Google Celebration

[Board Game Geek]

Today, Google are celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish Charles my congratulations, and more importantly, congratulate him on living so long !

Well done Sir !

[Moscow Mule]

Today, Google are celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish Charles my congratulations, and more importantly, congratulate him on living so long !

Well done Sir !

Talk about survival of the fittest!

[oracleslave]

Today, Google are celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish Charles my congratulations, and more importantly, congratulate him on living so long !

Well done Sir !

Great link BGG. I might boomark that as my SKA browser has been giving strange results of late.

[BrowneIssue]

Today, Google are celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday.

Not quite.

google.co.uk are celebrating it.

google.com are not.

[expat]

Not quite.

google.co.uk are celebrating it.

google.com are not.

Evolution doesn't happen in the USA. Or they are a different species.

[BrowneIssue]

First sponsored link on Google.co.uk:

Don't let Darwin make
a monkey out of you! We dare you
to think for yourselves. Visit us.
www.saffronplanet.net


FFS

[expat]

First sponsored link on Google.co.uk:

Don't let Darwin make
a monkey out of you! We dare you
to think for yourselves. Visit us.
www.saffronplanet.net


FFS

I despair

[BrowneIssue]

For the unbelievers... in science

Time for a rant, methinks. The believers can, atheists aren't supposed to. Bollocks: I can feel passion too.

My belief system says creationism is implausible superstitious rubbish clung to by immature, juvenile minds that are incapable of grasping the reality of life. Suitable for explaining the world to ignorant peasants to prevent rebellion, inappropriate in a society that flatters itself with modernity.

I pity devout Christians and I am saddened that they are allowed to enforce their indefensible beliefs over perfectly straightforward scientific activity for generation after generation purely to satisfy their own rational self-doubt.

Of course there's no God, FFS. There's no Tooth Fairy, no Jack Frost, no bogeyman-under-the-bed and there is no God / godhead / group of gods living on a mountain / aliens directing us / mystical powers in star constellations. Grow up.

Of course there is no 'right religion'. They're all wrong. Not just all-the-others-except-yours. Including yours. At best, misguided. But still wrong.

And quite how anyone in the western world can cling to one of these appalling desert religions completely defeats me. (Yes, I am talking about all the various incarnations of Christianity and Islam.) Having faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster is far more appropriate and reasonable. Dammit, Western or Northern European paganism is a far more relevant system of values than "don't eat fish on Fridays" and "dead babies got to an inbetween place".

It's all make believe. There is no God. Get over it.

Offended? Pray for an angel to strike me down. Or blow yourself up in a bus queue in the name of your god. That would make sense, wouldn't it? ****wit.

Oh, and one last thing. before you slag off the theory of evolution, try actually reading The Origin of Species. I am sick to death of reading comment and discussion about where he got his ideas or what it means written by people who have clearly not read the book. Just ******* read it. He explains, in the book, what he saw over and over and over again and what conclusions this led him to. It is jam-packed with evidence, but light on opinions. He leaves it to the reader to draw their own conclusion if they so wish. It is an remarkable demonstration of how to present a complex new idea to an untrained audience. It is not brainwashing, he doesn't say there is no god (I will: there is no god, BTW), he merely presents what he saw. Read it, then comment. Meanwhile stop forcing your childish, implausible, indefensible lies into other people's heads.

[moorfield]

Well done Sir !

Indeed. And who'd have thought that people like us have evolved from the monkeys we see around us every day. Genius.

[oracleslave]

Time for a rant, methinks.

Your blood pressure must have halved by the time you finished.