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#8903
Just Rick
It's called instinct, you dumbass, to maintain the species.
Evolution actually protects and aids this process by seeing the development of various protection schemes such as the male watching over, the need to build nests in protected areas, how far developed the the born/hatched are, various sorts of camoflauge for both the mother and the young, heightened aggressiveness in a parent for protection, and on and on.
Educate yourself you self imposed ignorant horse's ass.
1/4/2006 9:49:06 PM
#8914
David D.G.
Yay! Another submission makes the grade!
This is a first-class example of how these people can't make the jump from individuals to populations -- and this from the viewpoint of an unusually self-centered individual of a species at that.
~David D.G.
1/4/2006 10:12:33 PM
#8929
Xi
Um, because if it didn't reproduce, it wouldn't be here now?
1/4/2006 11:35:47 PM
#8935
Phil
What does he think survival of the fittest means, anyway? Does he imagine some sort of animal colosseum where individuals duke it out for the right of their species?
1/4/2006 11:58:08 PM
#8942
The Last Conformist
If this isn't the worst argument against Darwinian evolution ever, it's damn close.
1/5/2006 12:05:47 AM
#8960
Bum
It is as if he has stared the answer in the face, and walked away knowing less than he came with. It's like adding 1 and 1 and not getting 2.
1/5/2006 1:19:47 AM
#9024
glyptodon
... *Wow*.
I know people badly misunderstand evolution, but... wow.
1/5/2006 2:59:33 PM
#9094
Babbleon
The high pregnancy rate among Christian teens who have undergone abstinence training may be a clue...
1/5/2006 9:37:16 PM
#9445
sjc1963
Darwin had said that survival of the fittest was not survival of the strongest nor of the most intelligent, but of the most responsive to change.
1/8/2006 10:21:26 PM
#9541
moonbiter
terasec doesn't quite understand the concept of natural selection.
1/9/2006 11:48:03 AM
#9652
TDR
Phil - that image just made my day.
1/9/2006 9:19:40 PM
#10279
Caphi
Hee hee... animal colosseum.
DODODODODODODODODODO
Dinosaur, go!
Kangaroo rat, I choose you!
*laughs for the rest of the day*
1/12/2006 9:06:04 PM
#10746
Onuris
becuase strong genes are passed on making better gene stock, making stronger animals, thus making them live on, so suck my giant wang you Nazi whore
1/16/2006 2:44:29 AM
#14492
Peachy
Oh come on! A little education. Please, just get a little.
2/9/2006 6:13:46 PM
#1351526
Apatheist
Individual survival is secondary to the concerns of natural selection. Occasionally, parents die during reproduction. This is natural population control.
11/23/2011 10:47:43 PM
#1351531
Tempus
So...the ability to produce viable descendants somehow contradicts "descent with modification?"
11/23/2011 11:08:44 PM
#1351533
Swede
Darwin doesn't explain much nowadays; he's been dead for quite a while.
Anyway; the species can't survive without reproduction, stupid. Humans, who have very vulnerable children, are social animals, who help each other. Ever hear the expression "It takes a village to raise a child"?
11/23/2011 11:16:36 PM
#1351560
Justanotheratheist
How is any species going to survive without reproducing, genius?
11/24/2011 2:54:54 AM
#1351561
Darkevilme.
It hardly needs mentioning, but the reason is simple.
Natural selection does not favour the DEAD.
11/24/2011 3:29:52 AM
#1351589
Darwin is talking about reproductive success. That requires personal survival in order to breed but leaving lots of offspring is the goal.
11/24/2011 8:49:32 AM
#1351592
Philbert McAdamia
@ Swede
"It takes a village to raise a child"
Apparently, every once in a while, one raises an idiot. This one seems to have gotten loose upon the countryside...with somebody's computer.
11/24/2011 9:00:00 AM
#1351612
Anon-e
"reproduction seems to go against darwins theory of Evo..."
Of course. After all...:
...have you tried to have sex in the back of a rally-spec car by Mitsubishi, and I'll just go get my coat, shall I?! X3
Besides, Charles Darwin looks more the Subaru Impreza sort of bloke to me. But that's just
my theory...!
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@#1351589
"leaving lots of offspring is the goal."
Well, considering the sex lives of footballers...! Two words: George Best.
[/smartarse II]
11/24/2011 10:37:04 AM
#1445124
its survival in reproductive terms. He who has the most kids wins.
9/8/2012 7:24:15 PM
#1504263
Blarghonius
A fundie had a idea... except, like everything fundies do, it's wrong.
2/10/2013 11:17:05 PM
#1504396
Canadiest
You will notice animals mate and protect their children without any guidance from the church. With the world literally crawling with social or herd animals the self-centered lone wolf mentality is the rarity.
2/11/2013 7:04:07 AM
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