evolution is bullshit
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I think it'd be awesome to be an oceanologist
I've a couple of books on sailing/underwater adventures/deep sea creatures/etc and I love the water.
Do you realize the ocean is so huge and vast that it's very likely there are countless species we havn't catalouged with extremly unique habits?
Like globsters... giant mounds of bio goo that washed up on shores in the south west pacific. Nobody knows what the hell they were, and they still don't.
I've a couple of books on sailing/underwater adventures/deep sea creatures/etc and I love the water.
Do you realize the ocean is so huge and vast that it's very likely there are countless species we havn't catalouged with extremly unique habits?
Like globsters... giant mounds of bio goo that washed up on shores in the south west pacific. Nobody knows what the hell they were, and they still don't.
Jambalaya Pretzelstein
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You seem like a curious guy Iason, too bad you don't believe in the scientific method 
It helps with the curiosity thing.
I was thinking I would go look up theories on how eyes evolved to post them, but then I thought, why can't Iason do that himself?
There are a number of models for how eyes developed, and how different styles of eyes have developed in different classes of species. The style of eye that humans use is actually prevalent all over and is prevalent because of how useful it is.
The evolutionary steps ARE out there; I read them once. How lightsensitive cells slowly combine with protective materials to create a lens-retina system. In fact the eye is actually one of the best documented evolutionary tools because it's so common in nature.
If you're curious, look it up. The real explanation is so much more rewarding than the theological one.
It helps with the curiosity thing.I was thinking I would go look up theories on how eyes evolved to post them, but then I thought, why can't Iason do that himself?
There are a number of models for how eyes developed, and how different styles of eyes have developed in different classes of species. The style of eye that humans use is actually prevalent all over and is prevalent because of how useful it is.
The evolutionary steps ARE out there; I read them once. How lightsensitive cells slowly combine with protective materials to create a lens-retina system. In fact the eye is actually one of the best documented evolutionary tools because it's so common in nature.
If you're curious, look it up. The real explanation is so much more rewarding than the theological one.
Jambalaya Pretzelstein
Veteran X
Ok i'll try
By the way:
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
-Richard Feynman
By the way:
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
-Richard Feynman
As for evolving eyes, a scientist explained one predominant theory well.
For a vision receptor (rods and cones in the retina for example) you need many proteins working together in a precise order for it to work. This happening at once is highly unlikely. However, if an organism has several subsystems, like a flagellum or cilia, that have a certain smaller number of proteins working together and other smaller systems like that, it's not a big stretch for them to randomly co-opt. By chance two sets of proteins that are already ordered up can join to form the long chain for a more complex component like parts of an eye to form.
Even though eyes are amazing, I still don't see how that's more of a stretch than "God put dinosaur bones under the earth just to fool us into thinking the Earth's older than 6,000 years old or some shit." See, I may be as ignorant of the other side as you are of evolution, but I don't give a damn so stfu.
For a vision receptor (rods and cones in the retina for example) you need many proteins working together in a precise order for it to work. This happening at once is highly unlikely. However, if an organism has several subsystems, like a flagellum or cilia, that have a certain smaller number of proteins working together and other smaller systems like that, it's not a big stretch for them to randomly co-opt. By chance two sets of proteins that are already ordered up can join to form the long chain for a more complex component like parts of an eye to form.
Even though eyes are amazing, I still don't see how that's more of a stretch than "God put dinosaur bones under the earth just to fool us into thinking the Earth's older than 6,000 years old or some shit." See, I may be as ignorant of the other side as you are of evolution, but I don't give a damn so stfu.
Jambalaya Pretzelstein
Veteran X
http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins...Dawkins/Work/Articles/1995-06-16peepers.shtml
^^ that is an article on the evolution of eyes^^
^^ that is an article on the evolution of eyes^^
funniest shit I've read all night.Jambalaya Pretzelstein
Veteran X
get back on aim homo
