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		<title>By: The Monkey</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-904</link>
		<dc:creator>The Monkey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Digging your own grave with that one... But I&#039;m not scared of the devil, I&#039;m scared of your thought process. I&#039;m sorry to have gotten your riled up... I enjoyed debating with you initially.

But you&#039;re right, the ball is in my court and I think it&#039;s best that it stay there. This isn&#039;t a discussion so much as attack and defend. That&#039;s not the purpose of this site.

I think it&#039;s best I close the comments...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Digging your own grave with that one&#8230; But I&#8217;m not scared of the devil, I&#8217;m scared of your thought process. I&#8217;m sorry to have gotten your riled up&#8230; I enjoyed debating with you initially.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;re right, the ball is in my court and I think it&#8217;s best that it stay there. This isn&#8217;t a discussion so much as attack and defend. That&#8217;s not the purpose of this site.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s best I close the comments&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: steven kramar</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-902</link>
		<dc:creator>steven kramar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey,  the first paragraph was an example of a limiting factor for the age of the earth.  the first paragraph shows a real example of how the physical evidence does not allow for millions of years in chronology.  You think i&#039;m misguided and i think your misguided but i&#039;m commenting because i want to have a civil discussion because clearly somebody is wrong.  thats a fascinating link by the way but for the purpose of debate it would be helpful if you condensed your mountain of evidence for evolution into one piece of evidence so that it can actually be discussed.  just choose your favorite and we can talk about it.  If i was turning the other way i wouldn&#039;t be asking you for evidence.  I just don&#039;t know what to respond to in your link, not that its unanswerable just that i only ask for one piece because i can only talk about one at a time...  and yes, the fact that the state is ill equipped to educate is evident in the mass of idiots that graduate.  And look, i&#039;m not placing your view in the same camp as the satanists i&#039;m just pointing out the FACT that both are morally the same..  Its scary to me but I don&#039;t know why you would be scared seeing that you don&#039;t believe the devil exists.  And it might have been a bad idea for me to bring up the devil since you no doubt have a cartoonish idea of the devil from watching too much national geographic tv and not enough actual bible reading on the subject..  lets talk about your evidence choose one.  ball is in your court.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey,  the first paragraph was an example of a limiting factor for the age of the earth.  the first paragraph shows a real example of how the physical evidence does not allow for millions of years in chronology.  You think i&#8217;m misguided and i think your misguided but i&#8217;m commenting because i want to have a civil discussion because clearly somebody is wrong.  thats a fascinating link by the way but for the purpose of debate it would be helpful if you condensed your mountain of evidence for evolution into one piece of evidence so that it can actually be discussed.  just choose your favorite and we can talk about it.  If i was turning the other way i wouldn&#8217;t be asking you for evidence.  I just don&#8217;t know what to respond to in your link, not that its unanswerable just that i only ask for one piece because i can only talk about one at a time&#8230;  and yes, the fact that the state is ill equipped to educate is evident in the mass of idiots that graduate.  And look, i&#8217;m not placing your view in the same camp as the satanists i&#8217;m just pointing out the FACT that both are morally the same..  Its scary to me but I don&#8217;t know why you would be scared seeing that you don&#8217;t believe the devil exists.  And it might have been a bad idea for me to bring up the devil since you no doubt have a cartoonish idea of the devil from watching too much national geographic tv and not enough actual bible reading on the subject..  lets talk about your evidence choose one.  ball is in your court.</p>
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		<title>By: The Monkey</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-900</link>
		<dc:creator>The Monkey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First Paragraph:
What are you talking about???

Second Paragraph:
I don&#039;t think the idea of Christian creation is ridiculous and worthy of being mocked. I think those who believe it literally are misguided.

On to some evidence &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; evolution. You won&#039;t like this link because it disagrees with everything you&#039;ve been saying about evolution, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here you go&lt;/a&gt;.

Without being too much of a jerk, I don&#039;t understand how there are so many examples of evolution that we can plainly see... and you choose to look the other way and cling to what&#039;s written in Genesis. Needless to say, I anticipate you dancing around this body of evidence somehow.

You also think the state is ill-equipped to provide a good education system? And you place evolutionists and devil worshipers in the same camp... 

Yikes!

Really??

