Comments on: The missing link is a sense of irony

By: Michael Debono

Michael Debono — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:46 +0000

As soon as I expressed a certain surprise that a contribution to this blog was titled the missing link, certain correspondents promptly deduced that “missing link” could only refer to Darwin’s theory of evolution and jumped into the conclusion that I was not “au courant”. It does not matter.
In fact it referred to something else: the missing link that could reconcile two theories of the universe, the Graal (the missing link) that physics is looking for desperately, the process that would finally encompass the whole Universe and matter in one single equation, a theory of the whole that Garrett Lisi pretends to have discovered.(just look for Garrett Lisi on the internet to know more)
Referring to the Darwin theory of evolution, those following that theory are looking for something inexistent; something inexistent could not be missing. The creation of man by God could not be arrived at through Darwin’s theory.
As for asking me whether English is not a foreign language what could it be? Perhaps the question ought to have taken another form.

By: Michael Debono

Michael Debono — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:55:03 +0000

But the coincidence in timing is striking.
Chris I, thank you for your short explanation of the missing link in human evolution. I am always grateful to be reminded of what I have learned. Now I have only to write to the editor of a renowned science magazine that an article in one of the latest issue ought to have been given another title not to give rise to confusion.
There are individuals who are always open to learn something new and might have taken the opportunity to open the suggested site and learn something. Friend Chris I. pity if you didn’t; however if you did I am delighted to have given you the opportunity, unless of course you already knew to what I was referring.
As for Mrs. Daphne, her B.A. Archeology is a plus that is why I started to mention it instead of inventing odious nicknames. Understood? It is hoped that she is proud of it and not otherwise though she might have preferred another subject.
A certain Quisling felt offended one day when people started to greet him with a “Good Morning Mr. Quisling” all along the way where he passed. I hope it is not the same in our case.

By: Ganni Borg

Ganni Borg — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:49:36 +0000

Silvan,

Toni Abela has stated categorically that he will not be contesting any parliamentary seats. And he is a man of his word, unlike Dr Gonzi who has alreadsy broken umpteen promises since the 8th of March.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:54:53 +0000

Michael Debono: The missing link is a sense of humour.

By: chris I

chris I — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:19:39 +0000

@Michael Debono.
Whose a clever boy then?
Actually the original use of the term Missing link was with reference to the creature that combined aspects aof ape and man and represented the mythical evolution from ape to man as hypothesized by Darwin.
Daphne would obviously know this (having slugged her way through a BA in Archaeology,as someone pointed out) but she had the good grace to keep mum, something that our friend Michael should learn to do more often.
cheers

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:53:04 +0000

@Michael Debono – if you didn’t speak English as a foreign language, you would know that the missing link is a very common expression.

By: Michael Debono

Michael Debono — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:59:04 +0000

“The missing link!” What a title!
From where has this expression been copied or is just a coincidence.
Scientists think that the missing link has finally been discovered, (pity not by Lady Daphne) but by
Garrett Lisi. Only verifications are now required.
Try to enter the name Garrett Lisi in Google and the reader will know to what I am referring. The true missing link in the study of the Universe, in agreement with the aspects of theoretical and applied physics.
Sory if this is all Cinese for certain but it is worthwhile for others to be aware of what is happening outside our (Malta) little world.
Nothing to do with this site except the coincidence of the title with -probably- a great discovery.
That would be more interesting to the connoisseur than perusing this stale, nonsensical, without head or tale, monotonous, nauseatic site.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:49:17 +0000

Yes, David Buttigieg – this is a country with an insufficiently educated and undiscriminating population, where a former inspector in Lorry Pullicino’s force, who graduated magna cum laude but who can’t write properly in either English or Maltese, who is a walking-talking joke, can become deputy prime minister.

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:22:51 +0000

Yikes I just had a nightmarish thought – it’s bad enough imagining poodle boy as PM, can anybody imagine inspector gadget as acting PM?

By: Silvan

Silvan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:15:30 +0000

Hehe. I think we’re quite far from having true European Socialists in our party. I’m sorry but Joseph Muscat is not meant to lead. A true leader read the signs of his time. Clinton failed the clinch the Dems’ bid because she voted for the war in Iraq. Obama didn’t and that’s what made ppl see a true leader in him. Muscat wanted Malta out of the EU. And kept believing that until he went to Brussels and saw what the EU is all about. You don’t need to go to Brussels to realize what the EU is. You just need to have some common sense and he lacked it. And now he’s leader and wants to be a Prime Minister. Oh God. WHAT A JOKE OF A PARTY.