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Fire Destoys Darwin Manuscripts
ap ^ | October 25, | ap

Posted on 10/25/2001 8:20:39 PM PDT by classygreeneyedblonde

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Rare scientific books written by Charles Darwin were destroyed in a fire that gutted a building at Glasgow University, authorities said Thursday

The blaze broke out Wednesday at the 100-year-old Bower building. No one was injured, and the cause remained under investigation, police said. The lost manuscripts, including a collection of 19th-century volumes on botany, were valued at more than $2.86 million, university officials said.

Damage to the three-story building was estimated at $11.4 million.


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To: medved
But what do you really think? LOL just kidding
41 posted on 10/27/2001 11:43:02 AM PDT by TrueBeliever9
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To: TrueBeliever9
The basic bottom line is tht they make it out as if there were a conflict between evolution and religion, and that is BS. Religion has nothing to do with it; the conflict is between evolution and mathematics. In order to be an evolutionist, you have to throw everything we know about mathematics, logic, and probability theory in the toilet. Me, I'd rather keep mathematics around for a while, and flush evolutionionism on down.
42 posted on 10/27/2001 10:25:10 PM PDT by medved
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To: medved
Good idea! The LORD said even the hairs on your head are numbered! Einstein (paraphrased by me) said the more he learned, based on mathematics, the more he was convinced that the world and universe was created by a Creator!

Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Dynamics; Calculus; Gravitation Law; Reflecting telescope. "We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever."

Darwin reversed the old Hebrew tradition that taught that when Cain killed his brother, he became a monkey and degenerated into an animal.

43 posted on 10/28/2001 9:06:14 AM PST by TrueBeliever9
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To: TrueBeliever9
Even though Darwin denounced his theories on his death bed they are still thriving among the ignorant!

Even though this creationist lie has been debunked many times over, it is still thriving among the ignorant!

44 posted on 10/28/2001 7:53:17 PM PST by jennyp
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To: *crevo_list
I don't think crevo_list was ever BUMPed.
45 posted on 10/28/2001 7:58:11 PM PST by jennyp
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To: classygreeneyedblonde; rwfromkansas
[rwfromkansas] Gee, first a lightning strike hits a Mosque, and now Darwin's works are burned. Seems like God is beginning to exact some retribution...:)

[classygreeneyedblonde] That's two by fire .... hmmmmm

Actually that makes 3 (or 4 or 5 depending on how you count). First was the Twin Towers & the Pentagon. God lifted his veil of protection to allow the 19 creationist hijackers to destroy the evil capitalist/secular icons, didn't you know that?

46 posted on 10/28/2001 8:02:27 PM PST by jennyp
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Maybe God got tired of being told he looked like a monkey
47 posted on 10/28/2001 8:04:13 PM PST by asneditor
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To: jennyp
Lotta Luddites on this thread!

So that everyone will have access to the accumulated "Creationism vs. Evolution" threads which have previously appeared on FreeRepublic, plus links to hundreds of sites with a vast amount of information on this topic, here's Junior's massive work, available for all to review: The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [7.0].

48 posted on 10/29/2001 6:08:41 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: medved
I have to say I am amazed that people still deny that evolution is a fact. It stuns me, to be honest. It certainly makes me fear for the world when the most powerful nation in it contains so many people who reject any science that disagrees with their belief system.

"Wake the sleepers, Let them clear their eyes, Too long have they been blinded by the past, Open and see the future, There is no god, there is only us, Our time, our space, our responsibility.'

by D. Sullivan.

I hope that people actually start thinking a bit more about things when they attack evolution. Do you attack biology? Do you attack chemistry? Do you attack physics? Do you attack genetics?

How many of you who deny evolution refuse to use computers, which cannot be built except by using the same scientific theories that enable us to date the Earth at being billions of years old?

How many of you who deny evolution refuse to accept medicine developed through our understanding of the way life functions?

I would bet that none of you truly understand what denial of the fact of evolution actually means. And that saddens me greatly.

49 posted on 10/29/2001 6:30:09 PM PST by David Gould
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
I am positive that from the ashes of those manuscripts will rise a race of beings that will revolutionize the planet.
50 posted on 10/29/2001 6:32:59 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: David Gould
Get your asbestos suit on, quick.
51 posted on 10/29/2001 6:33:34 PM PST by Osinski
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To: TrueBeliever9
Even though Darwin denounced his theories on his death bed they are still thriving among the ignorant!

Actually, he didn't.

52 posted on 10/29/2001 6:34:28 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: medved
Don't mean to pick apart your post but,
In probability theory, to compute the probability of two things happening at once, you multiply the probabilities together.

This is only true if the events are independent. (Which is an assumption evolution implicitly makes.) For example, suppose you have rolled a pair of dice. The probability that the total is 12 is 1/36. The probability that at least one of the die is a 5 is 11/36. The probability of both is 0.

53 posted on 10/29/2001 6:51:34 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Osinski
Is this a suggestion that God will soon strike me down with spontaneous human combustion or some subtle reference to the fires of Hell?

"God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten son." And yet he hates so many people so very much that he will burn them while they live and then burn them forever after they die. Odd contradiction that, don't you think?

54 posted on 10/29/2001 9:24:27 PM PST by David Gould
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To: David Gould
"Get your asbestos suit on quick" means you are about to be flamed, ie responded to in a very aggressive manner by people who don't like what you post.

RE: God, burning: Some people think that perverted way about God...I don't.

55 posted on 10/30/2001 2:55:44 AM PST by Osinski
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To: Osinski
Thanks for the clarification :)

I am glad you do not have the view of God which I attacked. I apologise for leaping to conclusions.

56 posted on 10/30/2001 4:34:33 PM PST by David Gould
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