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Okay, tell you what. The moment god actually harvests grain for farmers, moves things for truckers, and makes soliders who fight in his name bullet-resistant, I'll buy that. Until then, I'm placing it solidly in the "Stuff the bible says that even christains admit isn't true" catagory. <cocks head>...

You know what? If you're so damn concerned about his welfare, help him!! Don't sit on your flabby arse preaching about how he'll "lose readership" and "donations will go down"! Dammit, do something! :evil: All your complaints are doing is making me angry. Either do something about the situation, or...

shyal_malkes wrote:Morty's still got that top hat (why is it that most cartoon vultures (well, he used to be one) are always wearing tophats?)

It's an undertaker joke.

Yours truly,

The wolfish,

Wanderer

For some real "evolution in action", go to Sapphire's link and check further down; seems there's now evidence for the evolution of unicellular organisms into multicellular ones. The experiment was originally to grow Chlorella vulgaris algae as food for an Ochromonas algae-eating flagellate. Well, Mu...

Well, for what it's worth: StrangeWulf, evolution is the best fit to the facts as we now have them. Fact: Fossils show that before there were dogs, there were wolves. Before there were wolves, there were dire wolves. Before there were dire wolves, there were bearlike canine creatures. Fact: Today th...

Thank you, Ralph; I didn't know you read the Analytical-Literal Translation. (I prefer King James, myself.) You really should tell us where your quotes are from, however (that's called citation), since otherwise we might garner the false (of course) impression that you are attempting to hide informa...

Thank you, Calbeck; it's nice to deal with someone who gives a referent and actual data when saying I'm either wrong or misled. Thank you very much for informing me about "Stolen Valor"; even though the two co-authors are from Texas, it isn't talked about much (if at all) down here. From the sound o...

Such a thing would be readily explained by the numerology and Earth-centric ideologies in use by the early Church...six Days would be a mark of evil, seven is the Holy Number. But God creates nothing on the Seventh Day; He rests, instead. It is not therefore a Day of Creation, but the Day of Vacati...

The potential of a gnoll society is incredible, and yet nobody ever uses them for anything but cannon fodder. (Flippy Darkpaw, anyone?) That's probably because IIRC they originated in D&D. Copyright and all that. Actually, since a lot of concepts in the game were originated from Tolkien, who borrow...

Calbeck: Thank you. I didn't know that what my family considers "common sense and courtesy" is what other people call "self-reliance". Thank you for correcting the mistaken interpretation that I gathered from long-ago extremists. Now, as for the pi bill: I apologize for misplacing it to Georgia. (It...

For the 10,000th time, <I>the conviction of an innocent person for a crime they did not commit only brings into question the method of determining their guilt, <B>not the validity of the punishment dictated for the crime.</b></I> And for the 10,000th time, read what I bloody well wrote, you cartoon...

Sorry, RH, but telling the truth (according to existing records, public information, and the Congressional voting record) is not spin-doctoring. It's literal sooth-saying. If you don't like unpleasant truths, I'm sorry; but that doesn't make them less true. Kerry voted against body armor? Partly tru...

Okay, taking it from the top: 1. Self-reliance is Darwinism. If I'm not allowed to ask anyone else to carry my weight, and I can't carry it, then what happens? That means self-reliance favors only those who can handle their problems and situation without any help from anyone. Thus, yes, it is Darwin...

In this case, it's debatable whether the definition did change. Jesus himself specified the criteria, and there's no evidence that he'd said otherwise before that. Then again, they probably didn't have the word "Christian" or any cognate at the time.... True enough. The word "Christian" was origina...

Why, I never thought I'd see Larry Niven mentioned. I think I read a clever book of his in the science fiction genre. It's 2AM, so I might be wrong. Anyway...thanks for the info. I think I'll go lay down though... When you get back, please note I goofed the title: The Ghouls originated in Ringworld...

GURPS sounds like a cool onomonopia. Um...what is GURPS? Generic Universal Role Playing System It was supposed to get a cooler name at launch, but the people at Steve Jackson Games were used to calling it GURPS. The best ghoul-race I ever saw was in Ringworld, by Larry Niven. The Ghouls were a jack...

The problem, as a long-ago Analog article pointed out, is The Doctrine of Otherness. The Doctrine of Otherness is a very successful doctrine, for the most part. It's basic element: All doctrines deserve consideration. This is extremely useful in politics, science, and planning. Less useful in religi...

Everyone has a right to what they beleave. It say so in our constitution. But to treat it as wrong is illegal by the text of our founding laws. Um, no it's not. Read the Constitution again. Absolutely correct, Brock. The specific text is Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establi...

(what, the ship couldn't recognise a ship that was parked alongside it all this time AND had been previously registered AND had the computers linked?) Someone moved the computer's cheese. Once it had been moved, it was no longer the computer's cheese, no matter how much it looked and smelled like i...

Well, Calbeck, he signed the standard form for those reporters, and they were allowed to view the entire Navy folder on him. According to all three reporters, the Navy file, including a full list of discharge, had one discharge. I'd put more credence on this if he hadn't picked three reliably liber...