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But it's ok to buy used panties from a vending machine. Should we really care about what they consider good etiquette?

sorry, I don't think I'll ever let that vending machine thing go

God, I hate that. I get it all the time. But I'm usually polite enough to say "I'm sorry, but I don't have the time right now. Can you leave me your literature and I'll be happy to pass it along."

When I'm not polite, it goes along the lines of "I'm up against a hard deadline right now and can't give you an opportunity of time. Thank you." and I go on about my work.

Seriously...? Your attitude towards anything Japanese is starting to sound almost American, Ugly.



A lot of guys keep their wallets in their back pocket, don't they?

Where do you put yours, yankee-doodle? In your baseball cap?

In my shirt pocket, until I get to my office and can put it in a business card index. And if you give me a business card when I'm not working, I'm throwing it out anyway.

What did God have against coconuts?

Catholic doctrine is that life evolved "naturally" from the beginning under the will of God. Which is in fact represented in each survey ("Biological life developed over time from simple substances, but God guided this process"). Maybe you should have some idea what you're talking about before you embarrass yourself further.

I'm aware of the Catholic position on this Joph. My point is that when presented with a choice, it seems like they always leave out key bits, or make it appear as though a given choice denies some aspect of their faith. Even the line you just quoted is going to rub many religious people the wrong way. It says nothing about where biological life came from. It puts God in the position of just being a caretaker after the fact. Put that in a poll along with "creation happened just as it says in the bible", and most religious people will choose the later.


Why? Because they aren't sure what precisely the former position means with regard to their own beliefs. They don't want to be accounted as believing that God didn't create the universe. You always have to pay attention to how the people taking a poll are going to view the choices they are given. And you also have to be aware that what people think a poll question means when they answer it is not always how it's going to be interpreted later. I've already pointed out (and I'm loosing track of which thread which points were made in) that quite often the responder is focusing on a different aspect of the choices than you are when you interpret them.

A respondent to a poll with those two choices isn't thinking about whether or not he believes that evolution is true. He's thinking about which choice says that the universe was created by God. Since only one of them says that, he's going to choose that one. Coming in after the fact and thinking that it's a broad issue of evolution is a mistake.

Obviously not since you keep getting it wrong. But that's already been proven in the other thread and I don't need to have the same conversation twice.

Gbaji has made me doubt my faith in intelligent argument design. But not in fact creationism.

More ********* of nothing was said here.


Edited, Sep 27th 2010 7:31pm by ShadorVIII

It's pretty obvious you've never read Cosmos, because that quote is completely out of context.