A comment from a friend

August 10, 2013 • 7:37 am

Another post that made it above the fold, but not to the comments. I love the closing:

I think you are an evolution FANATIC or TERRORIST. Why is that you can never see anything good in the Creationists. Though,the Evolutionaryts(scientists?) Can learn a lot from the religionists,vice versa. You should continue with your evolution theories to prove that the Intelligent Being does not exist to convince humanities,rather than pouring venoms and abuses on creationists. After all the Gorillas,monkeys and whales or your cats have not EVOLUTIONED to HUMAN BEINGS since their existence ’3 billion’ years ago? We are all ‘scientists’ and our job is to prove empirically all hypothesis before they become FACTS. You and your groups have not done that;so no need for your ‘Taliban’ behaviour. You need to learn a lot more,instead of you arrogating all knowledge to yourself.
From your friend,
ELEGBA, K.

Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Nigeria.

I’m totally going to reject evolution because I haven’t seen cats evolution into humans being since those cats existed three billion years ago.  Where are these transitional forms?

human cat

 

66 thoughts on “A comment from a friend”

  1. This is excellent news. We can use evolution theories to prove that the Intelligent Being does not exist. I didn’t think it would be so simple.

  3. You love the closing but I love the opening – “I think you are an evolution FANATIC or TERRORIST” as if this is something that ELEGBA, K. is mulling over, weighing the details of either definition and trying to decide between two columns of attributes. I wonder what your “friend” really thinks for passes for a fanatic or terrorist.

    As for the cat reference, maybe he/she has watched too many episodes of Red Dwarf and has been disappointed that cats haven’t become Cat.

    1. I loved Red Dwarf. From the moment Lister tasted the pile of grey powder and asked “What’s this?” and the computer said “That’s Petersen”. And it went downhill from there.

      Curiously, in its own warped way, it explored some quite unusual sci-fi concepts. (I was going to say ‘original’ but I know how sci-fi fans and readers of this site love to nitpick…)

  5. Wow, told off by someone with the mentality of a three year old.

    (Apologies to other three year olds)

  7. “After all the Gorillas, monkeys and whales or your cats have not EVOLUTIONED to HUMAN BEINGS since their existence ’3 billion’ years ago?”

    The speciation paradigm has been thoroughly dismantled in one fell swoop.

    1. Incidentally, the sentence you quote implicitly includes the meme “humans are the highest form of life.”

  8. I’ve also never seen an acorn grow into a giant oak tree, or a baby boy grow into an old man, but I would look pretty darn silly if I implied such things should be treated with skepticism. Because between my personal observations of human and tree growth and aging, and less-direct evidence, it becomes pretty damn obvious what’s going on.

  9. Well, I for one, have learned something from our passionate friend.
    I did not know that Teh Kittehz existed 3 billion years ago.
    Did you know that? I know I didn’t.

    1. Ceiling Cat has existed since forever. He only created the universe for the noms.

  12. Your “friend” might be on This Twitter which makes her a female [unless of course the photo is a 419 Nigerian scam]

    Elegba K Olayemi from Lagos. Twitter motto “its not fault..am jst me!” 🙂

    1. The ISP number of the comment tracks to London, but that doesn’t make it fraudulent. What worries me is the highfalutin word “arrogate” (used properly), which isn’t in keeping with the rest of the letter.

      3. “Arrogate” is quite consistent with ESL speakers using a bilingual dictionary for words they don’t know while trusting, often unwisely, their imperfect knowledge of English for the rest of the message

        Typing on a smartphone probably worsens the normal error rate too.

        1. Yeah, you have to make allowances for the awkwardness of using a phone. If I tried posting with one the results would be worse than Elegba’s.

          When they manage to produce a phone with a full-size 105-key keyboard I’ll buy one. Not sure how they’ll do it since it will probably require some fundamental violation of the fabric of spacetime…

          1. I have done quite well with an iPhone keyboard. Now that I have an iPhone 5 I use voice recording half the time, just like I am doing for this message, including the punctuation. 🙂

          2. My dad talks to his devices for text chats, etc., but I find I really hate talking to my devices. Somehow speaking is more effort to me than typing.

  13. Why is that you can never see anything good in the Creationists.

    How is it you can never say anything good about Ebola, you antimicrobiologist, huh?

  16. Give him/her some credit – indeed you haven’t yet established as a fact that cats evilutioned into human beings. Given your love for Felidae I’m sure you have tried.

  18. We are all ‘scientists’ and our job is to prove empirically all hypothesis before they become FACTS.

    You scientists get busy creating facts.

    1. I actually liked it too. Normally these things look somewhat creepy, but this one looked cute. I’d like to have a pet that looked like that.

  21. That comment is an embarrassment to all BlackBerry users. As a BlackBerry user myself I feel great shame.

  23. If it is from Nigeria, you might want to keep in mind that English is probably the writer’s second language.

  24. Tell me that’s a drunken joke.

    Please.

    Because, if it’s not some drunken joke, I’m going to bed & pull the covers over my head while I sob uncontrollably.

    1. Awww don’t despair. You need to slowly expose yourself to dumb asses so you aren’t so shocked when you see one in the wild. I consider this a gift from years in crummy schools as a child.

  26. I object! Mainly I object to the factoid that life evolved a mere 3 billion years ago, that somehow got confused with evolution of biological species.

    Life is at least 3.5 billion years old from various fossils that clusters up to that age. And I would think that the reevaluation of the Isua BIFs with microscale isotope analysis would convince most of at least 3.8 billion years age. (It convinced _me_, and I was a vocal sometime critic of the value of earlier analysis. But then again, I’m only an interested layman.)

    Darn trolls, can’t distinguish facts from factoids. Oh, I guess it is a prerequisite, as well as being annoying. =D

  27. OB joke:

    Also, if the rest of the world originated out of Africa, why are there still Africans?

  30. You would hope that a Nigerian of all people might think twice before accusing someone of being a “FANATIC” and a “TERRORIST”, given the atrocities that Boko Haram and similar groups commit on an almost daily basis in that wretched country. But sadly a sense of proportion is probably too much to hope for in a brain so deeply rotted by the religious mind-virus.

  32. Elegba-

    I suspect that if you got into a discussion with Rauf Aregbesola* on this, you would find that he agrees with Jerry. People like Aregbe are trying to move Nigeria forward, based on science. What has creationism ever done for Nigeria?

    *Governor, Osun State (who I had the pleasure of meeting a few months ago).

  33. Cconsidering the atrocities and ignorance rampant in Africa, I’m not suprised the citizens get desperate to feel better about themeselves.

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