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[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
"God snapped his fingers and life started" is not mutually exclusive to "A primordial ooze got zapped with lightning and a single cell was created?"

They're not mutually exclusive if God sent the lightning bolt.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Outline a theory for how a single cell mutates into an animal having organ systems. Then sketch out a test protocal.

And if it can't be done it proves...what?

Newton had a lot of holes in his theories that he couldn't find an answer to. Other scientists filled the holes later. Have I missed an announcement or something? "OK scientists, times up! It's 2005! Put down your pencils! All gaps in your unfinished work are to be filled by God!"

Why does "no current answer for gap" have to equal "whole theory is wrong"?

[Ty@50]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You believe in evolution?



or de-evolution?

this ends up being PBPOTD

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Your. Link. Is. Broken. Which. Ironically. Is. What. Is. Wrong. With. Your. Argument.

My apologies. Here's the text from Amazon.com --

• Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis (Hardcover)
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[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
FSM

Que?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Que?

Flying Spaghetti Monsters. Definite omniscient entity of the New Millenium.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Ty@50
this ends up being PBPOTD

Isn't there a rule against one's own sock awarding a POTD to said one?

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Flying Spaghetti Monsters. Definite omniscient entity of the New Millenium.

Definitely. I have been touched by His Noodley Appendage and embraced the one true religion - Pastafarianism.

Ramen.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Can I get the teacher fired for saying there are?

I'm not on your kid's school board, so I really don't know.

Can you get God to smite the teacher dead?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Definitely. I have been touched by His Noodley Appendage and embraced the one true religion - Pastafarianism.

Ramen.

[Ty@50]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Isn't there a rule against one's own sock awarding a POTD to said one?

D= Decade

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
My apologies. Here's the text from Amazon.com --

• Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis (Hardcover)
  by Lynn Margulis (Editor), René Fester (Editor)
  
  
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  List Price: $75.00
  Price: $58.96 and this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. See details
  You Save: $16.04 (21%)
  
  
  Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
  Amazon Visa® Reward Points: 176
  Points are calculated based on the final amount charged.
  
  Only 1 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
  
  18 used & new available from $15.00

or this, if you're cheap ---

• Symbiosis in Cell Evolution (Paperback)
  by Lynn Margulis
  
  
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  Availability: Available from these sellers.
  
  
  
  7 used & new available from $17.85

This book is what you're talking about?

Have you read it? I couldn't get through the whole thing, but the part I did get through isn't doing what you think. She (and she is no Eva S in the looks dept.) is proposing a way that a change in an individual can become a fixed characteristic of a population.

She does not mention ANY way that a single cell can develop an organ system. Also, she certainly does not explain how to test the non-existant theory. Soup says we have to be able to prove stuff.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Flying Spaghetti Monsters. Definite omniscient entity of the New Millenium.

Thank you.

Hank? Please postulate a theory disproving the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Thank you.

Hank? Please postulate a theory disproving the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Exactly. My. Point.

doesn't the gorilla look like TK?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Exactly. My. Point.

Really? If your Point. Is. Simply. That. Evolution. Has. Holes. That. Can't. Be. Or. Aren't. Yet. Explained. then you, Panda and balt may be less apart than you seem to think.

If your point, however, is also that they need to talk -- in a science class, not a philosophy or religion class -- about those gaps being filled by the Christian God, perhaps even to the exclusion of Budha, the Muslim God, and the FSM, well then you'd need to answer Wonk's, balts, and Panda's questions.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Soup says we have to be able to prove stuff.

Nuh uh!