Here it is, like we said:
Penguins didn’t always boast tuxedo-like black-and-white markings, according to a new study. The discovery of the first ancient penguin fossil with evidence of feathers reveals the aquatic birds were once reddish-brown and gray.
The 36 million-year-old fossil represents one of the largest ancient penguins ever found. The bird would have been 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, and probably weighed twice as much as modern Emperor penguins, which average about 66 pounds (30 kilograms). Its long, grooved beak suggests that, like modern penguins, it hunted by diving for fish.
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It's truly shocking to see a story from Fox News that acknowledges the reality of evolution without qualifying it. And (so far) only one ignorant comment, though it's a crazy one:
"Before the Genesis flood, lifespans were several times longer. It's not surprising that various species could grow much larger. My question is this, did the man who found this discovery get promoted to bishop status in the church of Darwinism? Im sure with gene splicing and cloning capabilities today, someone will "discover " some odd "link" that will exalt them to the position of Pope. The Pope of hope, that there is no creator to judge mankind. "
Excuse me, I need to get my sunglasses out to handle all that projection.
Maybe we should let them teach Genesis in Science class. I doubt a tenth of these cretins have actually read it, because if you do any critical thinking while you do, it's the best argument for atheism there is. Except the part where Lot fucks his daughters. That's just hot.
Actually, Lot's daughters fucked him, which is even hotter.
Yeah, they gave him a roofie. And he still got it up twice! They must have smelled better than his goats.
In Catholic school, at least we were taught that some of the Genesis stories were not literal, but just intended as moral parables; though they only acknowledged the most blatantly ridiculous and disproven ones as metaphors.
It was thinking about just what the moral lessons the story taught were, and the realization that some of them were monstrous, particularly the story of Abraham and Isaac, that helped set me on the road to atheism (along with realizing women who got abortions weren't all murdering whores, and gay people not all mentally ill).
Yeah, but that's the Papists, and they are Satanists.
I personally like the people critiquing the article in Science, based entirely on the Fox News summary article. "Why are they just showing an illustration! Where are the actual fossils! It's a fraud!"
As if the article in the published journal couldn't possibly include information that wasn't included in the Fox News summary. And to think, as a society, we trust these people to drive cars, own guns, and vote.
"I personally like the people critiquing the article in Science, based entirely on the Fox News summary article. "Why are they just showing an illustration! Where are the actual fossils! It's a fraud!" "
I feel the same way about the Bible. Pics or it didn't happen/GTFO.
Come on, what about this one:
"Funny how everything evolutional is an artist rendition, Ugh Oh "
Just brilliant!
Ancient Penguin and Glenn Beck. Separated at birth?
Huh?? They may as well have said that the pterodactyl was the first penguin, except that somewhere along the way, it lost the ability to fly, changed colors, changed it's chemical makeup, changed its beak, changed its feathers, and learned to swim. Of course, that would mean Fox actually acknowledging that dinosaurs existed.
Are you implying that Joseph Smith and Jesus don't have T-Rex races in heaven?
Sure they do – but Smith prefers to ride bareback.
Wait a minute…which one of us is being literal about the definition of a "T-Rex race"?
I think I read that book. Sherman Alexie, right?
Fox News forgot to mention that Jesus rode them in the Jerusalem Rodeo and the Deseret News will report that Jesus saw them when he came to America after being crucified.
New fursona? No thanks, I plan to stick with my Butterstick get-up, as he is a VIP (Very Important Pooper) who stays classy among the Oreo-clad. All my costume needs now is a middle-aged, mid-Atlantic idle-wife with a soft spot for four-legged's and their multi-colored patties.
I think we should all dress as furries for our Wonkette Ball, then it wouldn't really be cheating if we all did whatever the hell it is that furries do, would it? I will be the short-ish badger in the corner.
I think the term you are looking for is "yiffing." DON"T GOOGLE IT!!
Bear.
I made that mistake after a girl at an SCA party offered me the experience. Not that I'm making a judgement on all SCA members as a consequence.
