[Taxacom] on returning loans

[Tom Schweich]

It seems to me, though, that if God told Adam all the names of the 
plants and animals, Adam might not have understood their importance 
until after eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Therefore Adam 
may not have bothered to write it all down, until it was too late and he 
and Eve were driven from the Garden.  Perhaps if God had handed Adam a 
copy of the Encyclopedia of Life at the gate on their way out .....

Barry Roth wrote:
> Trust the TAXACOM group to turn this thread into a bioinformatics issue!
>  
> Barry Roth
>
> --- On Thu, 3/4/10, Bryan <pbryan.heidorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Bryan <pbryan.heidorn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] on returning loans
> To: "TAXACOM" <TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 1:34 PM
>
>
> The creator already gave all the names of everything to Adam. I do not know
> if the creator would be willing to fund this a second time after Adam failed
> to write it down.
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Stephen Thorpe
> <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>wrote:
>
>   
>> or that a face-to-face appeal to the Creator is the only method left to
>> secure funding for taxonomy!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Sara Lubkin <shl24 at cornell.edu>
>> To: TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>> Sent: Fri, 5 March, 2010 7:02:35 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] on returning loans
>>
>> Could it be that it was only after death that there was finally time to do
>> research?
>>
>>
>>     
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Richard Zander wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> No, no. The key phrase is "requested by dead people." If you died
>>>>> before requesting the loan, then this doesn't apply. If you
>>>>> requested the loan then died, it doesn't apply. You have to request
>>>>> the loan AFTER dying. This is the magic, spiritual element of the
>>>>> thread here, as introduced by the incantation: "wtf!"
>>>>>           
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