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Old 04-19-2010, 03:50 PM   #98
WT Sharpe
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We were down the pub a few weeks back and the conversation turned to the possible origins of life. We were having an enlightening discussion when an American lady sitting on a table nearby asked why we weren't including creationism as an explanation. I tried to point out that religion, and simply wanting to believe things, doesn't necessarily provide a good scientific theory. She definitely didn't agree.

Oddly while sitting in the same pub last Friday night, a ghetto blaster (remember those?) about 30 yards away was blasting out the voice of an gospel preacher! We couldn't hear ourselves talk so I went over to politely ask if they could turn it down and was almost attacked by a young crew hanging out in the shadows by the African gospel church. I didn't know whether to fight, laugh or run for it! Weird.
I was working one day with one other fellow from our shop near a man who was playing the religious station at full volume in a not so subtle attempt to inflict his religious beliefs upon all within earshot. I simply adopted the attitude of grin-and-bear-it, but my workmate cracked me up. In a voice loud enough to wake the dead, he turned to the fellow and said, "****! I hear enough of that **** in Church every ***-****ed Sunday!
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