Evolution vs. Creation

I do not know where this came from or who owns the original version, but it put a smile on my dial and I figured it might put a smile on your dial as well!

A little girl asked her mother:
'How did the human race appear?'

The mother answered, 'God made Adam and Eve;
they had children; and so was all mankind made.'

Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.

The father answered,
'Many years ago there were monkeys from
which the human race evolved.'

The confused girl returned to her mother and said,
'Mum, how is it possible that you told me the
human race was created by God,
and Dad said they developed from monkeys?'

The mother answered,
'Well, Dear, it is very simple.
I told you about my side of the family,
and your father told you about his.'

Do Fish Cough?

This is one of these factoids that seems to have inspired some debate with the sides aligned against each other for those who believe and those who don't.

A search of the Internet suggests that fish do in fact cough.

So, fish do cough!

Killing Our Environment and Killing Ourselves

Why is it that human beings have such an exaggerated appetite for death and destruction? This appetite includes an obvious innate desire to limit our opportunities for survival on this planet. We better hope those astro-scientist types work out practical ways for us to live elsewhere in the universe or we will soon be victims of our own excesses.

What inspired this not so cheery post is a press release from the UN that highlights the human race's propensity to destroy its environment means the likelihood of finding cures to modern diseases decreases as rapidly as the natural environment that we destroy on a daily basis.

An example of this is the Rheobatrachus or the Southern Gastric Brooding frog which was thought to produce substances that slowed acid and enzyme excretions which are a main cause of peptic ulcers! Nah, bugger me if we haven't gone and made this poor little frog extinct and with it the possibility of finding and developing a treatment for the prevention of peptic ulcers - idiots!

Just the possibility that the cure for cancer or HIV/AIDS is just sitting there out in the environment there waiting to be discovered must become motivation enough for us as a people to protect the biodiversity that we have left.

Climate change, stripping away of natural resources, environmental degradation, and the like are real and we each need to start playing our little parts in turning the tide against what will ultimately lead to our destruction!

This would be the ultimate irony for those that believe in God our ability to destroy that which was given us! It would also be the ultimate vindication for evolutionists as the cycle of life and death would fit nicely into the evolution theory of humans coming into existence and ultimately being evoluted out of existence.

It's evolution, my genes cannot help it!

The perfect excuse for cheating men and single men who prefer to pay for sex rather than enter into long-term relationships has just become available courtesy of a study conducted by Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Gumert studied the behaviour patterns of long-tailed Macaques monkeys in the forests of Central Kalimantan...The study found that on average the female of the species had sex or offered sex at a rate of about 1.5 times per hour. However, this is not the most interesting part of the study!

The study found that the rate increased significantly if the female had been groomed by the male Macaque seeking the sexual favour...Yet, the study gets even more interesting when it explores the basic economics of supply and demand in sexual transactions. Simply, when there was an over-abundance of females in the immediate vicinity the cost of sex would drop to eight minutes of grooming. However, when there were limited females present in the area the female understood the value of her service and the grooming required before sexual favours become available jumped to 16 minutes.

I wonder does dinner and a movie equate to grooming in the Macaque? If it does then I guess a great majority of us would be guilty of either paying for sex or accepting payment for sex...then again if the courtship is a lot longer than one dinner and one movie maybe then both parties are entitled to a long-term monogamous partnership / marriage? Maybe I should have continued in my psychology studies after the first year of university way back when so that I could be a chance of figuring this out...Nevertheless, sexual behaviour of humans has been well-documented, particularly since the release of the Kinsey Report in 1948.

So, what does the study tell us? That sex for money is not only the oldest human profession but perhaps the oldest profession amongst our primate relatives! But is it really as simple as economic principles of supply and demand; do Macaques really care about economics?

It seems the perfect excuse has been found--it's in the evolutionary genes, men cannot help themselves (well, maybe some can but there are always exceptions to the rule, right?)...To each their own. I guess if you need an excuse you now have one!