Let's Keep Pearl

#126
#126
BigPapaVol said:
I entirely agree. My post was hard to decipher, but I was trying to use D's parlance in making fun of his point.
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I wanted to leave it alone, but the prospect of the guy who famously wrote that UT was about to hire Cowher with Kiffin and Steele as coordinators being one of those people who thinks that Adam and Noah were riding around on dinosaurs like Fred Flintstone was too delicious to pass up.
 
#127
#127
Vercingetorix said:
I wanted to leave it alone, but the prospect of the guy who famously wrote that UT was about to hire Cowher with Kiffin and Steele as coordinators being one of those people who thinks that Adam and Noah were riding around on dinosaurs like Fred Flintstone was too delicious to pass up.
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:eek:lol:
 
#131
#131
Vercingetorix said:
Wow, so no evolution whatsoever then, right? A 6,000-year-old Earth with humans and dinosaurs living together and all that?
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Who said those things? Me? No.

It would certainly accelerate your straw-man argument had I said it, but I did not.

There are quite possibly trillions of examples of evolutionary changes which have occurred over the course of millions of years - to say otherwise is contrary to even the most cursory review of the world around us.

Micro-evolution, that is. Not macro.

Hope that cleared up any confusion that you had, or were attempting to insert into my otherwise straightforward statement.
 
#132
#132
Vercingetorix said:
My father is an elder in a conservative Protestant church, and he's managed to reconcile his Christianity and science. It is possible to be religious without completely checking your brain at the door.
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That's admirable. Likely, he wasn't the first, nor will he be the last to somehow manage to pull that off.

Personally, I can't stand people who check their brains at the door, either. You know, like those who blindly adhere to a series of glaringly (shall we say) "questionable" theories because they somehow believe that doing so is the only means of showing how intellectually enlightened they are.
 
#133
#133
Vercingetorix said:
I wanted to leave it alone, but the prospect of the guy who famously wrote that UT was about to hire Cowher with Kiffin and Steele as coordinators being one of those people who thinks that Adam and Noah were riding around on dinosaurs like Fred Flintstone was too delicious to pass up.
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Definitely my prediction, to be sure. The real gem you missed was how ardently I supported Mike Leach's candidacy.

See? There actually are people who can admit when they've believed and purported theories once thought to be correct, but since proven false.

Again with the Adam / Flinstones things.....wouldn't it be easier if I just gave you my log-on information, and you could write my half of the argument, instead of going through the trouble of bastardizing mine? Think it over, and PM me if you'd rather that.

Your use of the word, "delicious" was more than worth the reference to my post on Cowher. I really, really appreciated reading that.

The last time I heard a grown man use that word in any context not related to food was, well, never. Maybe the Cumberland County Playhouse will pick up the Rocky Horror Picture Show after all - considering the local talent.
 
#134
#134
Tenacious D said:
The last time I heard a grown man use that word in any context not related to food was, well, never. Maybe the Cumberland County Playhouse will pick up the Rocky Horror Picture Show after all - considering the local talent.
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I can think of a few times I have used it in a context not related to food, but hey thats me.
 
#136
#136
Tenacious D said:
That's admirable. Likely, he wasn't the first, nor will he be the last to somehow manage to pull that off.

Personally, I can't stand people who check their brains at the door, either. You know, like those who blindly adhere to a series of glaringly (shall we say) "questionable" theories because they somehow believe that doing so is the only means of showing how intellectually enlightened they are.
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Then you can't stand about 80% of the country.
 
#141
#141
Tenacious D said:
Personally, I can't stand people who check their brains at the door, either. You know, like those who blindly adhere to a series of glaringly (shall we say) "questionable" theories because they somehow believe that doing so is the only means of showing how intellectually enlightened they are.
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The "mutations are inherently destructive" argument is normally made by young-earth creationists, and although those guys may be your intellectual brothers-in-arms, it's a fallacy to assume that you subscribe to their dogma. I should not have gone straight to the 6000 year old earth argument, and I apologize for it.

