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On 9/16/16 3:16 PM, justan wrote:
Wayne.B Wrote in message:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:42:34 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.


Why? It's easy enough to show the evolution or changes in language made
by humans over time, both in the language itself and in the meanings and
changes in words. Understanding evolution, after all, requires a mind
able to think at at least the junior high school level, which may be too
advanced for the creationism religious simpletons.


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The "evolution" of a language however is entirely different than the
evolution of a species. In the case of the latter, the species
evolves because less fit members have less success procreating
themselves and vice versa. Language of course does not procreate, and
therefore can not evolve in a Darwinian sense. Quod erat
demonstrandum.

It is important that the brain get enough oxygen 24 hours a day.


That's what his CPAP machine is for.


You spread b.s. just like your hero, Donald Trump.