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Post by Sigmaleph on Dec 3, 2010 21:42:03 GMT -5
Much like "teabaggers", it's their own damn fault. We didn't come up with it, we just saw the term and its implications.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Dec 7, 2010 21:17:31 GMT -5
How do you even begin to pronounce that?
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Post by mechtaur on Dec 8, 2010 11:00:32 GMT -5
How do you even begin to pronounce that? If I had to guess, just seperate the "C" and "Design" and pronounce it that way.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Dec 12, 2010 10:02:51 GMT -5
Wow. *points to "cdesign proponentsists"* A transitional form! Who'd have thought it possible? *smirks*
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Post by kzn02 on May 16, 2011 1:20:46 GMT -5
I had a silly thought. I wonder if we can use religion as an analogy to evolution?
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Post by MaybeNever on May 16, 2011 1:31:19 GMT -5
I'm not sure if that counts as a necro since this is a stickied thread, but to answer the question: probably. Most ideas undergo selective pressure and something akin to mutation, although that is of course independent of their truth value.
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Post by lighthorseman on Jul 1, 2011 8:31:01 GMT -5
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Post by Vene on Jul 1, 2011 10:41:43 GMT -5
Having sex with your unborn sisters is also pretty good.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Jul 25, 2011 7:51:25 GMT -5
Sex with an unborn sister...
Hmmm, I wonder what the correct noun for that might be.
Prenatalsororopaedophilia?
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Post by A Reasonable Rat on Aug 3, 2011 21:28:54 GMT -5
Somewhat of a non-sequitir, but I have taken to saying that pointing to errors in Darwin's essays to try to refute Evolution is like pointing to a Model T Ford to illustrate flaws in the design of automobiles.
Just mentioned it cos I thought it was a clever, catchy simile.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 7, 2011 17:19:11 GMT -5
It is.
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Post by A Reasonable Rat on Aug 7, 2011 23:30:13 GMT -5
Hey, I've got a question... In the form of like 4 questions, but it's part of the same question idea:
If a species can divide, is it possible that they could re-merge if the conditions that caused the split regress? And then if those conditions are seen again later on, would it be possible for that species which re-merged with its sibling to re-emerge from it? Would this be a Lazarus species?
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Post by Vene on Aug 7, 2011 23:33:50 GMT -5
A species could merge in a theoretical sense, but in a practical sense the chance that they both have the right mutations to re-establish genetic viability is low enough to be non-existent.
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Post by John E on Aug 8, 2011 0:07:50 GMT -5
Somewhat of a non-sequitir, but I have taken to saying that pointing to errors in Darwin's essays to try to refute Evolution is like pointing to a Model T Ford to illustrate flaws in the design of automobiles. Just mentioned it cos I thought it was a clever, catchy simile. It's more like pointing to the flaws & inadequacies in the design of a Model T and using that to claim that cars don't exist.
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 8, 2011 0:13:08 GMT -5
A much closer comparison would be to make claims about the existence of, say, assembly line processing based on the traits of cars. The Model T would be analogous to some kind of primitive unicellular life.
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