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Birth of a New African Ocean
Khemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift." This stretching of the earth's crust has been going on for 20 million years, and within another 10 million the Red Sea will have broken through to create a new sea.
geee.... really? How is this news at all? I knew this in 3rd grade when our teacher talked about the Great Rift Vally.
- is that niggers can't swim.
The Rift Valley is on a different continent, but thanks for playing.
And global warming denialists will claim that the volcanoes in the rift are putting out far more C02 than humans are, so why worry about anything? Drill, baby, drill!
Young-earth creationists will find Biblical verses that explain how this process has actually only been going on for 6000 years.
ID'ers will claim that the whole process is irreducibly complex.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Yes, everything is global warming's fault. Why, we should even blame those carbon-booted fiends for when everything is just right and we have nothing to complain about.
As are all problems in the Arab world (of which this portion of Africa is)
I blame niggers, jews, spics, crackers, and gooks. Did I miss any race? (Jew isn't a race, but faggots believe they are, so I figured I'd throw them in too.)
Better leave it alone and let nature take its few million years; the place is already riddled with conflicts, imagine what
a) destroying some land
b) prospects of access to the sea for nearby places
would do...
One that hath name thou can not otter
They will reach great lengths to telling us about niggers from splitting Afrika. Niggers having great length, of course.
It never ceases to amaze me that people use that tired, GRATING, erroneours phrase 'corner of the planet', or corner of something about a sphere or some surface having no obvious terminating walls or corners. /rant
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Two failed continents. Lovely.
To put it kindly, you're full of SHIT.
Look Who's Irrational Now
"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians.
The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.
Even among Christians, there were disparities. While 36% of those belonging to the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's former denomination, expressed strong beliefs in the paranormal, only 14% of those belonging to the Assemblies of God, Sarah Palin's former denomination, did. In fact, the more traditional and evangelical the respondent, the less likely he was to believe in, for instance, the possibility of communicating with people who are dead.
So, you air of superiority isn't just feigned, it's faked.
Maybe it's because the average environmental activist is an idiot. Then again, the average human being is an idiot.
you sir, are an idiot. in support of my point:
For too many people, environmentalism is the new religion, filling the hole left by the decline of traditional religions.
you guys believe in 'facts' from a book written by people that thought the world was flat.
Unfortunately the sort of Christian loons who believe the world is six thousand years old are precisely the ones most likely to welcome and potentially help bring about Armageddon.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Just as I have the right to tag them as idiots if they believe in Bronze Age myths :P
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
I don't know that stoning is really a good punishment for coveting someone's ass.