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GORDON 
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Posted on: May 15 2009,18:04 |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html
For those who don't know, it's always been theorized that there was a common ancestor between humans, chimps, and apes... we could just never find and prove it. This was the missing link.
Note to creationists: no scientist in the last 100 years has ever said that "humans came from monkeys."
Though, it is accurate to say that humans evolved from amoebas. What a mind-bender! Except not really if you paid attention in 9th grade biology class.
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Vince
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Posted on: May 18 2009,20:47 |
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Heh... then they'll find out they pulled a brontosaurus and mixed the skeletons of a squirell and hedge hog.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: May 18 2009,22:33 |
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That's the price of archaeology, paleontology, anthropology, & other far-reaching sciences, you go back into the past that far, you've to start making allowances for various shyte.
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"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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GORDON
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Posted on: May 19 2009,17:58 |
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Was in mixed company recently (liberals) and mentioned I'd recently read an article stating ocean freighters burn so much fuel that it takes less than 100 of them to equal all of the fuel burned by cars in America every day, and there are thousands of ocean freighters operating, so it makes buying a hybrid vehicle that much more useless, as far as reducing your so-called CO2 footprint. Â I got a face full of "statisticians finesse numbers all they want to get the results they want." Â I didn't even go into it with them, they just got a "yeah, ok." Â I forgot to whom I was speaking and wanted to drop the subject. Â Obviously statisticians only ever "finesse numbers" to support the republican party line, not the other way around.
MUST...RESIST... HAVING...WORLD...IMAGE...CHALLENGED.......
But now that I'm actually thinking about it, how much oil do American cars burn through every day? Not just "how much oil does America use, total." Just in cars.
Edited by GORDON on May 19 2009,18:04
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Malcolm
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Posted on: May 19 2009,19:29 |
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Some cursory Googling turns up numbers around the 8 millions barrels a day range. A number of the sources appear to be of dubious veracity.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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Malcolm
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Posted on: May 20 2009,18:46 |
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If there ain't a theory about it, then yeah, science don't know about it. It might have a model that handles the behaviour, but it can't explain shyte. There's some things you just miss.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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GORDON
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Posted on: May 20 2009,19:00 |
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And science never PROVES anything, you just make theories that stand until they are disproven.
I wish science was forced on children better than it is now in the schools. Like math, even if you never use it later in life, it stills teaches you how to think logically.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: May 25 2009,18:38 |
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Special on the Hitler channel going on as we speak.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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