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That makes my heart hurt. I bet those beautiful cabinets are going, too. You've got a hard job, Flipper.

Is there a mix of really nice and really bad paneling?

Comcast is supposed to be adding a bunch of HD channels soon. I noticed last night that TCM was just black for several hours.

Can we play Hungry Hungry Hippos? That's Alanis Morissette from "Dogma". She played God (along with Bud Cort).

Then I don't understand what you mean by "respect". The term "wacko" was taken from Highway6's post, and used to demonstrate that not every Christian shares his view. I meant no disrespect, and didn't realize I had disrespected anyone.

I don't know. I know a lot of them say the Bible is the literal word of God and they are obliged to obey it. It seems inconsistent for them not to kill gay people on a regular basis. Are there any Christians out there who can tell us what is stopping you?

Very James Bond super-villain.

It's better than Cancun. There aren't drunk girls throwing up on your shoes.

Really? Because some wacko wrote that in the Bible. See Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." A lot of Christians believe that isn't the word of just any wacko, but the literal word of their god.

Luckily, I stopped smoking about 10 years ago. I wonder what 10 years of nicotine gum does to someone?

Thank you for doing your part to increase decency. I'm a super-sanguine, easy going fella, but rude drivers are one of the few things that raise my ire. It's selfish, mean and counter-productive. There was a recent news article about the traffic patterns of ants. Someone figured out that ants make better time than people even when their paths are more congested because they are patient and give up the right of way more often.

We went Sunday and I hated it. The park is way too popular now. All of these improvements have brought out the worst sort of people, the kind that breathe and move about and park. Four or five years ago we could go on a nice Sunday afternoon and there were 1/3rd the number of humans there. The bridge was ugly and we saw a duck commit murder. My wife was upset by it, but we don't know the whole story. The dead duck could have killed the other duck's father, for all we know. Oh, and if you're going to look at the zoo's red panda ("The Cutest Animal In The World!"), don't bother. It's just a raccoon.

It's logically inconsistent to say that both consistency and inconsistency in biological forms are evidence for a single creator, unless that creator is a prankster.

It isn't logical to say that whale fingers show the consistency of a single creator, but squid eyes show the inconsistency of an all powerful creator. If inconsistency is evidence for a creator then consistency isn't. You can't have it both ways. Competition is unavoidable. All life is in competition with all other life because resources are limited. If I eat that cabbage then no one else can eat it. If a bird has two offspring and they aren't identical, then one of them will have a slightly better chance at survival and reproduction, increasing that childs genes' chances to multiply. Over multiple generations you see the genes that get themselves copied the most thrive, while the other genes fail. There is no "need" to evolve. It's just the inevitable outcome of the math and physics. As long as there is replication, variation and limited resources, evolution happens.

You can't have it both ways. Either whale fingers are evidence for a creator and squid eyes are evidence against it, or vice versa. If you're going to say that the creator makes everything the same way except when he doesn't, you really haven't provided any evidence for a creator. Geography has a lot to do with it. So does the living part of the environment, i.e. the other individuals trying to survive in the same area.

If all of his creations had similar features that might make sense, but they don't. Compound, camera-like eyes, for instance, seem to have evolved at least twice. Why wouldn't the designer just use the same eye design for all eyes?

Why would a single designer explain whale fingers? Or are you saying that the single designer is a real prankster and wants to trick us by filling biology with evidence for evolution?

And without evolution's elegance, biology is just confusing. If you get rid of evolution you're left with a multitude of unanswered questions. That's why it inspires so much passion in its defenders. There's so much evidence pointing directly at evolution that it seems obvious now, like we should have figured this out long before Darwin.

I thought the exact same thing when I read that post. I think it says more about you and me than it does about TheNiche, though.

Unless they stopped believing in god(s) because of what they found via science, which is frequently the case. I was raised as a Christian and believed wholeheartedly until I was 14, when I realized I couldn't reconcile what I had learned from science with what I had been told to believe since I was born. I didn't set out to impose a godless world view on anything; I accepted a godless worldview because it makes more sense. And the intention of the scientist doesn't really matter in the long run. A scientist can set out to prove or disprove the existence of gods, and if the theories can be tested and the experiements reproduced, then they are scientifically valid. The author's intention is of no importance at all.

I had a few Shiner Blacks a couple of weeks ago. They had them at the Randall's at the corner of Westheimer and Shepherd. Very tasty. On the dark vs light thing, I like good beer, no matter what color it is. Guinness Extra Stout or Asahi Super Dry, if it's yummy I'll drink it.

But the school has taken a stand if it only singles out this theory and those believers. You can find people around the planet who will disagree with vast chunks of scientific knowledge. That's a good thing to know, but it isn't germane to a biology class. You could fill a semester or two of comparative religion just studying the way religions diverge from science. But there's only one popular theory right now. Belief in a literal Genesis isn't a theory, and it isn't even very popular. How can a school stop a Christian from making a decision?

I don't understand why you question my statement. If the economy can't support it, then sprawl will stop. The price of gas isn't the only factor in that equation. New transportation and/or communication technology can quickly make the price of gas irrelevant. I'm not saying peoples' minds won't change, just that they haven't, on average, and I don't see them changing any time soon. And I'm not convinced of the "danger". Correct. They could be diametrically opposed to their parents. Stranger things have happened. But why not let them set their own policy?

It seems to have been dictated by "Stephen J. Ewbank, executive vice president of Planned Community Developers, Town Square's developer". That's a big clue that it's a press release.

Article or press release?