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#1126223
Boy Wonder
"Today, in addition to original Darwinism -- which many scientists have already rejected as useless"
Which ones are those?
2/25/2010 9:58:20 PM
#1126269
Look out, coming through..... We're here for the crazy lady.
2/26/2010 12:01:52 AM
#1126301
Sandwich Board
Panspermia does not make any claim about highly evolved beings. Microbes riding a meteorite lobbed into space after their home planet was hit by an asteroid would be an acceptable delivery mechanism.
"Marx Hubbard" - seeing those two names together is going to give me nightmares tonight. Thanks a lot.
"...more recently, the ancient Ennead of Egypt." Formerly known as the "New Egyptian Nine".
2/26/2010 2:00:01 AM
#1126304
You have been reading a lot of sci-fi, dear.
2/26/2010 2:12:32 AM
#1126328
aaa
What the fuck where you smoking when you wrote this?
2/26/2010 3:53:49 AM
#1126343
Percy Q. Shunn
Assuming you spelled your name correctly, where the hell did of all this stupid come from?
2/26/2010 5:17:17 AM
#1126355
To be fair, the Kimball isn't endorsing or giving any credence to the nutjob New Agers mentioned, nor is she suggesting they are involved in any sort of evolutionist conspiracy. All she is doing (which is quite bad enough) is trying to ridicule evolutionary theory by associating it with New Age woo. Not sure where the quote belongs, but I don't think it's CSTDT.
2/26/2010 5:54:54 AM
#1126416
Yeah, New Age occultists aren't seen as people who can relied on to come up with viable scientific theories. I mean, 2012 and the notion that the Aztecs/Maya/Egyptians/whoever were actually ancient astronauts has long since been disproven.
Any scientist worth their salt has accepted evolution as a perfectly valid theory. They may not agree as to whether or not it's completely accurate, but the basic idea is accepted.
2/26/2010 8:49:53 AM
#1126432
Why exactly wouldn't these highly advanced races communicate in a normal fashion? I mean if they've visited here long ago, they must have ships or a way to physically get here.
Two: Why exactly would a highly advanced peaceful race want anything to do with a mongrel, aggressive species like ours?
2/26/2010 9:52:10 AM
#1126458
Doubting Thomas
Good for them. Doesn't mean any of it is real, though. And associating new age wackos with evolution doesn't mean evolution is false. The Raelian cult believes in Intelligent Design, only they believe that aliens created life on earth, not God.
2/26/2010 10:45:31 AM
#1126586
Sandwich Board
@#116432
RIMMER: Look, you’re not thinking alien. That’s what aliens are: alien. They do alien things. Things that are…alien. Maybe this is the way they communicate.
CAT: By breaking legs?
LISTER: And doing jigsaws?
RIMMER: Why should they “speak” the way we do? They’re aliens.
LISTER: Okay, professor, what does it mean?
RIMMER: Maybe, maybe… Okay. Breaking your leg hurts like hell, Okay? “Hell.” They do it below the knee, “low.” “Hell-low,” get it? They do it twice - twice, “two.” “Hello two.” And jigsaw must mean “you.” “Hello to you.”
2/26/2010 8:05:04 PM
#1126595
Captain Klamydia
GOD DAMMIT NO! THAT IS NOT PANSPERMIA, PANSPERMIA IS THAT PRIMITIVE LIFE HITCHED A RIDE ON A DAMN COMET OR METEOR! i feel better after that
2/26/2010 9:09:34 PM
#1126616
WMDKitty
Wat.
2/27/2010 12:08:08 AM
#1126620
Brent
Today, in addition to Granny Smith, there are three other kinds of apples: Red Delicious, Navel, and DeLorean.
2/27/2010 2:02:36 AM
#1126754
Papabear
Because one possible explanation is unproven, unsupoorted and seemingly ridiculous is no reason to run off and adopt another unproven, unsupported and seemingly ridiculous explanation.
2/27/2010 3:20:40 PM
#1126780
Tearlich
Man i got to get me some of the Schrooms you'er on.
2/27/2010 5:31:04 PM
#1126861
shockmeshockmeshockmewiththatdeviantbehavior
"the Council of Nine,"
? Sombody has been watching too much LOTR... XD
FRODO: Wow Gandalf how did you do that magic you do?
GANDALF: Its simple... we are all alien seeded slimebeings called "The Council of Nine" (which is where we got the idea for our traveling group from) who are from another dimension and they have given us supernatural powers so we can carry this tiny gold ring all the way to the firey pit in Mordor....
FRODO: attempts to bend a spoon and laughs insanely at Gandalfs insightful wisdom.
YEAH RIGHT. LOL XD And im Elvis and Ive come in a ship from far away so I can assrape your cows and sheep and turn them inside out.
2/28/2010 8:01:05 AM
#1126985
Zits
Do please pass the pot!
2/28/2010 2:02:09 PM
#1126996
gaijinlaw
@Sandwich Board
I'd hate to be around when one of these guys is giving a speech.
2/28/2010 2:59:07 PM
#1126999
gaijinlaw
@Sandwich Board
I'd hate to be around when one of these guys is giving a speech.
2/28/2010 3:05:13 PM
#1127060
DinosaurRidinJeebus
Funny thing is this idiot who laughs at people who think they receive revelations probably believes that noahs flood was a real event.
2/28/2010 7:22:47 PM
#1129266
John_in_Oz
Sadly, New Age woo and Age Old nonsense share the attribute that not only are they folly in themselves, they also make it harder to perceive sense when it is presented.
3/6/2010 7:26:36 AM
#1239986
NoriMori
Um, punctuated equilibrium isn't a "version" of evolution[ism? wtf? you make it sound like an ideology], it's a relatively new theory as to how evolution proceeds. There's gradualism, which has species evolving at a fairly steady rate throughout time; and then there's punctuated equilibrium, which has species mostly undergoing a few very small changes, followed by a "boom" of large changes that produce a new species. For the love of God, I learned this in grade 12 biology. Ever considered going to summer school to update your knowledge? I might end up doing that, because I want to still be "smarter than a fifth grader" in 15 years. It might be a good idea, seeing as I've been learning in high school what my parents still haven't learned in their 40s and 50s. I tell them stuff we're learning and they're like "What?"
Panspermia isn't a "version" of evolution either. In fact, it isn't evolution at all. If anything, it's a different version of abiogenesis. It's the theory that life on Earth originally started on another planet, rather than on Earth itself.
And wtf is "neo-Darwinism"?
1/1/2011 4:30:31 PM
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Troff
To be really, really fair (to Pharyngula, not this Kimball nutjob), Pharyngula's just reporting on the article originally from Renew America
1/1/2011 5:08:29 PM
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B K
Linda, there is this forum called 'rapture ready' that I'm sure would be thrilled to hear more on this
<tries not to grin>
1/4/2011 12:35:02 PM
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