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Happy Darwin Day!

Posted by Zonk on from the go-evolution-its-your-birthday dept.

proclus writes "In honor of the day, I have released some autobiographical material, which forms the background for GNU-Darwin and some other projects. Alternatively, you can celebrate by joining the Friends of Charles Darwin, or baking some Trilobite Cookies."

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  1. If you are fortunate enough by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 3, Funny

    You might even win a Darwin Award! Which I wish you all, Happy Darwin Day!

    --
    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
  2. MMMMMM Cookies by varuul · · Score: 2, Funny

    There were too many words in front of the cookie part.

  3. Two Satanic Stories... by fm6 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...in one day! Repent!

  4. Insane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    A Darwin day? I'd like to remind you people that evolution is only a theory, but this story shows that for some Evolutionists it is indeed a religion. This is crazy. Do we have a Newton day when we sing together and celebrate gravitation? No, because there are no Gravitationists like there are Evolutionists. And before you flame me for saying the obvious, ask yourself a question: who is worse, a religious nut praying to his God, or another religious nut praying to Darwin? Who is stupider? Who is more close-minded? This is an interesting question.

  5. Do urself a favour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do urself a favour
    buy this book
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895 262002/qid=1108195258/sr=8-10/ref=pd_bbs_10/002-06 91541-5684038?v=glance&s=books&n=507846Evolution Myth or Science
    and how many transitional species exist today.
    Name one species which is 'evolving' today.

    and Read the last chapter of origin of species
    and Darwin was a racist(Read the damn book)

  6. Yes, very clever. Now if you could explain... by leonbrooks · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...how asexual critters evolve, how sexuality arose in the first place and provide some kind of viable cover for abiogeneis, I think you'd be on to something.

    One major problem with existing mutations is that they all represent destruction of information. My favourite analogy is of a blind man trying to improve the structure of a Lego diorama using only a rifle from across the street. There seems to be no way to add new and useful information, which is kind of essential, nor to prevent any which somehow magically manages to get added from being drowned out by the "genetic burden" of otherwise universally destructive mutations.

    --
    Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
  7. Re:There's already a Church of Humanism by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe. But it's pretty hard to take seriously a church whose website includes a button labeled "Ordain Me".