Wasp Larvae Feed on Zombie Roaches

TheUploader writes "The story leaves nothing to embellish: The wasp, Ampulex compressa, has evolved to inject a toxin into a specific part of a roach's brain, turning it into a zombie. The wasp then leads the zombie roach into the wasp's nest, lays eggs inside it, and waits for its young to hatch, who will then go on to do the same to more roaches."

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Re:Evolved

[MyLongNickName]

Ah yes... STFU. Brilliant. I should have realized this before. Sorry for wasting your time.

I KNOW I KNOW OOO I KNOW

[technoextreme]

Now how do we get one into Bush/Gates/[insert your favorite villain here]?

Pray to god the wasp evolves yet again and feeds on this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7491302/

Re:Mode parent down

[Hurricane78]

I guess you got modded offtopic because poeple did not understand that you meant that creating a debate is exactly what those ID-idiots want, and that there is no debate, because only one of them two sides is a theory and only one side is provable. PERIOD.

So even *talking* about ID is pretty damn stupid. It's not worth thinking of it for more more second for everyone with half a brain. (Of course this only makes sense to poeple with at least half a brain. But how a wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. First he'll drag you down to his level, and then he beats you with experience")

I repeated the core problem of all this often enough: The more poeple we are, the less intelligent every single being has to be. And the industry plus the "not caring, but complaining" mentality resulting from this are the motor that accelerates it even more via a feedbaack loop.

Re:More proof..

[IamLarryboy]

" ... we were created in god's images. As the old saying goes, we hurt the ones we love. So, god must do the same ..."

Your argument as I understand it including implied elements:

Christians claim, "God is good."
We also claim, "Humans are like God."
Humans are bad
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Therefore
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Christianity is ridiculous because both claims cannot be true.

However one of your premises is false and your argument fails. We were created in Gods image. That does not imply that we remained in that state. Infact it is a central tennet of Christianity that we did not remain in that state. That we are fallen, or bad.

As an aside, far from your intention of dismissing Christianity you have explicitly acknowledged one of its central premises. That is, humans are inherently bad.

Re:Evolved

[MyLongNickName]

I am not an IDer. Intelligent Design is not science.

That being the case, you, along with the other people who have jumped to this conclusion about me have revealed something about yourself. You are hypersensitive about criticism, or even questioning of your beliefs. You are no better than the people who assume to world was created 6,000 years ago and want to ban any other kind of teaching.

Though I am not an IDer, there are many things that occur in nature that make you go 'hmmmmm'. When you need to take baby steps to evolve, but you see something in nature that appears not to be reachaable through baby steps (individual steps seem to create a disadvantage to the organism). In fact, alternate scientifc theories have tried to account for this by arguing that there are periods of "hyper evolution"... periods were extreme mutation rates occured, giving the opportunity to make multiple mutations in short periods. Not sure how scientifically sound the theory is, but it does show it is not just IDers who think the theory needs some refinement, or better understanding.

Yet, if someone questions current theory, they are shouted down.

Re:Awsome!

[failure-man]

In postmodern Washington prostitute whores you!

Re:More proof..

[bhiestand]

A loving one. And remember, we were created to love him, not to do everything he says. (note: loving him is one of the things he says to do) After all, if he's omnipotent, do he need someone to shine his shoes?

Right, so why does Mr. Perfect get so lonely he has to create a whole planet filled with warmongering humans to love and worship him? That doesn't make any sense. That'd be an imperfection. Even my ex can go a day without somebody telling her she's great!

Furthermore, if he really wants everyone to love him, why doesn't he quit fucking with society and come down and speak to us from the clouds or something. Or as like a 100' marshmallow man! Something that'd let the entire planet know, beyond any doubt, that he exists, as well as what he wants society to do. And while he's at it, tell him to bitch slap Pat Robertson and Usama Bin Laden.