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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:19
YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS -- And You Can Quote Me
Author: ignorant bastard
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:19
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:19
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DEAD HORSE READY FOR THE GLUE FACTORY
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http://likethedew.com/img/beating-a-dead-horse.gif
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" I can point to many anatomical features of man
in which the known courses of evolution can be explained plausibly by
the theory of natural
selection, but I do not know of one in which
it can be proved."
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< AND
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"I am also convinced that science pursues a foolish
and possibly fatal policy when it tries to keep up
its bluff of omniscience in matters of which it is still woefully
ignorant. Sooner or later the intelligent public
is going to call that bluff."
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< -- Earnest Hooton
< longtime anthropologist at Harvard University
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===============
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"When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
MUST be the truth." -- Sherlock Holmes
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=================
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" What the Velikovsky affair made crystal clear
. . . is that the theories of science may be held
not only for the truth they embody but because
of the vested interests they represent for those
who hold them."
< The Daily Princetonian (February 1964)
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"Ridicule is the argument of the mob."
< -- Immanuel Velikovsky
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===============-
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"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid
f the light."
< -- Plato (or Πλάτων in Greek)
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=============
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"You're not only fighting the man in the ring, Ed.
You're also fighting the referee and the three judges."
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< AND
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"They (the evolutionists) have a skeleton in their
closet and they don't want to open the door."
-- Clayton Lennon, world-famous philosopher
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==============
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"TO SUPPOSE THAT THE EYE, with all its inimitable contrivances for
adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different
amounts of light,
for the correction of spherical and chromatic
aberration, COULD HAVE BEEN FORMED BY NATURAL SELECTION SEEMS, I
FREELY CONFESS, ABSURD IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE.
When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned
round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but
the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows,
cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that
if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex
and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its
possessor, as is
certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and
the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if
such variations should be useful to any animal under changing
conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect
and complex
ye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our
imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How
a nerve
comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life
itself originated; but I may remark that,
as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected,
are capable of perceiving light,
it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their
bar code should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed
with this special sensibility."
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> -- Charles Darwin, 1859, Origin of Species
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"A man should be ashamed to die until he has won
some victory for mankind." -- Horace Mann in 1859
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Dear Mr. Conrad:
Thank you for your letter. I do not think you have a fossil.
I find it incredible that anyone familiar with fossils would.
Any further correspondence would waste both our times.
> Sincerely,
> David Pilbeam, Harvard University
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I'd say the pompous professor needs new glasses.
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DISCOVERED BETWEEN COAL VEINS
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HUMAN SKULL EMBEDDED IN A BOULDER
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http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/page3_files/body_data/skulla.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/skullb.jpg
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(American Medical Laboratories has confirmed
the object in the boulder contains dried blood.)
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OTHER PETRIFIED HUMAN REMAINS
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FINGERSx.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestHumanSkull.JPG
http://www.edconrad.com/FOSSILS08/HumanFemur.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z11calv.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/newtibia.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanJaw3.jpg
ttp://www.edconrad.com/pics/GallBladder1.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanBrain.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/PetrifiedPP.jpg
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"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. THIS is the War Room."
< President Merkin Muffley in "Dr. Strangelove"
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http://www.edconrad.org
http://www.edconrad.com
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Re: YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS -- And You Can Quote Me
Author: Dakota
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:22
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:22
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On 10/20/2011 8:19 PM, ignorant bastard wrote: > < > DEAD HORSE READY FOR THE GLUE FACTORY > < > http://likethedew.com/img/beating-a-dead-horse.gif > < > " I can point to many anatomical features of man > in which the known courses of evolution can be explained plausibly by > the theory of natural > selection, but I do not know of one in which > it can be proved." > < > < AND > < > "I am also convinced that science pursues a foolish > and possibly fatal policy when it tries to keep up > its bluff of omniscience in matters of which it is still woefully > ignorant. Sooner or later the intelligent public > is going to call that bluff." > < > < -- Earnest Hooton > < longtime anthropologist at Harvard University > < > =============== > < > "When you have eliminated the impossible, > whatever remains, however improbable, > MUST be the truth." -- Sherlock Holmes > < > ================= > < > " What the Velikovsky affair made crystal clear > . . . is that the theories of science may be held > not only for the truth they embody but because > of the vested interests they represent for those > who hold them." > < The Daily Princetonian (February 1964) > < > "Ridicule is the argument of the mob." > < -- Immanuel Velikovsky > < > ===============- > < > "We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. > The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid > f the light." > < -- Plato (or Πλάτων in Greek) > < > ============= > < > "You're not only fighting the man in the ring, Ed. > You're also fighting the referee and the three judges." > < > < AND > < > "They (the evolutionists) have a skeleton in their > closet and they don't want to open the door." > -- Clayton Lennon, world-famous philosopher > < > ============== > < > "TO SUPPOSE THAT THE EYE, with all its inimitable contrivances for > adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different > amounts of light, > for the correction of spherical and chromatic > aberration, COULD HAVE BEEN FORMED BY NATURAL SELECTION SEEMS, I > FREELY CONFESS, ABSURD IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. > When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned > round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but > the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, > cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that > if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex > and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its > possessor, as is > certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and > the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if > such variations should be useful to any animal under changing > conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect > and complex > ye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our > imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How > a nerve > comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life > itself originated; but I may remark that, > as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, > are capable of perceiving light, > it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their > bar code should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed > with this special sensibility." > < >> -- Charles Darwin, 1859, Origin of Species > < > =============== > < > "A man should be ashamed to die until he has won > some victory for mankind." -- Horace Mann in 1859 > < > =============== > < > Dear Mr. Conrad: > Thank you for your letter. I do not think you have a fossil. > I find it incredible that anyone familiar with fossils would. > Any further correspondence would waste both our times. >> Sincerely, >> David Pilbeam, Harvard University > < > I'd say the pompous professor needs new glasses. > I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. - Paul Broca For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing - H.L. Mencken He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - Michel de Montaigne Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience. — John Guerrero All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
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