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	<title>Comments on: Giddyap, little velociraptor!</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Jesusrassic Park &#171; lovemesomejesuscrap</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-418291</link>
		<dc:creator>Jesusrassic Park &#171; lovemesomejesuscrap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/ As the site linked to says, &#8220;You really thought it was from an actual coloring book for a second, didn’t you? Admit it!&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/</a> As the site linked to says, &#8220;You really thought it was from an actual coloring book for a second, didn’t you? Admit it!&#8221; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Amy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-155099</link>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>apparently theyve discovered that raptors actually had feathers. go figure!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>apparently theyve discovered that raptors actually had feathers. go figure!</p>
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		<title>By: SlashGordon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-41207</link>
		<dc:creator>SlashGordon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All you can do is mock YECs, since you can&#039;t beat them with facts.

If it wasn&#039;t so close to the truth, this would be considered a mockery of evolution... The Theory of Evolution is like the fairy tale called The Princess and the Frog Prince. The only difference between the two is, that in The Princess and the Frog Prince, the frog is turned into a man with a kiss. In the Theory of Evolution, the frog is turned into a man by using millions of years.

Now, instead of mockery, can the evolutionists ever show us one piece of solid evidence that backs up evolution? How about the millions of transitionals that should be running around outside? Where are the millions of transitionals in the fossil record? Where is the &quot;common ancestor&quot; between humans and chimps?  Can anything be proven without using drawings, charts, computer graphics and empty words?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All you can do is mock YECs, since you can&#8217;t beat them with facts.</p>
<p>If it wasn&#8217;t so close to the truth, this would be considered a mockery of evolution&#8230; The Theory of Evolution is like the fairy tale called The Princess and the Frog Prince. The only difference between the two is, that in The Princess and the Frog Prince, the frog is turned into a man with a kiss. In the Theory of Evolution, the frog is turned into a man by using millions of years.</p>
<p>Now, instead of mockery, can the evolutionists ever show us one piece of solid evidence that backs up evolution? How about the millions of transitionals that should be running around outside? Where are the millions of transitionals in the fossil record? Where is the &#8220;common ancestor&#8221; between humans and chimps?  Can anything be proven without using drawings, charts, computer graphics and empty words?</p>
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		<title>By: CosmicMonster</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-41206</link>
		<dc:creator>CosmicMonster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You have got to show this to Randall Munroe, creator of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xkcd.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;.  He has a... thing... about velociraptors.

Hilarious webcomic, btw.  One of the best on the intartubes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have got to show this to Randall Munroe, creator of <a href="http://www.xkcd.com" rel="nofollow">xkcd</a>.  He has a&#8230; thing&#8230; about velociraptors.</p>
<p>Hilarious webcomic, btw.  One of the best on the intartubes.</p>
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		<title>By: SpikeNut</title>
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		<dc:creator>SpikeNut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cairnavon, I showed my little dinosaur expert what you said and showed him the page you referenced.  He and I were both shocked.  And now we definitely have some velociraptor research to do.  About the Utahraptor possibility, he said &quot;Oh yeah, it might!&quot;  And a little light bulb went off over his head.   Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cairnavon, I showed my little dinosaur expert what you said and showed him the page you referenced.  He and I were both shocked.  And now we definitely have some velociraptor research to do.  About the Utahraptor possibility, he said &#8220;Oh yeah, it might!&#8221;  And a little light bulb went off over his head.   Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: SCR /StevoR</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-41158</link>
		<dc:creator>SCR /StevoR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EDITED VERSION : Coz Ican&#039;t correcttypos any otherway .. Sigh, (Hint hint)

Nice one.

The problem with parodying Christian fundamentalists is it *does* get so hard to spot the difference betwixt what is said / written / posted as tongue-in-cheek humour and what is actually being seriously proposed / preached / humourlessly believedâ€¦

My favourite fundie joke /serious idea :

Apparently a bunch of Christians wanted to replace the word â€œhelloâ€ which they considered satanic (ie. â€œHell-lo(w)!â€) with â€œHeaven-o!â€

Serious or parody? Iâ€™m not sure now. I think serious but ... who can tell?

