Website review: Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish ...
skylick discovered this in Evolution
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•richarddawkins.net/article,2125,n,n
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skylick discovered 6 months ago- Next time you see a fish on back of a car think of this article.. lol
- DadamDugan rated 5 months ago
- Hiccups: "Cats can be stimulated to hiccup by sending an electrical impulse to a small patch of tissue in their brain stem. This area of the brain stem is thought to be the center that controls the complicated reflex that we call a hiccup. The hiccup reflex is a stereotyped twitch involving a number of muscles in our body wall, diaphragm, neck, and throat. A spasm in one or two of the major nerves that control breathing causes these muscles to contract. This results in a very sharp inspiration of air. Then, about 35 milliseconds later, a flap of tissue in the back of our throat (the glottis) closes the top of our airway. The fast inhalation followed by a brief closure of the tube produces the "hic.""
- JesseMat rated 5 months ago
- I'm starting to get fed up with the obnoxious anti-ID/creation crap. Why is this article being used for that? Can we no longer just discuss evolution without having to mention "those people." You're becoming as ethical as them for doing all of this crap, and you're only hurting your own cause by looking like a bunch of radical, hostile propagandist. Every time I read something about evolution am I going to have to listen to everybody mope and groin and point the finger? You all sound as ridiculous as the fundamentalists do. Every article? Seriously? After every article I have to hear "It's the truth!!" and "Isn't it obvious?" and "Why can't they accept it?" You sound exactly like my Grandmother when she reads something about Jesus. Yes, you heard me right.
You All Sound Like Religious Nutjobs Preaching To The Choir.
Just please, please, please shut up. None of this is helping your cause, unless you are just like religious people that need to constantly have the faith strengthened. Because no religious person is going to read your crap and decide to change their minds. I don't think any of you are being ethical. You look like sick, sad people who need someone to attack. - I'm starting to get fed up with the obnoxious anti-ID/creation crap. Why is this article being used for that? Can we no longer just discuss evolution without having to mention "those people." You're becoming as ethical as them for doing all of this crap, and you're only hurting your own cause by looking like a bunch of radical, hostile propagandist. Every time I read something about evolution am I going to have to listen to everybody mope and groin and point the finger? You all sound as ridiculous as the fundamentalists do. Every article? Seriously? After every article I have to hear "It's the truth!!" and "Isn't it obvious?" and "Why can't they accept it?" You sound exactly like my Grandmother when she reads something about Jesus. Yes, you heard me right.
- Therapie220 rated 5 months ago
- Interesting.
- DrBlizzardo rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Take the body plan of a fish, dress it up to be a mammal, then tweak and twist that mammal until it walks on two legs, talks, thinks, and has superfine control of its fingers--and you have a recipe for problems. We can dress up a fish only so much without paying a price. In a perfectly designed world--one with no history--we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer." Hmmm...how to be polite? I try very, very hard, when dealing with people's fundamental beliefs that are, on the face of them, totally absurd, to be polite--because beliefs are important and I respect them, and the people who hold them, even when those beliefs are ludicrous. I have often said that anybody who believes in creationism and Intelligent Design has to ignore a lot, a lot, of biology...this paper touches on just a tiny morsel of what facts about human biology and animal physiology have to be completely ignored to believe in Intelligent Design...to those who hold that some god created life using evolution as the process I ask: Did this god, then, intend for 3.2 billion years all creatures should be less than they could be, to live short, brutish and painful lives, not given the tools or bodies they require to compete in ever changing ecosystems (which presumably are being changed by this same god who made them so inadequate in the first place) only to watch their kind wither and become extinct? What kind of benevolent god is this?
- Papagoose3 rated 6 months ago
- I've always been proud to be tolerant, respectful and understanding of other peoples' beliefs, but I am afraid I am losing my ability to cope with creationists. Reading this article, I can only feel that people that believe in Creationism or Intelligent Design are simply foolish.
- RosalindFranklin rated 6 months ago
- During our history as fish we were active predators in ancient oceans and streams. During our more recent past as amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, we were active creatures preying on everything from reptiles to insects. Even more recently, as primates, we were active tree-living animals, feeding on fruits and leaves. Early humans were active hunter-gatherers and, ultimately, agriculturalists. Did you notice a theme here? That common thread is the word "active." (ps. you think it is bad being the descendant of a primate...try a fish..)
- lauriebox rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish"
