Do you know since God gave us , cows, pigs, chicken and goat domisticated 6000 years before and yet no scientitits made a domisticated animal up to now? That's why we should thank our Lord.
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Domesticating an animal takes hundreds, if not thousands, of years and was done with animals that had a practical benefit for humans.
Nowadays we have lots of novelty pets that are being domesticated (though they're still much closer to their wild brethren than a dog is to a wolf). Examples, you say? Okay: mice, rats, fish (especially goldfish and koi), many species of reptiles, etc. Ever go into a greenhouse and see some variety of a common plant you've never seen before? They're not newly-discovered, they're a new domesticated form of that plant that was probably put on the market that year or within the past couple of years.
"I'd rather thank the Egyptians (and others) for domestic cats."
Cats aren't domesticated. They are just patiently biding their time, before they overthrow humanity, as has been their plan all along.
That's funny, because I'm pretty sure my pet guinea pigs were domesticated more recently than that--and I'm also sure they aren't mentioned in the Bible (how could they be, since they're South American creatures?)
The cows, pigs, chickens and goats we have today bear little resemblance to the cows, pigs, chickens and goats "God gave us". We bred them by observing the natural mutation-induced variation in their genes and letting the ones with the "right stuff" (i.e., the most useful to humans) survive and breed. It's called "evolution".
*ahem* Science does not work that way! And animals don't just appear from nowhere! On another matter, it takes a long time to domesticate animals. So I think this guy needs to find a dictionary and look up 'domesticate', because it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
Huh? I thought domesticated animals came from humans domesticating them probably longer than 6000 years ago.
And what the heck is a "scientitits?"
Oh and some animals are not naturally domesticated, because we think of cats as domesticated but when they live without human contact they're quite feral. In fact, there have been a few cases of children being raised by animals and had to be tamed & taught how to speak languages.
Yeah there haven't been any animals domesticated by humans! I mean, other than cows, pigs, chickens, goats, dogs, cats, fancy rats, gerbils, parrots.... hmmmm.
Wrong. Just type in "list of domesticated animals" into Wikipedia and you'll see that we've domesticated (just to name a few) bees, rabbits, turkeys, ostriches, and plenty more.
It's a slow process, but humans have done it time and time again.
Thomas,
How does one 'domisticate'?
It sounds like some fucked up perverted thing that fundies with a bestiality complex like to do.
ps.
My first comment. I've been reading for a long time.
To be fair, a lot of the domestication of animals we take for granted (livestock more so than pets) happened before 6,000 years ago, which is incompatible with this little fundie's worldview, so of course he'd have to make something up.
We have domesticated animals since then. It's not that hard, really; just need the right animal and a few generations to get the domestication process started, then you perfect it gradually as you go. Goldfish are a good example.
As a hard at work skoolboy desperatly trying to lern my facts so i can pass all my exams, I appreshiate that thers so many good skolars like Thomas on the internet so i find things that are true.
Speshully things like gography. e,g, wats the capital of Peru? Answer, God made turkeys and turkey farmers and people who like eating turkeys. and they can live in Peru. I like how you can make a logical conecshun.
Or history. Wat year was the Battle of Hastings? God makes sheep and they make lambs and the Normans liked mutton, altho lambs are not mutton. but it does not matter. I think. So thers a conecshun again.
Maths. 1066. God made Frensh people. God made maths. if you add 1065+1 it = 1066. Coincidence? Thats exactly the date 1066? God works in mysterious ways. Altho He's got plans.
Yahoo Answers, advanced skolarship of the highest order.
I literally just did a facepalm, and I can feel another one coming on.
Edit: Bily Bunter wins the internet.
Scientitis? Is that some sort of disease? ...Maybe it's a sickness that causes you to pull hilariously (un)scientific statistics from your ass, and present them as fact.
Diagnosis: The patient Thomas has this disease. Full stop.
Prescription: Patient should hit his head against a wall for a solid two hours.
Typical fundy nonsense aside, after reading the first sentence I found myself afflicted with the following earworm:
Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry,
When I take you out in my surrey,
When I take you out in my surrey
With a fri-i-i-inge on top.
Cows, pigs, chickens & goats were domesticated by man, not God, fuckface.
Get your head out of your fundy asshole.
Mules are the cross of a horse and a donkey. And unless I'm sorely mistaken, they're also domesticated.
Plus, though they're not officially scientists (for the most part), breeders continue to develop new kinds of cats, dogs, and many other animals.
And Thomas should thank the scientitis for inventing crayons, so he can draw pictures of those domisticated animal in class....
(no insult intended to 3rd graders in real life who actually draw animals in class....you are progressing normally).
Cats. Cats have only been domesticated for about 5000 years or so, and barely domesticated at that.
I'm also not sure what "scientitits" are, or how genetically creating a new docile species in a lab is some horrible thing that we should thank god for not happening.
There were domesticated animals long before that, Einstein.
And on the other side of the spectrum we've actually never stopped domesticating animals.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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