Guess I'd Better Write Something
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rowynI finally caught up on the pro-evolution forum I've been lurking on for the past couple of months.
There are, goodness knows, plenty of other things I could be reading, both on the web and off. I've even got a couple of books kicking around the house that I haven't read yet.
But inertia has seized me its in teeth. Start something new? Oh ... uh ... I dunno.
Instead, I could write something. I already write frequently anyway. Hence, this entry. Now, if only I had much of anything to say.
The battery in Lut's car is kaput. Not just dead; it died Friday, we jump-started it yesterday and ran it for twenty minutes or so, and this afternoon it's dead again. So Lut's fixing himself something to eat now, then we'll take the battery charger down (he has this plug-in battery pack that you can charge at an outlet and use to jump-start your car; normally we keep it in the car, but we had it up here recharging after using it yetterday) and jump-start it again. Then we'll go get groceries and a new car battery. Annoying, but at least a new battery is cheaper than a new car.
I woke at 4 or 5AM from an interesting dream, tried to motivate myself to write it down, failed, went back to sleep. When I woke up again a few hours later, all I could rememeber was that I wanted to remember it. Whoops.
When we were driving around yesterday to try to get the car battery to charge, we prowled around a nice neighborhood not far from here. Pretty houses surrounded by smallish yards and little stone fences.
Lut's now told me that he forgot to plug the battery pack in when he brought it up yesterday. So it'll be another couple of hours before it's charged. I think I'll try taking a nap again. For some reason, I'm awfully tired today.
There are, goodness knows, plenty of other things I could be reading, both on the web and off. I've even got a couple of books kicking around the house that I haven't read yet.
But inertia has seized me its in teeth. Start something new? Oh ... uh ... I dunno.
Instead, I could write something. I already write frequently anyway. Hence, this entry. Now, if only I had much of anything to say.
The battery in Lut's car is kaput. Not just dead; it died Friday, we jump-started it yesterday and ran it for twenty minutes or so, and this afternoon it's dead again. So Lut's fixing himself something to eat now, then we'll take the battery charger down (he has this plug-in battery pack that you can charge at an outlet and use to jump-start your car; normally we keep it in the car, but we had it up here recharging after using it yetterday) and jump-start it again. Then we'll go get groceries and a new car battery. Annoying, but at least a new battery is cheaper than a new car.
I woke at 4 or 5AM from an interesting dream, tried to motivate myself to write it down, failed, went back to sleep. When I woke up again a few hours later, all I could rememeber was that I wanted to remember it. Whoops.
When we were driving around yesterday to try to get the car battery to charge, we prowled around a nice neighborhood not far from here. Pretty houses surrounded by smallish yards and little stone fences.
Lut's now told me that he forgot to plug the battery pack in when he brought it up yesterday. So it'll be another couple of hours before it's charged. I think I'll try taking a nap again. For some reason, I'm awfully tired today.
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Pro-Evolution?
Date: 2003-08-18 05:33 am (UTC)Re: Pro-Evolution?
Date: 2003-08-18 07:07 am (UTC)In practice, if a scientific alternative to evolution exists, it hasn't been presented on this forum yet. Mostly it's the forum regulars talking amongst themselves about evolutionary theory. Occasionally an anti-evolution person wanders in (I hesitate to call them creationists or ID propenents, because they're never in favor of an alternative -- they're just saying "Evolution is wrong!") and says "but what about X? How do you explain that, huh?"
Whereupon a half-dozen forum regulars respond with a slightly more adult version of "Bwahahaha! You m0r0n! U suXX0r!" And two or three respond with intelligent, well-researched and logical explanations for whatever the anti-evolutionist was describing as problematic.
At which point the anti-evolutionist does one or more of the following:
1) Hurl insults back at the people who were insulting him.
2) Ignore the well-reasoned replies to his first objection and bring up some other perceived flaw in evolutionary theory (which will also be refuted in same manner).
3) Leave.
It always comes down to (3) eventually. Still, it's occasionally entertaining and informative. But they haven't had anyone who rejects evolution posting for at least a couple of weeks, so there's not much "debunking" going on.
Re: Pro-Evolution?
Date: 2003-08-18 10:09 am (UTC)Informative, thanks.