Evolution

[Haipule]

K'den: some pointed to "natural selection". Alrighty then: does the Hammer Head shark prove "natural selection" or, does it disprove it?

I would require much more information to answer that in full on but as the hammer head shark is the result of evolution I would say that it was a case for. 

https://www.livescience.com/6478-hammerh...olved.html

"Now, hammerhead sharks have had their first eye examination, and it has laid the debate to rest. Sharks with wider heads have better binocular vision – all the better to track fast-moving prey like squid with far more accuracy than sharks with close-set eyes.

The research also shows that hammerheads – among other sharks – have a 360-degree view of the world in the vertical plane, allowing them to simultaneously see prey above and below them.!"


https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1...ts-hammer/

Yep, definitely pro evolution.

What was your point?

The main advantage of the hammerhead shark is it's ability to detect critters under the sand. All sharks that feed off the bottom have some sort of radar/sonar thingy to find hiding food. The hammerhead, because of it's wide head, is superior at it and can cover a much larger territory in a much shorter amount of time. Since it is superior, then why aren't all sharks hammerheads by now? Or, as the population of hammerheads increases, will other sharks just die off in a million years making the selection complete?

I choose the hammerhead shark because it does not fit with "natural selection". Actually, they disprove it according to the studies I have read written by evolution minded scientists. Sorry, too long ago to remember any more than this. I used to live on the ocean front and would occasionally see hammerheads and watch them so I had an interest in learning about them. Thankfully, the ones in the backyard were too small to be a threat to surfers.

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Hey Haipule, merry Christian btw, do you think there is such a thing as unnatural selection?

The hammerhead was a mutated shark. The mutation just happened to be beneficial, hence it's survival.
But I've always wondered how they can possibly find each other attractive enough to mate without alcohol?

That's why I always buy my dates two drinks! One doesn't seem to be enough. Four is too many! But two, makes even me very attractive!

I don't know, all fashion models have wide PD's(pupillary distance). A wide PD is a sign of beauty in a woman. I mean come on: Uma Thurman!

Yes, I believe in unnatural selection and wrote about it in my tread "Science the Bible and Satan" in the form of a joke.

A: “Rising to the rank of Four Winged Anointed Cherub Who Covers(Luis Cifer--Satan), I saw how God ruled the universe and I said to myself, “I can do that”. To prove that I could not, God created the earth and gave us creatures to rule.”

Q: What where those creatures?

A: “Lizards.”

Q: Lizards!?

A: “Yes, lizards. And we immediately went to work creating bigger and better lizards, which you call dinosaurs, in our genetic labs, so I could prove my point that I will be like the Most High.” We are draconian and made them in our image. Since, as you know, I am called a “dragon” and “serpent”.

Q: Are you saying that you @$%&ed a gecko and out popped a brontosaurus?

A: “No, actually it took many years of experimentation in our labs using our polypollinating sperm.”

Q: “Oh my God! So an evolutionary selection did take place, as observed by science, but it was not a “natural selection” but rather, a very “unnatural selection”!

A: “Precisely.”

Q: What did you do with your millions and millions of failed experiments?

A: “We discarded them. Today you call them ‘oil fields’ and it is where you get your oil to make gasoline to run your cars.”

Q: What happened to the dinosaurs?

A: “Dinosaurs, like their relative lizard, are cold blooded creatures and need a temperature between 65-85 degrees to survive. They were too big to burrow into holes to keep warm. Back then, the whole earth was a constant temperature as there was a lens of water over the earth and there was no weather and no polar ice caps. This lens of water not only kept the whole earth at approximately the same temperature but, it also acted as a hyperbaric chamber. Which is why, before the flood that destroyed the Nephilim in Genesis 6, men lived much longer than they do now, as the waters are no longer separated.”

Q; Well, thank you very much for that Lou Sir!

A: “Hey, a devils got to do what a devils got to do! Also, the earth was smaller then with less gravity so our creatures, which were indifferent growers, could get quite large living so long.”

Q: Smaller?

A: “Yes”

Q: But, what happened to the dinosaurs?

A: “As you know from Genesis, God does not create carnivorous animals. Yet, some of our creations were carnivorous. They also became too populace and started to destroy the earth so, God sent a giant meteor unto the earth which caused the first winter and destroyed all that we had done.”

Q: Then what happened?

A: “After the dust settled God gave us mammals.”

Q: So it’s true then, dinosaurs and mammals did not exist at the same time.

A: “Correct”

Q: So then you did some “monkey lovin’”.