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Meet mankind's newest relative: a mudworm in a Swedish fjord
The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 08/21/03 | Steve Connor

Posted on 08/20/2003 4:00:03 PM PDT by Pokey78

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To: shaggy eel
I'd recommend the worms be served in a cheese sause with bacon bits.

Can I have my cheese sause and bacon bits without worms? Pretty-please?

21 posted on 08/20/2003 5:45:52 PM PDT by LibKill (Obligatory Tagline)
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To: LibKill
,,, if we're related to these worms, it would follow that you should seek inclusion for them on your dinner plate and respect their diversity in any sort of sauce.
22 posted on 08/20/2003 5:50:55 PM PDT by shaggy eel (if you don't eat your meat you won't get any pudding...)
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To: shaggy eel
,,, if we're related to these worms, it would follow that you should seek inclusion for them on your dinner plate and respect their diversity in any sort of sauce.

I am NOT a specieist! Really. I'm not! I respect all of our multi-species diversity. The dolphin and the whale, they are my BROTHERS!

Oh, hell. Who am I kidding?

Hand over the bacon with all speed!

BUT NO WORMS!

23 posted on 08/20/2003 5:58:37 PM PDT by LibKill (Obligatory Tagline)
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To: LibKill
BUT NO WORMS!

,,, you win. I'll have the worms. If they don't get UN protection as a species, at least let's hope they have jobs for them at the UN. There's plenty of precedents set, after all!

24 posted on 08/20/2003 6:46:34 PM PDT by shaggy eel (what can I say?!!!!!)
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To: Sam Cree
INTREP
25 posted on 08/20/2003 10:35:28 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: RightWhale
But at least we're still naming the creatures as commanded. he said adamantly...
26 posted on 08/20/2003 10:42:16 PM PDT by null and void (That's a Swifty...)
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To: LibKill
Can I have my cheese sauce and bacon bits without worms? Pretty-please?

If we took the worms out, it wouldn't be crunchy...

27 posted on 08/20/2003 10:44:14 PM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
"500 million years just doesn't add up," he added calculatingly.
28 posted on 08/21/2003 9:01:17 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: RightWhale
"I'll get even with you tonight," he said darkly...
29 posted on 08/21/2003 9:09:48 AM PDT by null and void
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To: Doctor Stochastic; Junior; js1138; BMCDA; CobaltBlue; ThinkPlease; PatrickHenry; ...
mudworm ping
30 posted on 08/21/2003 9:17:18 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
Thanks for the heads up!
31 posted on 08/21/2003 9:26:11 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: js1138
I resent that!
32 posted on 08/21/2003 9:35:46 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: null and void
That's an odd statement.
33 posted on 08/21/2003 9:36:16 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: NewLand
It's amazing that "scientists" can just say anything with impunity, based on unproven observations... then hide behind the word 'theory'!

Yeah, who are they gonna believe: you, or their lyin' eyes?

34 posted on 08/21/2003 9:37:59 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: RightWhale
>> If DNA changes, evolves 1% every million years, then this creature would be 500% different from us

I think the right formual is 1.00- (0.99)^500 = 99.34% different. 1 - (0.99)^N ~ 0.01*N for small N. Still don't know how you arrived at your premise, "If DNA changes, evolves... or exactly what it means.


35 posted on 08/21/2003 9:45:07 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay and Idi-ay are ead-day)
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To: ibtheman
The stupidity of educated people!

Yeah, thank heavens we have high-school dropouts filling the really important roles in our society.

36 posted on 08/21/2003 10:06:27 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: ibtheman
While you may very well "be the man," I must call attention the absurdity of this:

The stupidity of educated people!

Huh? With their politics, maybe, but in hard science your statement is just odd. But not as odd as:

people that really believe in this believe we have come from a rock!

In light of the fact that the article clearly states that humans "came from" (in the simplest of terms) a worm, not rocks, I'm confused as to which article you read, if any at all.

Evolution is not a science, it is a religion, theories with no science to prove it!

All the exclamation points in the world won't make this fallacy any more correct.
37 posted on 08/21/2003 10:09:29 AM PDT by whattajoke
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To: shaggy eel
Muttly like cheese.
38 posted on 08/21/2003 10:13:02 AM PDT by PoorMuttly (Hell hath no fury like a Muttly unfed)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
you arrived at your premise

Tnx for the formula. We'll have to ask Dr Kaku how he intend his 1% number to be applied.

39 posted on 08/21/2003 10:18:08 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: null and void
"Every valley shall be exa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-lted," he said plainly.
40 posted on 08/21/2003 10:22:10 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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