Why does pea DNA have similitaries to ours? So we can eat them, otherwise we’d all have to be cannibals.
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Why does it matter that the DNA is similar for us to eat it given that we break the whole deal down with enzymes and acid in our stomachs anyway?
Oh wait, it doesn't!
Hey, Teno, you are taking "We are what we eat!" wa-a-y too literally!
All lifeforms on earth have similarities in their DNA because all lifeforms on earth share a common ancestry. The more closely one form is related to another form, the more commonalities in their DNA. It has nothing to do with cannibalism, idiot.
I've come to expect this kind of retarded comment when dealing with posters on the CSE blogs.
so...human DNA is similar to pea DNA...I get that bit. Not too sure about DNA relating to what we can and can't ingest though. I'm pretty sure the Pepsi I just drank was completely void of DNA (well I hope it was). In any case, without the similarities between pea DNA and human DNA we'd have to cannibalize each other!? Is he saying that NOTHING ELSE ON THIS PLANET has DNA similar to a human's (and pea's)!? That's just...amazing! I'm imagining a fundie with several cabinets full of canned peas and nothing else.
So, then, salt has DNA similar to ours, too? After all, we can eat it.
That's what you call "getting it backwards".
But then, CSE blogs? You expect any of that lot to really understand how DNA works?
Well pea-brain, in terms of deoxyribonucleic acid, 25% isn't actually that similar, it just means once upon a time billions of years ago we had a common ancestor.
Osiris wrote:
"Well they have the four base elements."
"It is demonstrable," said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Peas have similar DNA so we don't have to eat each other. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best."
Dr. Pangloss
Candide?
The satire written by Voltaire??
Is that where this idiot is getting his information!?
...perhaps Teno is a Poe, albeit an extremely effective one?
Let's try this on for size:
"Why does pea ape DNA have similitaries to ours? So we can eat them, otherwise we’d all have to be cannibals."
Yeeek...that's even scarier...
Ape: the other yellow meat.
@Tempus
Even scarier - I can't remember where I saw this, but it was a comment along the lines of:
Babies - the other other white meat.
Sickening, I know.
We are not the same species as peas. There has never been a successful, viable cross-breeding between a human and a pea. I will leave jokes about fundamentalists being part vegetable as read. In any case, as we are not the same species, it is clearly not cannibalism to eat them.
Now Teno, as long as we are discussing food, would you care to explain why so many of your ilk flaunt your god's law by eating pork and shellfish?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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