Charles Pompuss travels all over the world buying expensive pieces of art, gems, and antiques to add to his collection. each time Charles negotiates a price for and item, he insists on wearing dark sunglasses, regardless of the lighting conditions in the room. What is the reasoning behind Charles' peculiar behaviour?

i will answer everyones answer

He's blind?

no

My initial reaction (and this isn't a very riddle-like answer) is that is simply to hide his eyes and give him a psychological advantage. If he is negotiating then it would aid him if the other person can't see his eyes (probably freak them out too!)

you kind of have it right, when negotiating if there is somthing that you want then your puples become diaolated, and that will make the othor negotiator crank up the price

If a bird hatches from an egg, then why do we still have eggs? If ice is made from water, then how can we still have water?

because birds lay eggs, men dont lay monkeys. cuz water melts, men dont melt into apes

The monkeys and apes we see today evolved from the same ape we evolved from. Just as many different types of sparrows have evolved, and continue to evolve, on the galapogas islands from the one base species.

so then shouldn't there be like a missing link on the galapogas islands then?

My answer didn't have anything to do with missing links. I believe the term "Missing link" refers to a gap in the evolutionary ladder, for example many believe that modern day birds evolved from a species of dinosaur. Fossils had been discovered of a bird like dinosaur, and a feathered bird with many chracteristics of that dinosaur, but they had not found any fossils which showed the transformation from one to the other; ie the "missing link". Recently fossils have been discovered of a feathered dinosaur which some scientists believe proves this transformation. Anyway that is what I understand a missing link refers to, in the case of the sparrows on the Galapogas it is fairly clear that the subspecies of sparrows with different habits and characteristics evolved from a single species. From memory I beleive that the species that all the different sparrows evolved from still exists, the subpecies simply exploit food sources and environments that were inaccessible to that sparrow. I was trying to give a simple comparison to explain how the evolutionary theory says that man and modern day monkeys and apes evolved from a common ancestor. If I were more knowledgeable on the subject I'm sure I could give a much more succinct answer but as I am not, this will have to do... if you want more detailed info you will have to do some of your own research. But I hope this answers your question.

those birdlike dinosaur fossils were the Chinese gluing a tail skeleton on a bird skeleton

i'm not saying that anything else in particular is true, but science and math have proved evolution wrong numerous times in numerous cases

take the human eye. it is too complex to have evolved. take one part out and it doesn't work. it can't have evolved from an ape's eye.

and most of the links between apes and humans were glued together from different skeletons because scientists don't like the religious implications when they can't prove evolution

they're scared of a world with any metaphysical aspects

kind of sad, but i can't blame them. it is kind of scary. i just wish they'd be objective and always tell the true facts. my facts came from less than prominent sources.

anyway. not trying to start a huge argument here. just thought you might find it interesting.

geology: things such as Grand Canyon more likely carved by huge amounts of water in a short time than one little river over millions of years; "fossil levels" or geological levels or whatever they call them i can't remember are pure fallacy; most soil is deposited in layers horizontally not vertically

mathematics: EVOLUTION IS MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE




i'll post more later cause i have a lot of facts but right now my mother is yelling at me i must go

The simple answer to riddle b
Is really very plain to see.
Evolution is plain wrong,
Though I can't site why in sing-song.
In other words we didn't evolve;
Give us another riddle to solve.

So not to blow his poker face’ his eye’s will give away his intentions.

Perhaps he is an albino celebrity.

Think that riddle's already been answered.

Bizarrely this forum seems to have changed into a discussion on evolution. What else could we talk about? The weather? Our favourite colours?

It never really was about "riddles" in the first place. No one seems to be able to answer mine, why don't you guys put your brains into action at "A riddle game without a name"?

i just solved it go check