creation speaks louder than any words, just look at how we are made, just look at our planet, i think the size of fruit testifys to a creator, grapes are just the right size for our mouth and oranges come insections to share and the largest fruits are not really to big for us to handle, then look at the taste buds, well we never needed them to survive, they are an added bonus, these are just a few points, i am sure you could come up with loads more. But even after all the explaining and proof some people never listen just look at Gods own people the isrealites they saw the red see open and many more miracles yet they still never believed, so seeing is not always believing
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Actually, taste buds can be a very valuable thing. Things that taste nasty, sour, or bitter tend to be poisonous things.
Grapes need to be a good size for the creatures that eat them so that they get planted a decent distant. Most grapes are not of the seedless variety, if I recall correctly.
Uh, yeah. You do realize that most modern foods have been created by man, don't you? Go eat a wild apple or strawberry or banana and then get back to us.
And taste buds are a huge evolutionary advantage. Go drink some bleach, and you might figure out why.
"oranges come insections to share"
Unless you have a 8-sectioned orange and 2 friends. Whoops.
Not to mention fruits actually evolved to be edible, so that plants could spread their seeds further.
"the isrealites they saw the red see open and many more miracles yet they still never believed, so seeing is not always believing"
Not when you're looking at something natural and explainable and claiming goddidit.
Ever heard of the anthropic principle?
What you perceive as if exactly made for humans is rather the result of co-evolutionary processes. If our mouthes were too small for us to eat most of the edible fruits in the area, having a larger mouth might lead to an evolutionary advantage and therefore within generations the people with larger mouthes would be more widespread among us, very probably leading to a solid manifestation of the genes for larger mouthes within our genome.
Might sound a little bit more complicated than the stuff you normally read (i.e. the bible) but it is your decision if you want it easy and stick with fairy tales written for people of the iron age, or want to stick with reality, which however might require you to use your brain ;)
Anyone who says taste buds are just "an added bonus" proves that the rest of their nonsense isn't worth indulging for a second. (Says the woman who was unpleasantly surprised by soy milk that had turned today.)
PS--Toadstools and holly berries fit perfectly into a person's mouth, too.
Wow - what a nutcase.
"then look at the taste buds, well we never needed them to survive, they are an added bonus, these are just a few points, i am sure you could come up with loads more."
I wonder if he/she has ever noticed that rotten fruit tastes like sh!^. Perhaps a good reason is that we have EVOLVED so that our brains recognise things that may be dangerous to eat as tasting bad and things that are safe to eat as tasting good? I mean, natural selection would pretty quickly rid the gene pool of people that found, say, arsenic was tasty.
Ahh, bless. Why not learn to spell first, then learn to think, and then come back and reflect on the true glory of nature, and how God is a consequence, and not a cause.
You'll find nightshade is also perfectly designed to fit in your mouth, go on and try it.
Also, pinapples, coconuts, avacados, pumpkins, lichees, chestnut etc etc etc.
and finally [citation needed] from a good source.
Go try and eat a wild almond, or strawberry, or blueberry...
All modern foodstuffs have been evolved by man for man throught articial selection.
"Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best."
Dr. Pangloss, Candide
[on why turkeys are killed and eaten] "It's God's punishment for being so tasty."
"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"
"grapes are just the right size for ur mouth..."
They also can make some great tasting (that I taste with my bonus taste buds) WINE!!
The only reasonable and good thing that is mentioned it the bible.
Ebola, box jellyfish, fire ants, flesh-eating disease, ionizing radiation, and radon gas are just a few of the other things god put on Earth for our benefit in addition to fruit.
"i think the size of fruit testifys to a creator"
Then why were strawberries about the size of your thumbnail until MAN used genetic tinkering to make them big enough to really enjoy?
Why are coconuts, pineapples, and pomegranates so tricky to get into?
Logic fail!
Take a botany class, Charmaine Jay. Seriously. There are 300,000 species of fruiting plants on the planet and the vast majority of them produce fruits that are not suited for human consumption, most of which would be dangerous to eat, my little fucknut. Using your own pathetic logic, you must conclude that the majority of fruits testify to the absence of a creator.
1) Taste buds help us distinguish between safe and dangerous foods. If it tastes sour or bitter, it's probably dangerous. If it's sweet or salty, it's probably okay.
2) Most modern fruits have been cultivated by humans. We bred grapes and oranges so that they'd be more desirable to human taste buds. In the wild, most fruits have large seeds and are nowhere near as sweet and juicy as domesticated fruits. Compare a wild banana with a domestic banana some day, then let me know if you still think that fruit is 'naturally perfect'.
I ate a prickly pear the other day. Then spent 15 minutes picking spines out of my fingers.
If there's a creater, he's a sadist.
If...
"creation speaks louder than any words"
...then Kitzmiller vs Dover is the sound system at a Motorhead gig.
"i think the size of fruit testifys to a creator, grapes are just the right size for our mouth"
As are plums. Methinks Charmaine has no concept of the word 'Plums' being a slang term for Testicles. Therefore is your theory nothing more than Bollocks .
Like I say - or should I say, you - 'just look at how we are made'. The act of sucking of testicles - i.e. 'Plums' - isn't just restricted to heterosexual couples, you know.
Enjoy your paradox, Charmaine. >:D
Now why am I reminded of the plummy-voiced art historian/critic Brian Sewell, and the way he revels in the saying of the word 'Buttocks'?! X3
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