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Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:40 am

volcanoes?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:43 am

Smaller. MUCH smaller.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:28 pm

how about a puddle after rainfall? the water seemingly vanishes without ever reaching 100 degrees.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:48 pm

Hmmm, interesting, I didn't know that. That's strange. Not the answer I'm looking for though.

Paley describes a hypothetical instance of him finding one of these objects on the path as he takes a walk. His choice of object also inspired the title of a book by Richard Dawkins.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:00 pm

[quote="bagpuss"] well thats a very hard thing to thing about]

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:22 pm

Fugacity is the phenonmenon that explains the water evaporating without ever reaching boiling point (thanks to ITV's QuizCall for that one).

But as for this, I'm going to guess...

4 leaf clover.

Which is quite obviously bollocks, but a good starting point.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:42 pm

Nope. The object in question is mechanical, and enabled the world to be mapped reasonably accurately.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:18 pm

hmm. a sextant?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:40 pm

Nope. But you need one of these to be able to use a sextant properly.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:31 pm

lenses?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:06 pm

You probably have a slimmer, more advanced, possibly battery powered one on your wrist.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:24 pm

a clock then?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:41 pm

Close enough, a pocket watch. Damn, I thought that was quite an easy question. Must stop browsing Wikipedia at lunch and start playing HL2 again.

The basics of Paley's argument, which has been bastardised into the whole mad American "Intelligent Design" theory, is this: Out for a walk one day, he finds a watch on the heath. On observing the complexity of the watch, he deduces that it has a designer. He considers the eye to be as complex as the wacth, implying that the eye too had a designer, IE God. The "Watchmaker" from which Richard Dawkins got the title for his revival of Darwin, The Blind Watchmaker.

This argument has been annihilated in so many ways I could fill screens with it, so I won't. Over to you UP.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:21 am

righto.

(amongst other things) a welsh dragon is a sausage containing pork, leak [sic], chili [sic] and rusk. however, as of monday you will no longer be able to buy it. why?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:45 am

EU regulations which state that the food has to contain the food mentioned in the name, i.e. dragon?.

Same thing happened to Iron Brew decades ago, hence it was changed to Irn Bru.