(November 26, 2018 at 11:32 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 26, 2018 at 11:23 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Plants suffer distress when damaged. They don't suffer pain the way we do, but even singe-celled organisms suffer. Plunk an amoeba on a hotplate and it'll writhe in agony. Your lack of empathy is disturbing.
Everena: Plants suffer? Bullshit lies.
Prove it. Single-celled organisms suffer and plants are more complex than that. We know that they respond to damage and that other plants respond to those, so they even communicate their suffering.
Quote:And an amoeba is not a plant, it is a parasite.
No, it's a whole group of single-celled organisms, some of which are parasitic. Remember I was mentioning single-celled organisms? Do try and keep up.
Quote:Quote:Regardless, all those carnivores out there eat animals that shriek and writhe I an agony that you can comprehend. They do this according to their instincts. They have no choice in the matter but to maim and kill and rend.Everena: NOPE. People are malevolent
God is malevolent.
Human malevolence doesn't excuse Divine malevolence. Your deity is still on the hook for carnivores and natural disasters. Every gazelle that dies shrieking with a carnivore gnawing through its neck is another of God's horrors.
Quote:Quote:I'm not talking about all your DNA, just the ERV. Try again while I laugh at you arguing against the other 97%.
We share 60% of our DNA with a banana and 90% of our DNA with tiny mice. Does not mean we are them? No, it just means we are all made of similiar stuff. The differences that remain are quite obviously the only important differences.
ERV, not DNA. Both three letter so I know it's confusing.