The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism 1983
Sox2 writes "SciScoop is running a story about researchers in Germany who claim to have solved the "mystery" surrounding the evolution of the mamalian eye. The work, published in Science, goes some way to answering the issues raised in the "intelligent design" debate that has become the mainstay of creationist thinking."
Let it begin (Score:5, Funny)
What's your favorite Linux distribution? Why?
Does anyone you know still run Windows?
What religion are you?
Vi or emacs?
Mac users: all gay?
How do you feel about abortion?
Which U.S. presidential candidate do you support?
Was the war in Iraq justified?
Just some food for thought.
Evolution vs. Creationism (Score:5, Funny)
BTW, I am not sure that evolution is incompatible with the idea of "intelligent design" as long as one is careful about defining intelligent design....
Verses? (Score:1, Funny)
Verses? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, you mean "versus." Now I get it.
Re:Darwin got it right... (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Let it begin (Score:5, Funny)
> What religion are you?
> Vi or emacs?
Looks like you got an accidental line break in there.
And the same old answer..... (Score:1, Funny)
No entry found for mamalian. (Score:4, Funny)
From the story submission:
Did you mean mammalian [reference.com]?
Honestly, if you're not going to edit, why call yourselves editors?
versus versus verses (Score:1, Funny)
Main Entry: 1verse
Pronunciation: 'v&rs
Function: noun
(3) : POETRY 2 b : POEM c : a body of metrical writing (as of a period or country)
3 : STANZA
4 : one of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided
Merriam Webster entry for "versus" [m-w.com]:
Main Entry: versus
Pronunciation: 'v&r-s&s, -s&z
Function: preposition
1 : AGAINST
2 : in contrast to or as the alternative of
While it's possible the "Verses" in the article title was a subtle pun/play on the fact the Bible is creationist and consists of "verses", I am apt to believe it wasn't so.
Re:Evolution vs. Creationism (Score:5, Funny)
Natural Selection (Score:5, Funny)
The creationism website has been slashdotted.
That's all the proof *I* needed! Go Darwin!
no, just the creationists (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck The Creationists
Trash Talk
Ah yeah, here we go again!
Damn! This is some funky shit that I be laying down on your ass.
This one goes out to all my homey's working in the field of
evolutionary science.
Check it!
Verse 1
Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
straight up fairy stories even children don't believe.
I'm not saying there's no god, that's not for me to say,
all I'm saying is the Earth was not made in a day.
Chorus
Fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck the Creationists.
Trash Talk
Break it down.
Ah damn, this is a funky jam!
I'm about ready to kick this bitch back in.
Check it.
Verse 2
Fuck the damn creationists I say it with authority,
because kicking their punk asses be me paramount priority.
Them wack-ass bitches say, "evolution's just a theory",
they best step off, them brainless fools, I'll give them cause to fear me.
The cosmos is expanding every second, every day,
but their minds are shrinking as they close their eyes and pray.
They call their bullshit science like the word could give them cred,
if them bitches be scientists then cap me in the head.
Chorus
Trash Talk
Bass!
Bring that shit in!
Ah yeah, that's right, fuck them all motherfuckers.
Fucking punk ass creationists trying to set scientific thought back 400 years.
Fuck that!
If them superstitious motherfuckers want to have that kind of party,
I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes.
Fucking creationists.
Fuck them.
Re:Evolution vs. Creationism (Score:3, Funny)
Strictly speaking, "Luddite" is reserved for people opposed to technology, not science. I believe the word you're looking for is "Republican". *ducks*
Allow me to split hairs ;-). Would this level of scientific research be available without technology?
*ducks*
I don't believe in intelligent design (Score:3, Funny)
It is just unbelievable that in some places schools are not allowed to teach Darwinism but they can teach creationism.
When did beer-goggles invented? (Score:4, Funny)
Their eyesight must have been bad!
Re:Evolution vs. Creationism (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Face It (Score:1, Funny)
I mean, there's no reason at all to believe mountains of scientific evidence any more than to believe a book written by a bunch of wackos a couple of thousand years ago. the choice between the two is an entirely arbitrary act of faith.
