CCdrums wrote:
I happen to believe in creation, just look at the world around you or watch a baby being born and it's pretty obvious to me.
Huh?
...are you referring to the Watchmaker's Argument?
But if you want to believe that your great, great, great , great grandfather was Rex the chimp, more power to you.
I'm not a physical anthropologist, but I believe the accepted theory is that chimps and humans diverged from a common hominid ancestor; I believe it was sometime after
Australopithecus. I can't remember; all of the hominid species and genuses start to run together after a while. I'm not saying that I fully support evolution - it goes back to that black and white thing I ranted about in my previous post - but it does hold more water than the "evolution doesn't exist just because I say it doesn't" camp. Also, if evolution does in fact exist as a scientific phenomenon, it doesn't disconfirm the existence of God, which is something that peope on both sides of the issue try to play things off as. Actually, that's another pet peeve of mine while we're on it: People who don't at least try and put quantifiable things to the empirical test. It use to be "common sense" that you had a greater chance of being helped in a situation if there were more people present. Social psychology put that "common sense" to the test and found evidence to support quite the opposite; you're more likely to be helped if there are fewer people around. But I digress. I'm off on a tangent as always.
Last night, I thought of another group of people who irritate me...
- People who place blame towards people who don't deserve it. I'm mainly referring to assholes who get a defective product in the mail, then call the help desk and yell at that person like it's his or her fault that they recieved a defective product. Then those assholes usually get off the phone thinking, "Yeah, I really told them!" The same goes for people who get undercooked food at the restaurant, for example, and then yell at the waitstaff. Actually, I hate the whole The Customer is Always Right maxim; sometimes the customer is a complete idiot who needs to shut the fuck up. I learned that working in IT. There's a certain store in Altoona in which the owner has no problem with allowing his employees to kick out customers who cop attitudes or get belligerent. I tip my proverbial hat to that store owner! I wish more managers would let their employees do that. A person's respect isn't worth a few dollars. Sometimes people are assholes to the person behind the counter just because they have that little once of power that allows them to be assholes.
Sorry, got off another tangent again.
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
People that say Roaring Springs.......There's only ONE FREAKIN ROARING Spring.
