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Filmmaker Portrays Evolutionists as a 'Flock of Dodos'
Live Science ^ | 03 March 2006 | Ker Than

Posted on 03/03/2006 12:55:19 PM PST by GreenFreeper

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Randy Olson, the film director of "Flock of Dodos." Credit: Randy Olson

1 posted on 03/03/2006 12:55:21 PM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: PatrickHenry; Junior

this should be interesting....


2 posted on 03/03/2006 12:56:13 PM PST by GreenFreeper (Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
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To: GreenFreeper
"I do not believe that we descended from apes," says one college student in the film. "I do not believe in any way, shape or form we descended from apes," says another.

I don't think anybody claims that you did.

3 posted on 03/03/2006 1:00:31 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
I don't think anybody claims that you did.

At least they chose apes over Monkeys.

4 posted on 03/03/2006 1:02:04 PM PST by GreenFreeper (Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
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To: GreenFreeper
The birds were named after the Portuguese word for "fool" because they were fearless of humans and would walk up to hungry hunters who simply clubbed them to death and ate them. The birds were extinct by the 17th century

Sometimes I think the fools were on the other side of the club in that scenario.

5 posted on 03/03/2006 1:03:32 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: GreenFreeper
Well, no surprise here...

Stupid people, even well-educated ones, don't know they're stupid.

Yes, that includes scientifically inclined ones who, as Mark Twain put it, gather large return of conjecture from small investment in fact.

6 posted on 03/03/2006 1:09:04 PM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Thanks. Many people are so misinformed.


8 posted on 03/03/2006 1:11:33 PM PST by conserv13
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To: GreenFreeper

Oh, a movie! And a student who says he's not a monkey! More full proof of evolution.


9 posted on 03/03/2006 1:13:02 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Publius6961
you can view the trailer here


10 posted on 03/03/2006 1:13:22 PM PST by GreenFreeper (Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
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To: bobbdobbs
I prefer flying monkeys...


11 posted on 03/03/2006 1:15:06 PM PST by GreenFreeper (Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
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To: GreenFreeper
Evolution happened, baby!


12 posted on 03/03/2006 1:15:27 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Izzy Dunne
"I do not believe that we descended from apes," says one college student - - "
I don't think anybody claims that you did.

While this is a very satandard exchange in this type of thread, and while strictly speaking is true (we are not descended from apes), I have never understood why this is supposed to make anyone on the "other" side feel or believe any differently. If we are descended not from apes, but from creature more "primitive", that are ancestors to both humans and apes, I believe you have just made a "distinction without a difference".

13 posted on 03/03/2006 1:16:13 PM PST by FairWitness
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To: Izzy Dunne

Yeah but the implication has always been that finding the proverbial missing link would show us as just really smart unhairy apes.


14 posted on 03/03/2006 1:18:04 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: GreenFreeper
scientists who are handicapped by their blind obsession with the truth

Do they get a sticker so they can park next to the doors at WalMart?

15 posted on 03/03/2006 1:18:25 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: FairWitness
I have never understood why this is supposed to make anyone on the "other" side feel or believe any differently.

I didn't say it would.

16 posted on 03/03/2006 1:20:33 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: FairWitness
I believe you have just made a "distinction without a difference".

Fair enough. I think the "we evolved from Monkeys" business is overused on both sides. It's used to make the creationists look uneducated on the matter and its also used to make the evolutionary thinkers look silly (us related to monkeys?).

17 posted on 03/03/2006 1:22:16 PM PST by GreenFreeper (Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
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To: Revolting cat!

There was an old Scot named MacTavish
Who attempted a gibbon to ravish,
..But the object of rape
..Was the wrong sex of ape--
And the anthropoid ravished MacTavish.


18 posted on 03/03/2006 1:28:34 PM PST by tumblindice ("One for the Corps, Pyle! You mean to tell me you can't do one pull-up?!". . . Hillary Pyle, USMC)
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To: Izzy Dunne
I didn't say it would.

I agree, you didn't. But this same sort of exchange always occurs at some point on this type of thread and if it isn't intended (or expected) to affect the creationist side of the argument why bother since it doesn't significantly affect the point that we are descended from creatures that are decidedly "non-human".

19 posted on 03/03/2006 1:34:05 PM PST by FairWitness
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To: GreenFreeper
Do the Monkey!


20 posted on 03/03/2006 1:37:10 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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