You are a scary, scary man...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First Paragraph:<br />
What are you talking about???</p>
<p>Second Paragraph:<br />
I don&#8217;t think the idea of Christian creation is ridiculous and worthy of being mocked. I think those who believe it literally are misguided.</p>
<p>On to some evidence <em>for</em> evolution. You won&#8217;t like this link because it disagrees with everything you&#8217;ve been saying about evolution, but <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/" rel="nofollow">here you go</a>.</p>
<p>Without being too much of a jerk, I don&#8217;t understand how there are so many examples of evolution that we can plainly see&#8230; and you choose to look the other way and cling to what&#8217;s written in Genesis. Needless to say, I anticipate you dancing around this body of evidence somehow.</p>
<p>You also think the state is ill-equipped to provide a good education system? And you place evolutionists and devil worshipers in the same camp&#8230; </p>
<p>Yikes!</p>
<p>Really??</p>
<p>You are a scary, scary man&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: steven kramar</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-897</link>
		<dc:creator>steven kramar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Its funny that some people like to say theres lots of evidence for evolution and yet provide none.  The lack is then supplied with ridicule toward the biblical religious view which is obviously a religion because it cannot be proven.  The physical evidence however does support the model given in the bible as far as origins and history.  For example...  did you know that there is a measurable amount of dust in space and that the moon is constantly getting dustier and dustier.  When one extrapolates the amount of dust accumulation there should be on the moon over millions of years you must conclude that there is extremely deep dust.  This was expected when man first landed on the moon and the lander was designed with large plate landing pads to distribute the weight of the lander to prevent it from sinking into the dust.  On arrival however the moon had only a few inches of dust, the christian scientists should have known but they were stupefied by evolution and long ages.  O wait maybe the magical god like &quot;time&quot; somehow cleaned off the moon before we got there.  Its only one example but I cant figure a way around it...  
   The reason i say that evolution is a religion is because the elements are basically the same.  there is a creator, time, and time can make dirt come alive and then change from one kind of animal to another randomly all by itself without any evidence in its wake (please show me one example).  So I say in the beginning God and you say in the beginning dirt and my view is a ridiculous religion and your view is science?  Im not saying that tax dollars should support a religion in school.  Actually I would even go so far as to say that the federal government or the state is not responsible to educate, thats the parents job.  Thats part of the reason that our public education system stinks is because its not the states job and they are ill equipped to do a good job.  But since they do assume the role of mommy and daddy more and more these days it might be a good idea for them to just not talk about origins or just leave it for a religion class.  And the reason i brought up the devil in my last comment was not because you believe in him but because the people who do believe in him and agree with his principles also so happen to be in the same camp as the evolutionists.  Just an interesting fact to consider if your coming from a religious perspective.  Christianity is only a name and many people accept the name without accepting its tenants so it may not be wise to equate christian principals and morals with those who call themselves christian...  after all the bible says that &quot;even the elect would be deceived if it were possible.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its funny that some people like to say theres lots of evidence for evolution and yet provide none.  The lack is then supplied with ridicule toward the biblical religious view which is obviously a religion because it cannot be proven.  The physical evidence however does support the model given in the bible as far as origins and history.  For example&#8230;  did you know that there is a measurable amount of dust in space and that the moon is constantly getting dustier and dustier.  When one extrapolates the amount of dust accumulation there should be on the moon over millions of years you must conclude that there is extremely deep dust.  This was expected when man first landed on the moon and the lander was designed with large plate landing pads to distribute the weight of the lander to prevent it from sinking into the dust.  On arrival however the moon had only a few inches of dust, the christian scientists should have known but they were stupefied by evolution and long ages.  O wait maybe the magical god like &#8220;time&#8221; somehow cleaned off the moon before we got there.  Its only one example but I cant figure a way around it&#8230;<br />
   The reason i say that evolution is a religion is because the elements are basically the same.  there is a creator, time, and time can make dirt come alive and then change from one kind of animal to another randomly all by itself without any evidence in its wake (please show me one example).  So I say in the beginning God and you say in the beginning dirt and my view is a ridiculous religion and your view is science?  Im not saying that tax dollars should support a religion in school.  Actually I would even go so far as to say that the federal government or the state is not responsible to educate, thats the parents job.  Thats part of the reason that our public education system stinks is because its not the states job and they are ill equipped to do a good job.  But since they do assume the role of mommy and daddy more and more these days it might be a good idea for them to just not talk about origins or just leave it for a religion class.  And the reason i brought up the devil in my last comment was not because you believe in him but because the people who do believe in him and agree with his principles also so happen to be in the same camp as the evolutionists.  Just an interesting fact to consider if your coming from a religious perspective.  Christianity is only a name and many people accept the name without accepting its tenants so it may not be wise to equate christian principals and morals with those who call themselves christian&#8230;  after all the bible says that &#8220;even the elect would be deceived if it were possible.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The Monkey</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-895</link>
		<dc:creator>The Monkey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Steve, thanks for approaching this with tact and a level-head. It &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; scare me that you refer to evolution as a religion (since &lt;strong&gt;it&#039;s not&lt;strong&gt;) and seem to think tax dollars shouldn&#039;t fund an education system that doesn&#039;t include religion. Rather then react to your entire comment, I&#039;d like to leave a few bullets...
