Shaped from clay [origin of life]

Nature Magazine ^ | 03 November 2005 | Philip Ball

[b_sharp]

If it helps, I'm really good at saying 'you young whipper-snapper' and 'when I was your age'.

[b_sharp]

1) 1⁷²⁰

But this is a really big number isn't it?

[PatrickHenry]

I think AARP starts sending you junk mail when you hit 45. Then you notice that everything you like on TV seems to have sponsors that are selling laxatives, denture adhesives, and remedies for what Bob Dole calls "ED." It's all downhill from there.

[longshadow]

But this is a really big number isn't it?

G3k sure seemed to think so for about three days....

[RightWhale]

Did anybody catch Peter Ward on radio last night? He says they are going to look for earth fossils on the moon. Series.

[Senator Bedfellow]

If it helps, I'm really good at saying 'you young whipper-snapper' and 'when I was your age'.

How about a good "You kids get off my lawn!"

[Elsie]

Current thinking has several supercontinents, splitting up and reforming. Most likely, the Earth was even more active earlier in its history.

You do need to think about these things before writing.

Current thinking???

You mean they thought something else before??

Maybe THEY should think before publishing.

[Elsie]

Learning is good.

Too much might make ya nuts....

---

Acts 26:24-25
24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defense. "You are out of your mind, Paul!" he shouted. "Your great learning is driving you insane." 25 "I am not insane, most excellent Festus," Paul replied. "What I am saying is true and reasonable.

[b_sharp]

"It's all downhill from there."

I thought Cialis is supposed to fix that.

[b_sharp]

That [G3k believing 1⁷²⁰ a large number] must have been a hoot. How did you guys keep a straight face?

[csense]

...but it does have a goal in the sense that natural selection selects for mutations that increase the "fitness" of individuals within an environment. Passing on genes is the "goal."

If selection of fitness translates to reproduction as a goal of natural selection, then how do you explain homosexuality, which necessarily yields a state of reproductive stasis. Furthermore, why could I not then conclude that your claim is incorrect, since such a goal of reproductive stasis is the observation which would falsify your claim. And lastly, if such an observation of reproductive stasis does not falsify your claim, then how can the claim be useful, let alone falsifiable, if it can accommodate states which are in opposition to each other.

[Elsie]

I don't see that, he is talking about letters he has written to the Corinthians not scripture in general.

You're not alone. Others have trouble with his stuff, too.

---

2 Peter 3:15-16
15Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

[Elsie]

This evidence leads me to believe that the Bible was written by a primitive nontechnical society and can not be used as an authority in anything other than that society.

Define 'primitive'.

[b_sharp]

"Did anybody catch Peter Ward on radio last night? He says they are going to look for earth fossils on the moon. Series"

Wouldn't a fossil of the Earth be quite a bit larger than the entire moon? How would they dig it up? How would they document its location?

[Elsie]

And I thought Kerry was waffleable.

So does Elmer Fudd...

[b_sharp]

"How about a good "You kids get off my lawn!"

Had that one down long ago. I'm now working on 'Give you $5.00 to shovel my walk'.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Pretty funny! But not as funny as watching the evo's lose their mind as they were consistently trashed by G3K. He had a way of getting them wound-up. Here are a few examples:

Link

Link

[Elsie]

Well, there is a theory that the Moon was blasted from the Earth by a big chunk of impacting something...

[Amish with an attitude]

"Everyone be nice."

Akin to handing an arsonist a can of gas knowing he brought his own matches to the party.

[RightWhale]

Also heard Peter Ward learn that the sun is 100 times earth's diameter. Who knew that he didn't know?