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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Bigfoot will become a striker for the Saints.  Mothman would also have made the team as goalkeeper but unfortunately he took the words “Come towards the light” literally and so died twice on the same day. St. Francis is too annoyed to comment because the whole place is full of sheep.

[_Robert_Participant]

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Robert,

Hey, Pope Francis was from “The Global South,” so any racist or tribalist sensitivities he has are all right with the Woke Globalist crowd.

Which gives a new sinister meaning to “The South’s Gonna Do It Again.”

Mike had to pull Tom Servo to the side during the commercial break and do some ‘spaining, then Tom wasn’t so Johnny Reb after that.

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[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Fellow Unbelievers,

You think the doctrine of Papal Infallability would end if an especially deranged Trump Pope were to procaim that a Pope cannot die as long as he holds his position?

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End
—In Memory of the Pope, 4/20

On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome,
A holy puff drifted through sacred air.
The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan—
As incense mixed with something… dank and rare.

JD approached, with scripture in his coat,
Hillbilly psalms and MAGA beads in hand.
The Pontiff blinked and clutched his aging throat,
As “liberty” was hummed by a bluegrass band.

“Take this,” said Vance, “and breathe it deep, old sage—
A gospel straight from Rust Belt’s blessed soil.”
The Pope exhaled, transcending earthly cage,
While cherubs wept in papal olive oil.

So mark this day, when Heaven rolled a scroll:
The Pope got Vance’d… and reached his final bowl.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Reg,

Is there any validity to life extension technology?

The Ballad of Bio-Lies and Wrinkle Wars
(With apologies to your wallet and your face)

In jars of glow and tubes of youth, they sell us hope—or so, in truth,
With “hydra-quench” and “nano-peptides,”
They promise time will let us slide.

There’s “dermo-lift” and “chrono-repair,”
“Neuro-calming silk biome care.”
“Microsmoothing peptide chains”
That vanish stress-induced crow veins.

A “pro-retinoid DNA mist,”
With “liposome-boost collagen twist.”
A cream infused with “skin memory tech”—
(Just rub it on your aging neck).

“Epidermaflux Renewal Gel”
That swears it makes you hot as hell.
“Plankton-activated youth matrix,”
Co-created by Mermaids and Metrics™.

A “bio-adaptive stem cell brew,”
With algae plucked at dawn’s first dew.
“Quantum firming serum shield”
To fight the time your mirror yields.

But none of this, I humbly say,
Will keep old age and death at bay.
Your skin may gleam, your pores may hide—
But entropy still takes the ride.

So moisturize, you sweet old fool,
But know you’re just a wrinkly jewel.
Let laugh lines live, let grey hairs stay—
No cream will ever Botox time away.

[_Robert_Participant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End —In Memory of the Pope, 4/20 On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome, A holy puff drifted through sacred air. The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan— As incense mixed with something… dank and rare. JD approached, with scripture in his coat, Hillbilly psalms and MAGA beads in hand. The Pontiff blinked and clutched his aging throat, As “liberty” was hummed by a bluegrass band. “Take this,” said Vance, “and breathe it deep, old sage— A gospel straight from Rust Belt’s blessed soil.” The Pope exhaled, transcending earthly cage, While cherubs wept in papal olive oil. So mark this day, when Heaven rolled a scroll: The Pope got Vance’d… and reached his final bowl.

LOL. That’s a keeper.

The MAGA drummer in my old rock band was enrolled in an Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Plan, thanks to me. I walked in on him telling everyone that he was glad “Obamacare” would be going away.

I had seen video footage from MAGA rallies with people making the same mistake, but to witness it in person, along with the face-eating opportunity was priceless. The bass player beat me to it, but I seconded the fact and the drummer (with a very “bad-back” condition) looked very worried. Yeah, it really is that fucking stupid out there.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

That ballad only addresses superficial age spackling, not the prospect of replacing worn parts with your own personal stem cell-cloned “body shop.”

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Yes, “keep your government hands off my Medicare. Don’t you even think about socializing it”!

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Yes, If I were starting over, I would upload my genome to a server and get it to start running scenario based tests on it. That would give it time to run millions of tests to find the optimum “CTAG” string to make the best new parts.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Dress it up in a lab coat but it is still a plain old god-of-the-gaps argument.

What is James Tour’s hang-up about Abiogenesis?

Anybody who has taken Jr. High biology and chemistry (at least from my day) knows that living things have Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphurous, and Sulfur, all of which are nonliving Elements by themselves, which form Protooplasm, 20 Amino Acids, Nucleic Acids in DNA and RNA and Membranes.

And bones have Calcium, Blood has Iron to carry Oxygen, and anyone who takes a Multivitamin and looks at the label knows that living things need trace amounts of Iodine, Copper, Magnesium, Potassium, and Chromium, again all nonliving Elements.

Unless James Tour thinks life exists as some force that separate from the Elements that comprise living things, how else could life come about except by Abiogenesis?

And no, Abiogenesis is not only the long-refuted Spontaneous Generation. The latter is where complex organisms supposedly arise unexplained from nonliving or once-living things e.g. maggots from meat, rats from grain or bread, worms from mud, or bacteria from broth. These organism were shown to be previously there and attracted to their alleged sources.

Abioenesis as discussed today is where simple components of living things come together by Elements bonding in response to imputs of energy and over long periods of time forming simple organisms, which then eventually evolved to what lives today.

The fact that humans haven’t yet found all the answers or made complete organisms does not mean that Nature cannot do Abiogenesis or that God did it (Parenthetically, the book of Genesis said God creted life by speaking it from the void and made Man from dust, Sounds like a form of Abiogenesis to me.)

The fact that Rice University has James Tour and Harvard hosts James Tour to speak on a subject so far from his expertise to uncritical campus audiences more interested in practicing reverse Abiogenesis on Jews, Israel, and The Western World shows that these institutions are due from a nut-cutting.

• This reply was modified 4 weeks ago by  TheEncogitationer. Reason: Spelling and punctuation. Abiogenetically with a keyboard

[_Robert_Participant]

Yes, the god of the gaps steps in when they bring out the arguments from complexity, incredulity, and ignorance.

It tells us something, that the domicile of the gods went from the top of the mountain, then up into the clouds, them out into space and then finally some unknown supernatural realm.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doesn’t undermine the overwhelming evidence supporting evolution. It’s like saying, “We don’t know how the first car was built, so internal combustion engines must be false.”

A lot of this conflation stems from either misunderstanding—or more often, intentional misrepresentation—to create doubt in scientifically illiterate audiences.  Not knowing how life began doesn’t make evolution false—just like not knowing where the Vatican’s money goes doesn’t make it transparent.

I recently said to a Jehovah Witless: Genesis isn’t a science book. It starts with a talking snake and ends with a global flood. That’s mythology, not microbiology. If two penguins walked from Antarctica to Noah’s Ark and back then we’ve got bigger evolutionary questions that need answering!

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doesn’t undermine the overwhelming evidence supporting evolution. It’s like saying, “We don’t know how the first car was built, so internal com

That is, of course, another mistake of opponents of Abiogenesis. I was, of course, addressing how opposition to Abiogenesis goes against everything we know to be true of biochemistry.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need  can be discovered 🙂

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