# Stupidest Argument Someone Around You Has Made

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**Created:** [July 23, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-argument-someone-around-you-has-made/120363 "2002-07-23T10:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-argument-someone-around-you-has-made/120363/121 "2002-08-14T20:46:03Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*  
> \*\*Overheard between two other people: “Ben” was explaining the premise of **Jurassic Park** to “Adam”. Adam interrupted to say, “Wait a minute…you can’t just ‘fill in’ DNA!”
> 
> Ben: “That’s right; you can’t.”
> 
> Adam: “Well, why would someone write a book about it?”
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> Not dumb, just lacking in creativity, I think.
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> \*\*

Coincidentally (or, to annoy all of you, _ironically_ :p), those two names are mine and my brother’s.

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**Author:** ![loupdebois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e495f1/32.png) [@loupdebois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loupdebois)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-argument-someone-around-you-has-made/120363/122 "2002-08-14T21:32:40Z")

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(In-class debate, creationism vs. evolutionism… fundies aren’t the only sad ppl out there)

“Well, a lot of the species that were dinosaurs are still around… they just evolved into other animals… you can see the brontosaurus’ long neck in the giraffe, and a rhinoceros looks kind of like a triceratops…” :smack:

I closed my eyes, sighed quietly, and ripped the creationists to shreds in the next round, but MY GOD!!!

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