God shows his displeasure in quake

[WaldoMcFroog]

Since we know from televangelists and other such folk that so-called natural disasters are a punishment from God for homosexuality or atheism etc, would anyone care to speculate what has got God's goat this time?

Given that the only person to be seriously injured seems to be a student whose legs were crushed by a falling chimney, is it possible that God either hates people who can walk or people attempting to educate themselves.

Other options are that He's objecting to mild blasphemy (Gadzooks and Bl00dy) or possibly the amount of sarcasm on the AB.

[keyplus90]

Nature does not do anything without the will of God. Whether it is Africa or America. He knows the best, when and where he has to send reminders.

Waldo- By the way I am still waiting for the answer to my question that according to you we (Human and Monkeys) are from the same ancestors. Who were those ancestors?

[~write~path~]

I can't help myself.

REMINDERS for what???

[keyplus90]

Muslims are as much guilty as non Muslims if they are not abiding by the laws of God. By just being a Muslim you are not safe from the wrath of God. Until you do not submit your will to God and do what he has asked you to do.

[keyplus90]

Write path for you it is very easy because it is in your name. Reminders to the Right path. That�s what it means.

[naomi24]

writepath, you really made me laugh there. Chomping at the bit! (Can't help thinking I wish you hadn't succumbed though). :o)

[~write~path~]

I'm afraid I've wandered off the path - writely or wrongly (sorry) - as I have no idea how the 2 are connected.

If you have some form of religion ('one' rather than 'you' - I'm not poking you with a stick - just puzzled) then I can understand that you might have a 'path' to follow. BUT I'm really not understanding the whole earthquake/disaster link.

You (now I'm poking you with a stick!) are saying that an earthquake is a reminder to what? STAY on the right path? How so?

[~write~path~]

Sorry naomi24!

I held back as long as I could.

But when a girl needs an answer... she needs an answer now!

:0/

^That's me thinking... It ain't a pretty sight.

[naomi24]

I'm still laughing! Thanks for that writepath - that's made my day!

[China Doll]

If the quake destroys the right path then how can you stay on it? Is there another route?

[naomi24]

Well, you can't stay on it if you're dead, that's for sure.

[keyplus90]

That is the reason God has given you the will to change your path before you are dead. And death does not knock on your door. So better think about that seriously than poking me with a stick. Poking yourself would benefit more.

[Octavius]

People should not go around poking themselves, it could lead to blindness, purgatory, or sometimes Croydon which is even worse. Everyone gets on better if they poke others, in a nice way. Let he without a stick cast the first poke. And let him poke unto others the way he himself would like to poked. But not with sticks. Or cucumbers.

[China Doll]

What about bananas? I believe bananas were mentioned the other day.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Keyplus, he was called "ddmiw4fiwfmwofdvwro�.

Hope this helps.

Oh, alright...

The common ancestor is 'Catarrhini', a taxonomolical sub division of the 'Haplorrhini' clade, which existed 40 million years ago.

[~write~path~]

WHAT?

Don't be so rude. My stick analogy was extremely friendly in nature - hence the "!", you petty warbler.

Honestly, I asked a GENUINE question because I was GENUINELY curious.

More fool me for giving you a platform.

Luckily, I know exactly WHAT path I am on - hence the name - and it has nothing to do with random theories about ODD 'reminders'.

My own spirituality allows me to be considerably more friendly to strangers.

Perhaps you should try it.

It's a big stick, so watch out.

:0o

[WaldoMcFroog]

"taxonomological" - apologies.

[keyplus90]

And who produced this taxonomological, and what did it look like.

[keyplus90]

Sorry I meant to say taxonomological sub division of catarrhini

[WaldoMcFroog]

Catarrhines have narrow nostrils that face downwards and have the dental formula:

2.1.2.3
2.1.2.3

giving 32 teeth.

Catarrhines are diurnal and generally much larger than platyrhhines. There are many more terrestrial catarrhines than in the other primate infraorders. They all have flat nails on their digits and members of the Cercopithecoidea superfamily have ischial callosities. The tails of catarrhines are not prehensile and, when present, generally serve as balancing organs.

It's the work of many scientists.

For information, I do not have or pretend to have an exhaustive knowledge of every branch on the descent of life, and have no intention of going back and back and back until you catch me out, not least because I freely admit I'd simply be cutting and pasting off other websites anyway.

The information is widely available (even use Wikipedia if you can't be bothered to find anything more credible) and I seriously beg you go and actually read it rather than implying that my personal ignorance is any reflection on whether evolution is credible. For reference, I'd recommend the same primer I suggested to Sherman: Carl Zimmer's Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea.

[keyplus90]

Thanks for that. I appreciate that.