What silly thing did you once believe in?
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Thespeckledkiwi
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Not so much the fact that the theory of evolution is different then what most kids grow up as...it's just...it's preached as it is a fact and not a theory.
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Because it is a fact. A scientific theory is as close as you can get to established fact. The scientific usage of the word "theory" is not the same as the general lay usage of the word. In scientific terms, "Theory" means "regarded fact". It means there is enough data to support the Theory, and the Theory of Evolution has boatloads of data supporting it.
Thespeckledkiwi
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But it is still not a fact. It is similar to the theory in the extinction of dinosaurs. There is boatloads of data supporting one particular theory but there is also disconcerting facts.
There is also difference of opinion on evolution. It's been a while since I took my evolution class, it was an interesting class to say the least.
But it wasn't the evolution I remember. Nor was Charles Darwin really the founder of evolution but just another chain.
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There's no such thing as "The Theory Of Evolution." When people use that phrase, they're referring specifically (whether they know it or not) to Darwin's Theory Of Evolution By Natural Selection, which was indeed a theory a hundred or so years ago. It has since been supported by overwhelming evidence from the fossil record, molecular biology, direct observation, et cetera, and is now accepted as one of the mechanisms of Evolution.
Evolution itself has been known (and exploited, thank goodness) by Humans for millennia.
Evolution itself has been known (and exploited, thank goodness) by Humans for millennia.
Nardpuncher
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The people that are acting like they are just too discerning and that evolution doesn't have enough evidence behind it are not that skeptical about anything else like that.
I mean obviously not if they're against it on religious grounds.
It is a fact, but to clarify, consider this.
Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution is simply the model of how it happened, and that can change as new discoveries are made, and new fossils are uncovered. So evolution is fact, but we call it a theory because the exact model as to how it happened can be tweaked.
Once I would not go to bed because I thought the bogeyman was in my room so I sent my dad upstairs to kill him
Once I would not go to bed because I thought the bogeyman was in my room so I sent my dad upstairs to kill him
Let's hear it for a psychopathic childhood!
"Father, certain difficulties- one might go as far as to say conflicts of interest- have arisen between myself and the bogeyman. I find this unacceptable. If you would kindly pay Mr. Bogeyman a visit and rectify this error, I would be most obliged. Do not forget your hammer."
At the time it never occurred to me to be worried that my dad went round killing uninvited house guests.Once I would not go to bed because I thought the bogeyman was in my room so I sent my dad upstairs to kill him
Let's hear it for a psychopathic childhood!
"Father, certain difficulties- one might go as far as to say conflicts of interest- have arisen between myself and the bogeyman. I find this unacceptable. If you would kindly pay Mr. Bogeyman a visit and rectify this error, I would be most obliged. Do not forget your hammer."
I know this is OT but I thought number 5 was a space station and the green number 2 ship used to carry everything
I know this is OT but I thought number 5 was a space station and the green number 2 ship used to carry everything
you are correct.
1 - blue swing wing rocket plane
2 - green fsw transport
3 - orange rocket ship
4 - yellow sub (srsly)
5 - grey and gold satellite
Except that you're supposed to count them down backwards, and then say, "Thunderbirds are GO!"
"FSW"??
Oh . . . forward swept wings! Took me a while to figure that one out. When I was seven, I built my first "Visible Man" anatomy model. The way the kit was engineered, it seemed as if the bladder was connected to the rectum. I figured there must be a direct passage between the two, with a gate or traffic signal to tell solid wastes to go one way, and liquid wastes the other.
Now, of course, I understand that excretion and elimination are two ENTIRELY different things.
My dad used to tell me that, if you had blackheads in your ears, that meant that potatoes were growing there. Actually, I'm not sure I ever believed him but it was hard to disbelieve him either.
Similarly, I was an agnostic when it came to Santa Claus. My parents never told me that Santa Claus was real but he was so pervasive in our culture that I suspected that Santa Claus was a lot like space aliens. He may or may not exist. We don't think so but we haven't found much proof either way. On Christmas Eve, when the local news broadcasts did "Santa Watch," I got very confused.
My best friend Kyle told me lots of things that were obviously false that I was more than willing to believe.
- His house (whose floorplan was nearly identical to ours) had a basement.
- That he had a baby sister that they kept in the basement.
- That he used to live in Japan and that we visited him there sometimes. (I knew that was false because my parents were such cheapskates that they never would have taken us to Japan.)
- That they made a Back to the Future, Part IV where they travelled back in time to see dinosaurs, but you could only find it at one video store in California. (When I was a kid, California seemed like some sort of magical other-realm.)
In 2nd grade, I used to tell people that I was from another planet... called "Galapagos"... because Galapagos has turtles... and I was a big Ninja Turtles fan...
Let's see...
That Little House on the Prairie was taped at the time it took place. Didn't put a lot of thought into that one, I guess. It wasn't until I saw Melissa Gilbert as a guest on some show that I really figured it out.
Making sure every single part of my body was under the covers would completely protect me from monsters, ghosts or whatever unnamed evil thing was wandering around my house late at night.
My big brother told me Swiss Chard was a type of currency, I believed that one for a long time.
That Little House on the Prairie was taped at the time it took place. Didn't put a lot of thought into that one, I guess. It wasn't until I saw Melissa Gilbert as a guest on some show that I really figured it out.
Making sure every single part of my body was under the covers would completely protect me from monsters, ghosts or whatever unnamed evil thing was wandering around my house late at night.
My big brother told me Swiss Chard was a type of currency, I believed that one for a long time.
I once thought that the credit "Produced By Rick Berman" was a good thing.
Actually, there are various mechanisms that influence Evolution; the only real issue is which one is ascendant in a specific circumstance.
When I was around that age, or maybe a little older, I used to say that I was from the planet Vishnu. I got that from a little hardcover Star Trek book called Mission To Horatio. It was probably the first Star Trek novel published, and bore little resemblance to the real thing (and neither did the comic book being published at the time).In 2nd grade, I used to tell people that I was from another planet... called "Galapagos"... because Galapagos has turtles... and I was a big Ninja Turtles fan...
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