1. Why haven't alligators evolved thumbs?
2. "Random mutation" so if my Ranch style house gets hit by an asteroid, there's a good chance that it will be mutated into an English Tudor, right?
Evolution is like listening to a wall describe a fresh coat of paint.
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Ya ever notice how liberal anti-fundies seem to know more about religion that the actual fundies, while the fundies know absolutely nada about science?
“2. "Random mutation" so if my Ranch style house gets hit by an asteroid, there's a good chance that it will be mutated into an English Tudor, right?” No, completely wrong. Did you even try to understand what ToE or are you making yourself a fool on purpose?
2. "Random mutation" so if my Ranch style house gets hit by an asteroid, there's a good chance that it will be mutated into an English Tudor, right? actually likely to be mutated into a BLT sandwich.
"1. Why haven't alligators evolved thumbs?"A. They may not have had the genetic mutations necessary to develop thumbs, and B. because alligators survive and reproduce very well without thumbs.
"2. "Random mutation" so if my Ranch style house gets hit by an asteroid, there's a good chance that it will be mutated into an English Tudor, right?"
Wrong. A. Your ranch house is not a living creature, so the ToE does not apply, and B. I an asteroid hit any living creature it would probably kill that creature outright.
"Evolution is like listening to a wall describe a fresh coat of paint."
That's a completely irelevant analogy. It's like a cotton ball listening to Green Day.
Alligators haven't had much need to evolve for millions of years, much like sharks. THis is because they are already adapted to their environment. An alligator has no need for thumbs.
Your ranch style house is not an organic being, but a handmaid one, so it doesn´t count. Regarding alligators, stick to my back, YOU DON´T KNOW HOW EVOLUTION WORKS.
1. You don't need thumbs when you can drown an antelope with your mouth.
Alligators don't have thumbs because they haven't developed a taste for hitchhiking, only hitchhikers.Pentadactyl ground state of the Alligator limb. Canadian Society of Zoologists Conference, Queens University, Kingston, ON, May 2005 (abstract volume p. T116)
They have got thumbs, sort of. Every tetrapod I know of has five digits on the forelimb. If the fifth digit is not an opposable thumb, it's often called a "dewclaw." Some tetrapods have five digits on the hindlimb, some have four.
1. Give it time, eventually it'll happen. Then they will build submarines and take over the world.
2. If you do it to a couple of gazillion houses, who knows what'll come.
1.) Why would an alligator need thumbs? It seems to be doing a good job as it stands without.
2.) Riiiight. And if I pray long and hard enough, my landlady will forget that I need to pay rent. Prayer doesn't work that way you say? Well neither does evolution. Next time, before you get smug, try and get your facts straight.
hate to break it to you stupid, but houses do not reproduce, and evolution is about tiny mutations in offspring building up over long periods, not about inanimate objects magically transforming themselves.
I'm glad noone else got that simile - I thought I must have been a bit stupid.
Oh, and yeah - Moron. What is it with this 'When's my inanimate object gonna evolve heh heh' crap?
1) because they don't have a gameboy, poor y'know
@) No, it would be rubble but in less than five years there'd be plant life and insect and rodents there. Explain that.
Life is not a building, Alligators do fine without thumbs
1. Alligators don't need thumbs to survive in their particular niche.
Evolution is like watching life going on, despite environmental changes.
1. Why hasn't "god" given thumbs to alligators?
Creationism is like a communist describing why free market economics will allegedly never work, and "planned economy" is the only viable economical system.
Fixed.
1. Several reasons, the most obvious of which is that they don't need thumbs. A good set of jaws work perfectly fine for them.
2. Nope, because it's not a living organism.
1. Can you name any part of the Theory of Evolution which says alligators _should_ evolve thumbs? If you can, that's a hole in the ToE. If you cannot, then that's a hole in your criticism of the theory. Or you're just a dumbass.
2. Nothing on Earth has or ever will be hit by an asteroid. The definition of asteroid prevents this. If you mean meteorite, nothing that's been hit by a meteorite has evolved. Individuals do not evolve. Evolution is the difference between an individual and their offspring.
It would be a very interesting meteorite that would cause your house to start dropping little baby doghouses (presumably ranch-style?). But if the baby houses were Tudor, then at least you could have a chance to figure out which house got hit by the daddy meteorite.
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