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Should We Let the Pandas Die Off?
ICR News ^ | October 7, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 10/07/2009 8:52:11 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Pandas face a difficult future, despite great efforts to preserve them. With their dwindling population, shrinking habitat, and weakening genetic strength, one evolutionist has suggested that these longstanding symbols of the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) should be allowed to die out...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Texas; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: belongsinreligion; catholic; china; christian; creation; deathtopandas; evangelical; evolution; extinction; godsgravesglyphs; intelligentdesign; judaism; moralabsolutes; notasciencetopic; pandas; prolife; propellerbeanie; protestant; science
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To: GodGunsGuts
I actually went to the DC Zoo as a kid (this was a looooong time ago) to see the pandas.

Whatta letdown.

They were small, dirty, and smelled bad. There were two in the "habitat", and they were fighting with each other.

What's projected by WWF (cute, cuddly, fuzzy), and reality ....are two separate things.

21 posted on 10/07/2009 9:05:40 AM PDT by wbill
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To: GodGunsGuts
Train them to do some useful work or even entertain us. I suggest they join the Wildlife Wrestling Federation.


22 posted on 10/07/2009 9:05:57 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Rio: Gold / Madrid: Silver / Tokyo: Bronze / Obama: Lead weight.)
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To: humblegunner

If you really, really believe in evolution, it won’t happen in your lifetime...


23 posted on 10/07/2009 9:06:06 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Since our hateful western culture is responsible for all death, why not let the Chinese figure this one out. What with their meditation and nature-worship culture and all.

Oh.

Wait.

They are the ones who have occupied for thousands of years the only natural panada habitat...

Maybe the native American indians could be asked to solve this one?


24 posted on 10/07/2009 9:06:25 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Wer glaubt ist nie allein. Who believes is never alone.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Best thing we could possibly do for the panda population would be to convince people they taste great as burgers, steaks, and hot dogs.


25 posted on 10/07/2009 9:06:37 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: GodGunsGuts

It’s funny how the left is all for evolution when the topic is religion, but not so much when the subject is extinction.


26 posted on 10/07/2009 9:06:44 AM PDT by Spok
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To: GodGunsGuts

Feed ‘em to the whales.


27 posted on 10/07/2009 9:07:44 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>> let’s see....out of thousands of species of bamboo that grow on this planet they will eat only seven, they are too ill-tempered and solitary to tolerate one another even long enough to mate, and their newborns are the size of a mouse leading to a high mother-rollover-crush rate. I’d say we are not able to KEEP these things from going extinct. <<

I would say that the existence of such a useless fragile large animal is absolute proof that evolution is a process. Because I can’t believe a competent creator could invent such a “crap-sack” animal. Either that or God was busy hitting the Sacramental wine a bit too hard when he magicked up the Giant Panda.

They eat only bamboo which is a poor poor food source when it comes to calorie and vitamin content, their milk is more watered down than 1% milk. They can only pop out a pup or two per reproduction cycle. They crush their own young under their girth. They are pretty much a cute to look at but evolutionary dead end.

The only way we could save these creatures is to breed them to be smaller and breed them to change their diet to something more substantive. Maybe convert them back to being carnivores or omnivores. Through domestication and artificial dwarfing (see chihuahuas and teacup poodles) we may be able to “save” the species, but not in it’s current miserable state.


28 posted on 10/07/2009 9:11:43 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Cacique
We should also initiate a program to make liberals, idiots and commies extinct as well.

We actually have two programs to make liberals extinct....gay marriage and abortion.

29 posted on 10/07/2009 9:11:43 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
the best way to save any animal is to start eating it.

So I suggest panda burgers !

30 posted on 10/07/2009 9:11:55 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: GodGunsGuts
This makes me a sad panda.


31 posted on 10/07/2009 9:14:48 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: wbill

“They were small, dirty, and smelled bad. There were two in the “habitat”, and they were fighting with each other.

What’s projected by WWF (cute, cuddly, fuzzy), and reality ....are two separate things.”

They are cute, cuddly, and entertaining at the San Diego Zoo. There are people to keep the viewing line moving because everyone wants to stay and watch them.


32 posted on 10/07/2009 9:18:51 AM PDT by llmc1
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To: CholeraJoe; tx_eggman
They taste like pork.

Is there such thing as Panda Flu? Maybe we should reconsider...
33 posted on 10/07/2009 9:19:19 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: KarlInOhio
LOL! First thread of the day. I gotta find me one in bumper sticker form if possible. <:}>
34 posted on 10/07/2009 9:24:34 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: GodGunsGuts


35 posted on 10/07/2009 9:25:38 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

“But Packham’s idea is actually quite consistent with an evolutionary view that natural processes should be allowed to take their course, since nature knows best.”

—I don’t know where he got such metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, but nature doesn’t know anything. That’s like saying that if a can is about to fall and hit your foot that you should let it happen and let nature take its course because gravity knows best. “Evolution” is just a scientific theory. It’s not a ‘command’ or ‘obligation’ to do or not do something. Gravity isn’t commanding you to knock your monitor off your desk – it just describes what would occur if you in fact did knock your monitor off your desk. Evolution describes what would occur if certain members of a population breed and others don’t.

“Evolution, a system founded on continual cycles of death in which the less fit perish, provides no room for sentimentality over the loss of a weak species.”

—Why?

“If evolution is true and if humans are really nothing more than the end products of colliding molecules, winners of a “Darwinian lottery,”4 then why should they care if some species don’t make it?”

—Because we like them?


36 posted on 10/07/2009 9:29:37 AM PDT by goodusername
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To: GodGunsGuts

My six-year old daughter LOVES pandas and she blames the Chinese Communists for their near extinction. Pandas have made her a virulent anti-Communist. :)


37 posted on 10/07/2009 9:32:00 AM PDT by ReagansRaiders (Bob McDonnell for (Virginia) Governor - 2009)
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To: The Comedian

LOL


38 posted on 10/07/2009 9:32:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Something tells me she has a very responsible parent at home :o)


39 posted on 10/07/2009 9:33:03 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: KarlInOhio

I was gonna post that graphic if it wasn’t here already.


40 posted on 10/07/2009 9:33:28 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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