Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-09-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Euan Ritchie trolled: > > ...that some cosmic jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make > you live forever if you symbolicawy eat his flesh and telepathically > tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an > evil force from your soul, that is present in humanity becaus

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-09-07 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Euan Ritchie wrote: > >> They also believe... > > ...that some cosmic jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you > live forever if you symbolicawy eat his flesh and telepathically tell > him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-09-07 Thread Euan Ritchie
> They also believe... ...that some cosmic jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolicawy eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul, that is present in humanity because a rib-woma

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: As long as we're on that subject, it dawned on me a while ago that the trouble I have with creationists is that they believe in a God who is too stupid to have created evolution. They also believe in a god who loves them so much that he'll des

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:29 AM, William T Goodall > wrote: ... "When presented with the statement “human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals,” just 45 percent of respondents indicated “true.” Compare this f

RE: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Julia
_ From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of Nick Arnett Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:34 AM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . . It is bad luck to be superstitious

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:29 AM, William T Goodall wrote: > > ... > "When presented with the statement “human beings, as we know them today, > developed from earlier species of animals,” just 45 percent of respondents > indicated “true.” Compare this figure with the affirmative percentages in > Jap

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Aug 2010, at 16:10, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Alberto Monteiro > wrote: > > There can't be too many different species, Noah's Ark wasn't > big enough to carry them all! > > What, evolution stopped with the Ark? > > As long as we're on that subject, it da

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > There can't be too many different species, Noah's Ark wasn't > big enough to carry them all! What, evolution stopped with the Ark? As long as we're on that subject, it dawned on me a while ago that the trouble I have with creationists

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Charlie Bell
On 03/08/2010, at 10:35 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > Charlie Bell wrote: >> >> But thanks, it's a great example of science at work. It's also >> becoming common - lots of what were thought to be different species >> are becoming merged as the numbers of specimens increases. What >> we're

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Charlie Bell wrote: > > But thanks, it's a great example of science at work. It's also > becoming common - lots of what were thought to be different species > are becoming merged as the numbers of specimens increases. What > we're learning is that some dinosaurs had some pretty impressive > p

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Charlie Bell
On 03/08/2010, at 8:24 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > Triceratops 'never really existed but was just a young version of another > dinosaur' > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1299666/Triceratops-really-existed.html Or more precisely, it's been discovered that _Torosaurus_ has b