DeLepp, there is a kind of charming, dorky, Quaker vibe there (food no good, no booze until recently, no TVs ). The retreat itself is spectacular from a scenic perspective. The hikes and walks are wonderful but not to pay top money. Staying at a motel nearby would be perfectly fine and then just get a day pass.
“I mean our bodies are really amazing machines – I mean AMAZING and I guess I just believe something bigger than us had a hand in coming up with that idea!”
gem, the theory of evolution is not necessarily inconsistent with that. No shame in thinking that way. Impossible to prove or disprove, of course.
lol @ magical goo
good thing we can’t mate with dirty sweat socks.
“I think just the realization that we humans (as well as all animals) are really amazing “creatures”
made all the more so by the way it evolved, gem.
gam, have you ever heard of the recapitualtion Theory or “Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
DeLepp, there is a kind of charming, dorky, Quaker vibe there (food no good, no booze until recently, no TVs ). The retreat itself is spectacular from a scenic perspective. The hikes and walks are wonderful but not to pay top money. Staying at a motel nearby would be perfectly fine and then just get a day pass.
Evolution makes sense once things got going. But before that, I’m with Gem…
The Big Bang Theory…? Is that what we’re going with here?
“I mean our bodies are really amazing machines – I mean AMAZING and I guess I just believe something bigger than us had a hand in coming up with that idea!”
gem, the theory of evolution is not necessarily inconsistent with that. No shame in thinking that way. Impossible to prove or disprove, of course.
And one on organic chemistry and another on geology. Please. 🙂
RF! – haaa – not the hormones, I think just the realization that we humans (as well as all animals) are really amazing “creatures” – that’s all!
Out bodies are pretty amazing, but there is evidence going back a billion years showing how lots of tiny changes add up.