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2004-02-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Atheists, Humanists Push Campaign for ’Darwin Day’
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Posted by Super Hose 2004-02-13 12:47:20 PM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I want FESTIVUS
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-2-13 1:09:09 PM||   2004-2-13 1:09:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 YS,

Wouldn't it be a wonderful occasion to hand out Darwin Awards? The whole country would have a day off. It would be bigger and better than the Oscars. The next-of-kin could walk the red carpet.
Posted by Super Hose  2004-2-13 1:36:58 PM||   2004-2-13 1:36:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 SH - all that snippin' going on... did you circumscribe circumcise this article? If so, which tool did you use?
Posted by .com 2004-2-13 1:45:55 PM||   2004-2-13 1:45:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 

I buy into Darwinian thinking because that would put the right about 100 million years ahead of the left which only now has moved from the bottom of some murky pond to now devour other life forms.
Posted by dataman1 2004-2-13 2:23:41 PM||   2004-2-13 2:23:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 .com, LOL your link reminded me of the rant that Aris did awhile back begging Americans to stop the madeness and quit snipping our boys.
Posted by Super Hose  2004-2-13 2:28:07 PM||   2004-2-13 2:28:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell, SH, if we didn't snip 'em they wouldn't be able to fit into those Super Large Shiekh's and Trojans... Poor Greeks - and I do mean poor Greeks (!!!) - it must be hard soft to have missed out on all the advantages that cross-breeding being a melting pot offers, heh... I love being that kind of mutt, but we'll have to come up with something new - I don't wanna be called a Heinz 57 mutt anymore...
Posted by .com 2004-2-13 2:43:02 PM||   2004-2-13 2:43:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I just want to say that these people (the Darwin Day promoters) are embarrassing me. Thank you.

...I've got more important things to do. Like wash my hair.

You still have hair, Fred?
Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-2-13 2:43:39 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2004-2-13 2:43:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Nope.
Posted by Fred  2004-2-13 2:46:08 PM||   2004-2-13 2:46:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 That's right YS. Festivus for the rest of us!
Posted by Sgt.DT  2004-2-13 3:02:20 PM||   2004-2-13 3:02:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Like many intelligent Christians, I came to the conclusion that the early part of Genesis is an allegory, rather than rote "truth". How could God have explained things to Moses (who supposedly wrote Genesis) any other way, and have him understand? Could you see God trying to explain the "Big Bang" to him, or Schrodinger's Principle, or plasma physics? At the same time, Stephen Hawkings claims that there MUST have been intelligent design working in the creation of the Universe, since there are literally thousands of things that could have gone differently, and created a universe innimical to life as we know it.

Like any really TALENTED Engineer, God created a feedback mechanism into a system designed to change, so that those creatures that exist have a way of adapting to those changes. Darwin wants to claim the credit for God's handiwork - he's about 20 billion years late, and only sees a tiny part of the Big Picture. Most environmental sciences experts today say there are major flaws in Darwin's theories, and that they need significant modification to account for all the changes that take place.

Darwin, like Newton, Aristotle, and hundreds of scientists from early man to today, aren't discovering anything new, they're merely learning just how significant God's attention to detail really was! Tell them all to bugger off and fly a kite - in Pakistan!

/rant - my $.02 worth.

BTW, Angie, I, unlike Fred, do still have hair - it's thin, there isn't much of it, but it still exists! 8^) (I'll bet that Fred and I are close in age, too)
Posted by Old Patriot  2004-2-13 3:37:07 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2004-2-13 3:37:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Geek joke:

Why did it take God only six days to created the universe ?

Because he had no installed user base to deal with...
Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-2-13 3:44:19 PM||   2004-2-13 3:44:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL. Carl.... tho I understand that he promised the universe in 3 days.... small bugs... crept into the eleventeenth deminsion allegory, screwing up channel 1 for future earth betas.
Posted by Shipman 2004-2-13 4:07:16 PM||   2004-2-13 4:07:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The odd coincidence is that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day, February 12, 1809. I am not sure what significance this has.

The coincidence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both dying on July 4, 1826 is quite poetic, though.
Posted by Eric Jablow  2004-2-13 5:04:58 PM||   2004-2-13 5:04:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Hmmm. Interesting idea. Just one question though. On said Darwin Day, could we kill off those we deem to be ruining the gene pool? I'm sure there are a number of people who could benefit from this day...Mass murderers, rapists, terrorists etc.
Posted by S  2004-2-13 5:29:57 PM||   2004-2-13 5:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I suggest the last Monday of each August.

Be a nice place to plant three day weekend between July 4th and Thanksgiving.

Is evolution great or what?
Posted by Michael  2004-2-13 6:22:20 PM||   2004-2-13 6:22:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Elvis's Birthday. I want it.
Posted by tu3031 2004-2-13 10:00:02 PM||   2004-2-13 10:00:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 hokay godheads--you can be a right wing supporter of capitalism liberty and the war on islamic terrorism without being a mystical believer in the sky god of your childhood--cf randian objectivists--without enlightenment guys like darwin you'd be living under the "soft" oppression of a clerical christiandom or the caliphate--so give him his props and a day--i mean you give a day to a groundhog--grow up--sheesh
Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-2-13 11:47:09 PM||   2004-2-13 11:47:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 "Darwin, like Newton, Aristotle, and hundreds of scientists from early man to today, aren't discovering anything new, they're merely learning just how significant God's attention to detail really was! Tell them all to bugger off and fly a kite - in Pakistan!"

For people that supposedly so much helped enlarge humanity's understanding of God's wonders, you definitely seem to have something of a contempt for them.

Are you sure that's not a sin? Certainly seems akin to cursing Virgin Mary or St. Peter or any of the prophets. :-)

"Darwin wants to claim the credit for God's handiwork"

I'm pretty sure that Darwin never claimed to have personally created the universe or *any* species for that matter, so you are simply being rabidly incoherent, OP.

Fact remains that people who think that the universe was created 4004 BCs (or the people who are against evolution) are fundamentalist idiots who are doing their outmost to destroy the teaching of science at schools.
Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-14 12:36:34 AM||   2004-2-14 12:36:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Last comment was by me - forgot to write my name.
Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-2-14 12:37:33 AM||   2004-2-14 12:37:33 AM|| Front Page Top

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