What about fruits and vegetables? Did they just pop into existence on their own as well because the "god of evolution" knew that we would need? nutricious foods to eat?
47 comments
Fruits begin as a flower to attract pollinators. When the seeds ripen, the fruit also ripens and colors up to attract birds or mammals to eat it and disperse the seeds.
Vegetables are wild plants that have been modified by humans over many generations.
Seed dispersal often relies on being eaten then spread round through waste.
Thus you suck arse.
When animals eat the fruit and pass the undigested seed, the plant reproduces, and by doing so had an advantage over one that didn't. It's, er, "spilling its seed."
"What about fruits and vegetables? Did they just pop into existence on their own as well because the "god of evolution" knew that we would need? nutricious foods to eat?"
Obviously the God of Evolution knew beforehand , due to his omniscience of course, that we'd need such thing. I thought everyone new that?
All hail Darwin, one and only incarnate of the God of Evolution!
Nectarines and pluots, just to name a couple...developed by man.
The fruit is a propagation mechanism for some plants. It is a seed or seeds in a tasty package that an animal eats, and later poops the seed in another location, perhaps to take root and grow. It is indeed fortunate for us that many plants use this device and not burrs and stickers exclusively.
a way for the pants to spread their seeds further.
Pyroclasm, Dr. Freud would like to speak with you.
For the love of...
We aren't the axis of the universe, Cracked has a list of cosmic disasters that could end the world at anytime.
Not everything is made for us to exploit, ok.
Ask Ray "Bananaman" Comfort. Ray wants them to be "intelligently designed" by his favorite sky-pixie; turns out the intelligence that made modern bananas was man's, not some god.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_fallacy http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_fallacy#Criticism
Typical creationist "my brain can't think of how it was done, therefore it must have been done by a supernatural sky-pixie, and it of course is MY religion's supernatural sky-pixie that did it" argument from ignorance.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
