Dude, Piper and anyone else, take this opportunity to explain evolution to my feeble mind. I know, it sounds smug, but work with me. I'm not going to lobby for Creationism here, so don't give me the 'I won't debate with a fruitcake' thing. I'll leave Creationism out of it.
I'm highly educated and have participated in many classes extolling the virtues of evolution and even got A's in ever one. So here is how I understand the theory as it is currently taught...
A zillion years ago there was nothing. One day a bunch of nothing and another bunch of nothing got sideways with each other and the product of nothing and nothing being angry with each other was heat. Enough heat that nothing A and nothing B conjealed to become gas. Then, that gas came into contact with the product of another conjealation (if that is a word) - dust. These two products of conjealation (I've now used it twice, so it must be a word) were suspicious of one another and got to tusslin'. That created heat and BANG! - A much bigger bunch of nothing was ignited by the BANG! and became greater clouds of gasses and dust, which didn't like each other one bit (picture West Side Story). They continued to dream up ways of making themselves better in their little gas and dust brains until one day they became a Bull Elk.
My checking account and my savings account are both pretty close to nothing, but together I believe they have the aptitude to create a parallel universe if given a zillion years. Either that or I'll leave it up to the Easter Bunny!
Seriously, teach me how nothing and nothing begat something (OK you got me Begat is a biblical word).
DC
I'm highly educated and have participated in many classes extolling the virtues of evolution and even got A's in ever one. So here is how I understand the theory as it is currently taught...
A zillion years ago there was nothing. One day a bunch of nothing and another bunch of nothing got sideways with each other and the product of nothing and nothing being angry with each other was heat. Enough heat that nothing A and nothing B conjealed to become gas. Then, that gas came into contact with the product of another conjealation (if that is a word) - dust. These two products of conjealation (I've now used it twice, so it must be a word) were suspicious of one another and got to tusslin'. That created heat and BANG! - A much bigger bunch of nothing was ignited by the BANG! and became greater clouds of gasses and dust, which didn't like each other one bit (picture West Side Story). They continued to dream up ways of making themselves better in their little gas and dust brains until one day they became a Bull Elk.
My checking account and my savings account are both pretty close to nothing, but together I believe they have the aptitude to create a parallel universe if given a zillion years. Either that or I'll leave it up to the Easter Bunny!
Seriously, teach me how nothing and nothing begat something (OK you got me Begat is a biblical word).
DC