Evolution, a topic often debated when someone finds out that you are a biologist. Like a maddened mob they will run at you, keris drawn and out for blood, screaming "Evolution is fake !" One look at their frothing mouths and how they desperately clutch their [insert name of holy text/object here] and you know it's a losing argument no matter how passionately you argue. Many have argued with me against evolution, most who do not believe in it persist in quoting [insert religion here] ... " My religion states that man were created by god in His form , how dare you accuse that man came from monkeys !"
Many arguments they spout out but one thing is always the same about this faceless mass of people, it always comes down to one thing : Man did not come from monkeys. Never have I faced someone who wants to argue that a dog and a wolf are not evolutionarily related or that horses can not have been evolved from a dog-sized creature nor that bacterial evolution does not occur and that all bacterias and viruses were created by god during his extremely busy 7 days. Nooooo , it is always Man Not Related To Monkeys and they keep on stressing the point again and again and make fun of the theory of evolution by mistranslating the ideas and then turning it into a joke. I never really figured out if they do it in an earnest belief or they just twist up the ideas of the theory to make it seem less plausibel thus making them feel better.
For some reason this irritates me. Since I can't throttle these people and fong them and make their insides their outsides I'll endevour to explain one very important point to them here : Don't argue about evolution if you "know" that it is fake and that god made humans in his form. You won't be satisfied with any amount of scientific and logical argument for evolution and you'll just end up wasting my time. You can believe what you want, it isn't going to change anything .. bacterias will continue to evolve and DNA sequences will continue to mutate to produce profound changes in individual organisms. Stick to your highly touted [insert religion name here] and leave me the hell alone.
There are a lot of evidence for evolution such as fossils, comparative anatomy & molecular biology. Fossils show that organism from long ago look nothing like the organsims of today, show it to the anti-evolution [insert curse word of choice here] and he'll go about how " the human ancestor fossils were faked " and how it doesn't proof anything. Then he will go on to quote that the world come into existance 9 000 years ago and the fossils were just fake doodads created by God to test humans. Some people will go to any lengths to twist up ideas just to fit the truth .. I pity some of the ideas that are shamelessly forced to walk the gutter like a common slut to be molested, especially the religious ones.
We have seen evidence of this many times, when Galileo proved that the Earth goes around the Sun what did the Church do ? They condemned him and forced him to abjure, then they decided to jail him (but was later changed to a permanent house arrest) and to rub salt in his wound they permanantly banned anything that he has written or anything that he will write .. ever. Of course, when it was beyond a doubt that Galileo was right (science does not know everything but she doesn't lie either) the curch announced that he was right all along, his body was re-buried on sacred ground and everything was hunky dory. Nevermind that the life of one person was ruined, just for telling the truth in a scientific manner. Those who reject evolution without understanding it are no different than the church of then. If religious text are 'misinterpreted' once then why not again and again ? One can also wonder if it was a misinterpretation or an outright mistake. Maybe God should have hired better proofreaders. At the very least the messages in [insert holy book name] would have been clearer and less people would have suffered because of it.
If you have studied molecular biology and you have taken a look at the genetic code, instead of finding the work of an elegant and perfect programmer you'll find something more akin to an UKM student's final year computer program thesis content (Siriuz and Sai are exempt of course .. *cough*). Jokes aside, the DNA structure is full of junk .. non-coding regions that do nothing (Not to be mistaken with non-coding regions that are structurally and functunally important). Now evolution theory explains that the reason is simply that there non-coding regions are a relic of the changes which are a part of evolution. As an organism changes and gets it's DNA mixed up and mutated some parts will fall into disuse .. as there are no selection pressure for the removal of these sequences they just kind of stayed there throughout the organisms evolutionary pathway. This is just like nipples on male humans, they used to be for something but now are defunct but still they remain because having or not having nipples doesn't give any disadvantage or advantages. Of course the more religiously inclined would claim that " God put it there with a plan ". Rubbish.
I could go on but after a long time not blogging my 3 working brain cells are tired and Final Fantasy 12 beckons. More to come , stay tuned as the story of how the Devil catched Charles Darwin and brainwashed him to stray mankind from the path of God on the next episode of Revelations On Evolutions ! |
At 8:09 AM,
And after months of idleness, true to magnus' prophecy, the sky had rained blood and chino was caught streaking around UM in only his shorts. WARLOCK'S BLOGGING POWER HAS RETURNED(with a little help from the *ahem* "Dark Lord" himself) and... oyeah we still have to wait for another prophecy to come true, KAVI'S BLOG BOMB CAM-WHORING STYLE version 4.12.6(my limewire pro version hehe) AFTER-EXAMS MADNESS!!!! Be afraid.... be very afraid.... The Warlock household clan has returned with a vengence.
At 9:05 AM,
Ah indeed a satisfying post. I would like to add on to this with the following:
That whole man did not evolve from monkey crap was cooked up by religious fanatics. You see the reason they do things like this is because unlike with science they cannot argue on a factual basis and change the argument. Instead of it being whether man was created as he is now, and proving that the millions of years worth of fossils are fake or misinterpreted, they turn it into a 'sensitive issue' i.e. "so you're saying my mom is a monkey"
The theory is that man and primates (monkeys, apes, great apes) share a COMMON ANCESTRY. Meaning that animal A evolved along separate lines into the separate groups we see today.
Additionally, the reason why scienctific and religious arguments just cannot work is that science is based on the gathering of evidence to prove something, and science is well willing to revise opinions and theories once proven wrong or if new evidence comes into the mix. A religious person arguing that the Great Ctulthu created the universe by eating chillies and farting repeatedly by quoting scripture really has nothing to argus with accept the premise that the recordings in his book as correct and true.
Finally, its such a funny thing, but if I were to tell a religious man that eating frozen yoghurt will make him invisible he'd want a fair bit of evidence and proof from me to back up my claim, but tell him that THIS BOOK contains the prophecies of an ancient and powerful god who will burn him for all eternity unless he accepts what that book preaches about life and the universe and he does not question.
People are stupid. People are weak. People are stupid. The only truth is power.
At 1:20 AM,
Alright!!!
Welcome back, dude. Great post. Glad to see your... uh ... bloginess power was it?... has returned. Heh!
Hmm... to this day I still can't think of a reason or rather a divine plan for male nipples... hmm.....
So, finally everyone has started FF12. Cool! So how does everyone like the new real time non turn based style? Aka the ff11 style. Personally I found it to be a bit frustrating at first. But now i'm breezing through random encounters like they weren't even there. Not to mention that programming your characters sure is unique. So, how di everyone build their characters? Hmm... wondering... should I start a ff12 post? Waiting for anyone to second it here.........