I'm not suggesting that we should have elephants or tigers who are building homes like ours. But based on needs alone it bothers me that elephants didn't see the need to invent the wheel so they could roll they're fat butts around. Or Tigers should have learned how to set snares after a couple of million years to catch just one Zebra as he rushes the herd in that direction. If evolution was real what i'm suggesting is totally reasonable based on the very laws of evolution proponents tell us exist.
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Yep, the "laws" of evolution say that elephants should be rolling their fat butts around on wheels...
If I ever see a tiger set a snare in order to catch a zebra, I promise to convert to Christianity. Until such time, I'll realize that tigers don't hunt zebras, don't need snares, and don't have the dexterity to build snares in the first place. It always astounds me, the number of people who believe memetic evolution and biological evolution are somehow related.
Well, aside from the fact that 1) they don't need them to survive [elephants seem to get along fine just stomping their - BTW, note the spelling - way around, and tigers don't seem to lack for food even without setting snares] and 2) they don't have the manual dexterity required to do so (I'd like to see an elephant shape a rock into a wheel or a tiger tie a rope without fingers), yeah, it is a bit of surprise.
we made houses to keep us from dieing, we are to weak to survive outside in anthing but the most gentle of climates, we made snares becuase we are to slow and weak to catch food, we are the ones who needed work so by that fact we are the weakest in the whole world, now did i speak slow enough or do i have to repeat myself
Yeah, all those tigers in Africa would have no trouble setting snares with the opposable thumbs they have. Yup.
Elephants have bones and muscles more then capable of hefting their, as you idiotically termed it, "fat butts" around. They had no need for the wheel. Humans, on the other hand, found it difficult to carry a felled buck back to the safety of their caves, and so had to invent a means of getting food from the hunting grounds to their families. Elephants eat grass, which requires very little muscle power. Humans eat meat, just as tigers do. But tigers aren't afraid of other animals killing them and eating them while they finish off their kills. They were top of the food chain. Humans, not so much. Eating what you kill, where you kill it, when you have no natural defense mechanisms like sharp teeth or claws, is like slathering yourself in barbecue sauce and tossing yourself to the lions. The wheel became a necessity because we need a means of getting heavy dead animals somewhere we could eat them without being killed ourselves.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Elephants obviously don't need a wheel, as they survived fine without it. They could use some guns though, so they could shoot back at humans killing them for their tusks. Tigers do well on their own without snares, and would also do even better without humans.
Please, no more of this "if evolution was real"! It is real, it has been observed in labs, for heaven's sake.
It would be a neat trick if a tiger in the wild ever caught a zebra, considering the two species live on different continents.
That aside, your post is nonsensical anyway. Elephants manage fine without wheels, and big cats have their teeth, their claws, a burst of speed, and plenty of feline cunning - all of which is more than enough to keep them fed. Neither species has either the brain power or the tools (i.e. opposable thumbs) to "build" anything, but despite man's intervention they have managed to survive (barely, in the tiger's case) without wheels and traps.
Fundies, on the other hand, wouldn't last a day in the jungles of Asia or the plains of Africa. Which sounds like a good enough reason to start sending a few bus loads of them there.
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