Graywolf says:
proves there is a God
proves He loves you
we have to eat
even if all food tasted like poop we would still have to eat it
or is it that plants somehow had a consciousness that made them evolve to taste good
nope the creator made them that way
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Once again, evolution is not a conscious process, nor is it individual or instantaneous.
Plants that, by mutation or by a beneficial combination of genetics from ancestors, happen to taste better than others get more of their their fruits eaten more often and thus their seeds spread more widely, in a convenient dollop of fertiliser; there is therefore a non-random effect of natural selection, from a pool of randomly varying individuals, for species of plants with better tasting fruits to come to dominate the gene pool. There is also evolutionary pressure for plants to develop fruits with nutritive properties suitable for the creatures that eat them; better nourished creatures live longer and provide a more reliable supply of seed distributors.
It took me five minutes to write this. This is not difficult stuff.
I hate strawberries.
Ergo, God doesn't exist.
It helps a plant that spreads its seeds via being eaten to evolve so that it tastes good. Natural selection would do this.
Plants that are pollinated by flies smell like rotting meat, again, natural selection accounts for it.
nope we evolved to think good food tasted good
which is why food that might make you sick tastes nasty
and why if you are sick and you eat a food, you will never want to eat it again
the fact is reality is perception
and strawberries actually taste like penis
Plants did indeed evolve to taste good. When animals eat the fruit they usually end up eating the seeds within it. They then proceed to shit out the seeds somewhere else where they can grow and not be competing with it's parent. Thus, the fruit bearing plant succeeds in reproduction.
Not that, that was a conscious process.
Why would strawberries tasting good prove the existence of God, or of its love? He then goes on after that to say that even if this God fella made shit-flavored edibles, God still loves us. Where is the logic in this statement?
We have evolved to eat the things that are best for us, and they taste good. Some animals eat rubbish, but if we did the same our immune system would be overwhelmed. Early on, humans who consumed things that were bad were weeded out of the population, leaving only those who didn't have a taste for them to pass on their genes to the next generation. Natural selection at work.
Well, there were strawberries that tasted like shit at one point, I'm sure. But the ones with a genetic tendency to taste better were simply more likely to be eaten. Most seeds are able to survive digestion and thus land wherever the animal is done with them within a pile of ferilizer. This is how the good strwberries drove the shit-berries into extinction.
My dogs have a thing for poop; their own and that of others. The more disgusting something smells, the more they want it. Regardless of the fact that they are fed real food and are not going hungry.
Many berries are poisonous. Eating them will kill you. Is that proof that god loves you or hates you? Starving people have died when eating them and not knowing their dangers. Same with many plants and leaves and other naturally growing vegetation. What is that proof of?
If you are real, you are a very sad case.
There's a fantastic book on exactly this topic. It's called "The Botony of Desire" by Micheal Pollan. It deals with four plants...apples, tulips, potatoes, and marijuana and describes how each has evolved because of human's use of them. It's a great read; I highly recommend it.
""or is it that plants somehow had a consciousness that made them evolve to taste good""
It's that, since plants that get eaten get to spread their seeds, but it's also that we evolved to develop a taste for the food we eat in the first place.
Oh, and... does the existence of poison ivy prove God does NOT love us?
Debilitating birth defects and emotionally soul-destroying things like Alzheimer's disease prove he rather emphatically doesn't love us, even if he did exist.
Also, I don't actually like strawberries.
Try again.
Astonishing leap you've made there.
Wasn't there something at the beginning of Hitchiker's Guide that said that since God's existance is based on faith, if you prove his existance, he quits existing?.
actually our tastes buds are designed to recognize foods that we eat on a regular basis over time. so if we had to eat poop, our tastes buds would adjust to it.
we'd probably even like the smell of it.
strawberries taste good because have a taste for sweet and many plants use sugar to make its own food. strawberries and other plants put a lot of energy and sugar into the food parts because they know some large animal with eat it, poop out the seeds, and fertilize their next generation.
if you want to say god designed that then fine, but do some research and don't be ignorant.
If you like to eat strawberries because they taste good and you enjoy it, then God loves you and wants you to eat strawberries.
But if you like to take it up the ass because it feels good and you enjoy it, then God hates you and wants you to burn forever.
Yup, makes sense to me!
Ever think maybe we evolved to like the taste of foods, dumbass, thats why things that are good for you taste good, and poisonous stuff naturally tastes bad, it's all in your head.
