Creationism lulz

[Longhorn]

So I was looking up pictures of cute platypuses(don't ask) when I stumbled upon this little gem....

http://www.creationscience.com/onlineboo...ces13.html

right on top of the page it says 'compelling evidence for creation and the flood' so naturally I felt inclined to check it out

If evolution happened, one would expect to see gradual transitions among many living things. For example, variations of dogs might blend in with variations of cats. In fact, some animals, such as the duckbill platypus, have organs totally unrelated to their alleged evolutionary ancestors. The platypus has fur, is warm-blooded, and suckles its young as do mammals. It lays leathery eggs, has a single ventral opening (for elimination, mating, and birth), and has claws and a shoulder girdle as most reptiles do. The platypus can detect electrical currents (AC and DC) as some fish can, and has a bill similar to that of a duck—a bird. It has webbed forefeet like those of an otter and a flat tail like that of a beaver. The male platypus can inject poisonous venom like a pit viper. Such “patchwork” animals and plants, called mosaics, have no logical place on the so-called “evolutionary tree.”

lol @ cats 'blending' with dogs aside, the part I underlined proves to be dreamt up horseshit by a 2 sec wikipedia search

In fact, modern monotremes are the survivors of an early branching of the mammal tree, and a later branching is thought to have led to the marsupial and placental groups.

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The extinct monotremes Teinolophos and Steropodon were closely related to the modern platypus.[63] The fossilised Steropodon was discovered in New South Wales and is composed of an opalised lower jawbone with three molar teeth (whereas the adult contemporary platypus is toothless). The molar teeth were initially thought to be tribosphenic, which would have supported a variation of Gregory's theory, but later research has suggested, while they have three cusps, they evolved under a separate process.[67] The fossil is thought to be about 110 million years old, which means the platypus-like animal was alive during the Cretaceous period, making it the oldest mammal fossil found in Australia.

the terrifying thing is, it's an actual book written by a dude with a doctorate.... -_-

[IATIA]

Piled Higher and Deeper

[Longhorn]

I initially thought this was a Poe cos of the cats and dogs thing

platypuses are cute tho

[ignoramus]

lol @ cats 'blending' with dogs aside, the part I underlined proves to be dreamt up horseshit by a 2 sec wikipedia search

I'm a little disappointed in you Bos.
After reading "that", you still had to do a quick search to know if it was real or not!  hehe

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Longhorn]

I'm a little disappointed in you Bos.
After reading "that", you still had to do a quick search to know if it was real or not!  hehe

Rule #1 of internet: google everything

I have that paranoid fear that religion could be true.....but then I read shit like this and feel better

[Rhondazvous]

The whole thing reads like a major non sequitur.

It would seem to me that the existence of the platypus stands as proof against the biblical idea that god decreed all things to reproduce "after its kind."

[SteelCurtain]

"Kind," the most efficiently shifting goalpost ever thought up.

A "kind" is exactly what you need it to be when you need it to be just that. So a platypus is a kind all it's own. But then tigers and lions are a kind, so you only needed two of those. Any two, didn't matter. They'll speciate (but not really!) in 4,000 years or so.

[Britney blue]

Damn creationists don't understand the science, willful ignorance. It's so frustrating they don't want to use reason and logic.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

platypuses are cute tho

'Platypodes'.  (I realized that I haven't been pointlessly and annoyingly pedantic for quite some time.  Needed a fix.)

Boru