tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post686081947514422667..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Even God Can't be a Little Bit Pregnant Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15835875541891081632014-03-24T09:41:23.408-07:002014-03-24T09:41:23.408-07:00So much good stuff.So much good stuff.Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284936021406079076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61815957646606097322014-03-24T08:38:32.152-07:002014-03-24T08:38:32.152-07:00Our bodies are structured around phi. This does no...Our bodies are structured around phi. This does not appear to be the case with chimpanzees, which are uglier. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7204879996889963332014-03-23T19:37:09.027-07:002014-03-23T19:37:09.027-07:00Yes, secular humanists are always animalists. In...Yes, secular humanists are always animalists. In order to be a true humanist, one really has to be religious.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83924156069328839732014-03-23T19:30:09.436-07:002014-03-23T19:30:09.436-07:00Re. the macroevolution, and thinking of the leap f...Re. the macroevolution, and thinking of the leap from ape to man, I was reading the other day about how humans came to be naked. The explanation had to do with lice, which I suppose is fine as far as it goes, except that it really doesn't explain the situation at all. <br /><br />It doesn't explain the hair of our heads, for one, and the way that it can keep growing and growing. It doesn't explain why a human body (at its best) is so beautiful to look at. Picture a hairless chimpanzee; would even the most radiantly healthy one would look even remotely lovely? Or picture any other hairless land mammal. They may be fascinating, but again they aren't beautiful. The only thing that comes close that I can think of are dolphins. Anyway, mere evolution doesn't account for how we look. If it did, there would be other animals from similar terrain with similar characteristics.<br /><br />Anyone with eyes can see that there is something profoundly different about mankind, even without the trappings of human civilization. But again and again they insist that we are merely advanced animals.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62654070056961457612014-03-23T16:08:06.581-07:002014-03-23T16:08:06.581-07:00Howdy Van!
Still kickin trolls butts, leaving them...Howdy Van!<br />Still kickin trolls butts, leaving them in s puddle of their own "logic"? :-)Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26846899857793630072014-03-23T15:26:19.557-07:002014-03-23T15:26:19.557-07:00Hey Dougman!
Rick, from Peter Brady to Seth McFar...Hey Dougman!<br /><br />Rick, from Peter Brady to Seth McFarlane... while evolution might be difficult to explain, devolution seems to have been conclusively proven. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38126187555343257122014-03-23T14:45:42.702-07:002014-03-23T14:45:42.702-07:00Yes, I can relate to being too busy.
Two teenager...Yes, I can relate to being too busy. <br />Two teenagers and a twelve year old, two dogs,two cats, ...two mints in one....oh, sorry, commercial flashback.<br />Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77135996188347043472014-03-23T14:34:36.079-07:002014-03-23T14:34:36.079-07:00I know I've never seen them in the same room t...I know I've never seen them in the same room together.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89175102018836445262014-03-23T14:28:13.386-07:002014-03-23T14:28:13.386-07:00Oh, that guy. Which still doesn't answer the d...Oh, that guy. Which still doesn't answer the doppelganger/ evil twin question...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14241822650756721942014-03-23T14:27:16.522-07:002014-03-23T14:27:16.522-07:00Julie, Knight played Peter Brady many moons ago.Julie, Knight played Peter Brady many moons ago.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50515421403386494802014-03-23T14:26:35.600-07:002014-03-23T14:26:35.600-07:00Nah; lack of innerest. Honestly, I think everyone&...Nah; lack of innerest. Honestly, I think everyone's too busy anyway.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79959499039994314882014-03-23T14:25:20.887-07:002014-03-23T14:25:20.887-07:00Two of them now! Congrats to you. It's been a ...Two of them now! Congrats to you. It's been a long time since I've visited.<br />So you and Robinstarfiah haven't collaborated on anything since the first song from the raccoon playroom? Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63606595079502924442014-03-23T14:16:59.219-07:002014-03-23T14:16:59.219-07:00Your link didn't work for me there Rick.Your link didn't work for me there Rick.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78678570717047579452014-03-23T14:15:22.184-07:002014-03-23T14:15:22.184-07:00Hi Dougman - those are my little ones in the pictu...Hi Dougman - those are my little ones in the picture, but it's almost a year old now. The baby is practically a boy, and his little sister is nicknamed (on occasion) The Giant Baby, because she's growing even faster than he did; she's off the charts for height. Between the two of them, I only manage to sing in the living room or the car these days :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39203733998794938962014-03-23T14:11:11.002-07:002014-03-23T14:11:11.002-07:00I know who McFarlane is, more or less, but am not ...I know who McFarlane is, more or less, but am not familiar with Knight. Is it a case of doppelgangers or is it an evil twin scenario?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14539189112883822252014-03-23T13:40:09.209-07:002014-03-23T13:40:09.209-07:00Never mind the Cosmos, how do we account for this?...Never mind the Cosmos, how do we account for <a href="http://www.ziarulring.ro/arhiva/images/mondenbun/seth-macfarlane-christopher%20knight.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12911429289173522012014-03-23T13:32:38.951-07:002014-03-23T13:32:38.951-07:00My wife's maiden name is Liberatore.
