Not bad, but AndrewC's Bogie is better than your Wilfred Hyde-White.
Posted on 06/10/2006 4:33:28 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
I read the post before posting mine. The adjective does not change anything.
Somehow, when I dropped "Dodge," I got Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) from the Smokey/Bandit movies. He'll have to do, now.
You're so lazy you wouldn't have read it if you thought I had five points. I gulled you. Look at it this way ... you got five for the price of four.
From the article you linked:
We have the next five generations of educated people who have believed and believe to this day that, at bottom, evolution's primal animal urges rule our lives..."
This is an very good example of the goggles many anti-evolutionists wear. Not even R. Dawkins believes 'primal animal urges' is the sole source of our actions. In fact the common belief today is that any 'primal animal urges' we have led to our development of community and conflict resolution. Heck even Pinker believes our genome contributes to only about 30% to 40% of our mental makeup.
Evolution does not suggest we live at our most basic level, nor does it require 'the survival of the fittest' to mean the strong dominate the weak.
Just be happy he isn't claiming they're all prime.
Being a Christian in the theological sense and a creationist are mutually inclusive.
To accept Jesus as Lord one must accept the first verse in Genesis quite literally.
Joe spent years traveling to Dodge dealerships, etc. He had an apartment in Hollywood where Holiday Inn had donated the furnishings of a Suite right down to the coasters and napkins to him, so when he was home he'd have a place to transition from on-the-road living. He and Foster Brooks were good friends.
"You have won! You are the winner!"
I was just thinking about the thread from yesterday and how it compares to typical scientific thinking. A scientist using the scientific method comes up with a theory, calls it a theory, or a model, and once someone introduces scientific information contrary to their beliefs, they are all ears and open to debate. Now, contrast that to the genius of a Christian fundamentalist yesterday who, when debating over The DaVinci Code said, "Your mother is a prostitute, and your father was a child molester." That really converted me. I decided I really needed to be born again before my mom turned into a prostitute and my dad was suddenly cast into the dark world of child molestation.
I didn't have time to finish this, but I don't like how it's starting.
Do you really believe Tom Wolfe is an anti-evolutionist of the type you so condescendingly instruct to: "Practice your religion in your homes and in your churches. Teach your children your beliefs. Support Christian charities and fulfill your heartfelt Christian duties. Communicate your beliefs to others on the streets, in the malls and at work?"
Now we know why he has trouble with primes. He thinks the integer after 2 is 2.
[I'm gettin' the hang of it.]
Well, innit? 1 is one, and you cipher it once. 2 is two, so wouldn't you cipher it twice?
Don't jump to conclusions. Don't read into my statements what is not there.
I never said that Tom Wolfe is any kind of person whatsoever. I did say that that one statement is typical of the arguments given by anti-evolutionists. Whether Wolfe is an anti-evolutionist or not doesn't come into the picture. He could easily be a proponent of evolution that made an inadvertent misstatement.
My list was intended to say that Christians have many aspects of life where their beliefs are important but that science needs to be independent of religion for it to function.
Damn, boy! You talk like Tom Sawyer, or Huck Finn.
it may be that he is suggesting that many of these people are educated beyond their intelligence; but they know one thing: it sounds smart to believe in evolution.
Not bad, but AndrewC's Bogie is better than your Wilfred Hyde-White.
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