Posted on 05/26/2013 5:06:45 AM PDT by SkyPilot
My in-laws, from years ago!
It has eyes for ya!
The third week into the summer I left for a few days off after re-supplying the mantis with another ten crickets. I came back a few days later and found the preying mantis torn to pieces, and the crickets chirping happily.
What comes around, goes around I guess.
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I wouldn’t “believe” in evolution as a static theory. We shouldn’t pretend to know how any of it works at this point. Our job is to continue gathering evidence and let that do the talking.
There’s pretty convincing evidence that birds (let’s use your example) came from dinosaurs. They likely didn’t have to reinvent themselves. Dinosaurs already had light bone structures; some had feathers and many other bird like qualities. I agree that it’s highly unlikely they just *poof* generated the necessary organs for flight if they didn’t previously exist.
Scientists and others get themselves in trouble when they begin to take theories whether it is evolution, creationism or even global warming too seriously. They begin to refer to things as “matter of fact” and turn these issues into a religion. Let’s just keep making discoveries and see where it takes us.
There actually are flavors of junk science which are relatively harmless. Evolution is not one of those. Evolution was the main philosophical corner stone for Nazism, Communism, and the various eugenics programs; it is a flavor of junk science with 200,000,000+ dead bodies to its credit. We need to get rid of it.
Impressive
One also supposes that if evolution was a reasonable explanation, it wouldn’t recognize perfection. All of today’s insects would still be undergoing changes. With the thousands of varieties, one of them, at any time should be morphing new abilities or shedding limiting traits. Yet we’re unable to find the one that heralds an improved version of current model year.
I clicked on this thread, knowing full well I had no business doing so, and I deeply regret it, LOL.
Eewww, creepy, scary. Time to don the boots.
It takes a super lens to do that!
Jumping spiders are cool, and many are really cute. When we find them in the house, we either leave them alone or help them outside (in warm weather).
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I can look at close ups of bugs, but this really really creeps me out.
Cute until is jumps on me, then it’s dead!
That picture makes it look like he has pupils, makes him seem intelligent.
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