The recent discussion on evolution and Mickey Mouse watches reminded me of the opening words of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy :
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "R.C.Macaulay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Creationism (was Re:OT: periodic table) > Howdy Vorts, > > The bartender at the Dime Box Saloon stops serving tequila to patrons that > get into arguments on either religion or politics. > It is a waste of time and eventually results in somebody breaking the > mirror behind the bar which starts a brawl. A smart patron knows when > thing > start getting out of hand because evolutionists start digressing into > voodoo > science and creationists start thinking they can argue with drunks. > Richard > > > > Harry wrote, >>I see Sheldrake was talking about telepathy. >>A few years I had an idea for a telepathy experiment for telepathically >>challenged people like myself. >
