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[–] 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75  has been cited as evidence of evolution, as the nerve's route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve

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  • [–] 56 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Intelligent design. Same with our eyes 🤣 just put them in backwards and thread the cables through the retina; genius. Octopuses are clearly gods chosen "people".

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    The intelligent design geniuses argue that the eye is too complex to have evolved.

    "Of course it didn't evolve like that! It started with a patch of light-sensitive cells and worked it's way up from there. And that's happened more than once."

    They have to think evolution means that creatures and features popped into existence fully formed. Not only because that's how the Bible tells it, they can't comprehend evolution on a 7,000-yo Earth. And neither can I!

    You've got the killer argument though. "Why didn't God bother to make our eyes like he did with the octopus?"

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I remember my stepdad citing Pokemon in his arguments against evolution

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Damn! Almost commented that they take evolution as Pokemon!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    His theological understanding of pokemon was convoluted at best, haha.

    He swore up and down that pokemon trainers were witches, and the pokemon were demons they could summon to act as their familiars, and their evolution was symbolic of how much satan's power had corrupted the vessel.

    Like, he thought you started with a mouse, then summoned a demon into it and bound it to make it your familiar, turning it into Pikachu. Then as Pikachu evolved into Raichu, that was a sign that satan's power is further corrupting the poor mouse, one of god's creatures.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly that sounds like a pretty rad take on the creature-collector genre. I’d play that game, sounds like a spinoff of SMT. Maybe your stepdad missed his calling as a game designer

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