You donâ€™t have to make fundamentalists look silly or stupid - they do that very well all by themslves!

That noted, a bit of humour at their absurdities does at least give us a laugh - as do some of their serious comments until you realise how much influence, voting power and damage to individual lives is being done by such rancid baloney.

If it were just one or two sad nutters we could laugh but that so many are so harmed by it and that a whole nation has been so dominated by people that think like that .. That&#039;s where it stops getting so funny and starts get very sad and very scary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EDITED VERSION : Coz Ican&#8217;t correcttypos any otherway .. Sigh, (Hint hint)</p>
<p>Nice one.</p>
<p>The problem with parodying Christian fundamentalists is it *does* get so hard to spot the difference betwixt what is said / written / posted as tongue-in-cheek humour and what is actually being seriously proposed / preached / humourlessly believedâ€¦</p>
<p>My favourite fundie joke /serious idea :</p>
<p>Apparently a bunch of Christians wanted to replace the word â€œhelloâ€ which they considered satanic (ie. â€œHell-lo(w)!â€) with â€œHeaven-o!â€</p>
<p>Serious or parody? Iâ€™m not sure now. I think serious but &#8230; who can tell?</p>
<p>You donâ€™t have to make fundamentalists look silly or stupid &#8211; they do that very well all by themslves!</p>
<p>That noted, a bit of humour at their absurdities does at least give us a laugh &#8211; as do some of their serious comments until you realise how much influence, voting power and damage to individual lives is being done by such rancid baloney.</p>
<p>If it were just one or two sad nutters we could laugh but that so many are so harmed by it and that a whole nation has been so dominated by people that think like that .. That&#8217;s where it stops getting so funny and starts get very sad and very scary.</p>
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		<title>By: SCR /StevoR</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-41204</link>
		<dc:creator>SCR /StevoR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice one.

Problem withparodying Christians is itdoes get so hard to spot the diference bewteuixt what is said /written /posted as tongue-in-cheek humour and what is actually being seriously propsed /precahed / humourlessly believed...

My favourite fundie joke /serious idea :

 Apparently a bunch of Christians wanted to replace the word &quot;hello&quot; which they considered satanic &quot;Hell-lo(w)!&quot; with &quot;Heaven-o!&quot;

Serious or parody? I&#039;m not sure now.

You don&#039;t have to make fundamentalists look silly or stupid  - they do that very well by themslves! ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice one.</p>
<p>Problem withparodying Christians is itdoes get so hard to spot the diference bewteuixt what is said /written /posted as tongue-in-cheek humour and what is actually being seriously propsed /precahed / humourlessly believed&#8230;</p>
<p>My favourite fundie joke /serious idea :</p>
<p> Apparently a bunch of Christians wanted to replace the word &#8220;hello&#8221; which they considered satanic &#8220;Hell-lo(w)!&#8221; with &#8220;Heaven-o!&#8221;</p>
<p>Serious or parody? I&#8217;m not sure now.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to make fundamentalists look silly or stupid  &#8211; they do that very well by themslves! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ride those jeebus horses!! &#171; laboratory tested</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-41157</link>
		<dc:creator>ride those jeebus horses!! &#171; laboratory tested</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the nice guy at the bad astronomy blog, we get a link to the most hi-f&#8217;ing-larious thing i&#8217;ve seen in days and days. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Elwood Herring</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-2/#comment-41156</link>
		<dc:creator>Elwood Herring</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Following on from what crster said above, if god really is so unfathomably complex (as surely he/she/it must be) then it is totally pointless and fruitless to argue and speculate about him/her/it and the whys and wherefores of his motives for putting us all here, and maybe we should just get on with figuring out the part of his/her/its creation that we CAN figure out, bit by slow painful but cumulative bit.

