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filthy
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  03:01:52  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Grief and consternation at AiG, but not a whole lot of either at my house.
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Dr. Henry Morris has died
February 25, 2006



Dr. Henry Morris, founder and president emeritus of the Institute for Creation Research and the “father” of the modern creationist movement (especially with The Genesis Flood, which he co-authored in the early 1960s) had in recent days suffered a series of debilitating small strokes, and passed into the presence of his Creator and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday evening (February 25).

Don Knotts has also died. Of the two, "Barney Fyfe" is the greater loss.




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!


Edited by - filthy on 02/27/2006 03:06:58

HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  03:22:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Filthy, thank you for the news, sad that it is. There will never be another Don Knotts. Nervous Barney Fyfe with his one allowed cartridge in his front pocket. Anti-science nutcases like Henry Morris, sadly, will probably remain altogether too plentiful.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/27/2006 03:23:39
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Dave W.
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  05:37:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Darren McGavin also died on the 25th. "It's a clinker! That blasted stupid furnace dadgummit!"

- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
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Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too.
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pleco
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  07:15:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
I know - Don Knotss AND Darren McGavin!

"Nip it! Nip it in the bud!"

"Fraaaageeeeeleeeeeeeee!"

As to Mr. Morris: if he was right, he has the last laugh ;-). One thing we will never know - I wonder if at the end, when his brain was starved of oxygen, did he see the white light, or, because of decades of religious indoctrination, his subconscious played a joke and flash images of hell?

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
Edited by - pleco on 02/27/2006 07:21:41
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  14:40:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Dave W. added:
quote:
Darren McGavin also died on the 25th. "It's a clinker! That blasted stupid furnace dadgummit!"
Oh, he was good. I'll miss him, too.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  15:25:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
"When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data."

Henry Morris



One down…

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

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Randy
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  15:27:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message
Originally posted by filthy
quote:
Don Knotts has also died. Of the two, "Barney Fyfe" is the greater loss.






The two sides of the humor coin -- Knotts was naturally funny; but the I.G. dude was funny in a sad and pathetic sort of way.

"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."

"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  15:40:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Randy wrote:
quote:
The two sides of the humor coin -- Knotts was naturally funny; but the I.G. dude was funny in a sad and pathetic sort of way.
Yes, some people work hard to appear foolish for entertainment purposes, while others have genuine foolishness thrust upon them by a spiteful, mocking God.


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beskeptigal
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  16:37:45   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
And so has Dennis Weaver died. Boy there's been a rash of 'em dying recently. Sure makes one feel older when they go in bunches.
Edited by - beskeptigal on 02/27/2006 16:38:17
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Ricky
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  16:38:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Apparently, he was the department head of the Chemical Engineering department here at Virginia Tech. Kind of makes me feel dirty.

But it's still a loss of life, of which any is bad news. I still would like to see one of these guys to get a Darwin Award, cause if you have to choose your way to go, irony is a pretty good way.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  17:17:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
B. observed:
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And so has Dennis Weaver died. Boy there's been a rash of 'em dying recently. Sure makes one feel older when they go in bunches.
Very sad. I'll always most remember Weaver as Chester, Marshall Dillon's limping deputy in the long-running TV series, "Gunsmoke," a favorite show of my Dad and I long ago.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Randy
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  18:09:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner

B. observed:
quote:
And so has Dennis Weaver died. Boy there's been a rash of 'em dying recently. Sure makes one feel older when they go in bunches.
Very sad. I'll always most remember Weaver as Chester, Marshall Dillon's limping deputy in the long-running TV series, "Gunsmoke," a favorite show of my Dad and I long ago.





http://www.dennisweaver.com/

I was quite surprised a few years ago upon seeing a TV celebrity close-up on him. Weaver had quite a cool Colorado house built in out of recycled material. http://www.dennisweaver.com/howearthshipworks.html
Looks like it's for sale.


Surfing around his above site looks like he was really involved with the environment/humanity...
http://www.ecolonomics.org/ecolonomics.org/pages/ioe_home.html

"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."

"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  18:39:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Thanks for the links, Randy. It certainly appears Dennis Weaver spent his life well, and doing good that lives after him. Who could ask for a finer legacy?


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Randy
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  20:32:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message
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Originally posted by HalfMooner

Thanks for the links, Randy. It certainly appears Dennis Weaver spent his life well, and doing good that lives after him. Who could ask for a finer legacy?





http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1668633&page=1
Here's a bit more on Weaver.

"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."

"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/27/2006 :  20:42:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Thanks again, Randy. That was a very good article.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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