Actually the Earth was used as a penal colony for the criminally insane much as Australia was used by Great Britain. Our ‘civilization’ is the descendant of that colony.
The blackboard explanation is a design, and is just as intelligent as any other cockamamie explanation I’ve ever heard……but I understand that some people are evolving on this issue…..
I can’t think of any Neanderthal jokes….anybody got one? How many Neanderthals does it take to replace a light bulb? Just one to say, “Wut is litebolb?”
As one who is religious and scientific, I must say that science gets rather conjectural around the edges, and those edges sound no more provable than religion’s tenements. Anything experiments regarding evolution that have been explained to me could also be taken as proof that life could have been created on purpose.
Bender, nobody cares who or what caused it! That can only be conjecture at this point in our evolution. We’re still working on the “How” and get all kinds of crap for doing it, too, I might add….Truth is the only goal. I will concede that modern physics is a bit speculative, however…….
isn’t that the whole premise of the ancient aliens series of the history channel. and, it is much better than those idiots who think that the flintstones is a documentary.
They keep saying that Intelligent Design isn’t thinly disguised Creationism, but if you don’t postulate a being functionally equivalent to God, then SOMEBODY Evolved naturally, which ID says can’t happen.
Arthur Clarke short story from many years ago…. aliens are scouting Earth, but quickly cross it off the list as having no future possibilities. Back at home the boss alien asks why? The scouts report, because they test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere….Yes, folks, we really did.
Aliens, eh? Well… where did THEY come from? Originally?The bottom line is that you WILL have faith. You will have faith in whatever answer you choose to believe. But since NEITHER side will ever be proven 100%, you will have to take that jump of faith on your own. Choose wisely.
Personally, I find it mind blowing that scientific data supports the theory that there has to be another planet out there that is like earth, that has intelligent life, and they’re probably wondering what other life is out in the universe too – if they don’t know already. (However, I don’t believe in alien abductions)
Yes, Wiley should have drawn the ape and the alien monolith as an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. But for those who have not seen this great movie, maybe the flying saucer and brain-ray is better.
If our scientists are so smart, how come they are still not able to bring life to a non-living thing, create real artificial intelligence, find the missing link, or explain why evolution has ceased to occur? And you scoff at God?
Brian Ransom – artificial bacteria have been created, evolution is very definitely still happening and being observed, and many of the “missing links” have been found and more are being found all the time (there is no single key missing link). Computer science is a long way from artificial intelligence still but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. As far as an earlier comment about why it is important – for example, a lot of our medical technology is based on evolution. Not to mention agricultural science. Really all of modern biology is dependent on evolution.
That’s where I got it from. Moved from Colorado to Arizona in the 70’s to escape the Californians. Unfortunately, they followed.Had the “other” bumper sticker on my truck.LOL
Perhaps that having used the brains He gave us to the best of our meager ability, and accepted whatever conclusions they led us to no matter how emotionally unsatisfying, we should be admitted to His presence for eternity. Which leaves open to question what He will say to those who repudiated His gift and instead slavishly followed those who claimed to be able to satisfy their cravings for facile certitudes.
’Pascal’s bet’ is an intellectual crock. As perhaps the greatest mathematician of probability who ever lived, he was the last person you would expect to do such a sloppy job of partitioning a probability space. But of course his Jansenism made him incapable of conceiving of a God who didn’t regard unthinking belief in Himself as the only virtue.
Wuz and sammysock, I was thinking more along the lines of HIM saying, “Ha! You guys crack me up. Let’s go have a beer. Vinny, watch the gate, k?….BTW, guys, remember, this is heaven. Anything you want…… Oh, look, here’s our waitresses now….Great ladies all…Hey, remember that time you were talking to Flanders and you said….”
Boring story to follow, but I hope it makes a point: My parents taught me a lot about the Bible, enough to make me eager to ask questions. Then public school taught me evolution theory (not much detail, just assertions), which made me eager to ask questions. So I studied detailed evolution as thoroughly as I studied the Bible. Ended up convinced evolution cannot be true, but that’s not the point. The point is this: teach anything you want in school; parents can teach anything they want at home; trust the student to be smart enough to ask questions, learn, and form their own conclusions.
yeah, and history departments. oh, and social science halls.literature, pretty much all the arts.i guess mostly anything professional, using classical languagewhich those of us who aren’t culture war casualties like yourselfare aware are fields</> employing the sophistication of biblical languageyou know, the greek of medicine, latin of the law…
Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
Another conspiracy theory. But where’s the grassy knoll?