i.e. Science. It gets RESULTS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following on from what crster said above, if god really is so unfathomably complex (as surely he/she/it must be) then it is totally pointless and fruitless to argue and speculate about him/her/it and the whys and wherefores of his motives for putting us all here, and maybe we should just get on with figuring out the part of his/her/its creation that we CAN figure out, bit by slow painful but cumulative bit.</p>
<p>i.e. Science. It gets RESULTS.</p>
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		<title>By: csrster</title>
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		<dc:creator>csrster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok, hoosierhoops, I&#039;ll get off your case. But just consider one little possibility. If there _is_ a god, maybe he _likes_ being mocked? Maybe he gets a kick out of it, finds it amusing? Does that sound improbable? Well how we would know? God might be so far beyond our comprehension that we can&#039;t even begin to understand his motivations or what he wants from us. Maybe there _is_ a god but for some reason we can&#039;t even begin to fathom, he only lets atheists into heaven.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, hoosierhoops, I&#8217;ll get off your case. But just consider one little possibility. If there _is_ a god, maybe he _likes_ being mocked? Maybe he gets a kick out of it, finds it amusing? Does that sound improbable? Well how we would know? God might be so far beyond our comprehension that we can&#8217;t even begin to understand his motivations or what he wants from us. Maybe there _is_ a god but for some reason we can&#8217;t even begin to fathom, he only lets atheists into heaven.</p>
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		<title>By: mike</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-1/#comment-41202</link>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>l&#039;m shocked at your lack of historal knowlege Jesus was born in 5bc(or bce) dinosars died out 65000000000years ago so Jesus could not have riden them. by the way I have anew theory for why the dinosaurs became extient the predators form the preadator movies came to earth650000000 years ago and hunted them to exctition (just kidding)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>l&#8217;m shocked at your lack of historal knowlege Jesus was born in 5bc(or bce) dinosars died out 65000000000years ago so Jesus could not have riden them. by the way I have anew theory for why the dinosaurs became extient the predators form the preadator movies came to earth650000000 years ago and hunted them to exctition (just kidding)</p>
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		<title>By: Cairnarvon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-1/#comment-41201</link>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;There is also a â€œslight chanceâ€ that itâ€™s a velociraptor, since they were about the same size as humans and he looks like he might be the same size as Jesus.â€&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You may want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vraptor-scale.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;check your facts&lt;/a&gt; on that one.
It could be a Utahraptor, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>There is also a â€œslight chanceâ€ that itâ€™s a velociraptor, since they were about the same size as humans and he looks like he might be the same size as Jesus.â€</p></blockquote>
<p>You may want to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vraptor-scale.png" rel="nofollow">check your facts</a> on that one.<br />
It could be a Utahraptor, though.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike J</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-1/#comment-41200</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, you guys just keep topping yourselves when it comes to being first class jerks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, you guys just keep topping yourselves when it comes to being first class jerks.</p>
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		<title>By: SpikeNut</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-1/#comment-41199</link>