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&lt;li&gt;You&#039;re right; I don&#039;t worship the devil. He doesn&#039;t exist either.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A human child who believe s/he evolved from an animal does not necessarily live just for the here and now. I have a higher thought process and moral system, and didn&#039;t need organized religion to get here. Religion helps a lot people, but it is not a requirement for life.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Despite your argument, the idea of evolution is a provable thesis. Religion&#039;s theories on the subject of origin are not. This is why I believe religious theory should be an option rather than a requirement. I, for one, am glad I took the option when growing up and was learning about everything.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I think it&#039;s a little unfair to slander false religions and talk about moral corruption while acting like Christianity is squeaky clean. Just sayin&#039;...&lt;/li&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Steve, thanks for approaching this with tact and a level-head. It <em>does</em> scare me that you refer to evolution as a religion (since <strong>it&#8217;s not</strong><strong>) and seem to think tax dollars shouldn&#8217;t fund an education system that doesn&#8217;t include religion. Rather then react to your entire comment, I&#8217;d like to leave a few bullets&#8230;</p>
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<li>You&#8217;re right; I don&#8217;t worship the devil. He doesn&#8217;t exist either.</li>
<li>A human child who believe s/he evolved from an animal does not necessarily live just for the here and now. I have a higher thought process and moral system, and didn&#8217;t need organized religion to get here. Religion helps a lot people, but it is not a requirement for life.</li>
<li>Despite your argument, the idea of evolution is a provable thesis. Religion&#8217;s theories on the subject of origin are not. This is why I believe religious theory should be an option rather than a requirement. I, for one, am glad I took the option when growing up and was learning about everything.</li>
<li>I think it&#8217;s a little unfair to slander false religions and talk about moral corruption while acting like Christianity is squeaky clean. Just sayin&#8217;&#8230;</li>
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		<title>By: steven kramar</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-893</link>
		<dc:creator>steven kramar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are no unicorns unless your talking about the vision in the book of daniel in which case its a vision (a very interesting one by the way that shows that the bible can be trusted seeing that its prophecies accurately outline the history of our planet for 2500 years with absolute perfection even till now) and not to be taken literally.  Its not exactly fair to say that creationism is making our children less proficient in math and science when the secular science community has been freely teaching their religion of evolution with tax funding.  Perhaps the problem with our children is that they are taught evolution as if it is a fact.  And we wonder why they act like animals.  The theory of evolution will undoubtably cause a pupil to believe there is no purpose in life and that everything, including morality is relative.  This is a travesty because if the bible is true there is a very great purpose to life and there is a moral code that transcends all cultures and boarders.  I don&#039;t however believe that the most pleasant theory is automatically correct, only that the correct answer also happens to be the pleasant one based on the evidence.  I think even a skeptic can see the logic in that a child who believes he/she is an  animal will likely begin to treat their life like its only worth is in
the here and now.  If it feels good do it.  the theory of evolution will lead to stupidity, and corruption, and even tyranny because the moral consequences are made void.  One can say however that religion can lead to the same things,  but i would argue that only false religion leads to those things as evolution is a false religion.  Its interesting that the commandments of satanism are &quot;do what thou wilt.&quot;  Kinda similar to the fruit produced by evolutionists.  Not saying you are worshiping the devil or anything but its certainly in line with his agenda.  I would have no problem with it if there was just a little more respect for the fact that it is at best a theory and comes nowhere close to fact and yet it is presented as a fact and therefore also the moral corruption that we see in our world is a logical result.  Evolution should only be taught at private institutions with private money just like all the other religious ideas about origins.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are no unicorns unless your talking about the vision in the book of daniel in which case its a vision (a very interesting one by the way that shows that the bible can be trusted seeing that its prophecies accurately outline the history of our planet for 2500 years with absolute perfection even till now) and not to be taken literally.  Its not exactly fair to say that creationism is making our children less proficient in math and science when the secular science community has been freely teaching their religion of evolution with tax funding.  Perhaps the problem with our children is that they are taught evolution as if it is a fact.  And we wonder why they act like animals.  The theory of evolution will undoubtably cause a pupil to believe there is no purpose in life and that everything, including morality is relative.  This is a travesty because if the bible is true there is a very great purpose to life and there is a moral code that transcends all cultures and boarders.  I don&#8217;t however believe that the most pleasant theory is automatically correct, only that the correct answer also happens to be the pleasant one based on the evidence.  I think even a skeptic can see the logic in that a child who believes he/she is an  animal will likely begin to treat their life like its only worth is in<br />
the here and now.  If it feels good do it.  the theory of evolution will lead to stupidity, and corruption, and even tyranny because the moral consequences are made void.  One can say however that religion can lead to the same things,  but i would argue that only false religion leads to those things as evolution is a false religion.  Its interesting that the commandments of satanism are &#8220;do what thou wilt.&#8221;  Kinda similar to the fruit produced by evolutionists.  Not saying you are worshiping the devil or anything but its certainly in line with his agenda.  I would have no problem with it if there was just a little more respect for the fact that it is at best a theory and comes nowhere close to fact and yet it is presented as a fact and therefore also the moral corruption that we see in our world is a logical result.  Evolution should only be taught at private institutions with private money just like all the other religious ideas about origins.</p>
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		<title>By: Unicorn</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-850</link>
		<dc:creator>Unicorn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course unicorns are real, and there are actually quite a few of them. Unicorn in it&#039;s definition is &quot;single horned&quot;. So any animal born (or created) to have a single horn cresting its head is a unicorn. There has even been a deer born in Italy that if it was white would be the perfect recreation of the European style of unicorn. 
It doesn&#039;t have to be magical to be a unicorn. You can photograph them, you can pet them, you can even hunt and kill them. I study unicorns... It&#039;s that God stuff that I don&#039;t get...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course unicorns are real, and there are actually quite a few of them. Unicorn in it&#8217;s definition is &#8220;single horned&#8221;. So any animal born (or created) to have a single horn cresting its head is a unicorn. There has even been a deer born in Italy that if it was white would be the perfect recreation of the European style of unicorn.<br />
It doesn&#8217;t have to be magical to be a unicorn. You can photograph them, you can pet them, you can even hunt and kill them. I study unicorns&#8230; It&#8217;s that God stuff that I don&#8217;t get&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rin</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-828</link>
		<dc:creator>Rin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But...I don&#039;t understand.

