I'd like to hear you explanation of how caterpillars evolved into butterflies, just to hear you tie yourself into knots.
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Metamorphosis.
They are different things!
Metamorphosis is like a slide show. It jumps from one image to a significantly different image.
Evolution is like a film reel. Frame 11 and frame 12 are almost indistinguishable but the image would morph into frame 87 if you let it run.
Also slideshow for the individual, epic Oscar film for the species.
It's very tempting just to write "evolution doesn't work that way" and leave it at that. But here's a little clue - a cluette, if you will - that you're confusing the normal lifecycle of holometabolous insects with evolution.
An egg hatches into a larva (the caterpillar, in this case), which in the course of time turns itself into a chrysalis, inside which it is busy metamorphosing into the butterfly, its imago (adult) stage.
After mating, the adult females will lay more eggs, and the cycle repeats itself.
Now here's the clue part. If the egg/larval stages really were the evolutionary ancestors of butterflies, how would the adults capable of producing them? After all, you never get birds laying dinosaur eggs.
And as for this bit:
(Butterflies are a beautiful typification of resurrection that only a fool denies.)
Only a fool would think that caterpillars die and then 'resurrect' as butterflies.
Did the wonderful god that made pretty butterflies also make the parasitic worms that burrow through the skin of children leaving large burning ulcers and then infest their eyes untill they go blind in agony ?
Did the same wonderful god make plague locusts that destroy crops and cause children to starve to death ?
Or does your god only do the pretty stuff ?
*stares in stunned silence*
You know, I bet his concept of "evolution" comes from watching Pocket Monsters.
The EVOLUTION of caterpillars into butterflies?
I´d like to have a word with Daniels biology teacher. But I assume he was homeschooled and it were Daniels parents who taught him such a shit (and really believe that the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies is an argument against evolution).
I blame Pokemon for this stupidity.
Some people just can't tell the difference between reality and fiction, even if it is a cartoon.
Wait now people, maybe we're wrong. Perhaps this guy really is a prophet inspired by a God. Just look at the accuracy of his prophecy contained in the very same site we were mocking. Check this out:"Yom Kippur 2009, or Sept 27-28th of this year will mean the end of Atheism on earth when this prophecy made by Jesus Christ nearly 2000 yrs ago is fulfilled."
Hey! You! Yeah you! False prophet!
Do you know what the bible says to do to false prophets?picks up brick
I really want to round these idiots up and force them into education camps. I know that's what they fear, but until they understand grade 6 science, we're not getting anywhere.
I am honestly at a complete loss for words over the ignorance of this moron.
That being said, I'll move on to that awesome pic of Ms. Mila Kunis.
The only thing wrong with that picture is she wasn't in my bed when it was taken.
Write 500 times on the blackboard:
POKEMON IS NOT EVOLUTION
uh....what?
Evolution is something you people just can't grasp, right?
Larvae becoming an adult animal is NOT evolution. NOT EVOLUTION!
"I'd like to hear you explanation of how caterpillars evolved into butterflies, just to hear you tie yourself into knots."
That's metamorphosis you imbecile.
"(Butterflies are a beautiful typification of resurrection that only a fool denies.)"
The caterpillar isn't actually dead, you know. That's just poetic license when people talk of it being "resurrected" as a butterfly.
"I'd like to hear you explanation of how caterpillars evolved into butterflies, just to hear you tie yourself into knots."
"(Butterflies are a beautiful typification of resurrection that only a fool denies.) "
Caterpillars METAMORPHOSE into butterflies. This is not evolution in the biological speciation sense.
And no, butterflies are not an example of resurrection. Caterpillars do not die in the pupal stage. If they do, they do not emerge as butterflies later; they just stay dead.
BTW, you even fail at Pokemon evolution, the caterpillar needs to "evolve" into a cocoon first.
Oh, and here's your explanation:
You have to let the caterpillar fight with other animals until it reaches level 7, and then have the resulting cocoon (which you must call "Metapod" in order for it to have any effect) watch other animals fight each other until it reaches level 10. Then, a butterfly will pop out of the cocoon, ready to fight more animals with its poison spores.
I'd like to hear you explanation of how caterpillars evolved into butterflies just to hear you tie yourself into knots
I'll make it simple so you can understand M'kay. They don't.
Caterpillars metamorphose into Butterflys. That's not evolution, evolution's effect is on the scale of entire population, not on individual level. Caterpillars become butterflys because it is part of their life cycle to do so.
Butterflies are a beautiful typification of resurrection that only a fool denies
Only a fool thinks that metamorphosis either involves, or implies death and ressurection. Now I ask you, Are you implying that buterflies did not exist prior to the supposed resurrection?
@the dog
Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings,
Catepillars don't evolve into butterflies, dumbass. It's just different parts of their life cycle.
Resurrection? So you say that caterpillars die and go to heaven, and then come back as butterflies?
Edit. Apparently, I had drunk too much wine to spell correctly, but I still understand evolution and metamorphosis better than this dolt.
Unlike the rest of the folk here, I don't have a problem with you using caterpillars changing into butterflies as an allegory for resurrection-especially in terms of the so-called change from being a "sinner" to being a "born-again Christian." It's cool, I understand metaphors.
However, I must agree with the rest of the folk here in saying, "You fail science (and prophecy, apparently) FOREVER!!!!"
Yes of course all us wise people know that Goddidit but isn't it just bloody typical that you will be the recipient of a cavilling atheist Liberal agenda that seeks to overly-complicate matters by its insistence on presenting factual evidence in order to make you look like a complete tosser.
When, oh when will these fools realise that science or any matter relating to the natural world is the proper domain of the biblical expert and drooling believer in supernatural events and beings. After all, if I want to know about bread I'll consult a baker, if I want to know about vegetable growing I'll consult a gardener and if I want to know about science I'll consult a fundamental cultist.
Evolve?
The only place caterpillars evolve into butterflies is in Pokemon.
Also, I've seen a very convincing explanation that involves insects gradually incorporating a larval phase, instead of having babies that were near-identical to the adults.
And the resurrection thing? Cute, but not a scientific explanation AT ALL. Butterfly metamorphosis can be used as a symbol of resurrection, but they sure as hell don't die, then suddenly resurrect when it's time to exit the chrysalis.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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