		<dc:creator>SpikeNut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FWIW, which is very little, my 8 year old dinosaur expert said that this dinosaur is &quot;definitely not a T-Rex.  T-Rex had only two claws.  Maybe an Allosaurus.&quot;  There is also a &quot;slight chance&quot; that it&#039;s a velociraptor, since they were about the same size as humans and he looks like he might be the same size as Jesus.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FWIW, which is very little, my 8 year old dinosaur expert said that this dinosaur is &#8220;definitely not a T-Rex.  T-Rex had only two claws.  Maybe an Allosaurus.&#8221;  There is also a &#8220;slight chance&#8221; that it&#8217;s a velociraptor, since they were about the same size as humans and he looks like he might be the same size as Jesus.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Jesus was a Dinosaur Wrangler! &#171; Tiny Frog</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-1/#comment-41198</link>
		<dc:creator>Jesus was a Dinosaur Wrangler! &#171; Tiny Frog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 10th, 2007 by tinyfrog     I saw this via the Bad Astronomy Blog and laughed out loud. Another picture here. It&#8217;s *not* actually from a YEC coloring book, but [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 10th, 2007 by tinyfrog     I saw this via the Bad Astronomy Blog and laughed out loud. Another picture here. It&#8217;s *not* actually from a YEC coloring book, but [...]</p>
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		<title>By: HoosierHoops</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/09/giddyap-little-velociraptor/comment-page-1/#comment-41197</link>
		<dc:creator>HoosierHoops</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok ok ok..Black Cat..I guess i get it..sorry
Really I&#039;m not parrotting anyones creationist tune.. I don&#039;t go to church
or buy thier lines..
I don&#039;t know alot about science, i come here to learn.. i think it&#039;s a cool place.. But my point is..we don&#039;t know if there is a god ( i wonder if he is around, why hide from us? ).so i don&#039;t mock him ( just in case if you know what i mean )
sorry about my tone...
now everybody say this together...stupid jock!
Kind Regards,
the hoopster</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok ok ok..Black Cat..I guess i get it..sorry<br />
Really I&#8217;m not parrotting anyones creationist tune.. I don&#8217;t go to church<br />
or buy thier lines..<br />
I don&#8217;t know alot about science, i come here to learn.. i think it&#8217;s a cool place.. But my point is..we don&#8217;t know if there is a god ( i wonder if he is around, why hide from us? ).so i don&#8217;t mock him ( just in case if you know what i mean )<br />
sorry about my tone&#8230;<br />
now everybody say this together&#8230;stupid jock!<br />
Kind Regards,<br />
the hoopster</p>
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		<title>By: Lurchgs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lurchgs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>y&#039;know, Completely aside, I&#039;m glad the image shows up here in the blog - not one of my computers can get flickr to load.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>y&#8217;know, Completely aside, I&#8217;m glad the image shows up here in the blog &#8211; not one of my computers can get flickr to load.</p>
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		<title>By: BH1602</title>
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		<dc:creator>BH1602</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &quot;coloring book&quot; page reminds me of the concept one critic pointed out in describing the movie (and the band) Spinal Tap: Like pop music fashion, professional wrestling, and performance art, religious extremism can only be parodied by faithful imitation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;coloring book&#8221; page reminds me of the concept one critic pointed out in describing the movie (and the band) Spinal Tap: Like pop music fashion, professional wrestling, and performance art, religious extremism can only be parodied by faithful imitation.</p>
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		<title>By: Berlzebub</title>
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		<dc:creator>Berlzebub</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damn... You beat me to it, BlackCat.