Taste is a matter of opinion. Strawberries may taste good to you, but your next-door neighbor may loathe them. I know that a lot of people love tomatoes but I can't stand them. If there were a god wouldn't all the same things taste good to everyone?
Also, what Brain_in_a_jar said.
It's your opinion that strawberries taste good. Not everyone likes them. I hate them. Does that mean your supposed god hates me? What about other foods that the majority of people dislike? I guess this god hates all of them, too. That first line destroyed your weak attempt at an argument. And yes, one day the plants just decided to taste good! Research natural selection, moron.
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So God is proven to exist because strawberry's are yummy ??
Okay, cool. Now can we hear from somebody who doesn't wear a helmet and knee pads around the house ??
Strawberries are healthy. Ancient humans who liked them were healthier, and could spread their genes more, compared to those who hated fruit. However, this evolution went overboard and made us like things like Krispy Kremes, deep-fried chocolate bars, and Whoppers.
They never mannage to think that it just might be the other way round.
The mind is a powerful thing, and is capable of completely changing one's opinions of various foods.
If your body is lacking a particular part of its nutrition, and you eat something that otherwise tastes poorly but contains an amount of what your body is lacking, your mind will alter how you taste, making the object which before tasted bad, begin to taste good (to get you to eat more of it, and supply your body with the nutrition it needs).
Something tastes good because our mind makes it taste good.
I like my strawberries with whipped cream. If there were a god, he'd have made them come that way naturally.
Lazy bastard.
Well, at the risk of playing devil's (or, in this case, god's) advocate - you've still got the Cherimoya, aka the custard apple!
Broccoli tastes like shit.
Proves nothing about God.
Proves that if he does exist, he obviously doesn't want me to eat broccoli.
We have to eat.
This puts a damper on the 'intelligent designer' thing.
No, it's that people are genetically capable of tasting some things and not others. Over time, the ones that enjoyed the taste of poisonous foods...DIED. The ones that lived passed their genes on. Ergo, we mostly only like food that is edible.
The only thing your whole argument proves is that you are a selective observer.
69 taste good.
therefor, god.
Fruit is a reproductive organ. When it is eaten by animals, they go somewhere else and poop the seeds out, where they grow pre fertilized. Fruits that taste better are more ought to be eaten, thus more likely to reproduce.
Yes, they evolved to taste good so that they would be eaten and their seeds dispersed.
Also, you are one who has adapted to enjoy the taste of fruit as opposed to poop.
I love strawberries but eating just one or two will give me a terrible migraine. My wife, on the other hand, hates strawberries.
I'm so confused. Does God love us or hate us?
The only creator in this environment is humans using artificial selection. Strawberries taste good, so we help them grow. Other plants tasted like shit, so we left them to natural selection, or actually helped destroy them.
God damn christians is dumb!
Retard. Strawberries taste good to most omni and herbivores, this is the way THEY evolved as eating strawberries (and most fruit/veg) allows the seeds to be ingested where they are unable to be digested and passed by the said animal onto the ground to MAKE MORE STRAWBERRIES. Evolution 101. Why are you people so stupid and incapable of critical or logical thought? Actually, they're kind of the same question...
"Graywolf says:
proves there is a God
proves He loves you
we have to eat
even if all food tasted like poop we would still have to eat it"
Anon-e-moose says:
proves there is a God
proves He loves you
The survivors of Flight 571 - a Uruguayan rugby team - which crashed in the Andes in 1972, ultimately had to eat the flesh of the dead passengers to stay Alive.
Meat tastes good. Humans are made of meat.
proves there is a God
proves He loves you. He certainly 'loved' those Uruguayan crash survivors
Philippians 4:19; 'But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.'
fixed. And now we know who Games Workshop based Khorne on. Considering his track record in the Old Testament, is it any wonder?! 'BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!' indeed.
I love the smell of destroyed arguments in the morning. Smells like... victory.
actually you've got it backwards, we evolved to find food delicious. If food that was good for us tasted like poop we'd have evolved to enjoy the flavour of poop, and incidentally there are lots of animals that eat faeces, their own or other animals.
Apparently, to my dog, strawberries actually taste worse than poop. The l'il fucker won't eat strawberries but if he sees bird droppings, he would lick 'em like it was fine cuisine. So I guess that proves that my dog created himself, wow.
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