hehe not all of us had evolution in school because some of us (not me) are old and lived in the days of yore when the government was busy putting under god in our pledge and in god we trust on our money. Pretty sure there wasnt much evolution being taught in schools those days. (at least not schools all over the country)
Waiting to see where bib is going with this thread.
binnyboy wrote:hehe not all of us had evolution in school because some of us (not me) are old and lived in the days of yore when the government was busy putting under god in our pledge and in god we trust on our money. Pretty sure there wasnt much evolution being taught in schools those days. (at least not schools all over the country)
Hummmm...
...since the motto "In God We Trust" was put on coins back in the 1860's...this remark can only be a shot at me...or one of the other grey haired, senior citizens posting here in A2K. :wink:
I woulda thunk you were above that kinda stuff, Bin.
well, excuse meeeeeeeeeee frank. You won't find one grey hair on my head, the few that I have left are ALL blond.
actually 'in god we trust' was just another of those whimiscal sayings of my friend Krisna Billy Joe-Bob Halfawitz who also coined the phrase 'step on a crack, break your mother's back.'
I am fascinatted by the dictionary definiions. Yes evolution, not in its biological sense, has many definitions.
I would submit that Ernst Mayr (not your average Harvard slob), has gone a few steps further pastt these erudite definitions by actually writing a whole book, the title of which was
"WHAT EVOLUTION IS"
I tink that we should , Oprah style, read a few passages of Mayr and try to discern what evolution is, versus , what it is not.
farmerman you silly goose, no one on here is interested in what evolution is or is not (especially if it involves scientific methodology) we are all here to make silly but inane commentary.
I think the discussion of America being founded on Christianity needs to end. The framers of the contitution and a pile of the founding fathers were Diests and Agnostics.
God, in American tradition has been more of the greek concept than the Abrahmic one.
TF
Im trying my best here dys. ACtually Mayr has some really clever lines like
"How do we dettermine tthat the gene complement of a partticular species shows a resultant divergent evolution via allopatry?"
aNSWER
Who Gives A ****?
there you go man
stay as cool as you can.
face piles of trials with smiles
for it riles them to believe
that you perceive the web they weave
and keep on thinking free.
trilobite their tiny asses farmerman, you can do it!
Are some of you trying to get Bibliophile to abandon his topic?
Absolutely not.
I only speak for myself. But. I suspect that the others, like myself, are waiting in eager anticipation to hear what Bibliophile knows about evolution.
The intervening banter is just to pass the time until Biblio returns.
joefromchicago wrote:wandeljw wrote:Are some of you trying to get Bibliophile to abandon his topic?
It looks like
Bib already has.
The last time Bib disappeared, Mrs. Bib logged on in his place and told everyone he had died.
Bib, you ok?
ebrown,
There is nothing wrong with banter. I am new to A2K and sometimes I am slow to follow along.
e. Taalk about dense, i just noticed your disastter flag. sometthin to do with the election?
wandel, we sometimes sit around for weeks till a tthread weaver returns. Bib does have a leprechaun sense of humor , so we are patient witth his little side ttrips.
The disaster flag is for the Iraq war and the prosecution of the "war on terror".
Of course, the results of the election are related.
I always thought the upside down flag meant something else; something like SOS.
