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Thread #153464   Message #3610355
Posted By: Musket
17-Mar-14 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Subject: RE: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Evolution comes in many forms.

For instance, Jack the Sailor telling his detractors to fuck off.

Now, you wouldn't have read that a few weeks ago.

The test of evolution is the straight line of time. If he carries on telling people to fuck off, it is evolution. If he reverts to insisting on rules, it was a passing fashion. After all, once a finch has a beak, he can't start wearing his Granddads....

The only real link between science and superstition I can think of is that of placebo effect. Statistically, if a hundred people with galloping lurgy prayed for a cure, up to 20% of them would start feeling better.

Evidence for Jesus?

Err..   No. Just a phenomenon used extensively in double blind trials of new drugs.

I think therefore I am.
I don't think, therefore I'm Spam.