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#86372
Tommy9898
instinct.
10/2/2006 4:06:04 AM
#86402
David D.G.
In addition to instinct, they have constant experience with the effects of gravity; they learn that stuff falls unless something holds it up, and they learn that stuff above them that starts looking bigger very fast is going to hurt them if they don't move over.
~David D.G.
10/2/2006 5:28:27 AM
#120537
lol
...can't...process....anymore
12/14/2006 7:04:31 AM
#168074
Øyvind
... ... ... ... ... What?
2/23/2007 7:27:40 PM
#168089
JP
Well, I don't mean to sound condescending either, however, you're an idiot.
2/23/2007 8:10:46 PM
#168195
Damn Yankee
Stimulus: Object from above approaching your position fast.
...Processing... Solution Follows:
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!
2/24/2007 12:43:24 AM
#273826
Øyvind
Awesomeness.
8/5/2007 6:51:11 AM
#273838
Darwin
Some don't. They die.
8/5/2007 8:43:35 AM
#274155
Phönix
Isn't it amazing how children avoid getting squished before they learn that F = mg? I myself survived approximately 11 years without this vital piece of information (although I was unfortunately unable to avoid falling bird shit on several occasions).
On another note, I have yet to see a bird dodge a falling object. Objects don't fall from the sky very often.
8/6/2007 11:05:55 AM
#274160
JD
I have a safe, and a nice tall roof over at work.
Come on over and PROVE its impossible to us.
even a fly realises that ¨big thing speeding at me¨ is danger.
Because the one that doesn't doesn't live long enough to breed: my cat just ate it. And that's natural selection at work.
8/6/2007 11:17:24 AM
#274166
Laurel
How do you go on breathing without knowledge of--lungs--gases--aw, scratch that, how do you keep breathing at all, Fuckwit?!
8/6/2007 11:24:39 AM
#274167
Freboy
Is WJ trying to strike a wedge between darwinism and evolution?
Well that's... new.
8/6/2007 11:26:47 AM
#274300
Darwin
How does a fundie use a computer or any other electronic device without understanding Maxwell's equations?
8/6/2007 9:07:58 PM
#274394
Disekshonal
I haven't had to dodge many falling objects. Actually I'm pretty sure unless someone warned me or it cast a big shadow most objects falling toward me are going to have an easy time hitting me. I just don't look up at the sky that often.
8/7/2007 1:59:41 AM
#274431
Ambrielle
If you have to ask that question, you are too stupid to know the answer. BTW, I meant to sound condescending.
8/7/2007 5:22:50 AM
#274437
Dasheth thy little ones
"How does a fundie use a computer or any other electronic device without understanding Maxwell's equations?"
Or computer code for that matter.
8/7/2007 5:38:04 AM
#274462
MarylandBear
I don't even see the connection between learning to dodge falling objects and evolution, but the answer to the question is this: "the same way a two year old learns not to touch a hot stove: experience."
8/7/2007 7:04:56 AM
#274466
Mr Smith
They move out of the way.
Where's the problem?
8/7/2007 7:33:09 AM
#274493
choosebro
I find it funny that his question at the end can be explain by the theory that he rejected at the start.
8/7/2007 8:44:40 AM
#274563
Frank
nice one choosebro
8/7/2007 1:01:36 PM
#274570
Stürmen
Simple:
1) Object A coming at Creature B at a very high speed.
2) Creature B is not you, and thus has an IQ above 2 (ok, that was just mean of me).
3) Creature B sees Object A coming at it at a very high speed.
4) Creature B moves out of the path of Object A so as to avoid being killed.
8/7/2007 1:34:06 PM
#274582
Mr_Vorhias
Because they know something is going to hit them and they don't want to get hit.
Stupid.
8/7/2007 2:22:15 PM
#301118
How do both humans and birds dodge falling objects without knowledge of the mathematical laws of gravity?"
a natural ability to observe the obvious perhaps?
10/4/2007 1:52:01 PM
#301127
anti-nonsense
because any organism that DIDN'T dodge an object flying at them at high speed probably didn't survive to reproduce as it got either eaten or crushed. There is quite a bit of selection pressure to dodge potentially lethal falling or flying objects.
10/4/2007 2:12:52 PM
#317462
cyborgtroy
Simple. We both have lots of experience of falling stuff hurting like heck when it hits us.
And evolution favors things that instinctively get out of the way...
10/23/2007 4:43:32 PM
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