[extropy-chat] RE: Please tell us a tree story Spike

[Damien Broderick]

At 08:14 AM 8/31/2005 -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>Ah, the answer is that one was blown down, but its roots had been
>helping to balance the tree next to it, which was leaning into the
>wind. When the first tree fell, the second lost its anchorage on that
>side, and thus fell away in the opposite direction.

Typical godless reductionistic claptrap! In the view of the 64 percent of 
Americans who demand that Intelligent Falling Theory be taught in high 
schools to counteract atheistic physics, there is only one tenable 
explanation. The divine designer caused it to occur (*not* necessarily the 
biblical God; this is not a religious theory, there you go again), probably 
by standing between the trees and pushing hard and deliberately.

Damien Broderick