How is that all Jews have been circumcising themselves and their children for over 5,000 years---and if we go by the “Bugs Bunny Evolution Chart” printed in all of the college textbooks, it would be well over 40,000 years---and yet none of them can ever “acquire” the “inherited characteristic?” Wouldn’t you think that ONE offspring would get the “message” in 40,000 years? They don’t. They are ALL born uncircumsized.
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Yeah - and if they were circumcising their DNA you might have a point you fuckwit.
So now that wasscally wabbit is an evil evowutionist?
For the love of Jabootu, the "Jewish foreskin" riddle was used ages ago to support the Darwin model of evolution. Now this assclown's using it against it?
Let's see, Darwin's evolutionary theory put the final nail in the coffin of Lamarckianism 150 years ago, and now this guy is trying to criticise Lamarckianism as current evolutionary theory? I'd say he needs to read up on the subject -- in a book somewhat less than a century old -- and acquire the characteristic of knowing what the heck he is talking about.
August Weismann also cut the tails off 21 generations of mice and got the same results back around 1890 - the next generation still had tails. Weismann, however, actually came to a useful conclusion: that only changes to germ cells (sperm and eggs) can be inherited - not changes to somatic cells (e.g., foreskins). Jesus Saves has concluded that a woman made out of a guy's rib got tricked by a talking snake into eating an apple, and got all of mankind cursed for it, until this other guy removed the curse as a reward to mankind for torturing him to death.
Papabear said:Hmm, Pensacola, huh? I wonder if this intellectual giant is from Pensacola Christian College.
Gack! Pensacola Christian College is so **FUNDY** that it makes BYU and Bob Jones University (a/k/a "BJ" U) look like bastions of liberality.
Jesus might save, but he sure as hell can't teach evolution or genetics through revelation... image
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What part of removal of the scrotum in an OPERATION that is done for ritual reasons don't you understand?, should I explain to you that it's a cultural trait?. Following your idiotic logic, how is it possible to get operated from apendicitis, or getting married, or fasting during passover?
Because, you idiot, circumcision is not an inherited characteristic. Inherited characteristics are those that alter the genome of an organism in its germ-line cells. Quite simple to those of us who stayed awake in biology class :)
All right, let's try this again.
Evolution selects for or against traits based, NOT on individual cases, but on whether something benefits or hinders a population (a group) within their living space. Now, there's no real evidence that foreskins are truly a bad thing to have - and no, smell and possibility of infection don't count. Good hygiene and precautions such as condoms take care of those factors, and the former is pretty common in nature, no matter the form it takes (although standards for "good" may differ).
Even in areas where water is so scarce it's like striking gold when you find it, there simply wasn't, and isn't, enough environmental pressure to cause boys to be born without foreskins. It's an afterthought.
Got all that? Good, so based on all of that, do you HONESTLY think nature would care to do away with foreskins?
"Wouldn’t you think that ONE offspring would get the “message” in 40,000 years? They don’t. They are ALL born uncircumsized."
And if men were meant to be sans foreskin, why were we born with them in the first place?
With such a simple question that even a child would come up with, does the fragile edifice that is 'Intelligent Design'* - and therefore Creationism - come crashing down.
*- I'm sure the legal team for the plaintiffs had that in mind in Kitzmiller vs. Dover, but I guess they didn't have to. The opposition's most credible witness, Michael Behe, did a perfectly good job in destroying the defendant's own case.
A thought: What do Mohels do with all those foreskins? They sell them. Snack food company KP deep fry them, and package them as Hula Hoops. The rest are made into kosher covers for iPads. But users have to be careful: stroke anything other than the iPad's screen, and the cover turns into a suitcase.
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How is that all christians have been indoctrinating themselves and their children for 2,000 years---and yet none of them can ever “acquire” the “inherited characteristic?” Wouldn’t you think that ONE offspring would get the “message” in 2,000 years? They don’t. They are ALL born atheist.
“How is that all Jews have been circumcising themselves and their children for over 5,000 years”
“---and if we go by the “Bugs Bunny Evolution Chart” printed in all of the college textbooks, it would be well over 40,000 years-”
“--and yet none of them can ever “acquire” the “inherited characteristic?””
"Wouldn’t you think that ONE offspring would get the “message” in 40,000 years?”
"They don’t. They are ALL born uncircumsized.”
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