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Top 10 Evolutionary Adaptations
oneill40 writes "The New Scientist has an interesting article up listing the Top 10 most amazing things to have evolved, including sex, death, the eye, language and parasites!" From the article:"Sponges are a key example of multicellular life, an innovation that transformed living things from solitary cells into fantastically complex bodies. It was such a great move, it evolved at least 16 different times. Animals, land plants, fungi and algae all joined in." J adds: Number four, Language, got a careful look from Carl Zimmer a while back. It's Pinker vs. Chomsky, winner take all, pass the popcorn!
It's a double-edged sword. Human evolution has given us American English, by far the most robust and versatile human language; and it also has given us French, a guttural cow-sounding noise which can't be used to express complex thoughts.
Sorta like the difference between perl and MS batch.
As opposed to public schools, which would have you believe evolution is infallible, and anything that teaches otherwise is automatically false.
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And, moron. There is no argument. Any survey of the evidence quickly reveals that creationsim is false, it's proponants are nursing deep seeded delusions they need to have a sense of the world and their place in it, evolution is quite real, and occasionally proceeds at a very rapid pace.
Yes, and birds can fly. Oh my God, what was HE thinking not giving us the best of EVERYTHING?
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Yes. They're all fucking morons.
It really sucks how what could be an interesting discussion keeps getting hijacked by anti-science religious people.
Let's stick to the topic of this top ten list, and not let things devolve thanks to the creationist weirdos who, for some unknown reason, continue to frequent a technical/science-oriented website.
Ok, I dont think Evolution is a load of crap, nor am I what you would call "religious".
I do believe in god, and I also believe that evolution and "creationism" are not mutually exclusive.
That aside for the moment, the thing science needs to work on is not "make it easy for those retarded christians", what science needs to work on is its consistency.
When I was growing up there was a dinosaur calle dthe Brontosaurus. Now, at one field trip there was a gentleman in the audience who asked the PhD toting paleontologist about some....oddities, the paleontologist then when on to verbally strip this man of any dignity he might have once had and proceeded to ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT DEFINITIVELY debunk the idea that this might not be a real creature....two years late, guess what "oops, we fucked up, no such thing". And I hope somewhere that gentleman found that scientist and punched him in the face.
Moral of the story?
There is SO much science CANNOT answer, so much that is hotly contested, so much that is completely unknown and based SOLELY on "theory".
Yet getting the vast majority of evolution humping scientists to admit that they don't know, for example, where the universe came from, what caused the big bang, that they might be wrong on certain aspects, is nearly impossible.
The problem on BOTH sides is that nobody is willing to admit that they might not have it just right, because the other side will take that as blood in the water and they will jump all over them.
Me, personally, I don't KNOW where we came from. I am perfectly willing, however, to entertain the notion that god set all of this up, kicked off the big bang, and it has evolved from that intial action ever since.
It is not, in my opinion, impossible for a being that is supposedly all powerfull, to predict with at least some accuracy, that if I begin this process, with these ingredients, i will eventually produce these results. humans will come into existence, etc. etc.
The day you can scientifically and without ANY chance of being wrong explain EVERY single gap in evolution, and where EVERY single thing came from, and futhermore what CAUSED the big bang to take place, then we will talk.
In the meantime we are just a bunch of arrogant little creatures in something far to big for us to currently understand running around schools and websites swearing up and down that we do, in fact, know the answer to life, the universe, and everything (in theaters April 29th!).
Religion and science are very similar in that they are both followed by naive, arrogant, little people who claim to know alot more than they really do, and who are alot more resistant to rational thinking than any of them would admit.
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Dishonest evolutionist tactic #349: put words in to the mouth of the creationist.
I was, of course, responding to the parent's incinuation that creationists are idiots, otherwise, " of course they would see the glorious light of evolution!"
"Of course", as you would propose, "no legitimate biologist who studied after the brilliant discoveries of the all-knowing Darwin would deny what he proclaimed!", following one of the greatest myths of evolutionist propoganda. Perhaps you should write universities from which the following creationist scientists received their degrees and complain:
Dr. Johan Kruger, M.Sc in animal reproductive physiology and a Ph.D. in nematology.
Dr. Duane Gish, Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Kenneth B. Cumming - Professor of Biology, B.S. Tufts University, M.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. Harvard University.
Raymond G. Bohlin, B.S. zoology, M.S. population genetics, University of Illinois, North Texas State University, Ph.D. from the University of Texas.
Dr. Gary Parker, B.A. Biology/Chemistry, M.S. Biology/Physiology, Ed.D Biology/Geology from Bell State.
How in the world a man can come out of a biology/related doctorate program of a major secular university and still hold a creationist viewpoint probably seems incredible to you, and I can just imagine the excuses you'll respond with. Of course, your response will contain nothing more than the usual "none of them have provided any evidence supporting creationism, either!", to which I would respond, "of course you would say that, because that's exactly what you want to believe". To which you would reply "I don't believe anything, I just follow the facts of science", ad. infinium. Spare me.
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I wouldn't duck. Creationists deserve to be laughed at and ignored in equal measure.