{"id":2155,"date":"2017-08-04T18:47:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2022-02-16T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:13:43","slug":"can-paperclips-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"Can Paperclips Talk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 3<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Most folk believe that only human beings and parrots can talk, but that\u2019s just not true. Although paperclips are not very high on the intelligence scale (and while they don\u2019t actually form and speak words), they nonetheless can \u201ctalk.\u201d What then do they say?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Our form didn\u2019t \u201cjust happen.\u201d <\/strong>Men needed a means of temporarily holding pieces of paper together. Bill Middlebrook invented, designed, and patented us in 1899. He sought (and found) a specific gauge and temper of wire. He cut long pieces of wire into lengths of exactly 3-3\/4 inches. He then bent this piece of wire in just the right places to form us\u2014lowly and simple (but practical, if we may say so) paper clips. Multiplied billions of us have been formed since that first one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Our wire didn\u2019t \u201cjust happen.\u201d <\/strong>Some ingenious person discovered long ago that by melting a solid material dug from the earth he could make a strong, hard metal. Someone then discovered he could process this metal into steel. A manufacturer then produced the steel wire that forms us and sold it to our designer and maker. As the expression goes, \u201cThe rest is history.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>The ore from which our wire was made was also made. <\/strong>Some men with very large brains say that the ore \u201cjust happened,\u201d but even we of very little brain know that\u2019s just silly. If even we humble paper clips didn\u2019t \u201cjust happen,\u201d how could the ore out of which our wire was made \u201cjust happen\u201d? Others say the iron ore \u201ccreated itself,\u201d but that\u2019s even sillier. If <strong>we <\/strong>didn\u2019t make <strong>our<\/strong>selves (but one far more intelligent and powerful than we ever hope to be designed and made us), how could <strong>iron ore <\/strong>make <strong>it<\/strong><strong>self<\/strong> (its IQ and power are hardly better than ours)? Yet others claim that iron ore never had a beginning. Surely, they don\u2019t expect us to believe that one. If we paperclips <strong>had a beginning <\/strong>(as we did back in 1899), then it doesn\u2019t seem at all rational to claim that the raw material out of which we were made <strong>did not have a beginning <\/strong>(some of those human-types really have strange ideas, for all their acclaimed brilliance). While we don\u2019t have the brains to figure out exactly when our \u2018ancestor,\u2019 iron ore, was made, but we know it didn\u2019t create itself. Someone caused it to exist and to be where it was.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Yes, paperclips not only \u201ctalk,\u201d but they make sense\u2014far more sense than many reputed \u201cexperts.\u201d Some very smart men acknowledge the truth \u201cspoken\u201d by simple paperclips, but they remain in foolish denial of the same facts regarding our complex universe and ourselves. If paperclips can figure these matters out, why can\u2019t these \u201cgeniuses\u201d do so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>I wrote this article for and it was published in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, October 30, 2015.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Attribution: <\/strong>Printed from <em>TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 3[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] Most folk believe that only human beings and parrots can talk, but that\u2019s just not true. Although paperclips are not very high on the intelligence scale (and while they don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=2155\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  Can Paperclips Talk?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,130,54,110,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-creation","category-evidences","category-evolution","category-humanism","wpcat-91-id","wpcat-130-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-110-id","wpcat-92-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}