... Darwin's hypothetical intermediate variants - instead species appear and disappear abruptly, and this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each species ...replacement of one by another, and change is more or less abrupt.27 Life Emerged on Earth Suddenly and in Complex Forms When ...indicate that almost all phyla, the most basic animal divisions, emerged abruptly in the Cambrian period. An article published in Science magazine in...

... a little dude in HS who took judo and he was surprisingly effective at consistently beating much larger, stronger opponents. There seemed to be a majority of moves that utilized the opponent's inertia against himself. But I know that an abrupt knee to the groin works wonders on assholes. No belt required. Krav maga is probably the most efficient martial art if you want to learn something useful in the least amount of time.

.... No UFC for me. Too violent. Not old enough for Vietnam, and would have gone to Canada if I had been. I think all martial arts are a colossal waste of time. I tried a class when I was 8, and never felt like I was learning anything except how to stand in a line and scream "Hooh!" But I know that an abrupt knee to the groin works wonders on assholes. No belt required. -- ~ The Evil Tessmacher Coming Soon to a Kiosk near you!

... up the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, where the level of violence is now said to be higher than in Iraq. In July, Petraeus was approved by the U.S. Senate to head Central Command after Admiral William Fallon abruptly stepped down from the post in March, saying that reports describing him as at odds with the White House over how to deal with Iran had become "a distraction." About 144,000 U.S. soldiers are currently on the ground in...

... and advertising for another one. If you were any GOOD in bed, they'd stay. Do you know that Hickey was married twice? His second wife didn't tell him of her plans but one Christmas Day she abruptly walked out on him and never came back. She filed for divorce and married his HS math teacher...Brother Lloyd. His first wife died awhile after he divorced her because she had GAINED WEIGHT. Their daughter refused to hang ...

... woman and advertising for another one. If you were any GOOD in bed, they'd stay. Do you know that Hickey was married twice? His second wife didn't tell him of her plans but one Christmas Day she abruptly walked out on him and never came back. She filed for divorce and married his HS math teacher...Brother Lloyd. His first wife died awhile after he divorced her because she had GAINED WEIGHT. Their daughter refused to hang ...

... in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness. Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her. When then-Governor...

... hangs around briefly to affect the configuration of the new condition and thus provide a mold or *cause* for the persistance of "what was". That is, the old condition isn't instantly eradicated by an abrupt manifestation of the new. But at first empirical consideration, there seems to be no "old state" ghostly fused with the "new state". === The idea of cause and effect has its uses in common speech, but ...

... if the old condition hangs around briefly to affect the configuration of the new condition and thus provide a mold or *cause* for the persistance of "what was". That is, the old condition isn't instantly eradicated by an abrupt manifestation of the new. But at first empirical consideration, there seems to be no "old state" ghostly fused with the "new state". If it lingered, this is as metempirical as all the other moments of the past (in ...

... of it), then the steps of the process suffer from isolated discontinuity. Indeed, if *now* is the extent of being, then there's nothing regulating or ensuring that the "past" which memory exhibits even happened (abrupt, randomly modified memories in addition to a different *life circumstance* could have evolved over a sequence, similar to what happens eventually during dreaming). It's like a Boltzman Brain that doesn't know whether it's a ...