Basqueian over 12 years ago
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
revisages over 12 years ago
until you get abducted
revisages over 12 years ago
biology is the alternate explanation
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Well, it does explain Exodus.
cajuncrusher over 12 years ago
Ah, The Celestials theory.
WillardMBaker over 12 years ago
Actually the Earth was used as a penal colony for the criminally insane much as Australia was used by Great Britain. Our ‘civilization’ is the descendant of that colony.
Varnes over 12 years ago
But Jesus still went around burying dinosaur bones, right? And I forget, was Jesus a Neanderthal man, or a Homo sapiens?
Varnes over 12 years ago
The blackboard explanation is a design, and is just as intelligent as any other cockamamie explanation I’ve ever heard……but I understand that some people are evolving on this issue…..
Varnes over 12 years ago
I can’t think of any Neanderthal jokes….anybody got one? How many Neanderthals does it take to replace a light bulb? Just one to say, “Wut is litebolb?”
Randy B Premium Member over 12 years ago
Teach the (imaginary) controversy!
Bender_Sastre over 12 years ago
As one who is religious and scientific, I must say that science gets rather conjectural around the edges, and those edges sound no more provable than religion’s tenements. Anything experiments regarding evolution that have been explained to me could also be taken as proof that life could have been created on purpose.
Bender_Sastre over 12 years ago
Your mileage may vary.
Pharmakeus Ubik over 12 years ago
Saying the design is intelligent doesn’t make it a good design.
Varnes over 12 years ago
JohnnyDiego, so did the covers of YES albums….
Varnes over 12 years ago
Bender, nobody cares who or what caused it! That can only be conjecture at this point in our evolution. We’re still working on the “How” and get all kinds of crap for doing it, too, I might add….Truth is the only goal. I will concede that modern physics is a bit speculative, however…….
Varnes over 12 years ago
The history of our biological development is pretty much nailed down…
vwdualnomand over 12 years ago
isn’t that the whole premise of the ancient aliens series of the history channel. and, it is much better than those idiots who think that the flintstones is a documentary.
tripwire45 over 12 years ago
Isn’t this what all scientists believe? ;-)
Linguist over 12 years ago
" Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life left on this planet. "
edward thomas Premium Member over 12 years ago
if you want tio claim intelligent design, you have to first define intelligence! this falls under the category “be careful what you wish for!”
Nebulous Premium Member over 12 years ago
They keep saying that Intelligent Design isn’t thinly disguised Creationism, but if you don’t postulate a being functionally equivalent to God, then SOMEBODY Evolved naturally, which ID says can’t happen.
Linguist over 12 years ago
Good point. Perhaps, I was a bit hasty.Back to the Mother Ship!
zoidknight over 12 years ago
It was declared politically incorrect.
KEA over 12 years ago
uh, i don’t see the Flying Spaghetti Monster in there anywhere
PShaw0423 over 12 years ago
Some people evolve, and the comments here devolve….
Packratjohn Premium Member over 12 years ago
Arthur Clarke short story from many years ago…. aliens are scouting Earth, but quickly cross it off the list as having no future possibilities. Back at home the boss alien asks why? The scouts report, because they test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere….Yes, folks, we really did.
jimcos over 12 years ago
Aliens, eh? Well… where did THEY come from? Originally?The bottom line is that you WILL have faith. You will have faith in whatever answer you choose to believe. But since NEITHER side will ever be proven 100%, you will have to take that jump of faith on your own. Choose wisely.
ossiningaling over 12 years ago
I have faith that some things can never be known.
Smoocher over 12 years ago
This guy is great !
BluePumpkin over 12 years ago
Personally, I find it mind blowing that scientific data supports the theory that there has to be another planet out there that is like earth, that has intelligent life, and they’re probably wondering what other life is out in the universe too – if they don’t know already. (However, I don’t believe in alien abductions)
Raygun over 12 years ago
Yes, Wiley should have drawn the ape and the alien monolith as an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. But for those who have not seen this great movie, maybe the flying saucer and brain-ray is better.
bransom over 12 years ago
If our scientists are so smart, how come they are still not able to bring life to a non-living thing, create real artificial intelligence, find the missing link, or explain why evolution has ceased to occur? And you scoff at God?
Mostly Water Premium Member over 12 years ago
Well I hope the School Board is satisfied now.
LingeeWhiz over 12 years ago
But God created the alien if he exists.
