That's the one Fu-Fu. For some reason I was blanking out on the word. Like you said, ma yari, and the first thing to go is the mind. Buuxo, that's the only miro aad taqaanid and you throw it out every time don't you? Reer magaal waaxid.

Ngonge, it's a thyroid problem! :mad: Buuxo and Che, as it so happens just today I was wondering what you call those miro yar yar oo dhulka aan kala soo bixijirey markaan ariga raaci jirey. They grew as small nodules at the roots of some plants. I used to spend more time looking for them than watching the goats Geeljire, I'm surprised to see you around here, how's the xaal qaad going

I love Fridays, not one but TWO free meals and not just saxan buuxoo laguu dhiibaayo with stuff you didn't pick. Oh no, both times it's a generous buffet! Hello trollers. Wili waa hamuumanahay and just watching the clock until lunch

Norfsky, you don't seem to understand how debates work. You can only have a debate when people who have done their research on a topic present differing viewpoints on that same topic. When one person is self-admittedly ignorant about something, except for what they've read in propaganda leaflets, and demonstrates their failure to grasp even simple elements of the topic, then things get a little tedious. Of course, your argument would be, "why do I have to read about evolution from an evolutionist's perspective when I don't even believe in it?" The answer is two-fold. 1. The theory of evolution is a scientific theory proposed and accepted by biologists everywhere (yes, Muslims too). For you to know nothing about it except what non-biologists write on their websites is a true disservice to yourself. Go learn something about it because it is the paradigm on which modern biology is based. Even you don't want to accept it, every layperson should have a general knowledge of contemporary scientific theories. 2. The other reason is that it facilitates discussion and the true exchange of ideas. Even if you don't believe in evolution, you want to know as much about it as you can so that most of the time isn't spent correcting gross misconceptions instead of getting to the good stuff. It would be like me engaging in a debate about Islam and asking- If Adam's parents were angels, as every Muslim must believe, how come we don't have wings? Why does Islam call for daily beatings of little girls? That's what it says in a Christian anti-Islam booklet I skimmed today, and I trust these people know everything about Islam so I don't have to! If the Qur'an is the inerrant word of god, why are there no mention of aliens? Aliens are real, because I was abducted by a spaceship last weekend, yet the Qur'an fails to mention this simple fact! Fielding such questions would be tedious and irritating, wouldn't they? How can you have a discussion about tawheed, good and evil, the purpose of man and other truly interesting and profound aspects of your faith if you're busy explaining that Islam doesn't prescribe child beatings? Case in point, your cut and paste above: By outlining the links in the chain as "australopithecines > Homo habilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens", the evolutionists imply that each of these types is the ancestor of the next. However, recent findings by paleoanthropologists have revealed that australopithecines, Homo habilis and Homo erectus existed in different parts of the world at the same time. Can you see where the failure in logic happens here? Go on, pretend for an instant that you're a biologist and see why this is not a fatal flaw in the theory of evolution. One important skill in debates is to understand and present your opponent's line of argument as they would likely have presented it themselves. So I bet you're thinking, "Well, I guess a biologist would say here that Homo erectus didn't go up in a puff of smoke just because one line of descendants branched off to become different species. Anymore than that my family in Somalia cease to exist because I moved to Britain and become a British citizen." Well done! Now you will raise more interesting questions, like "then how did speciation occur? Why would Homo sapiens branch off if Homo erectus is still loitering around and possibly interbreeding with Homo sapiens?" And I will feel put on the spot and actually have to think!

LOL. Touche, but it's a leading question!

No. But your conclusion is why I never trust pollsters

@ You two. That is just not right.

Careful GJ, you're going to get third degree burns from all the monitor-glaring Ngonge, Nuune, A&T, and Sayid are doing. Juxa, lol, I just think it's a little creepy is all.

I cannot wait to get home and watch the videos for this.

Sayid, if you knew the mullah you wouldn't be asking that Really Ngonge? That's the last time I sob into your voluminous shoulder :mad: Juxa, unlike Johnny, I consider my condition somewhat medical in nature. I'm faith-impaired, sort of like being color-blind or those people who have their inner organs reversed, heart on the right side, liver on the left side. I'm trying to get a parking permit to say that.

Hey people, I tried to change my name back because half the time I don't know who this Arac person is, but it looks like someone else took Cara :mad: Who dared reserve my (in)famous moniker? Isi soo saar hadaadan fuley fuley dhalay aheen! *Starts to remove earrings, realizes isn't wearing any, settles for tugging on earlobes angrily*

Sheh, someone saw Geeljire at the travel agency, desperately trying to book a ticket to London. You know engineers, strike while the iron is hot is their motto (or is that blacksmiths?) Johnny, darnit, I patented a similar device in which "women" and "men" were switched. Should have done more field work, like you

Hello GJ and CH. Johnny, so it was the "Device for Convincing Women of Personal Charms in Danish Night Club" then? Bravo

LOL@Ngonge, and he got a pretty good deal for it too, considering the state it was in What did you patent, Johnny?

anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his joy she cried his grief bird by snow and stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then)they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes. Women and men(both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain

^After it has given up on getting any sustenance from your scrawny frame maybe. Oooh, teacher teacher! Naden subscribes to Lamarckianism! Next she'll be claiming that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny!

Teacher, teacher! Naden doesn't know that birds don't have teeth

Ola trollers. What happened to all the avatars? CL, how are you going to get home?

It tastes so awful, so it MUST be good for you

Originally posted by Sherban Shabeel: As funny as that might be, didn't your mother teach you never to make jokes about other people's mother? It wasn't funny actually, and not meant as a joke. Your statement implies universal applicability, yet here you are offended that someone you care about is viewed through the same filter. Did you not think it through?

Norf, how old do you think the earth is? Give a ballpark figure in the thousands or millions or billions of years. It would be difficult to discuss the Cambrian explosion if we're not even on the same page about something so simple.

^So how did he treat your mother?

LOL@grasshopper. The major flaw with that analogy is that unlike buffalo, brain cells don't give birth to other brain cells to replace the one killed by alcohol poisoning. Another problem is that being resistant to alcohol poisoning doesn't make a cell "more efficient". It could just be that it spends so much resources fighting off the alcohol that it forgets how to tie one's shoes, or do simple math.

^Yahya's arguments are almost verbatim Christian creationist propaganda, and those have been debunked by scientists many times. What I find troubling is the out-of-context quotes from "evolutionists" that Yahya and co like to present as supporting creationism. Eg, in the above article, A famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this fact even though he is an evolutionist: The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, we find-over and over again-not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another . Reading that, the average person thinks Ager is talking about a fossil record that shows one set of species on a Tuesday afternoon 4000 BC, and by Wednesday at 3 pm there was another set of species. But what the creationist deliberately ignores is that words like abrupt, sudden, explosion mean something entirely different to an evolutionist: eg, we expected this tiny insect to evolve wings over a span of 400 million years, but it "only" took 60 million years. The Cambrian explosion, for example occurred nearly 600 million years ago (long before any traces of dinosaurs or mammals much less humans), and over a period of a mere 80-100 million years, there was a sudden proliferation of tiny organisms that only a paleontologist could tell apart. To hear a creationist talk about the Cambrian explosion though, you would think the fossil record shows that all current living species appeared over a 6-day work week a couple of years before Noah loaded them all into a boat.

Forget moxog, has anyone ever had urdeero? Mmmm, my grandma used to roast it with some apples, then sprinkle some garlic-infused olive oil over it before wrapping it in muufo... just remembering the golden color that ripe urdeero turns before you pick it makes my mouth water. I know nuune knows what I'm talking about, but how about Johnny and Ms DD?