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Monday, June 30, 2008 05:45 PM

@Brute

The World Trade Center bombing, Kobar Towers, The USS Cole, Bombings in London, Madrid, Spain………How much "proof" do you need?

FTFY!

Please, try to stay on topic!

Yeah, I know it was bombed twice, once by "them" and once by some homegrown terrorist/criminals.

Monday, June 30, 2008 05:29 PM

@maxwell127

"That is unethical journalism and is the same torment that the conservative portions of Congress are throwing at the American people. If you want to complain about transparency, you better be transparent."

That isn't Journalism, it is Journalsim.

If you think this is unethical, take a look at the election coverage!

This!

Is!

Salon!

Monday, June 30, 2008 04:56 PM

@ johnnyrandom

Evolution is a belief system. Natural selection and variation within a species is a fact.

Devolution is also a fact. Errors in the replication of the genetic code produce flaws in the organism. That is why we lost our tails - devolution - an error. that is why the appendix is unneeded - devolution - an error. Why we are so smart compared to the other apes - our offspring fail to mature at a reasonable rate, thus allowing for a great length of time for imprinting and learning - devolution - an error. Our intelligence is a flaw.

The factual agents of change are extinction and devolution. Show me a new species that has naturally evolved a new and significant useful structure within recorded history?

Most species haven't changed significantly for millions of years and for species for which there is a fossil record, are there not more species in the past than in the present? This clearly means that evolution is not a generalized principle and even evolutionists agree. If evolutions was core and fundamental, why wouldn't we see it? There are "bursts" of evolution according to the current view and some say that it is due to the eccentricities of the solar orbit around the galaxy. That is a lot of millions of years before the theory can be labeled as fact.

The agent of speciation, is just as much hokum and bunk as genesis. Evolution is a religion dressed up like a science. Tom Cruise?

Perhaps the RNA/DNA/Ribosome systems are both the code and the coder through feedback mechanisms as of yet unknown. That makes more sense than simply errors in the coding process.

How valuable and useful are most mutations to higher life forms?

If we were offered the chance to have one for ourselves or our children, I think most of us would pass that evolutionary "advantage" up.

No matter what you think of science, you are still getting your ideas from other apes, devolved or otherwise.

Nowabout all those "evolving" bacteria and viri - well, if they are evolving, should they be at least multicellular organism by now?

Since the creationists shook their tree, evolutionists now use the term to describe ANY change, whereas before, evolution only meant EVOLVING. They lack faith in their own religion. The Pope might as well say, all the mystical mumbo jumbo was made up, but that isn't the point, BELIEVING it is the point.

But, that would be the truth and no one in religion could speak that.

"First we evolved to have tails because that was an advantage, then we evolved to have no tails because that was an advantage."

Have your cake and eat it too!

Science ain't what it used to be.

ARE WE NOT MEN?

D=E=V=O

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:29 PM
Original article: Ask Pablo

@ sn00chie

You mean to say that all those explosions on the Fourth of July are not killing the enemies of the homeland?

Where is the fun in that?

How can that be patriotic?

The liberals have to be behind the waste of precious explosives.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:22 PM

@chimpygo

"Gee, do ya suppose bombing Iran might cause oil prices to rise rather quickly?"

HERETIC!

Quick, someone burn him at the stake before he ruins this scam for the oil companies.

Thank almighty GOD that no one has figured out that Iraq was the same scam.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:19 PM

@AJCalhoun

Actually, I am sitting.

I beg your pardon.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:15 PM

@Trainman

What makes molecules move?

What makes molecules perform the tasks in the cell which makes life?

My god is bigger then most others.

It's in those higher dimensions of string theory.

Even simple string theory is just a metaphor for that three letter group.

Each dimension is a projection, or slice of the higher one above it.

Only a atheist believes that 10 or 11 is the limit.

But for most, god is the almighty dollar. Political labels don't alter that.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:15 PM

@Trainman

What makes molecules move?

What makes molecules perform the tasks in the cell which makes life?

My god is bigger then most others.

It in those higher dimensions of string theory.

Even simple string theory is just a metaphor for that three letter group.

Each dimension is a projection, or slice of the higher one above it.

Only a atheist believes that 10 or 11 is the limit.

But for most, god is the almighty dollar. Political labels don't alter that.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:02 PM

Well, if you believe in evolution . . .

what can you expect from a bunch of evolved know-it-all apes?

REMEMBER Y2K!

How many of you stocked up on duct tape and plastic to protect yourselves from a "person of interest" during the us government made anthrax terrorist crisis?

Remember Saddam Hussein was only minutes away from annihilating all of us with RC model airplanes loaded with WMD.

Yellow cake?

Can you really trust anything a species that would have corporate warmongering shills Obama or McCain lead them?

That is why I don't believe in evolution. The evidence is in and it is clear - devolution is a fact.

If you don't believe me, where is your tail?

Sunday, June 29, 2008 01:15 PM

WE ARE MAD AS HELL AND WE AREN'T . . .

wait a minute . . . moving to the center sounds ever so reassuring.

Never mind.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 09:30 AM

They are not moving anywhere.

They are staying put.

The center is right, far right.

All power to the corporations.

Fund War! Not People.

Vote Democrat or Republican!

Support the status quo!

Your Vote makes them Strong!

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