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#1105246
Tolpuddle Martyr
@DaMentalFunism
I look forward to the lolcabbits.
1/28/2010 12:44:39 AM
#1105248
GodotIsWaiting4U
Given enough time, you will indeed move from species to an entirely different species. Fossil evidence has shown that humans are, in fact, related to early reptilian mammals such as Dimetrodon. This transition took millions of years, of course, because such a drastic change takes a very long time and has many intermediate steps, and we've found quite a lot of those intermediate steps.
This cat/rabbit hybrid amuses me. Cats and rabbits are not, in fact, compatible; they've speciated too far.
1/28/2010 12:46:41 AM
#1105256
You did not see a cat mate with a rabbit. Only you think that a feline and a rodent are compatible. Only you.
Surely... surely if you did try to encourage this unholy union pretty soon there's just going to be a rather portly cat left over.
1/28/2010 1:06:53 AM
#1105271
The Jamo
Right, so you DON'T believe that evolution can produce new species, but you DO believe that adaptation and mating of the better adapted units can produce a new species.
I'll let you figure out where you went wrong.
1/28/2010 1:48:59 AM
#1105272
Nowonmai
Jon-Marc, you were so close! Life forms adapting to and environment is evolution.
No creatures, without gene splicing, with incompatible DNA can breed. There are some that are close, and do breed, but their offspring are sterile.
Examples:
Horse and a Zebra = Zorse
Horse and a Donkey = Mule
1/28/2010 1:51:07 AM
#1105288
David B.
@ME: "Some christians are morons. "Microevolution" is not a term used by scientists."
Some Christians might be morons, but they sure don't hold the monopoly.
"Microevolution and mega-icebergs in the Antarctic"
-- L. D. Shepherd, C. D. Millar, G. Ballard et al, PNAS 102:16717-16722.
"Microevolution and history of the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis"
-- Mark Achtman, Giovanna Morelli, Peixuan Zhu et al, PNAS 101:17837-17842.
"Mammalian microevolution: Rapid change in mouse mitochondrial DNA"
-- Oliver R.W. Pergams, Wayne M. Barnes, Dennis Nyberg, Nature 423:397-397.
"Rapid microevolution of migratory behaviour in a wild bird species"
-- P. Berthold, A. J. Helbig, G. Mohr, U. Querner, Nature 360:668-670.
"Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution"
-- Surinder S Papiha, Heredity 84:619-620.
"A Localized Negative Genetic Correlation Constrains Microevolution of Coat Color in Wild Sheep"
-- J. Gratten, A. J. Wilson, A. F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P. M. Visscher, J. M. Pemberton, and J. Slate, Science 319:318-320.
"Microevolution and Clone Structure in Spartina patens"
-- John A. Silander, Science 203:658-660.
"And if you did some research"
Perhaps you could take your own advice sometime?
1/28/2010 2:42:43 AM
#1105299
I believe in being good to others and loving thy neighbor like Jesus said. That is not the same thing as Christianity. Chrisitianity is about raping little boys.
1/28/2010 3:22:22 AM
#1105318
That did not happen. Those are Manx cats and they have been bred that way for a very long time FROM OTHER CATS.
1/28/2010 4:28:44 AM
#1105331
Sandwich Board
I found the rest of that thread amusing. No-one in it seems to have heard of the Nicene Creed.
1/28/2010 5:07:47 AM
#1105333
frenchstudent
Who would have thought that cats and rabbits were compatible?
gullible fools?
1/28/2010 5:17:18 AM
#1105336
sidhe
@ #1105256
Rabbits aren't rodents. They're lagomorphs. It's an understandable mistake to think that they are rodents, though.
@ The Idiot Who Made The Initial Post
Cats can't mate with rabbits. That's not an understandable mistake to think they can. Thinking such means that you should not breed. Thank you.
1/28/2010 5:36:58 AM
#1105339
Mister Spak
The cat-rabbit thing makes me think poe.
