One week to live

[bugfartboy]

Wow. My MOAS is a bit bigger than that. No way am I gonna ruin my life so soon.

[ArtDrake]

Holy, she clearly stated she's not interested in a relationship right now.

Anyway, I was trying to use an example of my life to prove my point. And buggy, I still don't see the ruin your life part. Holy, I wasn't asking for names. If she were to see that, that would be a serious problem, so delete that post, please.

[bugfartboy]

That's because I refuse to divulge any more details. That's why it's called a Mother Of All Secrets. Everyone has one whether you realize it or not.

[The Holy namelesskitty]

true, however it often changes during your life.

[bugfartboy]

Yet right mow my MOAS is safe. No one but I and God know it. And I don't like it.

[The Holy namelesskitty]

yeah, mine too, if a higher power does exist and is conscious (which it may well be)

[ArtDrake]

As an aetheist, I don't rule it out. I just don't support theology as a viable scientific theory, as there's nothing scientific about it, like intelligent design. It might be the truth; it's just not science, and my own personal belief is that it's not probable.

[bugfartboy]

I hate doing this again. Explain human reproduction. How could both male and female have developed through mutation sonthat they would work to create new life? Sorry bout this namelesskitty.

[ArtDrake]

Well, first cells were only dependent on themselves. Then, they changed just a little bit in a freak accident (evolution is full of these; a lot of freak accidents happen in 2.5 billion years), and were together in groupings, as they functioned better as a larger organism. Then, the creature slowly developed into a production-line type process, each part of the organism doing one thing, and one doing another, so training wasn't as extensive, and the CEO of the organism could pay them lower wages (just kidding about the CEO). Then, two parts of the organism's interaction became necessary for reproduction, so specialized were the parts of the cells. We're still a couple billion years back. Then, the cells finally figured out through a helluva lot of trial and error that they could use part A of creature 1 and use it with part B of creature 2, and they would still produce offspring. These were the first hermaphrodites. We're about 500 mil yrs back now. The hermaphrodites then developed courship rituals as part of a selective process to help only the most fit creatures survive. Soon, the unnecessary parts were pointless; like our appendix. Sometime in there, the creatures lost the ability to reproduce with themselves, so why bother having two sets of parts? Our appendix will go away eventually. Now we have males and females. Answer your questions? If not, read some more about it on Wikipedia. But no, I got this all off the top of my head.

If I had one week to live, it would be spent educating people about things like this.

[bugfartboy]

If I had one week to live, I would spend it as a radical evangelist protecting people from fiction similar to above. Wikipedia is user edited meaning someone could change it to say some long ridiculous story.

[ArtDrake]

What came above was not fiction, and has nothing to do with Wikipedia. However, it is the latest theory in science, and if you choose not to accept it; so be it. But wouldn't you like to feel like you're a part of something larger than just being a human?

[bugfartboy]

Oh yay!!! I've evolved from a tapeworm!!! Doesn't that make you feel special and worth something? ::)

[ArtDrake]

No. You didn't evolve from a tapeworm, a monkey, an ape, or the common cold. You simply have a common ancestor with all but the common cold.

And yes, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to be related by blood to my pet cat.

[bugfartboy]

But how do you know that?

[ArtDrake]

Again. I support the theory that says it is true. Eveidence has been found of Homo sapiens sapiens (us), our evolutionary cousins (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis), our predecessors (Homo erectus "Upright man", and I forget the other one), and their predecessors (australopithecus afarensis and africanus), and finally, fossil record of ancestors before either man or apes (protozoum mycenae, I think; it's a bacterium). Why else would species that looked progressively more like us be in order chronologically? Saying God put it there to test our faith is a cop-out, and can be used against any argument that proves that humans evolved from a COMMON ANCESTOR to apes.