The vanilla bean-evolutionary quandry

[Minimalist]

It's only a 'quandry' to creatard assholes.

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio303...lution.htm

[Rampant.A.I.]

Just read about it.
Native to Mexico, the vine was brought to Europe in the 1500s but the plant would not pollinate over there.
It is fertile one morning per year and must be done within 12 hours.

Later, it was found out there is a certain kind of bee that knows how to lift a little hood-like membrane to expose the goodies.
The Melipona bee does it's thing from flower to flower and the fruit that comes forth is vanilla.
The bee AND the plant needed to be on the scene from day one, or there would be NO vanilla ice-cream today.

Would you please, please, please change your fucking user name?!? You insult every professor in the world, even the one on Gilligan's Island, by calling yourself that.

If you really can't think of something else, let me know. I've got some good suggestions!

Can we have a mod change his username to 5thYearFreshman?

[Cyberman]

I think his subconcious recognised the irony.

[Esquilax]

Why do I still get surprised at the sheer ignorance creationists have about evolution? Professor seems to be under the impression that all the animals and plants on the planet all evolved in little pocket planes of existence, one per species. I hope he can see how idiotic that sounds, but then again...

[Bad Writer]

Professor's "aha!" moment turned into a "oh shit they're on to me" moment.

[Rampant.A.I.]

[Confused Ape]

Would you please, please, please change your fucking user name?!? You insult every professor in the world, even the one on Gilligan's Island, by calling yourself that.

The dictionary definition of the word, profess, includes -

Claim, often falsely, that one has (a quality or feeling):

Professor is falsely claiming that he knows what he's talking about so maybe it's a good user name for him after all.

[Brakeman]

Would you please, please, please change your fucking user name?!? You insult every professor in the world, even the one on Gilligan's Island, by calling yourself that.

The dictionary definition of the word, profess, includes -

Claim, often falsely, that one has (a quality or feeling):

Professor is falsely claiming that he knows what he's talking about so maybe it's a good user name for him after all.

Yes, but due to the common vernacular inference, he should be more specific. His name should be "Professor of stupidity." This would be much more honest to any newcomers.

[Tonus]

Later, it was found out there is a certain kind of bee that knows how to lift a little hood-like membrane to expose the goodies.
The Melipona bee does it's thing from flower to flower and the fruit that comes forth is vanilla.
The bee AND the plant needed to be on the scene from day one, or there would be NO vanilla ice-cream today.

The vanilla bean and melipona bee haven't got anything on parasitic wasps and the amazing things that each specific species of wasp does to a specific species of caterpillar. Read up on them and you'll sit there wondering how a wasp was born with the sudden desire to impregnate a caterpillar with eggs that held larvae who could produce a synthetic hormone that would alter the caterpillar's behavior in a specific way that would ensure the wasp larvae's survival!

Of course, evolution doesn't work that way. It's more likely that the one variant of vanilla bean that managed to continue to evolve was the one that happened to develop alongside a variant of bee that evolved to pollinate it. If this seems miraculous, it's only because there are millions of species of life that no longer exist because they could not find the right caterpillar, or the right bee, and simply died out. What we have today are the few examples that managed to find a synergy that kept them both alive long enough to reproduce, and which probably won't be enough to save them from extinction at some point in time.

At that point in time, there will be other species and other synergies and probably other people marveling over them and declaring them as the obvious work of some divine (yet always absent) intellect.

[LastPoet]

Disregarding the obvious ignorance on the OP, isn't it funny that they don't apply the same skepticism to their myths?