Troll. Definitely.

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At least trolls don’t pee on the carpet.

One point he did make that seems to be thematic with True Believers is:

...as soon as creation takes place life evolves to the strongest reflection of itself as it can, which is mankind…

Despite the fundamental inaccuracy of the statement, I find it extremely egotistical of Christians in general to presume that we, mankind, are the end all, be all of life.

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Dellusional paranoid who forget to take his meds.......

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One of them bot thingys like you made, but this one was put together by someone on the other side with a similar sense of humor to see if they can bait a response to the inane.

Despite the fundamental inaccuracy of the statement, I find it extremely egotistical of Christians in general to presume that we, mankind, are the end all, be all of life.

That makes two of us. I think it also partially explains their fear to accept evolution.

Give me animals over people any time of day. Animals are cuter.

Give me animals over people any time of day. Animals are cuter

Now, now, Sadie.  Not only are humans also animals, but some humans are pretty cute.  Maybe not as cute as the orphaned baby hippo adopted by a tortoise, but cute nonetheless.

Not only are humans also animals

That is true. I meant non-human animals.

Ohh I’m a troll I’m a troll. Sure thing parasite.

Atleast I didn’t shave my crotch and grab a needle to go hunting for crabs, ya freaking lamo.

Atleast I didn’t shave my crotch and grab a needle to go hunting for crabs

Oh, damnit, you caught us redhanded! God, how embarrassing! You know how much I love shaving my crotch and crab-hunting? It was a guilty pleasure, but now I’ve been found out. How will I ever be able to show my face in public again? *hides*

Atleast I didn’t shave my crotch and grab a needle to go hunting for crabs, ya freaking lamo.

A word to the wise, Raven.  Tweezers work much better than a needle.  Not only do they hold the crabs better, but it’s less painful when you stab and miss.
And I admit it- I am a parasite and a lamo.  So are you, and so is everyone else- we all suck the juices of other living beings, and all of us are handicapped, one way or another.  No biggie.  Just life.

This is slightly off topic, but it’s a great metaphor for ID, by James Harrington at Tech Central Station, via Pharyngula:

Imagine yourself as a visiting alien; when surveying “Africa” you discover large termite mounds. Most of the crew gets right down to the business of studying termites and figuring out how they manage to produce their nests. But, a few make a different claim. Given that the termites are clearly not sentient, they decide that the termites could not possibly have built their nests in the absence of an independent sentient nest designer—The Termite Farmer. Therefore, they take off and go looking for The Termite Farmer instead of studying what termites actually do.

Among what I would call “real” termite biologists there can be both naturalist and non-naturalists. That is, some of them think that what you see is what you get; others think that there is something more subtle going on with the termites. However, unlike the design theorists, they both think that you learn about termites by studying termites. Not, by wandering around looking for hypothetical termite designers. However, it’s actually worse than that. It’s as if the believers in termite-mound designers didn’t just go around being pains in the neck to real biologists by pointing out the places they don’t quite understand yet; problems with which the real termite biologists are, of course, already perfectly familiar. Instead of either getting down to work or getting out of the way, they go around crowing that termite biologists get it all wrong because the termite-designers tried to make it look as if they, the designers, didn’t exist. That is, ID theorists need to claim that, although life looks like a fundamentally natural process subject to natural explanation, that naturalness is an illusion. But, this isn’t just bad science or bad philosophy; it’s a conspiracy theory fit for The X-files, and thus, while it may not be religion, it certainly is just dumb!

I am glad they are offering the intelligent design. I never went along with this evoluciion bull **** the idea we came from apes. LOL maybe they did, but I didnt and neither did my family. My parents would not allow a teacher to teach us that. I alway thought this evolution thing and still do is crazy.  Totaly

Too bad the school board got sued over it and then voted out of office and then told that the policy was an unconstitutional violation of Church and State.

But you’re right about one thing, Teri, you didn’t come from apes. It just not possible because you obviously have the brains of a trout.

Too bad the school board got sued over it and then voted out of office and then told that the policy was an unconstitutional violation of Church and State.

Not to mention that the school district is now saddled with paying the court costs, which it can ill afford.
Teri- it is a startling, and for some an uncomfortable, revelation, that we descended from apes.  But it’s a fact, and if you open your eyes and take your fingers out of your ears, you will accept it.

Actually, I think evolution is a much grander story, showing that we are connected to all living things by common descent, than the childish fairy tale of a big grumpy guy in the sky making us out of mud.

Well I dont believe we came from apes and I dont have my LOL fingers in my ears and my eyes are open wide open. But how ever your certainly entitled to your own beliefs and opinion. Because one does not agree with anothers opinion does not mean they are wrong. Again your entitled to your own opinion as I am mine.

Well I dont believe we came from apes and I dont have my LOL fingers in my ears and my eyes are open wide open.