But still. Evolution is quote, glaringly questionable? Really? I love how you guys get wireless access to the immediate, worldwide Internet to post about how much science sucks. You're living in what would have been regarded even five hundred years ago as a freaking magical universe. Your house is warm in the winter and cool in the summer. You can sit in a chair inside a piece of metal and go across the ground six times faster than a horse can run, or you can sit in a chair in the sky and fly across a continent in three hours. You have a piece of glass in your house on which you can watch what other people are doing all the way around the world. You know when it's going to rain three days ahead of time. Your water does not make you sick when you drink it. All this stuff is thanks to science -- European and American science, specifically, if you want to get jingoistic -- and yet the second that any arm of this benevolent scientific framework (astronomy, physics, biology, anthropology, etc.) that has shaped every minute of your pampered magical life runs up against the first book of Genesis, you're willing to throw the whole thing out and shriek about its horrific agenda.

My dad is a devout Christian who believes in the Big Bang, who believes in evolution -- and who believes that God intimately directed all of it for his own purposes. Science is not the enemy. Unless, of course, your air conditioner and your car and your TV and your computer and your grocery store and your weather forecast are also the enemy.
 
#142
#142
Vercingetorix said:
But still. Evolution is quote, glaringly questionable? Really? I love how you guys get wireless access to the immediate, worldwide Internet to post about how much science sucks...You can sit in a chair inside a piece of metal and go across the ground six times faster than a horse can run.
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Sorry to edit your quote a bit, but are you suggesting that cars evolved from horses?:birgits_giggle: Haha I kid. Everyone know that cars evolved from donkeys.
 
#143
#143
SamRebel35 said:
Sorry to edit your quote a bit, but are you suggesting that cars evolved from horses?:birgits_giggle: Haha I kid. Everyone know that cars evolved from donkeys.
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Donkeys evolved into sedans and station wagons and SUVs. Horses evolved into two-door and sports cars and convertibles. Duh.
 
#144
#144
Vercingetorix said:
six times faster than a horse can run
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This would mean that we were sitting in those metal chairs (probably an alloy of sorts or most likely carbon fiber) and traveling at roughly 230 mph. I've never been that fast in a car. I'm not saying that we can't go that fast, but I certainly can't afford a car that can.
 
#146
#146
SamRebel35 said:
This would mean that we were sitting in those metal chairs (probably an alloy of sorts or most likely carbon fiber) and traveling at roughly 230 mph. I've never been that fast in a car. I'm not saying that we can't go that fast, but I certainly can't afford a car that can.
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I should have googled. I figured that a horse can run about 30 mph. I once drove a friend's dad's Porsche 911 Turbo (when I was 16, when I had no business even looking at that car much less driving it) at about 160 mph down Pellissippi Parkway, and that car had more yet to give. So I just pretty much made a number up.
 
#148
#148
Vercingetorix said:
I should have googled. I figured that a horse can run about 30 mph. I once drove a friend's dad's Porsche 911 Turbo (when I was 16, when I had no business even looking at that car much less driving it) at about 160 mph down Pellissippi Parkway, and that car had more yet to give. So I just pretty much made a number up.
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I would have lost control of my bowels at 160 mph. That's why I don't borrow my friends' dad's Porsches. Hahaha. I don't have the patience to read all the posts, but how did the thread get onto evolution and such?
 
#150
#150
SamRebel35 said:
Sorry to edit your quote a bit, but are you suggesting that cars evolved from horses?:birgits_giggle: Haha I kid. Everyone know that cars evolved from donkeys.
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SamRebel35 said:
I would have lost control of my bowels at 160 mph. That's why I don't borrow my friends' dad's Porsches. Hahaha. I don't have the patience to read all the posts, but how did the thread get onto evolution and such?
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Duh...
 
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