Yeah right. Try getting the Mormon church to take your name off their records. They really don't like doing that, and they rarely if ever do. Even when they say they have, you're still on a secret list they keep for the same fucked up reasons they baptize the dead.
If corporations in America are considered legal persons, religions in America have the status of a fucking deity.
well, of course. anytime somebody takes a gap in knowledge and fills it with something containing even more gaps, it's just evidence that they want to believe in that something.
since 9/11, there have been maybe a few dozen non-slow news days. something happened again in the middle east? that's weird. china is still making us their economic slaves? had no idea. people are going apeshit over some product that they'll laugh about in 2 years over how apeshit they went? news is always just more of the same.
the most interesting thing to happen in the last month was some vet decided to open fire on a cop on a busy public street. cop was injured in the leg, blew the other guys brains out. all this was happening while i was on my way home from class. does it happen in several US cities every week? yes.
This is going to make the author's sales look incredible. First printing sells out instantly... second printing? presumably the same. Until he's suddenly the best selling author of the year. I wish the military had this kind of interest in MY writing...
I see Kirk is adding in mentions of Nazis and racism... how divine.
Because evolutionary principle/thought definitely had nothing to do with Nazi thought or racist thought....
I don't know how you can get around eugenics as being something that seemed to come out of evolutionary concepts. I'm not trolling. I'm not even accusing evolution of being wrong or false or whatever. I'm saying that eugenics, which was behind Hitler/Nazi thought and to some extent behind racism - at least, if the racism is born out of other things (including religion, e.g., antisemitism) - seems to be a logical progression from evolutionary thought. Improvements come from lots of breeding/procreation -> must be going on today -> there must be "inferior" races currently alive -> why not help evolution along and get rid of these inferior races.
You're totally right, as long as your point is that nazis used evolution as their reasoning.
Not trolling either, just pointing out that the nazis were WRONG to try to help evolution along. The reason is that you can't possibly help evolution along. You would have to see the future, and you would have to see millions of years into the future, and along every different timeline created by every different combination of mutations in every species.
Where would we be if the ridiculous little mouse hadn't out-survived the dinosaurs?
I'm just finishing up my Chemical Engineering degree but I wish I had gone into computer science. Think a combination of those two degrees would be profitable?
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Yeah right. Try getting the Mormon church to take your name off their records. They really don't like doing that, and they rarely if ever do. Even when they say they have, you're still on a secret list they keep for the same fucked up reasons they baptize the dead. If corporations in America are considered legal persons, religions in America have the status of a fucking deity.
well, of course. anytime somebody takes a gap in knowledge and fills it with something containing even more gaps, it's just evidence that they want to believe in that something.
hahaha
since 9/11, there have been maybe a few dozen non-slow news days. something happened again in the middle east? that's weird. china is still making us their economic slaves? had no idea. people are going apeshit over some product that they'll laugh about in 2 years over how apeshit they went? news is always just more of the same. the most interesting thing to happen in the last month was some vet decided to open fire on a cop on a busy public street. cop was injured in the leg, blew the other guys brains out. all this was happening while i was on my way home from class. does it happen in several US cities every week? yes.
thanks science. always making advances after the point of usefulness has come and gone. Maybe my teeth are still in a bag somewhere....
This is going to make the author's sales look incredible. First printing sells out instantly... second printing? presumably the same. Until he's suddenly the best selling author of the year. I wish the military had this kind of interest in MY writing...
Suresh is a cool guy. I was at a colloquium he gave the other day. Wish I was taking one of his classes...
They're only slightly less clunky than that thing. And they don't require an internet connection.
I see Kirk is adding in mentions of Nazis and racism... how divine.
Because evolutionary principle/thought definitely had nothing to do with Nazi thought or racist thought....
I don't know how you can get around eugenics as being something that seemed to come out of evolutionary concepts. I'm not trolling. I'm not even accusing evolution of being wrong or false or whatever. I'm saying that eugenics, which was behind Hitler/Nazi thought and to some extent behind racism - at least, if the racism is born out of other things (including religion, e.g., antisemitism) - seems to be a logical progression from evolutionary thought. Improvements come from lots of breeding/procreation -> must be going on today -> there must be "inferior" races currently alive -> why not help evolution along and get rid of these inferior races.
You're totally right, as long as your point is that nazis used evolution as their reasoning. Not trolling either, just pointing out that the nazis were WRONG to try to help evolution along. The reason is that you can't possibly help evolution along. You would have to see the future, and you would have to see millions of years into the future, and along every different timeline created by every different combination of mutations in every species. Where would we be if the ridiculous little mouse hadn't out-survived the dinosaurs?
I would think that such heavy winds would produce enough energy to subsidize the cost of "more burly" turbines.
Hmmm, I wonder what parameters give a mutation of ID/creationism an advantage.... A higher degree of logical circularity maybe?
If creationists are right, then God created circular logic............. ohmygod! I just proved nothing!
Really? That works? My password is hunter32. Seems like i can see it still though. :P
um... i see your password. i see no ****'s at all. are you Benaiah on all your sites? Ima try to login as you :D
I'm just finishing up my Chemical Engineering degree but I wish I had gone into computer science. Think a combination of those two degrees would be profitable?
Um... duh? I thought we knew this like thirty years ago.