Unicorns = real.
Other stuff in the Bible = fake.

Does not compute.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But&#8230;I don&#8217;t understand.</p>
<p>Unicorns = real.<br />
Other stuff in the Bible = fake.</p>
<p>Does not compute.</p>
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		<title>By: emerson</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-626</link>
		<dc:creator>emerson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For those doubting decay estimates; if they are wrong then all the clocks in the world are wrong, GPS doesnt really work and a myriad of other things the world takes for granted these days would not be possible.

Your comments about contamination demonstrate a lack of knowledge on how these measurements are taken and used.

Use of wikipedia as a source furthers this line of thinking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those doubting decay estimates; if they are wrong then all the clocks in the world are wrong, GPS doesnt really work and a myriad of other things the world takes for granted these days would not be possible.</p>
<p>Your comments about contamination demonstrate a lack of knowledge on how these measurements are taken and used.</p>
<p>Use of wikipedia as a source furthers this line of thinking.</p>
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		<title>By: Lea</title>
		<link>http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/unicorns-are-real/comment-page-1#comment-455</link>
		<dc:creator>Lea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok, you might want to know that the KJV of the Bible is not the most accurate. A lot of times when the scribes didn&#039;t know what a word was, they guessed. And thus we have &#039;unicorns in the Bible&#039;. If you want to talk about what&#039;s in the Bible, go to the original languages, not a translation by scribes who didn&#039;t even know the language they were translating from.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, you might want to know that the KJV of the Bible is not the most accurate. A lot of times when the scribes didn&#8217;t know what a word was, they guessed. And thus we have &#8216;unicorns in the Bible&#8217;. If you want to talk about what&#8217;s in the Bible, go to the original languages, not a translation by scribes who didn&#8217;t even know the language they were translating from.</p>
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