Silly Newton! He should have stuck with the cookie business.

I too am losing respect for sodas. I mean, what is a Sprite other than a Satan-worshipper?

But god decided to take the dodo bird instead of us. Something about being more worthy.

I know I shouldn't hate them, but people of Faith who can't imagine a God smart enough to handle basic Science really do just piss me off. In a Nation that put a man on the MOON it bespeaks a level of Stupid that can only be achieved through intention (you gotta WANT to be that dumb).

They view intellectualism as liberal elitism. A college degree is just an "indoctrination certificate" to these people.

Who is this god anyway that makes the entire universe as a big practical joke on us?
Are you laughing your ass off GOD? We're a big joke, huh? Well take you universe and shove it!

I don't like to be made fun of.

It's got both "7" and "Up" in its name. What more could you ask for?

Gravity is just a theory as well. Why don't you go jump out the window?

It's electromagnetism!

Probably here illegally.

Probably not even a real Doctor, anyways!

put their faith on the line... step up or shut the fuck up whackos.

As a non-participant in organized religion, I have yet to have this explained to me in a compelling manner.

I have seen some even call the big bang "cosmological evolution", not to mention the idea that 'we came from monkeys' totally denigrates their belief that we came from dust.

You can believe in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Vishnu, Shiva, and the Tooth Fairy and you can still recognize evolution as science.

Either/Or thinking is the only kind. But, in reality, True Spiritual Enlightenment (for those who believe in such things) is a product of Both/And Thinking (ask any Buddhist). God CAN exist, AND so can Science. Leaving the former and arriving at the latter is Journey of sorts (in ancient stories and Parables, you had to go out into "The Wilderness&quot , and when you come back, and people ask you what you found out there, almost every time, the answer is something akin to "The Devil".

"WELL. That sure as hell sounds like somewhere I should avoid at ALL COSTS. Don't want any of that Evil Temptation happening to MY soul, no-sir-ee."

The people who aren't afraid of the Devil go into The Wilderness. When they come back, they are hailed as Brothers/Sisters/Fellows by others who have attempted the Journey, and understand.

And the chicken-shits who stayed the fuck home eventually try to have them killed.

I hope that helps...

The Bible spells it out. God created all the creatures of the earth, then created Adam and Eve. End of discussion.

Really, that is the end of the discussion.

1. First god created light
2. Then he separates water from land
3. Then he calls for trees and plants to give fruit
4. Then he created the sun and moon

Makes a whole lot of sense! Sounds like reasonable evolution to me!

until you get to the part where God created man in his own image. And you just can't get the anti-evolution religious people to look past that. Not with all the fossil evidence in the world.

But I also don't see why someone cannot believe in God and evolution without a problem.

Okay in Genesis, God creates the earth in SEVEN DAYS. (Now the actual order God uses differs between the account in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, but don't bring that up with fundies. It's messy when their heads explode.)

Now fundies take the bible literally ... all words in it are FACTUAL and perfect (cuz they're from God and all). NOTE: Commands by Jesus about caring for the least of these and loving one another .... apparently NOT taken literally ... but I digress.

Since Genesis says seven DAYS including day and night, the world had to come to be in seven calendar days (although I doubt the ancient people of Israel actually used our calendar, but I digress yet again)

If the bible says that God created in earth in seven days, there's no way there could have been evolution over millions of years. God SAID seven days. Get that?

And if you don't take EVERY WORD of the bible literally (except for all the stuff about love and sharing with each other) then you don't love God.

The power and popularity of the literal reading of the Bible. It just seems like such an incongruous and fallacious document that I forget people actually do take it at face value. When you take it at face value, there's really no room for anything else.

Nothing to do with the OP I just hate the flavour. Anyone else?

Apparently, it has a side effect of turning you into a young earth creationist.

(Kidding by the way in case there are fans of Dr. Pepper)

cream soda + coke + black pepper.

I heard peach pits have cyanide.

And yes I've heard that too. Same with apple seeds.

