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2016-03-04 Science & Technology

Scientific paper sez the human hand was designed by a 'Creator' sparks controversy

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 IMO, Plos is yellow press of scientific journals. It's where all the kzinrettes (of both genders) inflicted on us by affirmative action/collegiality publish their brilliant (due to pissing against the wind) theories.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-04 04:33|| 2016-03-04 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 We can't figure it out -> magic.
or
We sort of kind of explain it but it involves forcing the universe into a really really complicated Ptolemaic model, even then bits and pieces don't quite fit.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-04 08:33|| 2016-03-04 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Or it came from a million years of flippers grabbing tree branches.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-04 09:15|| 2016-03-04 09:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Or maybe they are right. The human hand was designed by The Creator.

Posted by jvalentour 2016-03-04 09:46|| 2016-03-04 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 God, Garden, gorilla, and gimmick:
If He is the monkey we mimic,
No wonder we're handy,
The better, when randy,
To swing down and pluck Charlie Dimmock.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-03-04 16:22|| 2016-03-04 16:22|| Front Page Top

#6 To paraph former POTUS BUSH41 = Gee whizzzz, I dunno, I once a childhood dream or vision where I saw a Giant Hand [God = Allan?] hold the entire Earth + Milky Way in its palm, does that count???

One must listen to Madonna's Videos-Music to find out what God did next.

But I digress ... ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-04 19:52|| 2016-03-04 19:52|| Front Page Top

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