RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 31, 2013 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2013 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 31, 2013 at 12:18 am)Aractus Wrote: No you're a moron. I was pointing out the fact that the environment that bats live in dictates how developed their eyes get. If you keep a human child in darkness for the first two years of their life - they will never, ever, be able to see. Eyesight isn't purely genetic, it's also environmental.Which would justify separating environmental from evolutionary precisely how? Uh-huh..... In that last sentence above....replace eyesight with evolution - jackass.
Quote:The same is true of smell. We don't typically develop our sense of smell very far; but we could if the environment fostered it, and that requires (again) no change in genetics. If the behaviour of bats suddenly changed, and they were no longer nocturnal, then they'd be able to see.LOL, no better than they already can - they're not actually blind....to be able to see "better" would take some changes. It's not an issue of not using their eyes - they do, their eyes are chronically underdeveloped and their genetics do not promote said developement - and lets be honest, living at night is awfully conducive to well developed eyes (the "night-time environment" does "foster it")...I'm sure we can both think of a couple mammals with wonderful night-vision....it just doesn't provide enough to the bats, specifically, in the cost-benefit analysis that reproduction is always calculating. It's not an issue of walking outside in the light and -poof magic eyes-....what kind of absurd bullshit is this? But hey, I'm ready to be wrong. Go buy yourself a bat, and keep it in a lit cage 24/7 - see if it's eyesight improves, lets see how much better their eyes work compared to their fellows in the control? IOW, do science. I think it would be fantastic so see a bat leverage sight over echolocation in it's lifetime, for example....you'd probably get your name in a book somewhere for that one.....
Quote: Evolution wouldn't have any work to do, because you only need the exact same animal in a different environment.And more well developed eyes...so yeah, evolution would have "work to do" as it always does.
The irony of this post being that it began by calling me a moron
But hey, don't let me stop you, continue, display your inexcusable ignorance for as long and as gloriously as you like.
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