RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
April 10, 2013 at 12:21 pm
(April 10, 2013 at 12:09 pm)Esquilax Wrote: This isn't always true, though. Evolution can be a reductive process too. To take a relatively simple example, the human little toe has shrunk down as the way our feet balance weight has changed. The number of toes hasn't changed, but one is dwindling, and in fact the last two phalanges in our feet are usually fused together, as opposed to the more mobile unfused variety found in other ape and primate species. Now, this all still has a use for our particular kind of locomotion, but it's still an evolutionary change that removes something, rather than grants something new.
Compare it to the canine dewclaw, which now serves very little purpose in most cases except to cause enormous pain and distress to dogs when it gets caught up in something and requires surgical excision, and which is often absent in newborn dogs who never notice any undue effects at the loss.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
