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Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever
John Hawks writes "A new genomics study in PNAS shows that humans have been evolving new adaptive genes during the past 10,000 years much faster than ever before. The study says that evolution has sped up because of population growth, making people adapt faster to new diseases, new diets, and social changes like cities. Oh, and I'm the lead author. I've been reading Slashdot for a long time, and let me just say that our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls."
yoo hooooooo!
Rant on, troll
In foul tones brave
Humanity never shall
Be your mutated slave
Unless that memory fall:
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls
Darn, and I was going to say that unicorns are flying 100 times faster now, but the author cleverly anticipated responding to his myth-based assertion with other myth-based assertions. At least one scientist definitely is aware that he's become religious.
Most christians? That dear sir is untrue.
I spent five minutes stealing cool sigs and all I got was this.
Go back to math class, redundancy boy.
be fun. It used OpenBSD. H0w many
Touche! I thought it was an obvious atheist joke but it scares me that it wasn't immediately perceived as such. It scares me that some people thought I was serious. Anyway I got a good funny rating. :)
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17th century! Maybe 17th century BC. I don't believe they can be THAT irrational (17th century BC is bad enough though). What about the crusades? Were they fighting on dinosaurs?
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i've read some pretty dumb things on slashdot, but i think that takes the cake. consider this... most christians know that people were riding horses before jesus was born. 'nuff said.
creationists are certainly not make up "most christians", nor do they represent the beliefs of "most christians". in fact, they're actually just a small subset of christians. they just happen to be quite vocal.
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I was obviously joking. For starters, why would a horse be "invented"? I was only referring to the idiotic attempt of some creationists who tried to explain how dinosaurs could co-exist without the help of evolution. Check the link I provided in that same post for more information.
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There you go...an example of so called Christians (and a minister no less) murdering those who do not agree with their views.
I don't think the creationist's are that vocal, it's the huge number of people who mock them. Through our mocking we give these nut cases much undeserved publicity.
I don't know what the answer is (I'm not your god). If we ignore the nutters they will carry on 'teaching' negative ideas and when they are exposed, they blame some book called the Bible. Nutters.
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This is from, I swear, the 12th book of Xenu.
the first crusade was the muslims taking over Jerusalem... then came the Catholic (not necessarily Christian) crusades... if they didn't fight back, you might be dead for the things you say on here!
zomg, UBERPONIES!!!!!!!
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>>> I don't think the creationist's are that vocal
You must have noticed the ones standing in pulpits at the weekend - and I can't think of any time I've seen/heard anyone shouting in the street about something other than creationist nonsense.
please don't be afraid of racist dancing - in academia it's all the rage don't ya know!
then came the Catholic (not necessarily Christian) crusades...
if they didn't fight back, you might be dead for the things you say on here! Catholic extends Christian
Catholics are necessarily Christian. Some groups call themselves Christian, to imply that they are the core of christianism, but all new testament followers are Christian.
No, they all pretended to ride horses while their assistants banged coconut shells together to make horse clip-clopping sounds.
{closes eyes real tight, concentrates}
{opens eyes, clock on wall stopped}
"YATT---"
Oh wait. Darn. The batteries are dead.
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
"and let me just say that our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls."
Well that's a stupid thing to say. I don't even have to read the article to conclude that this guy is a real idiot.
What a coincidence. My preacher gets death threats every day for saying homosexuality and abortion is wrong.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Let's hope the ongoing expansion of pointlessly large breasts continues to lead.
So if you have unusually large, natural characteristics, you owe it to future generations to have as many babies as possible. Pass this meme around while you're at it.
These include: breasts, lips, araeolae, tight waists, shlongs, nutsacs, testicles, other lips, girls-kiss-girls, and "clitorati", to quote Stewie. Brainpower recommended but optional.
If you possess none of that, reduce number of babies by assiduous use of pr0n (made of those who do.)
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.