Can't Sleep over 12 years ago
Genius, Wiley! Pure genius!
glendakan over 12 years ago
God and the Bible belong in church, not in schools. And who says evolution has stopped? Nothing evolved overnight. Look back in a few hundred years.
yimhere over 12 years ago
At least 3 dozen state legislatures would likely vote in favor of teaching this in the classroom……
iantheevil over 12 years ago
Brian Ransom – artificial bacteria have been created, evolution is very definitely still happening and being observed, and many of the “missing links” have been found and more are being found all the time (there is no single key missing link). Computer science is a long way from artificial intelligence still but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. As far as an earlier comment about why it is important – for example, a lot of our medical technology is based on evolution. Not to mention agricultural science. Really all of modern biology is dependent on evolution.
tigre1 over 12 years ago
evolving slowly…
Ernest Lemmingway over 12 years ago
Well, he did insist on alternative theories. Maybe he should have been more specific about which one.
Is that Lars from Mars’ people?
Linguist over 12 years ago
That’s where I got it from. Moved from Colorado to Arizona in the 70’s to escape the Californians. Unfortunately, they followed.Had the “other” bumper sticker on my truck.LOL
The Life I Draw Upon over 12 years ago
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
richardj over 12 years ago
I would naturally select the alien space ray explanation.
prrdh over 12 years ago
Perhaps that having used the brains He gave us to the best of our meager ability, and accepted whatever conclusions they led us to no matter how emotionally unsatisfying, we should be admitted to His presence for eternity. Which leaves open to question what He will say to those who repudiated His gift and instead slavishly followed those who claimed to be able to satisfy their cravings for facile certitudes.
’Pascal’s bet’ is an intellectual crock. As perhaps the greatest mathematician of probability who ever lived, he was the last person you would expect to do such a sloppy job of partitioning a probability space. But of course his Jansenism made him incapable of conceiving of a God who didn’t regard unthinking belief in Himself as the only virtue.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Two Neanderthal walked into a bar: because evolution hadn’t raised it yet.
wes tnt over 12 years ago
hey-seus was definitely a homo sapien since it was only 2k years ago. what alternate explanation are they referring to?
Kali39 over 12 years ago
But this doesn’t explain why there are so many morons in the world. The real answer is that God needs something to do when the cable goes out. :-)
Spyderred over 12 years ago
These alternative theories are the fantasies of people so lazy they would rather just “believe” something rather than learn or worse, know reality.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Wuz and sammysock, I was thinking more along the lines of HIM saying, “Ha! You guys crack me up. Let’s go have a beer. Vinny, watch the gate, k?….BTW, guys, remember, this is heaven. Anything you want…… Oh, look, here’s our waitresses now….Great ladies all…Hey, remember that time you were talking to Flanders and you said….”
acesover over 12 years ago
There are 3 choices:
1. All civilizations have gone extinct before becoming advanced enough to simulate our ancestors.
2. All civilizations advanced enough to simulate our ancestors had absolutely no interest in doing so and therefore did not.
3. At least some civilizations advanced enough to simulate our ancestors did so and thus we are almost certainly simulations.
http://philosophybites.com/2011/08/nick-bostrom-on-the-simulation-argument.html
Alms4Thorby over 12 years ago
If intelligent design was involved this makes more sense than Genesis.
Vonne Anton over 12 years ago
Boring story to follow, but I hope it makes a point: My parents taught me a lot about the Bible, enough to make me eager to ask questions. Then public school taught me evolution theory (not much detail, just assertions), which made me eager to ask questions. So I studied detailed evolution as thoroughly as I studied the Bible. Ended up convinced evolution cannot be true, but that’s not the point. The point is this: teach anything you want in school; parents can teach anything they want at home; trust the student to be smart enough to ask questions, learn, and form their own conclusions.
Intophaloblue over 12 years ago
Have to say, it’s as good a theory as any other. Although i do believe that Mr WillardMBaker is onto something.
Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML over 12 years ago
re:“…..My theory is that aliens came here for some R+R ,brewed some hooch and then got all the locals chicks(chimps) drunk !hahaha
It explaines the ""MISSING "" link !"+++++++++++++++oh that explains mah fosil eyes’d dormant jeans found under mah tiki bar…. hell of’a partee…
Bill Chapman over 12 years ago
It’s Blasphemy! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the greatest and the ever TASTY!
lin4869 over 12 years ago
Good point…
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 12 years ago
How ironic – at the end, we attack our creators with a missile.
revisages over 12 years ago
yeah, and history departments. oh, and social science halls.literature, pretty much all the arts.i guess mostly anything professional, using classical languagewhich those of us who aren’t culture war casualties like yourselfare aware are fields</> employing the sophistication of biblical languageyou know, the greek of medicine, latin of the law…
sacqueboutier over 12 years ago
Where’s the guy with the funny hair?
sacqueboutier over 12 years ago
Oh…and the lisp.