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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:... Dally, pretty much every hypothesis there's ever been, with the possible exception of David Icke and Todd Akin, is more rational than your effort, which aurally compares well to the sound of kennels, and is to rationality what Toulouse Lautrec was to pole-vaulting.
Wonderful phraseology, mein Erdeschwein!
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Joined: May 10 2002 Posts: 47951 Location: Die Metropole
Live Wired wrote:<snip>
Agree with most of this, completely – except simply that I still wouldn't, in this amazingly rare circumstance, blame DC for what he said, given that he was ambushed.
LeighGionaire wrote:To be fair to Icke again, although I too scoff at his worldview that we are all being controlled by alien lizardmen, is it any more outlandish then a belief in God and the Devil? Yet the most prominent positions in our global society are occupied by people who still believe 5000 year old fairytales.
An interesting point. Although if we remember the anthropological explanations for why a belief in a god/s originated, then it would be rather less convincing if someone invented the same, while living in a society that is advanced in terms of science etc.
"You are working for Satan." Kirkstaller
"Dare to know!" Immanuel Kant
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" Elbert Hubbard
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde
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Dally wrote:Really? So the great theoretical physicists were a waste of space?
What are you on about? The great theoretical physicists conducted experiments and produced research to be reviewed by their peers. They didn't stick a finger in the air, proclaim the first idea that pops into their head as true, then challenge everyone to produce evidence to disprove it.
Him wrote:What are you on about? The great theoretical physicists conducted experiments and produced research to be reviewed by their peers. They didn't stick a finger in the air, proclaim the first idea that pops into their head as true, then challenge everyone to produce evidence to disprove it.
But some of their predictions of what might happen towards the speed of light have only relatively recently been 'proved.'
Mintball wrote:There is no evidence that you are 'made' gay – or straight, for that matter – by some event or other. Any more than there is any evidence that you 'choose' your sexuality.
That is the reality in terms of the scientific thinking on the issue of what 'causes' sexuality these days.
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The scientific thinking is that homosexuality is an evolved response to over-population. Rats put in over-crowded conditions display homosexuality in the same way that humans do. Give people natural living space, natural population densities and you get virtually no homosexual behaviour.
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Dally wrote:The scientific thinking is that homosexuality is an evolved response to over-population. Rats put in over-crowded conditions display homosexuality in the same way that humans do. Give people natural living space, natural population densities and you get virtually no homosexual behaviour.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I'm interested to see these papers.
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Dally wrote:The scientific thinking is that homosexuality is an evolved response to over-population. Rats put in over-crowded conditions display homosexuality in the same way that humans do. Give people natural living space, natural population densities and you get virtually no homosexual behaviour.
Explain Brokeback Mountain...
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WIZEB wrote:They'll have gone missing, like that book did a while back.
Off site innit.
Do the rats also display a love of musicals and a penchant for arranging cushions?
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