“The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam

[The Grand Nudger]

Yes it is called evolution

because it is

as seen after the fact.

irrelevant trollposter.

And have you ever looked at the early corn that was not sweet as compared with the corn that we eat today? And a 100 bushel per acre, they say?

You mean the non SSE-Mutated shit that I wouldn't feed to livestock? No need, we've isolated useful mutations and capitalized.

100bushels an acre? Slackers. 158 on average in 2013. You know how we got those yields? Back in '03 some lovely folks doing science identified the mechanism by which a mutation at a specific gene caused a loss in production of a p-glycoproteins leading to a mutant dwarf form of corn called br2(first recognized some 50 years prior, named after the mutated gene) which, while producing a smaller (but thicker) plant, had noticeably increased yield of crop. Less energy is spent on the plant, so more energy is available for the crop, simply put (the thicker stem might be a double whammy as it allows a plant to move even more water, and the br2 mutation is also involved in moving molecules across the membrane - it's like putting a corns cells in spring loaded shoes, giving them a hit of crack, and clocking their sprint time).

What do you think we did with that?

(-the really ironic bit here, for everyone that isn't swirling the drain, is that we'd considered the dwarf nature of the plants to be an issue for ages, and we tried to selectively breed it out in ignorance of what was actually occurring. In the wild, the dwarf plants can't compete either. Without management plants crowd each other out and basically strangle their neighbors from above - being short is not advantageous to corn, nor is a larger crop, both are deleterious mutations in any environment other than a managed cornfield. We almost missed the train on that one completely)