"skyeyes" <skyeyes@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
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Fredric L. Rice wrote:

Most Christians accept the fact of evolution. It's only the truly
moronic, inbred, superstitious clods who think it some how says
something about their gods.

It's not what it says about their gods that makes Fundies fuss over
evolution. It's that the whole Fall-of-Man-Salvation equation doesn't
work out with evolution. These people (and I used to be one of them)
*must* feel that there's life after death, and that there's a Heaven for
them to go to. The fall apart at the notion that when you die, you're
dead. And if their Salvation Recipe is challenged, well, "Katey Bar The
Door," as my ex used to say.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34

Another member of the Atheist and Evolution Church.

You haven't the SLIGHTEST idea of what scripture states as is also the
case with most those who attend other churches called Christian.

You used to be NOTHING and still are. Don't brag about your ignorance of
all subjects at hand.

"skyeyes" <skyeyes@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
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Fredric L. Rice wrote:

Most Christians accept the fact of evolution. It's only the
truly moronic, inbred, superstitious clods who think it some
how says something about their gods.

It's not what it says about their gods that makes Fundies fuss over
evolution. It's that the whole Fall-of-Man-Salvation equation doesn't
work out with evolution. These people (and I used to be one of them)
*must* feel that there's life after death, and that there's a Heaven
for them to go to. The fall apart at the notion that when you die,
you're dead. And if their Salvation Recipe is challenged, well, "Katey
Bar The Door," as my ex used to say.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34

Another member of the Atheist and Evolution Church.

You haven't the SLIGHTEST idea of what scripture states as is also the case
with most those who attend other churches called Christian.

You used to be NOTHING and still are. Don't brag about your ignorance of
all subjects at hand.

EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding

Another member of the Atheist and Evolution Church.

You haven't the SLIGHTEST idea of what scripture states as is also the case
with most those who attend other churches called Christian.

You used to be NOTHING and still are.

Don't brag about your ignorance of all subjects at hand.

stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

On 17 Jul 2005 22:32:38 -0700, "fred" <clarma1@gmail.com> wrote:

The only reason that some Christians reject evolution concepts is because

they're terminally ignorant and dishonest.

Most Christians accept the fact of evolution. It's only the
truly moronic, inbred, superstitious clods who think it some
how says something about their gods.

But I will also note
that the more recent scientific concern of irreducible complexity
throws a monkey wrench into evolution concepts anyway.

Freedom Fries wrote:

No word on when the religious jesus freaks in america will go to China to
kill the elephants to the destroy the evidence that contradicts their
pathetic illusions.

I wouldn't stereotype Christians like you are doing. The only reason
that some Christians reject evolution concepts is because of the
informal belief among some atheist/evolutionists that there is no God
and all life happened by random chance. However, as Genesis 1 doesn't
detail how God created life, who's to say that God didn't employ some
evolution concepts when he created life on earth? But I will also note
that the more recent scientific concern of irreducible complexity
throws a monkey wrench into evolution concepts anyway.

Freedom Fries wrote:

No word on when the religious jesus freaks in america will go to China to
kill the elephants to the destroy the evidence that contradicts their
pathetic illusions.

I wouldn't stereotype Christians like you are doing. The only reason
that some Christians reject evolution concepts is because of the
informal belief among some atheist/evolutionists that there is no God
and all life happened by random chance. However, as Genesis 1 doesn't
detail how God created life, who's to say that God didn't employ some
evolution concepts when he created life on earth? But I will also note
that the more recent scientific concern of irreducible complexity
throws a monkey wrench into evolution concepts anyway.

John 3:16
Revelation 3:20

Tuskless elephants evolving in China due to poaching Sun Jul 17, 3:59 AM ET

BEIJING, July 17 (AFP) - A recent study has predicted that more male Asian
elephants in China will be born without tusks because poaching of tusked
elephants is reducing the gene pool, the China Daily reported Sunday.


The study, conducted in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in
southwest China's Yunnan province, where two-thirds of China's Asian
elephants live, found that the tuskless phenomenon is spreading, the report
said.

The tusk-free gene, which is found in between two and five percent of male
Asian elephants, has increased to between five percent and 10 percent in
elephants in China, according to Zhang Li, an associate professor of zoology
at Beijing Normal University.

"This decrease in the number of elephants born with tusks shows the poaching
pressure for ivory on the animal," said Zhang, whose research team has been
studying elephants since 1999 at a reserve in Xishuangbanna.

Only male elephants have tusks, which are said to be a symbol of masculinity
and a weapon to fight for territory. However, due to poaching for ivory, the
elephants' pride has become a death sentence, the report said.

"The larger tusks the male elephant has, the more likely it will be shot by
poachers," said Zhang. "Therefore, the ones without tusks survive,
preserving the tuskless gene in the species."

A similar decline in elephants with tusks has been seen in Uganda, which
experienced heavy poaching in the 1970s and '80s, the report said.

However, Zhang's findings of the spread of the tuskless gene due to poaching
must be tested, according to some academics.

"This is, of course, a possibility, but till now there is no clear genetic
proof that it can occur," Vivek Menon, executive director of the Wildlife
Trust of India, was quoted as saying.

Rampant poaching of male elephants for tusks has also caused the
female-to-male ratio to rise from the ideal 2:1 to 4:1 in China and 100:1 in
India, the report said.

There are between 45,000 and 50,000 Asian elephants in 13 countries,
including China and India. China only has about 250, according to the
report.

China is among 160 nations which signed an international treaty administered
since 1989 banning the trade in ivory and products of other endangered
animals.

Nonetheless, four Asian elephants were found shot dead in China last year.

In addition to poaching, human activity that causes a loss of habitat also
threatens the animals.

The only reason
that some Christians reject evolution concepts is because of the
informal belief among some atheist/evolutionists that there is no God
and all life happened by random chance.

"The larger tusks the male elephant has, the more likely it will be shot by
poachers," said Zhang. "Therefore, the ones without tusks survive,
preserving the tuskless gene in the species."

No word on when the religious jesus freaks in america will go to China to
kill the elephants to the destroy the evidence that contradicts their
pathetic illusions.