no hokey, but Pokey-a-plenty. No immaculate conception here. Unlike Joseph, I did not need some timeless spaceless entity to do the deed in my stead.
Re; No HP
Whew!! That is a relief. I have, on rare occasions, and under the influence of one too many T&Ts, been cajoled into doing the chicken dance, although I don't remember if my wedding was one of those times.
I'm sure however, that I have never danced to Disco (one of my favorite events ever was at Disco Demolition night at the old Comiskey Park, look it up, but I digress), never Break Danced (bad knees and suffer a severe case of White Man's disease), and I really have no idea what The Robot or Popping is (Popping to me usually means butter, salt and a good movie).
It sounds all in all as if I still might have a case for the Pearly Gates.
@Skeptic Re: "...and I really have no idea what The Robot or Popping is..."
Brother Skeptic, I strongly suggest you visit Cog's thread of "Only One True Dance" in the debate room. In it I have posted a couple of links that will allow you to become familiar with these treacherous dance styles. I implore you to go view them. IT COULD SAVE YOUR SOUL!
I think your still on safe ground. Do three Hokey Pokeys, put your right leg in, turn yourself around and you will be forgiven your sins.
I tried your dance yesterday and hurt myself.
I'm 71. You and your vulgar dance are agist! I think you're trying to kill people . As it turns out, I have met met this nice lady lady who teaches a very different, sedate dance, called a "waltz" . So you know what you can do with your dance.
NO! NOT THE WALTZ! She is a seductress sent by the evil orchestras to lure you into her cult. These cases are well documented. One day you are snuggling up, all cuddly, enjoying the music and sexually swaying to the waltz, and the next day you are stuffed into some musicians case and burred in the orchestra pit of hell where the music plays no more. What you need to do is buy a holy conductors baton and when you see here next, waggle it at her and conduct her right out of your life while shouting the words, "Evil Temptress be gone!!!" Do this while dancing the Hokey Pokey for maximum effect.
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