Are there seriously people out there who think "chicken or the egg" is a rebuttal to evolution?

I thought the author was joking. Maybe not.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals...or-the-egg

Quote:Basically, many, many moons ago there was a chicken-like bird. It was genetically close to a chicken, but wasn’t a full-blown chicken yet. Krulwich calls it a proto-chicken. So proto-hen laid an egg, and proto-rooster fertilized it. But when the genes from ma and pa almost-chicken fused, they combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidently made the baby different from its parents. Although it would take millennia for the difference to be noticed, that egg was different enough to become the official progenitor of a new species, now known as … the chicken! So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds that weren’t really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer: The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken.

(November 4, 2015 at 1:05 pm)robvalue Wrote: Are there seriously people out there who think "chicken or the egg" is a rebuttal to evolution?

I thought the author was joking. Maybe not.

Did you post in the wrong thread again?

(November 4, 2015 at 1:05 pm)robvalue Wrote: Are there seriously people out there who think "chicken or the egg" is a rebuttal to evolution?

I thought the author was joking. Maybe not.

And it's not a problem at all of course

Which came first? The egg: Laid by a protochicken.

Q: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?

A: No, dammit, they're not. And I resent the implication that the ignorance I maintain toward things biblical -through great vigilance- is something inconsequential or trivial to achieve. I avert my eyes whenever scripture appears on the horizon. Of course, I do have a natural tendency against boredom .. so perhaps it is easier for me.

(November 4, 2015 at 1:18 pm)houseofcantor Wrote:

(November 4, 2015 at 1:05 pm)robvalue Wrote: Are there seriously people out there who think "chicken or the egg" is a rebuttal to evolution?

I thought the author was joking. Maybe not.

Did you post in the wrong thread again?

Oh, whoops. Yeah probably. All these threads start to look alike after a while!

(November 4, 2015 at 1:40 pm)Evie Wrote:

(November 4, 2015 at 1:05 pm)robvalue Wrote: Are there seriously people out there who think "chicken or the egg" is a rebuttal to evolution?

I thought the author was joking. Maybe not.

And it's not a problem at all of course

Which came first? The egg: Laid by a protochicken.

No, dammit, it was God who created the chickens first who then laid eggs. Read Genesis 1 goddammit!

(November 4, 2015 at 1:40 pm)Evie Wrote:

(November 4, 2015 at 1:05 pm)robvalue Wrote: Are there seriously people out there who think "chicken or the egg" is a rebuttal to evolution?

I thought the author was joking. Maybe not.

And it's not a problem at all of course

Which came first? The egg: Laid by a protochicken.

Is it just me, or is Protochicken a great name for a metal band?

How many words do you need to say all religions in human history are a product of human imagination?

An elaborate comic book is still a comic book.

(November 4, 2015 at 2:18 pm)Brian37 Wrote: How many words do you need to say all religions in human history are a product of human imagination?
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Nineteen apparently.  (Bolded to make sure.)  But when you consider all the fine novels and other works of art which have also been created by the human imagination .. it kind of makes you appreciate them a little more.