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Message 23 of 169 (604641)
02-13-2011 6:10 PM
Reply to: Message 21 by crashfrog
02-13-2011 5:59 PM


Re: Maybe read some of what Kurzweil writes?
We're still struggling with birth control, for god's sake, decades after its invention.
Birth control has been around for thousands of years, so that's not even an example of new technology that we're having trouble coping with. In addition, there are tens of thousands of new inventions that we've assimilated quite nicely. Any actual evidence of your premise?

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist

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