Posted on 01/24/2009 10:35:28 AM PST by Salman
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"Fire ants need protein, especially for their developing brood," said Langkilde. "It takes just 12 of them less than a minute to kill a three-inch-long fence lizard. In fact, they have even been known to eat animals as large as calves, stripping them down to their bones."To raise money for the research, they could sell "Fire Ants Gone Wild" videos, plenty of people (not me) would buy 'em. :') Thanks BBell. |
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> And those scientists have found evidence of every stage
> of evolutionary development of the eye in various
> existing species.
So, at which stage did the evolutionary light sensor evolve into a useful eye, rather than a curious vestigial organ,
and from whence came the DNA sequences to encode all the awesomely complexes systems that comprise and support it, from the eye socket in the skull to the image processing in the brain?
And how do they know it happened the way they propose it did, since none of them was there to see it happen?
It sounds silly to hear their theories, many of which conflict one with another, and all of which conflict with the unfathomable complexity of it all.
All they have is “maybe”, “could be”, “might have”, “possibly”, “likely” ...
It’s their story.
It’s their faith.
I used to be an evolutionary atheist.
Then I learned how sparse the evidence for evolution is, and how many farces and frauds have been perpetrated to advance this silly superstition, and how dogmatic and irrational many of its proponents and adherents are.
Using your theory, men with smaller penises are in less danger than those with long penises from being snake bit and therefore are the ones that ultimately breed. I cringe at the data collection techniques....
Is there a difference in what I described in it’s basic premise than the lizards and fire ants experiment? Not so much my theory as retelling of the original.
Say, do you live in the desert? If so..Keep the drawers hitched up and you should be safe. But I did hear of a guy getting bit while relieving himself, OUCH!
No fireants were harmed during this experiment, however, one researched suffered a hangnail and a subsequent salmonella infection but recovered after two days of infusion Immodium therapy.
Tautology is tautology; repeat as necessary...
I've had several disasters with the little SOB's...We were night filming a movie in Natchez once and I had a costume change so I changed on the grounds...bad idea...apparently I changed on top or near a mound. The little bastards got all into my clothes. I have also had to deliver calves on the ground where there were mounds and deliver the calf with the fire ants in abundance. Cutting timber also brings them out if they have developed a mound at the base of the tree one is cutting. There you stand with the chainsaw with feet planted and its when they begin to swarm is when one is alerted to their presence.
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