Dungeon demographics: the God poll

Although the word "dinosaur" had not been invented yet, The Bible records "behemoth" [with tail like a tree trunk] and "leviathan" [fire-breathing and so big weapons of iron are like straw to him] these monsters cohabitated earth with man.

 

Same place as the matter and energy for the Big Bang. I don't know.

 

Yes you do...it all came from the solar system collapsing in on itself
at warp speed, then slowly moving apart again for millions of years,
then collapsing in upon itself again at warp speed...and so on...
the chicken and the egg happening at the same time!

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto.

 

A giant cosmic YoYo.

Have another toke Mon.

 

I'm sending Gort over to your place.

 

Gort's not here man.

 

Gort stopped by here yesterday, got his ass kicked and, was sent home.

 

I'm confused as to why the same people who are so willing to accept that people and billions of vastly different living organisms on this planet just *poof* came into being, but then demand that there be a detailed explanation for where God came from. I'll admit, I am woefully illequiped and cannot grasp, must less explain God.

 

you kicked gort's ass!

wow!

I thought he was a badass!:wow:

 

Gort's waiting for you to close.
What time do you close?

 

Never...open 24/7/365.25

 

What time do you go to bed?
Gort can stop back then.

 

Gort has a weakness. My dog hiked his leg and pissed on Gort. You guessed it. Gort corroded and seized up immediately.

 

put your little head around this: life on earth did not simply, as you say, *poof* come into being, but is a process that happened over millions, if not billions of years. very slowly... your cute little dog? a couple thousand years ago, it's ancestors were wolves, but were deliberately evolved into the myriad of creatures that they are now, by a process called genetic selection or selective breeding. Nature has a similar process, called, of course, natural selection. however rather than selecting for aesthetic criteria as humans do to suit their arbitrary whims, natural selection picks genetic variables based on what is able to fill and exploit various niches in a givn eco-system. this process generally takes many, many years to produce simple genetic variables like differences in color within species and subspecies. within tens of thousands of years entire species can be selected- tens of millennia can produce a new genus, over the course of 4.5 billion years, which is the age of the earth, all of this abundance that we now take for granted, has happened. 4.5 billion years- think about it... from our human perspective, with our pathetically short lives that amount to 0.0000016% of that span, that amount of time is as incomprehensible as the notion of god. 4.5 billion years; the age of the universe is thought to be 16 billion or more years old. that is a lot of time for anything to happen and certainly, given the conditions which appeared on our planet, it is more than enough time for evolution to take place.
Try reading Darwin's origin of species, he does a fine job of laying the ground work. actually read... try it sometime, it won't kill you.

 

They told me in Sunday School that if I read Darwin,
my eyes would get burnt out and my fingers hacked off.

 

well Charles, you've also been told your whole life that you're "special" haven't you?

 

No, I can't recall hearing that! I've been called many
things but that's not one of them...in fact, although
at times I may have felt that I was "special," almost
at once the inner voice would say, "Now, Charles,
what would make ya think that?" and then, as if
by some sort of magic, I'd feel quite regular and
non-special again, but this was only when I was
a small child...what has your experience been like
about this "special" thing? I suspect you have some
sort of story to tell.

Now then, perhaps you meant this in the context
of the remarks about evolution and religion. The
peculiar people at the Summit Presbyterian Church
never mentioned to any of the attendees in
the Sunday School that we were "special," nor
did I conclude this from anything we read or
told each other, since most of us were morons
or tried to act like such...

I did own a Smith& Wesson 'Chief's Special' once,
sorry I sold it, only 5 rounds but small and lightweight.

 

Your dog pissed on Gort!

I'm speechless!

 

I've also no experience with being called "special", however my grandmother always tells me how handsome I am...

 

Well where did the "special" question come from?

Did you mean like...did religious people tell us that
as humans we were "special" made by God or
something like that? Or did you mean that after
reading Darwin, I felt somehow, I was "special."

I like "special" things, though. would that be it?