Do evolutionists put lids on their fish bowls out of fear of their goldfish growing legs and crawling out?
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Do evolutionists put lids on their fish bowls out of fear of their goldfish growing legs and crawling out?
Do Christians still sprinkle babies with holy water to make the Invisible Good Creature happy?
You think you're being funny, but you have no idea the horrors I went through that day my baby shark sprouted legs and climbed out of the tank.
I nearly killed myself, tripping over shit, trying to beat that thing into submission with a baseball bat.
My poor cat has never been the same...
I suppose if I setup my fish bowl to be half terrarium, and allowed the existence of some boon to survival (ie. better food or a waste disposal location) then those that hatch over several generations with longer flippers are better able to out-breed the others, allowing more fish to be born with long flippers, until another mutation comes along that is beneficial and is bred into the system, etc...
This takes hundreds if not thousands of generations to occur, so no, I do not put a lid on my hypothetical fishbowl for fear that it would sprout legs and crawl out.
Well, my betta did once leap out of the bowl and try to flop into another bowl to fight a second betta. It didn't work well, and Dart was duly returned to his bowl. Cool how they can breathe air and all, though.
In college some friends of mine bought a fish tank and put some crabs in it. One crab in particular had a penchant for escape. We'd often find it out of the tank curled up behind the filter tube. We'd grab it, toss it back in and close the lid. Never-the-less after class there it would be outside the tank again. Finally someone got a different type of lid and put a brick on top. We watched the crab carefully as it tested places to escape but it could not. Satisfied we went to class.
When we returned we found it on the bottom of the tank, motionless and obviously dead. Well that was that we decided. Nobody bothered to fish the dead crab out. A few days later someone found out that that particular species of crab prefers to live NEAR water and spends most of its time on land. It wets its gills to facilitate breathing but its perfectly happy on dry land.
Feeling like jerks we finally decided to give the crab a proper burial (*flush*). Upon scooping up the carcass we were amazed to discover: it was just an empty shell. The crab had left it's molt as a decoy and the little bastard had given us the slip! We never did find him. Perhaps he made a break for the great outdoors (though I suspect the ferret eventually caught him).
That's my story about how the amphibious crustacean outwitted the highly evolved college students.
@Flour
You take that back right now!
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There are lids on my aquarium, but that's because the water evaporates relatively quickly and it helps slow that process. The lids also keep pollutants out of the water so we can maintain an environment that is clean and healthy for the fish.
Question answered. Next question, please.
"Do evolutionists put lids on their fish bowls out of fear of their goldfish growing legs and crawling out?"
Do Creationists keep an eye on their flower pots inside their houses, in case God decides to create a burglar out of the earth and clay in the said pots?
Why of course, because that is the exact way evolution works.
Morbo wants a word with you, moron...
Darwin Was Wrong needs to be corrected on two points:
1. Evolution doesn't work like that.
2. Goldfish are cheap, boring pets that are impossible to connect to emotionally.
You know, for a while I wondered, "How can anyone still deny that evolution happens?" It made no sense. But quotes like this really explain it: it's because they have no fucking clue what evolution actually is!
Hmmm, I'm going to put a lid on it right now - just in case The Zombie Who Walks On Water comes back, I don't want him stomping around on Goldie.
@ Trovore - good story. You must be related to Ben Trovato.
One Flew Over The ... uh, crab tank?
Only if they plan to put enough fish in the tank to sustain the population for a few million years. Then maybe, just maybe , a fish will eventually start to gain some leg-like characteristics.
But probably not, because there'd be no advantage to having legs in an aquarium.
Yeah, my goldfish tried that. Guess he should of tried to evolve lungs first.
Dark_Lord_Prime FTW
Thats why I don't keep aggressive species of fish. Would be like letting a bird dog loose at an ostrich farm.
No, because unlike you, they UNDERSTAND evolution.
God, save us from your followers. They're f'ing idiots.
No because evolution doesn't work that way.
Fishbowls should have lids, but it's to stop the fish from accidentally jumping out of the bowl and suffrocating on the floor.
And even if it did work that way, I for one would not want to stop my fish from growing legs and crawling away, it would make them a lot more interesting. Goldfishes are boring.
I brought home some tadpoles once, thinking they were guppies....
With tadpoles and Pokemon, the operative term is 'metamorphosis' and not 'evolution'.
There is no Theory of Metamorphosis that I know of.
No, I for one do it so the cat doesn't get them. Because evolving legs takes longer than that, see...oh, never mind.
No. Because it would take millions of years to happen, even if it did happen at all.
Listen carefully, now. Individual creatures do not fucking evolve - for the millionth time. Today's goldfish will remain as they are until they die. Unfortunately, so will today's idiots.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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