Name the baby Tapir!

[_Mercury]

http://www.belfastzoo.co.uk/newsandevents/namecomp.aspx

In celebration of the laughable apologetic reaching DCP has made in the past I suggest we flood the requests to name the baby Tapir "Dannyboy".

[_Daniel Peterson]

http://www.belfastzoo.co.uk/newsandevents/namecomp.aspx

In celebration of the laughable apologetic reaching DCP has made in the past I suggest we flood the requests to name the baby Tapir "Dannyboy".

I'm always amused when critics mock me for the proposal that the Book of Mormon was actually referring to a kind of tapir when it mentions "horses." They seem to think it was my idea.

If so, that simply reveals their ignorance.

Which (even if, in some cases, it's pretty redundant) is fine by me.

Incidentally, Dannyboy might have a fairly good chance at the Belfast Zoo, and I encourage all here to devote their lives 24/7, for the next while, to ensuring that the new little baby tapir does indeed receive that name. What a crushing humiliation it will be to me!

Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"

[_JohnStuartMill]

Human beings and gibbons are more closely related than tapirs and horses. Sorry, Dan.

[_EAllusion]

This is one of the if not the closest living relative of the elephant:



Yet if someone proposed this is the animal that was referred to in tales of Hannibal's assault on the Roman Republic I've read in English, I'd raise an eyebrow. Just sayin'

[_Mercury]

Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"

Seriously?

Come on now Dannyboy. Seriously?

[_TAK]

DB:

Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"

OMG!!!
Yet another slame dunk proof the Book of Mormon is true!!!

[_William Schryver]

I prefer this relative of the elephant, of which western-hemisphere specimens survived until at least 400 C.E.:

Gomphotheres

[_William Schryver]

DB:

Finally, I got a kick out of something on Mercury's linked news announcement: "Tapirs look like large pigs with long snouts, but their closest relatives are actually horses and rhinoceroses!"

OMG!!!
Yet another slame dunk proof the Book of Mormon is true!!!

OMG!!!

Yet another slam dunk proof that LDS apostates in general, and denizens of The Great and Spacious Trailer Park™ in particular, are among the most obtuse creatures currently burdening the surface of this planet.

[_Eric]

... the most obtuse creatures currently burdening the surface of this planet.

[_JohnStuartMill]

Will Schryver has murdered at least 50 people.

The article Schryver linked to says that gomphotheres didn't go extinct in South America until, "possibly", 400 CE. It's also possible that Schryver could have murdered 50 people over the course of his life so far, so, applying his error consistently, we arrive at the conclusion that he is a serial killer.

Illogic is neat, huh?