Musk Ox
Jeez, so the SCA still exists, and is on the Web, of course. Back in my day, you had to learn about them in the letters sections of raggedy sci-fi mags.
Gotta be more specific than "Bear", I'm afraid. I, for example, will emulate Oski as a 1950s BBOC (Big Bear on Campus) complete with cardigan. You are welcome to any number of other iterations.
LL, will you be the badger as washerwoman type? Or less anthropomorphic?
Yogi.
More adorable and cute , possibly in pin-up outfit a la Vargas era badgers.
Oh Lizzie, I always imagine you as Polly from Fawlty Towers, one of my teenage crushes. Hilarity ensues when Basil attempts to catch you sneaking the visiting American Basketball Player out of your room. (He could palm you with one hand, you know.)
Sorry nothing like Polly, the only American in the show, more Simone Signoret /Younger Judi Dench with some Diane Cilento. However , I am willing to play games with visiting American Basketball Player…..
Oh God, then I used to date a woman who looks like you back in the 90s! Funny.
Anyway, would you nurse me back to health after Bruce Lee kicks my butt in unreleased footage from "Game Of Death"?
You are always trying to heat us up aren't you? Just like my damned cat!
* sigh * (fur fetish)
Oh, artificial is just fine.
Reddish-brown and gray sounds like a post-disco bubblegum pop color scheme. Did they also wear their collars up and have big hair? Come on, science, this is important!
Yes, shockingly enough animals didn't always look like they do today – especially when the prior versions were slower, bigger and tastier than the current versions.
The stupid of the Fox News commentariat burnz, as alwyays.
I think it's great that penguins finally evolved the ability to piss off Fox News viewers/readers.
Next on Hannity: Sean debates a slow loris!
Gee. Thank you Riley. This is exactly the type of story my psychiatrist told me to avoid. Six months of five-foot penguin-attack nightmares begin tonight.
Avoid Pittsburgh.
Good general advice, nightmares or no.
penguins were reddish brown and gray until 5 gay guys came to their house, gave them a makeover and taught them how to make sushi.
I am pleased to find out that diving for fish has such a long history.
Why aren't Amercian students at the forefront of science learning? One reason: federal interference and promotion of the progressive agenda. One example, the major scientific breakthroughs are being made by scientists out of the "mainstream". Just this week, a Christian physicist named Jason Lisle, proved the theory of Anisotropic Synchrony Convention which explained fully how we can see light from stars supposedly billions of years old when the earth is actually 6,014 years old. But will this breakthrough be taught in our nation's high schools and colleges? Fat chance. That's why we should all be encouraged by Christine O'Donnell and her film clip from the nineties in which she uncovers the lie of evolution.
They most definitely exist. I've seen signs up for some big (at least 20 people, wandering into the light of day for the first time in months) SCA gathering here locally either this weekend or next. I'd be sure to go, if only I weren't too lazy to read the sign in its entirety to figure out the date. And if I didn't have whatever it is that I'll be doing that weekend.
What is SCA?
Well, after the EMP wipes out the American Way Of Life as we know it, and the Wal-Marts get looted out of their remaining stock of tube socks, we will have to thank these Lords and Ladies for preserving Europe's pre-17th Century textile knowledge: http://mktag.org/
Of course Chet Kincaid…and don't tell anyone but I went on a date with one of the Harlem Globetrotters when I was about 19!
The Society For Creative Anachronism. They're this bunch of folks who get together to re-enact pre-17th Century Europe, with Chivalry, Folk Arts and home-made armor. Kind of like a Renaissance Faire where nobody actually gets a paycheck. http://www.sca.org/
Shit, I thought y'all were talking about the Student Conservation Association, saving critters and all that. It kinda fit the topic. Fuck, I don't know if I could live in a world without microwave ovens, where everyone wears homespun fabrick clothing and chainmail, and all the women have hairy armpits/legs.
Oh that sounds repulsive…
I thought you were talking about the Southern Confederate Army….
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