You’re right that we didn’t “come from apes” because we actually descended from a common ancestor to the apes. In other words, they’re more like a distant cousin than a great-grandpappy.

Of course, having studied up on Evolution thoroughly enough to be able to debunk it properly, you already knew that, right? Of course you didn’t. It’s that ignorance thing again.

But how ever your certainly entitled to your own beliefs and opinion. Because one does not agree with anothers opinion does not mean they are wrong. Again your entitled to your own opinion as I am mine.

You’re right that simply disagreeing with your opinion doesn’t make you wrong and we are all entitled to our opinions, it’s just a shame that mine are based on facts while yours are based on ignorance of what you’re railing against.

You can believe whatever the hell you want to, but that doesn’t mean your belief is valid or worthy of anything more than ridicule and scorn. Any idiot can spout off about what he believes to be true, but it don’t mean jack shit unless you can back it up with some facts.

LOL… this is crazy, I have a brain of a trot?  What ever you say, but I dont have anything to prove to anyone this is just a message board where many have their own opinions, thoughts, And not every one agrees with each other. But that does not equal = a brain of a trot as you put it. But I know I am a bright, intelligent person. You can call me all the names in the world, what ever. But does not make it so because you say so or anyone else for that matter. Again as I said I do not, nor do a lot of people think we came came from apes as I am sure many share my same opinions.  But name calling, come on thats a little childist don’t you think. We are suppose to be above all of that.  I could do some name calling of my own, but I am above all of that, But if it makes you feel big and bad to do so more power to you.  Again your entitled to YOUR OPINION!!! Got it? Now I am going to close this out…

Teri comes back to spew some more…

LOL… this is crazy, I have a brain of a trot?  What ever you say, but I dont have anything to prove to anyone this is just a message board where many have their own opinions, thoughts, And not every one agrees with each other. But that does not equal = a brain of a trot as you put it. But I know I am a bright, intelligent person.

No, your idiotic statements is what equates you to having the brains of a trout, but even that may be a bit generous. Gravel is probably closer to the mark.

Again, you can believe you’re a bright and intelligent person, but the facts at hand would seem to contradict that belief. It might help if you picked up a dictionary or at least used a spell checker.

You can call me all the names in the world, what ever. But does not make it so because you say so or anyone else for that matter.

I’ve never claimed that my saying something makes it a fact, I’m merely pointing out the obvious. You provide all the proof my statements need for me.

Again as I said I do not, nor do a lot of people think we came came from apes as I am sure many share my same opinions.

Yes, there are a lot of idiots in this world. In that respect you are in very good company. Not something I’d trumpet too much if I were you, though.

But name calling, come on thats a little childist don’t you think. We are suppose to be above all of that.  I could do some name calling of my own, but I am above all of that, But if it makes you feel big and bad to do so more power to you.  Again your entitled to YOUR OPINION!!! Got it? Now I am going to close this out…

Trust me, I haven’t resorted to name calling yet. You’ll know when I’ve crossed that line. I’m merely stating my opinion—which you keep saying I have every right to have—of your intelligence level and understanding of the topic you’re commenting on based on the facts you’ve presented for us in the form of your comments so far. The fact that you may consider my conclusions to be insulting doesn’t invalidate them in anyway. Sometimes the truth hurts.

Technically humans don’t come from apes. We have a common ancestor with them. Over time, seperate groups of this ancestor changed due to environmentally advantageous reasons. Eventually the two groups became so different they no longer could mate to create viable offspring. So technically, that ancestor was neither ape nor human, but something all together different.

Woops, sorry Les, I should have read more of the comments. Didn’t mean to repeat what you had said.

Technically humans don’t come from apes.

Depends.  If by “ape” you mean “chimps, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons”, which is the everyday definition, you are quite right- we did not descend from any of these modern apes.

Exactly where to draw the line between fossil apes and old-world monkeys is moot.  But biologists call the most recent common ancestor of all modern apes an ape too.  To quote Richard Dawkins talking about the fourth most recent common ancestor ("concestor") of humans and other apes, the fourth place (going backwards in time) where we branched off from other living lineages:

Let’s summarize what we can guess about Concestor 4, making the usual weak assumption that it had a good number of the features shared by all its descendants, which means all the apes including us.  It was probably more dedicated to life in the trees than Concestor 3, and smaller.  If, as I suspect, it hung and swung from its arms, its arms were probably not so extremely specialised for brachiation as those of modern gibbons, and not so long.  It probably had a gibbon-like face, with a short snout.  It didn’t have a tail.  Or, to be more precise, its tail vertebrae were, as in all the apes, joined together in a short internal tail, the coccyx.

(from The Ancestor’s Tale)

So from the biologist’s point of view, we blog readers, and our children, are all descended from apes- our parents, ourselves.

In response to Teri, it really should come as no surprise that the exact same people who are so stridently anti-evolution are the very ones who know the least about it.