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#280623
agentCDE
I admire your ability to rant without actually saying anything.
8/26/2007 12:44:56 AM
#280626
anti-nonsense
While fundamentalism is the ultimate intellectual suicide, I can understand why some people are tempted to believe that there is a God.
(Fixed!)
8/26/2007 12:57:33 AM
#280627
BoxerShorts
Remember that line in Fight Club, when Brad Pitt asks Ed Norton who he'd fight if he could fightone?
Ray Comfort, man. Fuckin' Ray Comfort.
8/26/2007 12:58:30 AM
#280628
Prager
I'm sure Ray would have admired how I kept a straight-face as he talked about how the banana was designed.
BTW: The ultimate intellectual suicide is describing oneself as a creation scientist. (This also just happens to be the perfect example of an oxymoron.)
8/26/2007 12:59:42 AM
#280629
BoxerShorts
Er, that should be "if he could fight anyone," not "if he could fightone."
Keyboard, man. Fuckin' keyboard.
8/26/2007 1:00:04 AM
#280630
BoxerShorts
"(This also just happens to be the perfect example of an oxymoron.) "
Ray Comfort is definitely some kind of moron.
8/26/2007 1:01:36 AM
#280631
Old Viking
For his next trick Mr. Comfort will attempt to articulate a coherent thought.
8/26/2007 1:01:43 AM
#280637
Osiris
Silly atheists, our heads won't get that big because everyone knows Gods going to kill everyone except for us somewhere in the near future, but we're not exactly sure when.
8/26/2007 1:31:24 AM
#280638
Tempus
Fascinating. Reading this quote was like watching a mentally retarded man trying to fight his reflection in a mirror, only with even more of an aura of "fail."
8/26/2007 1:33:54 AM
#280641
Aethernaut
I love it when Ray just makes stuff up. What a douche.
8/26/2007 1:41:07 AM
#280643
Gadren
The fact that people like Ray reproduce shows that larger brains will never be naturally selected.
8/26/2007 2:24:22 AM
#280644
agentCDE
Nonsense, Gadren. We'll definitely see expanding bullshit cortexes in the evolution of man.
8/26/2007 2:39:45 AM
#280647
Freboy
Well, that wasn't a very sharp analysis on part of the CNN. There isn't that strong a correlation between brain size and intelligence.
Two examples of species with larger brains than modern humans: Dolphins and Neanderthals.
There are all sorts of theories as to how we became this smart. None of them seem to give a satisfactory explanation to utter morons like Ray Comfort here.
8/26/2007 3:51:22 AM
#280664
Klaus
Freboy: And with the dawn of civilisation, the direction of selective pressure, the mechanism of evolution, might have changed. That our ancestors developed a somewhat bigger brain does not mean it will continue in the future. Evolution is not a simple mechanincal system that, once accelerated, will slide the same direction forever.
So, it's stupid Ray and stupid CNN.
8/26/2007 7:40:36 AM
#280669
Eric
BoxerShorts, "
2007-Aug-26 12:58 A
Remember that line in Fight Club, when Brad Pitt asks Ed Norton who he'd fight if he could fightone?
Ray Comfort, man. Fuckin' Ray Comfort."
Why not go with Kent Hovind he influences so many other minds than Ray Comfort.
8/26/2007 8:09:04 AM
#280670
Beast
Bigger head evolves into... Bigger Pelvis!
oh, we weren't playing pokemon?
8/26/2007 8:12:07 AM
#280679
ArmandT
Part A of the paragraph doesn't even relate to part B!
8/26/2007 8:26:05 AM
#280684
Alena
I admired the newscaster's ability to remain straight-faced.
If this were true? So would I.
8/26/2007 8:35:12 AM
#280686
Of course, Ray, why elephants or Jiraffes are not Nobel Prizes, is something that goes beyond your understanding. And well, wasn't the earth 6000 years old, according to you?
8/26/2007 8:37:52 AM
#280687
Matilde
Ray is an expert in non-sequituri and other strawmen when debating. One of you is still recovering from his accusations of adultery when trying to argue about evolution and atheism.
8/26/2007 8:40:19 AM
#280689
Omni Noodle
If atheism is itellectual suicide, then christianity must be intellectual dishonesty, as you've chosen to only believe in one out of the thousands of other gods.
8/26/2007 8:50:37 AM
#280691
anevilmeme
I'm shocked a fundie admitting in public that he watched CNN. Won't the other fundies make fun of him for watching "left wing propaganda?"
8/26/2007 9:01:07 AM
#280699
JD
ah, such careful choosing of words in an attempt to twist matters...
We do not "believe there is no god". We simply *do not believe* there is one.
Just like you do not believe in santa, the tooth fairy, the trix rabbit, the greek or norse pantheons or any of those other mythical beings. We just happend to connect the dots one step further and notice all that stuff those priests and clerics and whatnot were trying to feed us was no different from all those other mythologies yours tooks most of its ideas from...
8/26/2007 9:26:08 AM
#280702
Budd
I thought it was more of the percentages of the brain power being used . that gave us our intelligence
Doesn't the average human being use like say 3% and the average gold fish use 40 percent.
Because in terms of percentage and human vs goldfish 3% of jet engine (the human brain )is still stronger than 40 % of wax candle( The gold fish brain)
I just kind of though that how it worked .Our brains size is about as big as need to be there is enough room for improvement with is current size.In other words we are not going to evolve into (gulp) purely intellectual being with huge giant heads and tiny beedy blind eyes on weak feeble bodies and useless arm and leg appendages , like in the song in the year 2525 .
8/26/2007 9:39:20 AM
#280703
John
The problems with the evolution of human brains outstripping pelvic openings has been known for years. Already, the human head barely fits through the pelvic opening, and sometimes the tailbone has to be broken to get the baby out. The Arab sheep herders who wrote the Bible noticed thousands of years ago that humans have a lot more trouble giving birth than most other animals. That's how they came up with that nonsense about God cursing Eve with difficult delivery.
Cesarean birth is a more recent invention. The evolutionary solution has been for babies to be born more and more prematurely. I recall someone estimating that based on our size compared to other animals, our gestation period should be around 12-13 months instead of nine. That's why our babies are almost totally helpless at birth, as compared to say a calf or a foal.
8/26/2007 9:41:24 AM
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