Evolution and popcorn

[aedh23]

So I haven't posted on these forums before, but this has been bugging me and for some reason this seemed like the best place to find an answer. So -

I fully subscribe to evolution in every way.

But the problem remains.

What, exactly, is the evolutionary advantage of popping into a tasty snack under hot, dry conditions? This is a stonger validation of God's existence than the banana any day...

Any thoughts?

[Darwinian]

If you were truly subscribed to evolution in every way then you wouldn't be asking such a daft question now would you?

[Minimalist]

What, exactly, is the evolutionary advantage of popping into a tasty snack under hot, dry conditions?

If you knew anything about maize you would understand that it is not a result of evolution by natural selection but rather a domesticated wild grass.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...212037.htm

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2009) — Maize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8700 years according to biological evidence uncovered by researchers in the Mexico's Central Balsas River Valley. This is the earliest dated evidence -- by 1200 years -- for the presence and use of domesticated maize.

Somehow I doubt that pre-historic Mexicans gave a rat's ass about popcorn but you'd have to ask them as they were the "designers." The domestication of maize, btw, provides an interesting insight into a complex, multi-generational task of bioengineering which most scholars would assert was beyond the abilities of "primitive" man.

Yet.... there it is.

[Rhizomorph13]

This is a stonger validation of God's existence than the banana any day...

Any thoughts?

Stronger? As if the banana had any strength at all. I think "theist" would be a better religious view than "noncommital" for you.

Rhizo

[Shinylight]

The popping occurs due to the heating up of water and oils inside the kernel, this leads to steam which increases pressure inside and pops the kernel, there must be some advantage to the water inside the kernel, the tasty snack is a side effect.

I can only suggest that an advantage of the water inside would perhaps be to sustain the plant's growth during the early stages of germination, but i don't really know why there would be water in seeds for sure

[Autumnlicious]

What, exactly, is the evolutionary advantage of popping into a tasty snack under hot, dry conditions? This is a stonger validation of God's existence than the banana any day...

Unless hot, dry conditions involved being stuffed into a microwave or hot surface thoroughly outside the range of environment the object came from.

Next you'll be saying that God exists because bacon tastes so good.

I mean really, what exactly is the evolutionary advantage of tasting good with eggs under hot, oily circumstances?

[Minimalist]

Next you'll be saying that God exists because bacon tastes so good.

Must be why the bastard keeps trying to ban it.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Next you'll be saying that God exists because bacon tastes so good.

Must be why the bastard keeps trying to ban it.

America has BACON popcorn?

I take back a couple of the mean, snide and even vicious things I've said about America and its people.Only a truly great and sophisticated civilisation could have produced anything as wonderful.


Of course a pig might say only a country in a state of terminal triviality could produce something as useless.

[Minimalist]

America has BACON popcorn?

I take back a couple of the mean, snide and even vicious things I've said about America and its people.Only a truly great and sophisticated civilisation could have produced anything as wonderful.


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Not to mention edible panties!

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Not to mention edible panties!

Not the same thing at all. We have them here. We don't have bacon flavoured popcorn.

Besides, edible panties were invented by Kevin Rudd (grandfather of our Prime Minister) in 1931.

Some pussy yank (ahem) flavoured them and made them out of digestible material a generation later, which gives women a yeast infection and men mouth ulcers. Kev made the originals out of vulcanised rubber. Sadly, they never really took off here.