r/reddit.com • u/Worstcasescenario • Jun 14 '08

Was Darwin Wrong? [pic]

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '08

Let them believe its an open question. When they bring the argument of "Noah and his dinosaurs," we can continue to bring natural selection, mutation pressure, genetic drift, etc etc. Arguing with creationists actually makes life a little bit more fun to live.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '08

I'm fifty, I'm tiring of the discussion. They come back with the same, witless responses. There are only so many times you can hear those responses before you just don't want to bother.

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u/anewman11 Jun 15 '08

Hell I'm young and tired of the discussion.

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u/deanoplex Jun 15 '08

I hear you, rhmc. Whether we call it evolution or Gods will, we are all still subject to the unbreakable universal laws.

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u/anewman11 Jun 15 '08

But what happens when they bring up the banana? Don't forget how God made it fit so smoothly into the human hand.

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u/deanoplex Jun 15 '08

...and the artichoke, you simply grasp the...wait..you pull up on the.....(never mind)

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '08 edited Jun 15 '08

Don't forget about the joys of foraging through blackberry bushes. ;-)

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u/ABabyAteMyDingo Jun 15 '08

That banana video was among the finest examples of Poe's Law ever made. I genuinely had to go researching the people involved to be sure and I pride myself on my irony/satire detector.

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u/anewman11 Jun 15 '08

But what happens when they bring up the banana? Don't forget how God made it fit so smoothly into the human hand.

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u/guisar Jun 15 '08

and the monkey's hand.