During the Reagan Eighties, the federal government found that the Iraqi engineer who designed Moammar Khadafy's chemical weapons plant had also invested $5 million in a cherry-flavoring plant in Boca Raton, Florida...because the pits have cyanide in them and they were going to extract the cyanide from the pits, package it as cherry flavoring and ship it to Libya.

Fortunately, the evil federal government got involved and stopped it before it got going good.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-09-16/news/9002140381_1_chemical-weapons-weapons-plant-toxic-weapons

They're the ones being maligned in all of this.

All of the other mammals are making fun of them.

And that includes the marsupials. When a marsupial thinks YOU are an odd creature, something is definitely out of kilter.

Creationists keep suggesting that people who support evolution came from the apes. I'm pretty sure an ape would want a creationist as a descendant as much as a creationist wants an ape for an ancestor.

I refuse to drink beverages that don't use proper punctuation.

They flunked science AND English.

It's a bloody crime against humanity of bad punctuation

his wife died

...it says all your female relatives are fair game..

It is my shameful secret. I never drink sodas, but once every few months I have a D.P. Yup. Full strength, high octane. I know, I know... this is the drink of rednecks, freepers, birthers, and teabaggers. But... but... I can't help it...

"My name is Tavernier and I'm a Pepper."

*hangs head in shame*

Change to Mr Pibb (did I punctuate that right) or Pib???

That is a very difficult choice.

But *light bulb moment*... I do happen to love a beverage called a Rum Runner. Can I use this as a swap?

It is now "Pibb XTRA"

...I don't get it either.

Alerting!

Actually, I like the taste!

How dare Dr. Pepper insinuate that God placed Dr. Pepper on the earth for some offshoot of an ape to find before he created man who beat that mutated ape to death and took the Dr. Pepper!

No creationism on my Dr. Pepper drinks!

Godfather Pizza
then
Jimmy John's
Now
Dr Pepper

I'm gonna die.

I will be boycotting Dr Pepper until they clarify this, with fully sourced footnotes.

TBH, I've never believed that humans were apes. But that doesn't discount the theory of humans and other lifeforms sharing distant ancestors, though, and in fact, if you go far enough back.......

So many DUZY-worthy responses!

So love as I don't have to drink it, I love Dr Pepper - if only for this thread.

Dr. Pepper's corporate headquarters.

Religious nuts are making me crazy and I don't mean the good hearted religious folks. I mean the angry fundamentalists on all continents, including this one.

Dr Pepper as I type this.

Argh I hate religious fundamentalists.

And no, I'm not saying that just because of this piece of news.

...of this one small part of mainstream evolution theory, that is, the "men evolved from apes" belief, I'm also somewhat distressed by the fact that these people have been all too willing to discard ALL science over one tiny disagreement. It's like an 8-year-old being told a story about an uncle fighting in Vietnam, and when he finds out that his uncle may not have actually jumped over a landmine to save a village toddler, then he may begin to believe that everything else may be false, too, even if the rest of the story is indeed accurate.

In any way you can imagine we are classified as apes. Whether through gross anatomy or genetics, we are 100% ape. This isn't even theory, this is fact.

But hey, we can be civil with each other, right? Many hardcore fundies, on the other hand, will slander anybody who even slightly disagrees with them.

We are animals.

We are vertebrates.

We are mammals.

We are primates.

We are hominids.

We are Homo Sapiens, the species of the hominids which awarded itself with "self awareness, perhaps prematurely.

These are all accurate things to say. We can go back further, and broader, to say we are carbon based life forms.

And all carbon based life forms share fundamental chemical processes which, along with other evidence, is utterly most simply and with an extremely high level of probability due to having a common origin, or at least separate origins of precursors which have merged into a single ecosystem to the extent that all living things today are, for all intents and purposes, correctly stated to be of common origin.

There is simply no rational dispute of this fact which screams its obviousness from the sum of our observations of nature.

just not possible. I advise you educate yourself on phylogeny, and evolutionary biology before attempting to discuss this further, or all you are doing is propagating ignorance.

had to school those who refuse to accept REALITY!

I don't drink any sodas, anymore.. I do drink Kombucha..Totally an Enlightened Drink!

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