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See Here for DT Article[^] Americans are one third of the mass of humanity? Possibly, I have seen some big people there. Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that. Shark Bay in Australia is now called “Safety Beach”. So it is.[^] I shall not bother going there then. Had it been Shark Bay I would have gone but now the fluffy pussy brigade have taken over the Ocker Homeland I suppose it is just a matter of time before MM is wearing a tutu and sipping a pink gin.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that.
my lack of belief in the subject comes from ignorance as it doesn't intrest me. Does that make me stupid?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
MM is wearing a tutu and sipping a pink gin.
What, again? :sigh:
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger. English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
I think you should change your handle to "Owler"
speramus in juniperus
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See Here for DT Article[^] Americans are one third of the mass of humanity? Possibly, I have seen some big people there. Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that. Shark Bay in Australia is now called “Safety Beach”. So it is.[^] I shall not bother going there then. Had it been Shark Bay I would have gone but now the fluffy pussy brigade have taken over the Ocker Homeland I suppose it is just a matter of time before MM is wearing a tutu and sipping a pink gin.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that.
my lack of belief in the subject comes from ignorance as it doesn't intrest me. Does that make me stupid?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
The answer to my next question may determine that. How do you explain the vast multiplicity of life, its relative nearness of one species to another, and the universality of certain biological and biochemical functions even amongst very disparate genera? If not evolution, then what? Space Pixies and Magic Dust?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really?
No way. They got that mixed up with the US.
The US is filled with fundamentalist religious types, the UK used not to be. Unfortunately we have let in so many that are afflicted with that most awful of mental disorders, religion, and let them breed and brainwash their children, that the number of people who have any ability for scientific thought processes or are capable of reason and argument based on evidence and fact are reducing.
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I think you should change your handle to "Owler"
speramus in juniperus
Owler Griff has a ring to it.
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The answer to my next question may determine that. How do you explain the vast multiplicity of life, its relative nearness of one species to another, and the universality of certain biological and biochemical functions even amongst very disparate genera? If not evolution, then what? Space Pixies and Magic Dust?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Space Pixies and Magic Dust?
Thats just rubbish that you tell your kids when they are very young. The rest I have no idea as I have no interest in the subject.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Space Pixies and Magic Dust?
Thats just rubbish that you tell your kids when they are very young. The rest I have no idea as I have no interest in the subject.
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I have no interest in One Direction or Justin Beiber, but I believe that they exist.
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I have no interest in One Direction or Justin Beiber, but I believe that they exist.
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Completely different subjects as Wand Erection and Bieber fever are tastes in music and the idiots that front them Evolution has many different theories which require thought / understand and interest.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
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See Here for DT Article[^] Americans are one third of the mass of humanity? Possibly, I have seen some big people there. Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that. Shark Bay in Australia is now called “Safety Beach”. So it is.[^] I shall not bother going there then. Had it been Shark Bay I would have gone but now the fluffy pussy brigade have taken over the Ocker Homeland I suppose it is just a matter of time before MM is wearing a tutu and sipping a pink gin.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Dalek Dave wrote:
I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that.
I totally agree. Just like the people who don't believe we landed on the Moon.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that.
I totally agree. Just like the people who don't believe we landed on the Moon.
You have proof of this amazing claim?
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Completely different subjects as Wand Erection and Bieber fever are tastes in music and the idiots that front them Evolution has many different theories which require thought / understand and interest.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
No, there is only one theory of evolution. And to believe in it requires very little thought or understanding. You believe in gravity I take it. That is only a theory of course and I doubt you have studied it in any detail either.
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See Here for DT Article[^] Americans are one third of the mass of humanity? Possibly, I have seen some big people there. Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people. Although a lot of them will be prepared to believe in a sky pixie or some other shite like that. Shark Bay in Australia is now called “Safety Beach”. So it is.[^] I shall not bother going there then. Had it been Shark Bay I would have gone but now the fluffy pussy brigade have taken over the Ocker Homeland I suppose it is just a matter of time before MM is wearing a tutu and sipping a pink gin.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Dalek Dave wrote:
Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people
Did you just use a fundamentalist style statement? To paraphrase what you wrote: You don't believe what I believe, therefore you are stupid. Dave, I thought you were more well spoken than that.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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You have proof of this amazing claim?
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Yes the Chinese or the Russians don't dispute it.
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Yes the Chinese or the Russians don't dispute it.
That is not proof. I have a theory that my dog can talk, but they haven't disputed that either so it must be true.
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No, there is only one theory of evolution. And to believe in it requires very little thought or understanding. You believe in gravity I take it. That is only a theory of course and I doubt you have studied it in any detail either.
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But this still doesn't answer the question due to my ignorance on the subject of evolution does this make me thick? Again my ignorance is due to my lack of interest in this theory.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Half of British Adults don't believe in Evolution? Really? I didn't realise there were so many stupid people
Did you just use a fundamentalist style statement? To paraphrase what you wrote: You don't believe what I believe, therefore you are stupid. Dave, I thought you were more well spoken than that.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I believe the Earth travels round the sun. The church said it didn't and many people believed the church. And that is the problem. Religion is a barrier to intelligent thought and scientific reasoning. Just because it was written in a book don't make it so. (qv the same is true of science, and the default position is to say I Don't Know, but the current theory that fits the facts and observed evidence is [INSERT CURRENT THEORY] For many years teachers told children to sit upright else they would damage their backs, but this has since been found out to be rubbish and that slouching is better. However the dogma persists and children are being damaged by ignorance.
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That is not proof. I have a theory that my dog can talk, but they haven't disputed that either so it must be true.
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If your dog could talk you would have been arrested and signing the register by now.
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The US is filled with fundamentalist religious types, the UK used not to be. Unfortunately we have let in so many that are afflicted with that most awful of mental disorders, religion, and let them breed and brainwash their children, that the number of people who have any ability for scientific thought processes or are capable of reason and argument based on evidence and fact are reducing.
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+5 :thumbsup:
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But this still doesn't answer the question due to my ignorance on the subject of evolution does this make me thick? Again my ignorance is due to my lack of interest in this theory.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
One does not need to have studied a subject in order to believe in it. And it is not a question of faith. Where evidence exists that supports a theory then the theory is sound. Science exists mainly not to support a good theory, but to disprove a bad one. To not accept evolution as the driving force of nature is to reject all the evidence of one's own eyes. You can observe evolution in action, so it obviously does exist. And there is currently NO other explanation for speciation. Ensatina is a great example of observable speciation. It is a ring species that shows how simple evolution really is. Melospiza melodia is another.
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