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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Those amazing flightless bees
Message-ID: <647@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 12:14:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 12:14:12 1985
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In article <41500005@ur-univax.UUCP> stro@ur-univax.UUCP writes:
>I do not know much about these 250 birds, so perhaps someone can enlighten
>me: How do we know these birds flew, anyway.  Just because they had wings?

A better question is: how do bumble-bees fly? (You know, the big fat ones!)
Last I heard, nobody could "scientifically" explain their aerodynamics. This
is living proof of "catastrophic" evolution!

You see, bumble-bees are piloted by small elves. The elves are magic and can
make them fly at will. The problem is that the elves live off the fumes of 
burning leaded gasoline. Here's the clincher: in a few years, all the cars that
burn leaded gas will stop running - so there will BE NO MORE LEADED GAS! This
will, of course, spell death for the elves. The bumble-bees, without their
elven pilots, will drop like flies! 

The funny thing is, that a few years after that, some stupid evolutionist is
going to pick one up and say "these bugs died because they were too big to
fly." Just goes to show you...

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal
	Have they not suffered enough?"

from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_