10 Evolution Is A Lie: Theory of Evolution Implies Death And Evil Are Good

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Dunno about that, In Australia we have feral horses, dogs, pigs, camels, fish all escaped from captivity and thriving without humans.
No squirrels though.

Would you like us to send you some?

Yours sincerely,
EAPS (Evil Alliance of Predatory Squirrels)
 
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My parents went to the Grand Canyon a few years ago... stayed at some cabins by the north rim I think... the squirrels there were very very tame.

Would often beg food, my mother said she was sitting in a bench and one hopped into her lap and put his front paws on her chest and looked at her as if to say... "Please feed me" then hopped off and laid down in the path of a man walking down the path.

Then a day later as they were packing to leave a squirrel got into the room and got into some bread, ate some bread then laid on the bed while the sun was shining on it.

The moral of the story?

We need to do something about these evil furry freeloaders.
I'm thinking stew...
 
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Three species? I thought it was just humans and dolphins?

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Ah. Wikipedia has, once again, shown me the light:

"It is a common myth that animals do not (as a rule) have sex for pleasure, or alternatively that humans (and perhaps cats, dolphins and one or two species of primate) are the only species which do."

I should've remembered non-human primates. Bonobos have sex for the slightest reasons; "Oh my God! Look at that tree! It's so brown! [boink boink]"


Just so you don't think I'm derailing the thread, here's my squirrel fact: squirrels bury nuts and other miscellanea. Some have learned to covertly watch other squirrels bury their stash, then sneak over later and steal it ^_^. And in the ever-escalating arms-race, some squirrels have taken to mime burying, just to fool any potential thieves! Clever buggers.
I should have been born a bonobo...
 
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Tribal laws aren't universal. However, I'd be prepared to put money on it that any nomadic society in a similar environment to that of the ancient Israelites has similar dietry restrictions, either as custom or law. Because once somethiong goes from being common sense, or law, to being "scripture", some people turn off the analytical part of their brain. To someone logically evaluating whether or not to eat pork when they get a refrigerator, its a no brainer. "Hey, I can store this meat safely now, I might try some next time I go to the shops". But if theres a rule about it in the Bible, suddenly "its from God", and to do anything contrary is sinful. Stuff actually trying to think it through or try to understand it, THE BIBLE SEZ! and thats all the understanding or contemplation I'm prepared to do on the subject. There a reams and reams of things as a society we STILL consider "immoral" for no better reason than "the Bible SEZ!" and for a great many people, actually thinking about the WHY behind Biblical or social custom is just too confronting, so they conform to it without ever thinking about it, and villify and demonise those who go against it without really understanding why.
I would take that bet. I remember reading something about how they can tell if a village was a Jewish enclave or not depending on whether or not pig bones were found in the trash heap during a dig.
 
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We can take squirrels on a straight trade basis. We will give you 1000 Cane Toads per squirrel. You have to collect the Cane Toads though.

Norm

A little searching reveals Cane Toads aren't adapted to survive cold climates, so shortly after release here, they'd all be decomposing Cane Toads. What am I gonna do with a mess like that? I'm keepin' the squirrels, then.
 
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I would take that bet. I remember reading something about how they can tell if a village was a Jewish enclave or not depending on whether or not pig bones were found in the trash heap during a dig.

I suspect a lot of tribal customs got started as a result of something happening to just one important person. A chief's son dies puking poison pig meat: voila, no more eating pig in this village!

People often cite trichinosis for the anti-pork law, but clearly other people in similar circumstances figured out that cooking the meat long enough prevented the parasite surviving.

This kind of dietary law can happen for a multitude of reasons, but some single person has to be the first to put the idea of a taboo forward. Sometimes it's even reasonable, if wrong or misguided. Tomatos were considered poisonous in England for quite a while, for the good reason that they are a Nightshade, and quite a few nightshades are toxic (and so are tomato leaves, and potatos, another nightshade, where only the tubers are edible).
 
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We can take squirrels on a straight trade basis. We will give you 1000 Cane Toads per squirrel. You have to collect the Cane Toads though.

Norm

lol I was just about to post that. 'Least you got sugar cane though right?? :thumbsup:
 
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I would take that bet. I remember reading something about how they can tell if a village was a Jewish enclave or not depending on whether or not pig bones were found in the trash heap during a dig.

If that is true then what was the point of not eating pork? I mean if they other guys did it and were ok?
 
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A little searching reveals Cane Toads aren't adapted to survive cold climates, so shortly after release here, they'd all be decomposing Cane Toads. What am I gonna do with a mess like that?

You could open a "historical" museum showing proof of one of the 10 plagues of Egypt. After all, are not Toads a "frog kind", are they not "rotting" as they did in Egypt after Moses commanded the plague of frogs?

Bring on the squirrels.

Vera Baker: We're not crazy, lady! We should've bought a squirrel, but we didn't buy a squirrel.
Merrill: Which is why we stole the rocket car.

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If that is true then what was the point of not eating pork? I mean if they other guys did it and were ok?
You are assuming that the prohibition on pork was due to food related illness of some kind. It could very well have been from some patriarch's personal distaste, the idea that they are dirty animals, or maybe the first few Jewish tribes were goat herders and did not want the competition from the swineherds.
 
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... quite a few nightshades are toxic (and so are tomato leaves, and potatos, another nightshade, where only the tubers are edible).
Which makes me wonder what point is there in making your food stores your only part your predators can eat... *reads some wikipedia* Ah, apparently the tubers do contain the poison, though very little of it in cultivated potatoes. That's reassuring for my little evo-geek's soul :).
 
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This thread has derailed from it's original subject.

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Did you know that a male squirrel can smell a female in heat up to a mile away?

Just throwing it out there to get this thread back on squirrels.
 
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Black squirrels originated around Letworth garden City in the UK. I have them in my garden at home. They out compete greys because the change in colour appears to be genetically linked to a higher testosterone level.
 
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Since the only species of snakes that use thermoreceptive pits to find prey are most species of python a few species of tree Boas and Pit vipers that leaves about 98% of all snakes that do not so the squirrel would not get much help.
Yes, but the squirrel would only encounter a small variety of snakes species in its lifetime. Which of those have the pits?
 
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Which makes me wonder what point is there in making your food stores your only part your predators can eat... *reads some wikipedia* Ah, apparently the tubers do contain the poison, though very little of it in cultivated potatoes. That's reassuring for my little evo-geek's soul :).

Presumably the leaves are the most vulnerable to insects and disease, etc. Solanine and related compounds are present in tubers as well, though the concentration is not as high. Cultivated tubers have, of course, very low concentrations, as it makes the tuber taste bitter. Potatoes which have greened, will have solanine in the greened areas (usually just under the skin). Therefore, either do not eat such potatoes, or peel them before eating them.
 
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