Great... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Human Eye is Flawed (Score:3, Funny)
This is, of course, intended to be sarcasm (although I have heard a close variation of this exact arguement from fundamentalist acquaintances).
Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, great! It had to be a Thursday! I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays.
Re:This won't change their minds... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No entry found for mamalian. (Score:2, Funny)
You're new around here, aren't you?
Re:The "mamalian" eye & the "cephalopod" eye.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim (Score:5, Funny)
Now, repeat after me:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of Friday, I shall fear no Weekend, for a hot chick is with me; My Rod and My Staff, they comfort me, especially when rubbed the right way; Thou preparest a table on which I may lay down my chick in the presence of mine video camera; thou annointest my chick with water-soluble lube, yea, even as her cups overflow. Surely lewdness and merriment shall follow me all the days of my life, perhaps even unto next Thursday, when the World Will End, and I shall dwell in the house of lewdness for ever, and ever. Ah, man.
Re:inside-out vs outside-in (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't Scale Well (Score:5, Funny)
"In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is king."
I believe in most cultures it would be more like
"In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is a freak".
Or perhaps
"In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is king where x = 0"
Re:Why does everyone think 6 days??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The "mamalian" eye & the "cephalopod" eye.. (Score:5, Funny)
M$ is killing evolution (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A couple of questions about your Christianity (Score:5, Funny)
Original sin is simply a metaphorical way to talk abou the primordial disparity between matter and anti-matter with which the universe has been stuck since early after its inception.
The Jesus story is a metaphorical reference to the time when electrons coupled with matter, and the universe became clear to light.
I think the bible is amazing
Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim (Score:2, Funny)
"God made man, but he used a monkey to do it"
Re:No, it won't (Score:2, Funny)
Do you really think Jesus is going to come back after what happened last time?
Linux fork (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Darwin got it right... (Score:3, Funny)
The Pope has one eye?
Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim (Score:3, Funny)
This sounds a lot like those "all characters in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to an actual person is unintended and completely unintentional.
The Testament's own CYA
Re:The "mamalian" eye & the "cephalopod" eye.. (Score:4, Funny)
Blaaaaagh. (Score:3, Funny)
This is THE idiot argument of the century. Nobody is right because the question is broken.
Religion is the tool of darkness and control.
Science fulfills the same function because it has been over-populated with borderline autistic practitioners who have deliberately turned off their intuitive powers through a form of virtual self-lobotomy in a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that Organized Religion is Insane. --Which is like refusing to play D&D because one kid jumps in front of a subway train yelling, "Black Dragon!"
Now everybody be quiet put your heads down until recess. Sheesh.
-FL
Re:Darwin got it right... (Score:5, Funny)
> Now that you mention the three channels of vision, it reminds me on an
> article I read in Red Herring sometime back about a mutant gene that shows up
> in some women that that gives them 4 channels of vision. It allows the ones
> lucky enough to have it to have a much sharper perception of color tones -
> ironically, most that have it aren't even aware that they see the world any
> different than the rest of us. Do a google on tetrachromatic women.
>
> The Red Herring article is here but you need to give up your first born to
> read it.
However, you also have to read the Green Herring and the Blue Herring to get the complete picture.
Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim (Score:2, Funny)
Greater Humanity 1
Tim 0
Re:If some of scriptures wrong, why not all of it? (Score:2, Funny)
Don't be dishonest to the bestower of the nookie.
Don't kill anybody usless they pray to a different invisible man in the sky than you do.
Re:Doesn't Scale Well (Score:2, Funny)
I believe in most cultures it would be more like "In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is a freak".
Or perhaps "In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is king where x = 0"
Isn't this the start of the old joke about do you pick the girl with X eyes, (X+1) eyes, or (X-1) eyes, and the answer is the one with the biggest tits?
Ah yes, CS Lewis. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Darwin got it right... (Score:3, Funny)
F: "I can't wear that - emerald was last year's colour. This year it's teal."
M: "Huh? They're both green..."
[whack!]
Re:You don't get it! (-: (Score:2, Funny)
Or don't you believe in refrigerators?
Re:Frequently Encountered Criticisms (Score:3, Funny)