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Tricky

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Well, Johnny Hart is at it again. In the March 14 "BC" strip he resurrects one of the tired old excuses that creationists like to pull out. This one is, if not for the "great flood", how did marine fossils come to be at the tops of mountains? Of course, this is thouroughly explained by tectonics and indeed it is very good evidence against young-earth creationism. But Hart even though he gives a thumbnail sketch of basic evolutionary principals, seeks to then discredit science with his final "bon mot". I can only hope that kids actually do ask that question in school so that they can learn how orogeny works. Sadly, many will go away thinking they have a pat answer to evolution, and will be encouraged in their ignorance by Hart and his ilk.
 
And what's this with "humans are the most complex form of life" nonsense? Frogs genomes are what, eight times larger than ours? Humans are quite simple and straightforward - insects that undergo metamorphosis are complex.
 
Wrath of the Swarm said:
And what's this with "humans are the most complex form of life" nonsense? Frogs genomes are what, eight times larger than ours? Humans are quite simple and straightforward - insects that undergo metamorphosis are complex.
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Even from a "design" point of view, humans are so hodge podge. We have a host of unecessary parts that do nothing. We have a lot of parts that fit badly and give us problems throughout our lives. Our eyes have evolved badly.

I just think people don't like to accept the fact that we are, in a very literal sense, very close to Rats and Hyenas. We're an opportunistic species with a few specializations that allow us to mooch off of pretty much anything. We can thus thrive.
 
Even if the religious nonsense were stripped out of the comic, it would still have the dullest humor of the Sunday Funnies I've ever seen...
 
Wrath of the Swarm said:

And what's this with "humans are the most complex form of life" nonsense? Frogs genomes are what, eight times larger than ours? Humans are quite simple and straightforward - insects that undergo metamorphosis are complex.
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Yes, but are you quite sure that humans don't go through a metamorphosis?
 
Upchurch said:
Physical metamorphosis? Of the complexity that most insects go through?

Fairly certain.
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I'm open to the idea that Iachuss may still be in his pupal stage...
 
Iacchus said:
Yes, but are you quite sure that humans don't go through a metamorphosis?
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Yes... if you define the word loosely enough.

Lessee, it means change in form.

Well, An infant or a haploid cell is hardly allometric with an adult now is it?

There you go.
 
neutrino_cannon said:

Yes... if you define the word loosely enough.

Lessee, it means change in form.

Well, An infant or a haploid cell is hardly allometric with an adult now is it?

There you go.
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Come again? :p
 
Upchurch said:

Physical metamorphosis? Of the complexity that most insects go through?

Fairly certain.
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Oh, I'm fairly certain of that too. But, are you fairly certain that she's not pregnant? :D

And what do they say about truth being stranger than fiction? How bizzare man ... How bizzare ...
 
Iacchus said:
Come again? :p
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We go through changes of form, though not of the type or to the extent that insects, most famously lepidoptera, do.

Look at the proportions of a an infant, or a sperm cell for that matter, and compare them to an adult human. I am glad that as a teenager, my head no longer constitutes 50% or thereabouts of my mass. Of course, now it's my legs but that's another thread.

Of course, I doubt that's what you meant. Is it absinthe or opiates today?
 
Yes, but are you quite sure that humans don't go through a metamorphosis?
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Well, someone did--Caligula. He became a god. He said so, and I don't think anyone said otherwise.
 
Iacchus said:
Yes, but are you quite sure that humans don't go through a metamorphosis?
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I metamorphosized into an ugly bug just last week, thank you very much.
 
LFTKBS said:

Move to now only refer to Iachuss as "The Grub." Any seconds?
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Yes, but when you get to thinking about it, we're all just "grubs" grubbing around in the dark now aren't we? As we set up our meager little grubstakes, hoping that it'll last ...

Actually the whole thing sounds kind of pathetic if you ask me. :D
 
Didn't Isaac Asimov say that "the human brain was the most complex and orderly organization of matter in the universe."?

I agree that it is rather presumptious to assume that man is the pinnacle of evolution in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. The cockroach is likely to out live us.

That being said, cant humans claim the greatest intelectual tool that evolution has had the time to toy with?
 
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