I suppose you all have heard of the recent trade agreement between South Africa, Tibet, and the Netherlands, swapping cattle for birds, and known as the Gnu yak stork exchange...
[I'm not to blame. I saw it on the Dino-L list.]
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Yes, but you have perpetuated this most awful of jokes that I will have to remember to tell my kids when I get home! And for that I hold you responsible!
You know, if no thunderbolt strikes you from the heavens leaving just a scorchmark on the ground then there really is no God.
Either that or He has a sense of humour as appalling as yours...
A reason I am agnostic is that I cannot empirically choose between those two hypotheses... and yet I live on.