If the bombardier beetle can spit fire, then why not a dino/dragon?
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This is not Fundi, this is a fair question you are being too hard on the guy.
The answer is I suppose a Dragon could fire the same chemicals. Do you have any evidence that dragons existed?
No, Ok, well maybe a Dinosaur could too. But we haven't found any evidence that they did so we are going to go with "no".
There's been a documentary or two showing, hypothetically, how dragons could naturally breathe fire. I don't remember the exact mechanism.
And bombardiers spray rather hot chemicals from their backside.
...I'm tempted to make a Taco Bell joke here.
"If the bombardier beetle can spit fire, then why not a dino/dragon?"
Exactly! Of course the Bombardier Beetle doesn't expel fire...
Except they don't, so you lose.
There is no picture to express the epic levels of fail you have reached.
Bombardier beetles don't spit; the toxic chemicals are actually expelled from the other end, from glands in the abdomen. So, the closest parallel in zoological mythology would actually be the fire-shitting dragon , which, for some odd reason, never became as popular as its fire-breathing cousin.
There's a half worm half insect that's name I forgot but it starts with a p. It spits a glue like substance that hardens on contact. And has an acidic saliva which liqufies its preys insides before it eats it. Hell termites shoot acid out. If the two species I listed can do that why can't bears?
Answer: You're retarded. That's why.
Okay, fine, I'll concede that this isn't necessarily Fundie, but it's still stupid as Hell.
A wiki search will tell you that the beetle can't spit fire, and there's never been any evidence to support dinosaurs baking their dinner.
I checked out the Wikipedia page because I've never heard of this creature before.
Scroll down to Creationism and the Bombardier beetle. They've been corrected continuously about their misunderstanding, they apologize and then go on with the same bullshit.
This comes from the fake horror stories the RCC told the early Europeans to make them flock to the church for protection. Lying for Jesus again.
The origins actually come from the ancient Nordic sagas, and the Chinese "dragons" are actually the clouds.
They have beautiful legends as to why the dragons turned into clouds, and are regarded as the farmers friend for bringing the water, and feared for thier enormous power (lightning - breathing "fire")
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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