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  • @Ghingis Can thanks for the reveal/tell

    [Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
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    "How are the intelligent design fools any different from the angry mob that lynched James Watson?"

    In poker that is called a tell.

    James Watson wasn't really lynched (psychological inversion) for saying that black people are inferior.

    There it is, the real ugly reason that so many love the theory of evolution, because you see, not all people have evolved to the same level as Mr. Watson, one presumes. Some races are evidently closer to our simian cousins that Mr. Watson is, it would seem.

    How interesting!

    Racism and it's true believers who bow down and worship it with reverence just love the idea that some races are just not as close to the pinnacle of perfection that "their" race is and so we see the reveal and the tell, as well as all the others who tack on all the other aspects of exclusionary and discriminatory hate speech.

    Nice bedfellows! You know who you are, and what you are.

    Watson is a fool who has not overcome his racist imprints.

    Evolution is racism's best friend . Evolutionism legitimizes racism with the tar of bad science. Racism is stupid and those who hold those beliefs are evidence of devolution, not evolution.

    Thanks Ghingis, for making it so clear.

    There is a fairly recent theory that the major racial groups all came from a common ancestor far to recently to account for any genetic divergence that would count as our notion of "race" - there is only one race of humans. I prefer that theory. It was a nice program on PBS too. You "evolutionists" should watch it sometime.

  • @Taliesan

    [Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
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    Hey, it's your creed, not mine, why should I explain it to you. Ask a racist or an evolutionist and the answer will be patently obvious.

    Trolling me requires better bait.

    Dr. Watson probably wrote a paper about it, check with him.

  • a counter to the evolutionists racist creed.

    [Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
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    Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

    http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/

    Points out that available resources, mineral, crops and animals take care of those differences between the have nots and the haves leaving the notion of racial reasons for the disparities that we see in the world with no leg to stand upon.

    That and Burke's Connections which details the bizarre chain of innovation which leads to marvels not initially thought of.

  • Looks guilty to me!

    [Read the article: A defense fund for Gonzales? How quaint]
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    IF he didn't do anything wrong, why does he need a defense fund and counsel?

    I wouldn't want to be in his shoes. Does his successor believe in the use of waterboarding?

    Will Madame DeFarge be covering the trial?

    I hope her knitting needles get through security allright.

  • @Ghingis Can

    [Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
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    Oh sure, James Watson discovered DNA while he was high on LSD!!!

    I rest my case.

    And you sir, brought up the subject of that drug crazed and racist mad professor, so I rest the other case as well.

    Good day, sir!

    http://www.hallucinogens.com/lsd/francis-crick.html

  • @Taliesan

    [Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
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    I simply do not take you people seriously, period.

    You never heard of Darwinism, Scientific Management, Rudolph Steiner, the Eugenics Movement, Racial and Mental Hygiene, Situational Ethics or Psychopathic Corporatism (Snakes in Suits) because no one teaches you that stuff.

    Survival of the fittest! The weak must die!

    Maintain the status quo because that is how it just evolved.

    Maybe the problem is a deficiency in glucose.

  • @Taliesan

    [Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
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    Oh! How could I ever forget that which owes most to Charles Darwin, Marxism! Karl Marx praised Darwin.

    To be fair to Mr. Darwin, the debt and appreciation was not mutual.

    Equating Evolutionism with Marxism and we ALL KNOW HOW MARXISM TURNED OUT.

    Red China owns the American debt.

    Uh, nevermind that, Marxism is a failure and its adherants are losers. So by using the standard psychological techniques to manipulate the mass mind as is generally practiced today in print and broadcast media, we must all agree that Evolutionism is doomed to failure, just as Marxism was.

    "Evolution? I'm not buying that totally dude! Like if there was really this magical evolution to higher and more complex forms why haven't the other species evolved to our level as well? Why is it just us apes? If evolution is a real thing then it is generalized and not a special case phenomena, which means that sooner or later our cats and dogs are going to be driving SUVs and working 9 to 5. I don't buy that. If you buy evolution, don't you have to buy at least some of that? Why are the overwhelming number of species just slacking off on this evolution thing if it is a generalized principle? There is variety and change but show me the evolution into higher and more complex forms? Take the earthworm, in all the millions of years it has stayed the pretty much the same. Why hasn't it evolved? Just because it doesn't need to or want to? "

    argue with that PSA.

    Kudos to the octopus and squid, of all the inverts, you are the most highly evolved and sophisticated of your kind, but we still will eat you, if we have half a chance.

  • 300/polar express+laura croft in scales=?

    [Read the article: "Beowulf"]
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    TONIGHT WE DRINK IN VALHALLA!

    I!

    AM!

    BEOWULF!

    Such poetry and drama, brings a tear to mine eye.

    I'll wait for the directors cut where they digitally compost the real actors faces onto the CGI to make them look less like plastic zombies. Don't they have anyone who knows how to render? the only thing interesting about the trailer is Angelina Jolie's tail, which is as it is supposed to be, i suppose.

    The pitch:

    "It's a fantasy story based on Beowulf, you know, all Lord of the Rings like, and it's all done in CGI and here is the kicker - we will get Angelina Jolie to play Grendel's mother will put a dragon tail on her!!! We will make MILLIONS!!!"

  • Chuck Norris should play Beowulf

    [Read the article: "Beowulf"]
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    Beowulf could use a couple of good roundhouse kicks.

  • A refreshing change!

    [Read the article: Self-satire scales new heights]
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    See, President Bush isn't all that bad. The last seven years was just a misunderstanding. He has my vote in 08!!!