Who's the most prominent Christian on this forum?

[Undeceived]

Now, take that camera eye, remove the cornea/lens combo, and you have whats known as a pinhole camera. You can step this back further into a pigment cup by simply flattening the curvature around the photoreceptive cells. Of course you can go a step further and just have those cells sitting on a suface that is in no way curved around them...and you have an eye-spot. All four of these eyes (our camera, the pinhole camera, the pigment cup, and the eye-spot) function, and each one is represented in creatures both alive and extinct. This is a very very roughshod run over the development of the eye,

Indeed it is roughshod. Whether you could simply remove some parts and have the eye remain functional is questionable at best. A pinhole eye without the reflective tissues would still need to be processed by capable nerves. There are additional tissues present around the cornea and lens that need to be part of the package. The cornea and lens themselves require multiple mutations each to grow in the right part of the eye, the right shape and size, at the correct time. That's IC- when you need a host of random DNA changes to occur at once. I might also do well to point out that pinhole eyes function best in areas of low-light intensity. An organism making the transition between pinholes and cameras would have to simultaneously move to land, or become diurnal. It might need eyelids and eyelashes. All of this while scientists doubt whether the Nautilus is related to primates at all.

[Anomalocaris]

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SHUT THE FUCK UP!

All of this while scientists doubt whether the Nautilus is related to primates at all.
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You don't have even a single fucking clue what nautilus is, and how different phyla of animals relate, Do You?

Yet as so typical of products of Jesus cult, you combine a maximum of ignorance with a maximum of pretense. What a sorry piece of trash you are.

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

Blah, blah, Blah......

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Wow. Towering intellect, paesan. When youse writing dat book? You sign my copy for me?

Yeesh. Get a brain, fanook.

[The Grand Nudger]

Indeed it is roughshod. Whether you could simply remove some parts and have the eye remain functional is questionable at best.

No, it isn't, because we see eyes with this or that "part" missing and yet they function. Your contention seems to be that our particular eye in its current state of development requires all of its parts. No shit. Some engines require combustible liquid fuel to push a piston, but that doesn't mean that you can pour gasoline in a steam engines water tank and fire the bastard up, now does it? Remove some part of our eye and it becomes some other type of eye. That our ancillary systems are organized around supporting the eye in our head and not the eye in some other animals head is hardly fucking surprising UD.

A pinhole eye without the reflective tissues would still need to be processed by capable nerves.

Oh...now we've run off to a brain capable of processing the info.....abandoning eyes already? Too bad, I did already mention that plants exhibit light sensitive and light tracking behavior without actually having a nervous system capable of processing info at all...didn't I?

There are additional tissues present around the cornea and lens that need to be part of the package.

For our eye at this stage of development yes, but not for those other eyes I mention (or the many other types linked in the articles)

The cornea and lens themselves require multiple mutations each to grow in the right part of the eye, the right shape and size, at the correct time.

If they didn't we wouldn't have properly functioning eyes -which happens frequently, btw.

That's IC- when you need a host of random DNA changes to occur at once.

No, you don't, and you definitely don't want random things happening in a biological system at any rate.

I might also do well to point out that pinhole eyes function best in areas of low-light intensity. An organism making the transition between pinholes and cameras would have to simultaneously move to land, or become diurnal.

Why, cephalopods made the transition and they're still in the water. Good thing that creatures often have multiple ways of gathering intel on their surroundings eh?

It might need eyelids and eyelashes. All of this while scientists doubt whether the Nautilus is related to primates at all.

Who said Nautilus was related to primates? Nautilus isn't even a fucking cephalopod (which are where my examples all arise) dingus. Btw, care to find the eyelashes or eyelids on an octopus (they come equipped with camera eyes, factory standard)?

I'm sorry, would you be suggesting that "Okay, maybe eyes can evolve...but ours didn't" ?

[Anomalocaris]

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When did Danny DeVito contract diarrhea and shit you out?

[Cyberman]

All of this while scientists doubt whether the Nautilus is related to primates at all.

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I apologise, my Mum always told me it's wicked to mock the afflicted; however that's got to go on FSTDT!

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Interestingly, the smilies I chose give the impression that I'm backing away slowly. Yet again, art imitates life.

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

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When did Danny DeVito contract diarrhea shit you out?

He did it on my command. I asked him to give me something to coat the inside of your mouth with.

Now stop being a dumbass and start making solid arguments.

[Cyberman]

All this talk about "diarrhea" and "solids" is very Freudian, don't you think?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I apologise, my Mum always told me it's wicked to mock the afflicted; however that's got to go on FSTDT!

Really? I got that from Frankie Howerd,so always figured it means the exact opposite.


A wonderful low comic.

I loved "Up Pompei"

Two clips for those unfamiliar with this guy:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIpkNVL1JNQ



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qtzIHmLyzg

[Cyberman]

Yes, it's true, the shameful secret is out: my mother is indeed the late and very great Frankie Howerd. Titter ye not!

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I really love the series that spawned Up Pompeii! as well, plus the film itself and the two sequels Up the Chastity Belt and Up the Front, all three of which I own on DVD so I know them very well. In fact, I just love all of the great man's œuvre.