Anywho, ...My wife's maiden name is Liberatore.<br /><br />Anywho, Fr. Barron on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd3Y1tCwlBo" rel="nofollow">Cosmos</a>.<br />He points out a few, not so small facts I'd hoped others would have also made..Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15503280185587888452014-03-23T12:56:29.052-07:002014-03-23T12:56:29.052-07:00Hi Julie!
How's that baby doing?
Probably not...Hi Julie! <br />How's that baby doing?<br />Probably not a baby anymore.<br />Are you still singing?Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71437011480855819672014-03-23T12:53:38.945-07:002014-03-23T12:53:38.945-07:00Ha, I actually understood that one :-)
And I agr...Ha, I actually understood that one :-) <br /><br />And I agree. The Libertarians just don't see Islam for the threat that it is.<br />Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70738941665502877692014-03-23T12:45:58.159-07:002014-03-23T12:45:58.159-07:00That's me at the right, slacking off in my bac...That's me at the right, slacking off in my backyard liberatoreum in a mild state of egobliteration. You can almost see the time dilating.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63824644611413263362014-03-23T12:43:32.615-07:002014-03-23T12:43:32.615-07:00We here are liberatorians. Big difference. We here are liberatorians. Big difference. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48344694055902184272014-03-23T12:40:56.193-07:002014-03-23T12:40:56.193-07:00Funny you talking about Libertarians the other day...Funny you talking about Libertarians the other day.<br />Deuce over at The Libertarian just closed up his blog, 2164th.blogspot.com <br />Which gives me time to bug you over here :-)<br />Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73042765343404415452014-03-23T12:40:42.646-07:002014-03-23T12:40:42.646-07:00But few possess 20/∞ vision, and more than a few s...But few possess 20/∞ vision, and more than a few suffer from cardiomyopia. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23189904948495578242014-03-23T12:39:03.891-07:002014-03-23T12:39:03.891-07:00The chemist is correct. I'm sure people don&#...The chemist is correct. I'm sure people don't appreciate how much their thinking is naively conditioned by the "vision" of evolution (among others), much in the same way medieval people were pre-critically conditioned by their own vision of things. Man cannot live without a vision of the whole. Or, man is the being who envisions the whole, i.e., the Cosmos.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51847221567520945492014-03-23T12:32:16.720-07:002014-03-23T12:32:16.720-07:00Interesting article, though more than a bit over m...Interesting article, though more than a bit over my head.<br /><br />This was a recent find also, but I'm sorry if it was linked here earlier (I can't follow my own evolution of internet links -- I don't know how my selfish genes remember everything; without fail, no less). Anyway, interesting case, this Dr. Tour:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/a-world-famous-chemist-tells-the-truth-theres-no-scientist-alive-today-who-understands-macroevolution/" rel="nofollow">A world-famous chemist tells the truth: there’s no scientist alive today who understands macroevolution</a><br /><br />"… I will tell you as a scientist and a synthetic chemist: if anybody should be able to understand evolution, it is me, because I make molecules for a living, and I don’t just buy a kit, and mix this and mix this, and get that. I mean, ab initio, I make molecules. I understand how hard it is to make molecules. I understand that if I take Nature’s tool kit, it could be much easier, because all the tools are already there, and I just mix it in the proportions, and I do it under these conditions, but ab initio is very, very hard.<br />I don’t understand evolution, and I will confess that to you."<br /><br />I believe he also makes the argument that evolution must happen on <i>all</i> levels <i>simultaneously</i> (and not just the macro) for there to be any evolution at all.<br /><br />Berlinski lately points to another elephant in the room that no one even seems to have an explanation (if even an acknowledgement) for the "evolution" of the human person from single cell, to infant, to adult, to old age, to death. How do we account for this amazing, continuous transformation, right under our shnozes?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.com