DNA Tests Confirm Bear Was a Hybrid

If you're going out to the woods to shoot a deer to eat it,

Most deer hunters do.

but just to kill something for fun?

Whatever the motivation, if somebody wasn't shooting deer we'd be up to our necks in them here. (We're already up to our asses).

141 posted on 05/11/2006 12:44:04 PM PDT by Tribune7

I think the "militant, obstinate, amnesia" goes hand-in-hand with the earlier characteristics cited.

142 posted on 05/11/2006 12:58:51 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")

Do all that stuff you said but don't shoot the deer. If the fun is gone, then you were just killing thing for the fun of it.

That's a phallic problem.

143 posted on 05/11/2006 1:38:51 PM PDT by Taliesan

but don't shoot the deer........

I guess I just like killing stuff and eating it.... Like I said, that's what makes this country great. I can live and survive in nature if I have too, you can read about it. I respect you for not killing something you don't want to eat or enjoy tracking and shooting. You shouldn't if you don't want to.

144 posted on 05/11/2006 1:52:45 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)

Gonna go down with the ship, huh? Be my guest.

If anyone's up to his nostrils and sinking, it's the creationists.

I notice you didn't even attempt to deal with my second set of quotes.

I notice you have declined to deal with the dishonesty of your first set. Darwin's hunch was right. He didn't say whales for sure came from bears, only that some such scenario had likely happened. It had. Rather than deal with that, you attempt to obscure it.

Darwin would be considered a racist today, yes. He was one of the least racist men of his time. It would be irrelevant to the truth or falsehood of his theory, however, if he barbecued babies. So your two arguments together amount to seriously misrepresenting a successful prediction and an irrelevancy.

Let's go back to that first argument you don't like to talk about. Other successful predictions Darwin made include the finding of Precambrian life in general, trilobite precursors in particular, and the existence of a particularly long-tongued Madagascar hawk-moth. If he was a charlatan, he was the luckiest man ever with a really wrong theory. One hundred fifty years later, only a cult of witch doctor idiots knows how wrong he was, and that not from the evidence but only by ignoring the evidence.

145 posted on 05/11/2006 2:26:20 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)

A later update is here:

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20060511/4462b6c0_3ca6_1552620060511-658188363

The hunter will probably get his bear back. There may be other hybrids out there. More details on what happened.

146 posted on 05/11/2006 2:34:14 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)

To: connectthedots

I'm surprised they can tell, but that later story I just linked says "Polar bear mother, grizzly father."

147 posted on 05/11/2006 2:35:34 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)

No hate crime there.

148 posted on 05/11/2006 3:23:06 PM PDT by connectthedots

I'm surprised they can tell, but that later story I just linked says "Polar bear mother, grizzly father."

I'm not particularly surprised; the mitochondria only come from the mother, maybe that's how they determined it.

149 posted on 05/12/2006 12:33:37 PM PDT by Virginia-American

To: Virginia-American

Or a Y chromosome marker.

150 posted on 05/13/2006 6:39:40 PM PDT by furball4paws (Awful Offal)

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