• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Also, Appendicitis is when your Appendix, a vestigial organ which produces small amounts of Vitamin C, randomly explodes and kills you.

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    I used to argue this stuff online. I had to quit for my sanity. If anyone wants a sample of the absolute insane beliefs and the staggering amount of handwaving these people are capable of, I suggest checking out evolutionfairytale.com. They will unironically claim to be objective, then a sentence later tell you that “proper science literature” is to be discredited because it has a pro-evolution bias. 🤣

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      I just took a very brief tour of that website. Apparently symbiotic relationships in nature prove evolution isn’t real… sheesh. I couldn’t get past the giraffe claim that proves there was an intelligent design based on how much blood gets pumped up a giraffe neck.

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    You forgot the nose when sleeping! It produces snoring, giving your location and sleep status away to nearby predators!

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    The nerve going down around the heart artery also applies to the giraffe. It does the exact same thing from brain to heart and around that artery the back up to the throat.

    I have seen creationists holding bananas and declaring that they are the perfect size for human hands and proof of intelligent design. DUH … that banana took centuries to design and the fruit company has a patent for designing it.

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      I loved learning about the laryngeal nerve in giraffes from the video by Richard Dawkins. I think the PBS show Your Inner Fish covered it too.

      Edit: I may be wrong about Your Inner Fish referencing the laryngeal nerve, but I’m currently re-watching it anyway.

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        I remember it being related to gills as well. The nerve just passed by a gill artery, it was all basically neck, but when the body changed the nerve was still looped around the artery which was located near the heart.

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    Wisdom teeth were amazing to have back when dental care didn’t exist and our teeth fell out from decay or injuries.

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        Because in prehistoric humanity, without the knowledge of toothcare or ease of access to scrubbing agents, your teeth would rot out in old age(about 20), but then the wisdom teeth would grow in, and you might barely live long enough to be a withered old husk and maybe see your grandkids born(about 30). The before times were rough.

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    Oh, but you forgot that all the problems are because the first woman ate the wrong fruit. The bible says that is why pregnancy hurts. The rest of those problems? Well creation scientists have determined that sin caused those too even though the bible didn’t specify it. They know this because they need it to be the case to keep believing in their mythology.

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      I thought pregnancy hurts because woman number zero decides to go on top, which in return caused woman number one to eat the fruit.

      Checkmate, abrahamlcturds.

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    Someone recently pointed out the bottom left one is because we can see color better with our eye design.

    Are the other ones still valid?

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      “See color better” is because 30+ million years ago one of our ancestors was born with a chromosomal mutation that duplicated the DNA sequence for the red/green cone cells in the retina. That individual had the same color perception as everybody else, but over millions of years the duplicated sequences were able to diverge their peak wavelength receptivities into red and green respectively, allowing better discrimination of colors in that range.

      Interestingly, that individual 30+ million years ago would likely have shown characteristics similar to today’s Down’s Syndrome people, due to the chromosomal duplication. It’s a prime example of why eugenics is so horrifically misguided.

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    Rabbits’ digestive systems are so inefficient they have to eat their own shit to get enough nutrients.

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    And amazingly 7 billion of us still breathing and at least half of us think they can do better 😂

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    The periods one is actually addressed by most creationists. In the book of Genesis, Eve (and consequently, all other women) is punished with the pain of childbirth for falling for the lies of the Serpent, and so most creationists view periods as part of that curse. Pretty messed up but that’s how they see it. The vagus nerve is completely nonsensical under intelligent design but makes complete sense under evolution. The biggest issue I see is why TF God made everything in the universe look exactly like it’s way older than it is. The best argument I can come up with is that it was an epic prank to totally own the libs who find all of this stuff 6,000 years later. Like God is like “Hah you just got pranked you stupid nerd! That’ll teach you to be curious about all the cool shit I made!” To believe in creationism is to believe that a huge swath of scientists across an incredibly broad set of fields are part of the largest conspiracy ever conceived of to try to discredit the Bible, or that God is an evil trickster who intentionally laid this giant trap to damn countless souls to Hell.