Bugs don't have nostrils. Bugs breath through their skin through sphericals. I don't think you could even demonstrate, believe it or not, I don't think you could demonstrate bugs are alive!
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bugs move, eat, breathe, and reproduce. Sounds pretty alive to me.
Just goes to show that Kent really hasn't ever passed a science class, and also that he lacks even the tiniest drop of common sense.
You're a fucktard, aren't you Kent?
"I don't think you could even demonstrate, believe it or not, I don't think you could demonstrate bugs are alive!"
You admit they have one of the mandatory qualities to be defined as "alive" yet you aren't sure if they are. Your stay in the clink isn't improving your intellectual faculties any Ken.
I don't think
You don't say?
We know that Kent Hovind breathes, but is he really alive?
Oh, and Kents prison husband, Burt Two-tooth says Hi!
...believe it or not, I don't think you could demonstrate bugs are alive!
Except of course, for the 7 criteria used for determining whether or not a thing/creature is alive.
Sphericals? I'm sure you mean spiracles. Which are, you know, kind of the same thing except for how they're completely different . And spiracles are actual openings. They don't breathe "through their skin".
Spiracles allow an inflow of air which feeds oxygen, by way of the trachea, to the insects' tissue. This isn't so different from the mammalian body, which intakes air to get oxygen which is carried to tissue by the blood. So, you know, you'd need to have a pretty fucked up definition of 'alive' to make that claim based on that difference.
By the way, I never even took biology at high school and even I know that. Just goes to show how useful your fake credentials aren't.
"I don't think
You don't say?"
LOL
Let's take the characteristics of life:
Bugs are organized: They are made up of organsm which in turn are made from cells.
Bugs acquire materials and energy: Bugs look for food and eat it.
Bugs reproduce: I don't even need to answer this.
Bugs respond to stimuli: They well try to avoid being killed by a flyswatter, among other things.
Bugs are homeostatic: They mantain a relatively constant internal environment..
Bugs grow and develop: Maggots turn into flies, caterpillars into butterflies.
Bugs are adapted to their environment: Bugs are able to survive.
Therefore, bugs are alive.
Insects aren't alive?
WHAT.
Oh, Kent. If you want to dazzle everyone with your superior scientific knowledge, you need to start with actual scientific knowledge. I shouldn't be able to outfox you with Google and my distant memories of freshman Biology class.
@Porky Pine
2008-Oct-16 05:50 AM
Did Kent just say that bugs are not alive? And this guy calls himself a science teacher.
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It is also worth considering weather plants and insects are considered “alive” in the Biblical sense. The two requirements seem to be breath of life and blood. It may be that they are just a complex self replicating food source.
They certainly look alive and I have to feed them... that is, right up until the point one of my geckos catches sight of them. I don't think something "not alive" would struggle so much as it is being munched and crunched. IMHO.
(I need to get a way to post this on his site!)
Well, they move, they reproduce, and they use energy.
They're quite clearly animals of some order.
Hahaha... I almost died laughing from reading that! Bugs aren't alive because they don't breathe the same way mammals do? FAIL.
I suppose fish aren't alive either because they only breathe dissolved oxygen.
Let's put this to a test. let's lock Kent in a sarchophagus with a bunch of scarabs. If the bugs aren't alive, he should come out unscathed. If they ARE alive, he'll be a bloody, agonized mess. Who's up for the experiment? :)
Life moves. Life xeroxes itself.
Can you at least try to be less of a hopeless fuckwit?
It's clearly alive, but you still don't know it. This sounds like fundy trash we've come to expect of Hovind. "even if it's real and right in front of me, since my beliefs say it's not real, i'll still deny it, i'll deny reality and common sense because it's not THE TRUTH" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I swear. Kent's either completely retarded, been brainwashed, or is possibly the most intellectually dishonest fucktard in the world.
Either way, it's probably too late for him.
Yep,Hovind, the most articulute creationist in the game, a real snake-oil salesman idol. His arguments are 40 years old and debunked as long, invalid evidence, fake artifacs and unproven supernatural events
Hovind is my favorite bullshitter of all time
They eat. They reproduce. And they flee from threats to their continued existence. Yes, they are indeed alive.
I'll admit, I'm not sure just who this Kent Hovind guy is I keep hearing about, but he seems like an absolute idiot.
Let's infest "Kent Hovind"'s bed with bedbugs.
After a few nights, we will ask him again whether he thinks it cannot be proven that bugs are alive.
Requirements for life, Kenty-boy
-need for food
Insects meet all three of those, with the added bonus of needing air (not all life-forms require air to live, and some will even die in the presence of oxygen.)
Again, proving that you are to science what Godzilla is to MesoAmerican art dealers: not a god-damned thing.
The BIBLICAL definition of life is ‘breathing through nostrils.’
The SCIENCE definition of life is a bit more complicated than bronze-age myths, though.
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