Posted on 07/05/2002 12:26:31 PM PDT by Khepera
So you never had a dog. Ever camped and hunted in the trackless wilderness with a dog? Ever had one wake you up with your neighbor's house on fire. Come to think of it, when you can smell as well as a dog maybe you could make yourself useful too. In fact there may well be dogs whose intellectual abilities greatly exceed your own judging by your thoroughly mistaken take on evolution.
Cats have human slaves for the purpose of opening cans of cat food. Then again lets see you catch rats and mice with the same efficiency as the common house cat.
As for the back scratching ability you have really demonstrated your mental failing. Man is the ultimate tool maker and user. We designed back scratchers eons ago. There is no selection pressure to alter us physically in that direction.
Some have but not because they "wanted" to live. Perhaps you should try "eating" a Cape Buffalo some time. Just walk up to it and start gnawing. If you survive the attempt perhaps you would care to record your revised theory of evolution. Should you fail to survive you will be immortalized as a recipient of the "Darwin Award" granted to those who have done mankind a great service by removing their defects from the gene pool.
/sarcasm
tag.
Maybe you could evolve a sense of humor, and yes I have a dog, cats and a mate (as per Genesis) that scratches my back.
Chump.
Your cute remarks are simply evidence of the disdain you have for science. I was doing you a service by pointing out that your attempt at humor was wide of the mark.
Try learning science from the scientists instead of the crackpot fringe and you will be able at least to avoid the common mistakes that characterize your posts.
(P.S. This is sound advice, not a personal attack.)
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.""It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." [Albert Einstein, 1954, from "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being." [Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray. Source: "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann]
EBUCK
Because minerals are still available in abundance.
What I can't understand is if evolution is correct why are there still religions? Why haven't we grown out of that decidedly primative practice?
EBUCK
Neither man knew God at all. They each knew some physics (probably the best insight into the mind of God) and as far as anyone can tell the game is not rigged.
Clearly he did know God, but not nearly well enough. It's the wonder and beauty of God that he can work through even the brilliantly ignorant (and manipulate the apparently random), calling to scientists through their science and revealing his truths to them. Einstein clearly had the sense of wonder that is attendant with nearness to God, as you'd expect at the theoretical limits of knowledge. He couldn't have come any closer without a direct appeal to Grace.
Means what?
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