I&#039;ve wondered why some people want to think that there&#039;s a &quot;Creator&quot; (God), when it seems so much more wonderous to me that things are the way they are without one.

Oh, and look through Phil&#039;s earlier posts, Hoosier. There is nothing in science that says something came from nothing. There&#039;s actually an interesting theory about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/01/what-happened-before-the-big-bang/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Big Bounce&lt;/a&gt;.

No, science, or anyone, does not know everything, that may even be impossible. The biggest difference is that science &lt;i&gt;tries&lt;/i&gt; to find the answer, instead of saying &quot;Goddidit&quot;. Ask any fundamentalist, or YEC (maybe even some OECs) about how something started, and see what answer you get.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damn&#8230; You beat me to it, BlackCat.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve wondered why some people want to think that there&#8217;s a &#8220;Creator&#8221; (God), when it seems so much more wonderous to me that things are the way they are without one.</p>
<p>Oh, and look through Phil&#8217;s earlier posts, Hoosier. There is nothing in science that says something came from nothing. There&#8217;s actually an interesting theory about the <a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/01/what-happened-before-the-big-bang/" rel="nofollow">Big Bounce</a>.</p>
<p>No, science, or anyone, does not know everything, that may even be impossible. The biggest difference is that science <i>tries</i> to find the answer, instead of saying &#8220;Goddidit&#8221;. Ask any fundamentalist, or YEC (maybe even some OECs) about how something started, and see what answer you get.</p>
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		<title>By: tsg</title>
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		<dc:creator>tsg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Those are my thoughts about the universe..You may think you know it all, but you donâ€™t.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And you even less, apparently</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Those are my thoughts about the universe..You may think you know it all, but you donâ€™t.</p></blockquote>
<p>And you even less, apparently</p>
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		<title>By: arto7</title>
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		<dc:creator>arto7</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr. Paley (ontologist). That&#039;s funny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Paley (ontologist). That&#8217;s funny.</p>
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		<title>By: TheBlackCat</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheBlackCat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hoosier, csrster&#039;s point was that just because you don&#039;t understand how life could have developed on its own doesn&#039;t mean it didn&#039;t.  Your hope that there is a God does not make it true.  These are all arguments we have heard before, basically that because you want there to be a God, because you can&#039;t understand how things could happen without one, because you think the universe is beautiful, then God must exist.  But your opinion and lack of knowledge is not an argument.  Generally it is considered a good idea to base our understanding of the universe on what we do know, not what we don&#039;t.  What we do not know is constantly shrinking, if that is where you stick your God then he, she, or it constantly diminishes.  And considering you seem to have some very serious misunderstandings about the scientific topics you bring up, parroted directly from long-discredited creationist literature no less, does not inspire confidence that your lack of knowledge is a good basis for drawing conclusions.

If you weren&#039;t trying to convince anyone of anything you wouldn&#039;t have made the comment in the first place.  You said it because you want it to be heard.  You would not use such a condescending tone and insults if you did not want to change peoples&#039; minds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hoosier, csrster&#8217;s point was that just because you don&#8217;t understand how life could have developed on its own doesn&#8217;t mean it didn&#8217;t.  Your hope that there is a God does not make it true.  These are all arguments we have heard before, basically that because you want there to be a God, because you can&#8217;t understand how things could happen without one, because you think the universe is beautiful, then God must exist.  But your opinion and lack of knowledge is not an argument.  Generally it is considered a good idea to base our understanding of the universe on what we do know, not what we don&#8217;t.  What we do not know is constantly shrinking, if that is where you stick your God then he, she, or it constantly diminishes.  And considering you seem to have some very serious misunderstandings about the scientific topics you bring up, parroted directly from long-discredited creationist literature no less, does not inspire confidence that your lack of knowledge is a good basis for drawing conclusions.</p>
<p>If you weren&#8217;t trying to convince anyone of anything you wouldn&#8217;t have made the comment in the first place.  You said it because you want it to be heard.  You would not use such a condescending tone and insults if you did not want to change peoples&#8217; minds.</p>
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		<title>By: peenworm</title>
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		<dc:creator>peenworm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; Where&#039;d Noah put the brontos?

Where Noah put the Brontosauruses on his Ark during the global flood is a silly question, because Brontosaurus didn&#039;t exist!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; Where&#8217;d Noah put the brontos?</p>
<p>Where Noah put the Brontosauruses on his Ark during the global flood is a silly question, because Brontosaurus didn&#8217;t exist!</p>
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		<title>By: HoosierHoops</title>
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		<dc:creator>HoosierHoops</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CSRSTER:
OK dude, I&#039;m not trying to convince anyone of anything.. I used the word &#039;I&#039; 14 times and never said &#039;you&#039;.
Those are my thoughts about the universe..You may think you know it all, but you don&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CSRSTER:<br />
OK dude, I&#8217;m not trying to convince anyone of anything.. I used the word &#8216;I&#8217; 14 times and never said &#8216;you&#8217;.<br />
Those are my thoughts about the universe..You may think you know it all, but you don&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Moose</title>
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		<dc:creator>Moose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, I hadn&#039;t seen it before. Yeah, I swallowed. Hook, line, sinker. Possibly the boat.

It definitely sounds like something Hovind could have done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, I hadn&#8217;t seen it before. Yeah, I swallowed. Hook, line, sinker. Possibly the boat.</p>
<p>It definitely sounds like something Hovind could have done.</p>
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