[JoeProBono]

[DannyTN]

"places where you would be safer lighting a Marlboro off a burning American flag than being caught with a copy of On the Origin of Species—you’re going to find it quite a hike."

ROFLMAO Nobody ever accused Darwinists of a lack of imagination. LOL What a victim complex!!!

[Natural Law]

The article is, to use the one overly cleaver 19th century word not used by the author, poppycock.

[VR-21]

I’ve always wanted to be a Grand Fromage.

[stormer]

Speaking of Scottish geology, here's my current read, a biography of James Hutton. As an inspiration for Lyell and in turn Darwin, he is an under appreciated giant in the history of science. The book also provides a good deal of information on the events leading up to the Scottish Enlightenment and the unification of England and Scotland. The man also was one of the original party animals, apparently spending a not insignificant amount of time getting drunk with luminaries such as Ben Franklin, Adam Smith, James Watt, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and David Hume. Makes my friends seem rather, shall we say, pedestrian?

[Daffynition]

Be kind. Rewind.

[stormer]

Those interested in Agassi may also want to explore the life of another personal hero, J Harlan Bretz.

A mand ahead of his time, but unlike Wegener, not so far ahead he died before he could say "I told you so".

[Steelfish]

“But it does make you wonder, as you dig inside your hiking boot trying to find the annoying heather burr that’s gotten wedged in your sock, whether it mightn’t be time for those of us in the business of defending Charles Darwin to quietly retire the proposition that he was a towering genius with superhuman powers of observation and objectivity. “

No Newton or Einstein here.

[SunkenCiv]

...they stood at their present level not because the ocean had sunk or somehow drained away but because the earth itself had risen, as it practically had just then, right beneath his feet. If he could show that the roads in Glen Roy had been formed by the same process as those in Coquimbo on the other side of the world, then he could propose a theory of global "crustal uplift" as the prime mover in the creation of the continents, which would be an impressive, career-making thing to do...

Thanks, JPB! So close, Chuck, and yet so far. ;')

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks JoeProBono. One theory, popular among the locals, was that the roads had been the private hunting tracks of Fionn MacCumhail, a.k.a. Fingal, the mythical Celtic giant. Hey, whaddayamean mythical? :') "...of the hero, Finn MacCuill, that if a day goes by without his name being mentioned, the world will come to an end." Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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