1/28/2010 6:04:51 AM
#1105366
While I believe in lifeforms "adapting" to their environment, that is not the same thing as evolution.
YES IT IS YOU IDIOT!
Who would have thought that cats and rabbits were compatible?
[citation needed]
1/28/2010 7:04:49 AM
#1105367
maxedout
I've read through the rest of the thread & it seems to be a fairly sensible discussion on what makes a good christian.
However, in all 8 pages I can't find a single person who who says
"Hang on - a cat & a rabbit?"
1/28/2010 7:07:05 AM
#1105368
JohnTheAtheist
Can these people be any more stupid?
1/28/2010 7:07:55 AM
#1105380
While I believe in lifeforms "adapting" to their environment, that is not the same thing as evolution
That's pretty much the definition of evolution. Way to fail in your first sentence.
1/28/2010 7:45:29 AM
#1105384
Swede
Evolution IS adaptation. Once you have adapted so much that you can no longer reproduce with those who have not adapted like you, then you are a new species. You may look very much alike your former cousins, like horses and donkeys, and you may still be able to reproduce, but only to have sterile offspring.
Have you actually seen a rabbit and a cat mate and have an offspring?
Citation/pictures or it didn't happen. Oh, and a crockoduck painting is NOT an evidence.
Cats and rabbits aren't compatible. I bet they have different amount of chromosomes.
1/28/2010 8:02:00 AM
#1105385
"While I believe in lifeforms "adapting" to their environment, that is not the same thing as evolution."
Yes it is. One leads to another over periods of time that the human mind generally can't conceive.
"It might adapt or bring a new species to life by two compatible but slightly different species mating."
Nope. Different species have different numbers of chromosones. That's part of what makes them different species, y'know. Their physiology might allow them to mate, they might even produce offspring but if those offspring are infertile then it's not a new species. Mules aren't a species after all.
1/28/2010 8:07:41 AM
#1105393
Norman
Another Example:
Lion and a Tiger = Liger
1/28/2010 8:30:12 AM
#1105396
illuzion30
>>1105288
Good call.
1/28/2010 8:32:46 AM
#1105398
caustic gnostic
I always wanted to breed a hare with a tortoise.
Oh wait! Armadillos!
1/28/2010 8:35:55 AM
#1105404
Jezebel's Evil Sister
"...The offspring looked really strange, with attributes of both parents..."
Jon-Marc resulted from an idiot mating with a liar.
1/28/2010 8:52:27 AM
#1105414
John
Who would have thought that cats and rabbits were compatible?
They aren't. You're an idiot. Adapting is evolution. It involves a change in DNA. If an animal runs on its toes, it can run faster. If its toes get longer, it can run faster yet. If it runs on one big toe instead of a whole foot full of them, there's yet another improvement. Each of these is an improvement in response to similar improvements in the carnivores that eat them. That's how we get from a four toed horse the size of a beagle to a one-toes horse the size of, well, a horse. I suppose someone can claim that a modern horse and a hyracotherium are just different sized members of the same "kind"; but then one could hardly continue to insist that humans and monkeys are a different "kind".
1/28/2010 9:13:58 AM
#1105416
h2whoa
Sounds like what you've got there is... a fucking rabbit.
1/28/2010 9:20:16 AM
#1105425
Anon-e-moose
"While I believe in lifeforms "adapting" to their environment, that is not the same thing as evolution"
Four Words: The Common Cold. MRSA.
@DaMentalFunism
"Bring forth the cabbits!"
You call
that a Cabbit?!
This is a Cabbit:
Especially when it can turn into something akin to a Shadowship (from "Babylon 5"):
Mya!
@agentCDE
"Who would have thought that cats and rabbits were compatible?"
"Fucking nobody, because they're not."
'Fucking nobody'? Ahem...:
X3
1/28/2010 9:39:32 AM
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