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eeyonkee

Trad climber

Golden, CO

Oct 30, 2006 - 11:04pm PT

jeez, I wish I'd a said that, Rick.

...And really, my apologies to anyone I may have offended in my too-passionate-maybe rantings. There's really not all that many things I'm passionate about. This just happens to be one of them.

TradIsGood

Fun-loving climber

the Gunks end of the country

Oct 30, 2006 - 11:29pm PT

Darwin and pubic schools - classic.

Hey, Blight. I think we have a reel mutation, wright befour our I's.

Aya

Uncategorizable climber

New York

Oct 31, 2006 - 02:57pm PT

...except we haven't really been ignoring the giant squid. They're just too darn hard to actually see!

The Discovery channel specials on the squid hunters always make me feel a little sad... and glad that I got out of academia and research!

graniteclimber

Trad climber

Nowhere

Oct 31, 2006 - 07:49pm PT

Here is a fun web site, the Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1

Start at the root and work outwards. Note how the large majority of classifications are extinct, as designated by the cross symbol. :-)

Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Oct 31, 2006 - 08:24pm PT

Rock needs to hit the books but I liked

"The Peacock postulate suggests that, if a sufficient number of women decide that what they really want from a man is blue tailfeathers, within days you will find a guy close by, getting ready to shove a Peacock up his butt."

-I think that's what Bosch was trying to show us, the flowers were just a metaphor.

"I think we have a reel mutation, wright befour our I's." Har, har, maybe we are devo, if alleged teachers speak like this?

eeyonkee

Trad climber

Golden, CO

Oct 31, 2006 - 08:51pm PT

You know, I just started reading this book again...Really, if you have interest in understanding what the theory of evolution is all about, read The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins.

TradIsGood

Fun-loving climber

the Gunks end of the country

Oct 31, 2006 - 09:06pm PT

Perhaps, ala Euclid, or Occam, we could distill all of this down to its simplest statement. State the theory, in as simple a form as possible, but no simpler.

It should only take another 137 posts or so to agree on the statement of the theory before resuming a rational discussion of its merits. :-)

OK. I am going to claim that this prediction was true - but will allow for disagreement. I really expected no agreement before post 274, but could see that one might take it to mean that agreement on a statement of the theory would be reached.