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#1121735
Jewsus
Remind me again why muslim and christian fundies hate each other?
2/19/2010 9:14:11 AM
#1121737
Tyler
Is there an award for unnecessary anachronistic arguments?
By the way, Wikipedia is a great tool.
Darwin first used [Herbert] Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for "natural selection" in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1869. Darwin meant it is a metaphor for "better adapted for immediate, local environment", not the common inference of "in the best physical shape". Hence, it is not a scientific description, and is both incomplete and misleading. [1]
The only real use it gets now is with creationist strawmen who try to undermine evolutionary theory* by comparing it to racism and white supremacy.
*Even AiG thinks
you shouldn't use that.
and what about the whole issue of the transitional fossils?
What about it? Last I checked the only issue with them is that fundies like yourself refuse to acknowledge their existence even when they're right in front of your face.
2/19/2010 9:17:02 AM
#1121783
Yes, animals cooperate................to eat each other.
2/19/2010 10:17:44 AM
#1121794
Doubting Thomas
And you totally misunderstand the phrase "survival of the fittest." It doesn't mean "kill or be killed," it means "the animals best suited for an environment live on, and those not tend to die out on their own."
And every fossil is a transitional fossil, idiot. There's no such thing as a crocoduck.
2/19/2010 10:25:57 AM
#1121820
Blasphemina
Ah, you're as dumb as all the other fundies.
2/19/2010 10:50:02 AM
#1121850
Berny
Tell you what then, you just get naked and go and survive in the environment of your choice. Make sure it has lots of predators so you can see how well you can cooperate with them.
Retard.
2/19/2010 11:14:18 AM
#1121852
Sisyphus
Someone's never been given a team project at work. Whenever I have we'll all work pleasantly and cooperate until our smiles crack... but we're each ruthlessly trying to outdo the others and if (when) the shit hits the fan the claws come out!
2/19/2010 11:14:57 AM
#1121871
Scientific theory...you're doing it wrong.
2/19/2010 11:32:41 AM
#1121873
So how about those wolves "co-operating" with their prey by singling out the young, the old and the sick? Or how about trees growing in the forest where the ones that grow the fastest "co-operate" by blocking out the sun for all the others? Or the cats and dogs that "co-operated" with Grand Cayman blue iguanas by very nearly wiping them off the fact the Earth?
And for the last time, there are TONS of transitional fossils.
2/19/2010 11:34:01 AM
#1121874
Wehpudicabok
Well, this is a new approach. Still way wrong though.
2/19/2010 11:34:37 AM
#1121900
Well that's a first, rejecting evolution on political grounds.
2/19/2010 12:01:02 PM
#1121912
GodotIsWaiting4U
Animals ARE co-operative, within their own species and within the bounds of various forms of symbiosis. It's not all against all, it's some against some. Symbiosis only occurs when either both species benefit or one species can't do anything about it.
2/19/2010 12:13:26 PM
#1121917
Norman
How I wish there was a situation where two creationists of two different religions clashed.
2/19/2010 12:17:59 PM
#1121929
Watch the god damned Discovery channel once in a while!
2/19/2010 12:43:52 PM
#1121958
Antichrist
Bambi was not a fucking documentary.
When you've watched wolves circle a moose that has fallen through the ice, you tell me how co-operative they're being. They weren't exactly forming a wolf chain to help the beast out.
I really want to grab these idiots and leave them with their 'forest friends'. Hell the polar bears are starving, they wont think twice about eating human.
2/19/2010 1:12:55 PM
#1121962
Zeus Almighty
Survival of the fittest? Check.
"Evolution is 'just' a theory?" Check
"Gratuitous reference to 'transitional fossils?'" Check.
Damn, if only you had shoehorned the homosexual agenda into the post you'd have had a hat trick.
However, you do get points toward the random-stringing-of-unrelated-buzzwords award with "racist, capitalist, imperialist, victorian ideology."
Please try again.
2/19/2010 1:16:22 PM
#1121981
Papabear
Not very observant nor well read, are you, Laila?
2/19/2010 1:45:01 PM
#1122000
tracer
Yeah, that lion is totally cooperating with the zebra there.
2/19/2010 2:27:44 PM
#1122009
Old Viking
Hilarious!
2/19/2010 2:46:50 PM
#1122023
Try going out and living with the wild animals. See how nicely they 'cooperate' with helping you... be their dinner.
2/19/2010 3:03:13 PM
#1122025
breakerslion
Okay, just one thing ... where is that portal to the Middle Ages, where social hierarchies were justified by the "Divine Right of Kings?" We'll gladly take you back there so you can go home. Better grab on to something by the way, gravity is just a theory too. You will fail less if you STOP LISTENING TO BULLSHIT ARTISTS!
2/19/2010 3:05:17 PM
#1122062
Colgate
As a very wise man once said, "The lion and the lamb are going to lay down together, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep".
2/19/2010 3:49:58 PM
#1122064
Colgate
As a very wise man once said, "The lion and the lamb are going to lay down together, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep".
2/19/2010 3:51:44 PM
#1122065
Jezebel's Evil Sister
The lion and the lamb may lie down together.
But the lamb ain't getting back up.
EDIT: Dang it! Colgate beat me to it by 3 minutes!
2/19/2010 3:54:24 PM
#1122075
Ewok Jack
Ever seen the BBC's Planet Earth? Awesome nature documentary. No, you're right, it's basically just a whole bunch of animals cooperating, just like on Super Pets.
2/19/2010 4:16:42 PM
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