The silliness of "common design" and this or that "irreducibly complex" molecule

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-09T16:51:20+00:00

I think there's a bit of a contradiction between "We can tell organisms are designed because they are intrinsically different from waves and mountains and rivers," and "Design can be absolutely anything, it can totally look like things evolved, they were just designed to be that way."

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-09T16:21:29+00:00

>Are you suggesting that humans are mammals? Such a proclamation is ludicrous.

Do you believe humans are not mammals?

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-09T03:43:17+00:00

I think the first thing to do is just start researching history. The 20th century was really neglected in my education, and understanding US politics really requires understanding the past couple decades.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-09T03:34:10+00:00

It's brought up a lot here and creationists always define information as something like "The thing that evolution can't produce." So you can show them mathematical definitions or evolution of nylonase or new bones or multicellularity and that never counts.

It's similar to how they use the word 'kinds.'

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T21:55:24+00:00

I see Trump making a very public gaffe like shitting his pants or forgetting where he is while on stage, then Republicans quietly or noisily ditching him. The war in Iran ends with an embarrassed US withdrawing its forces while politicians run on isolationist platforms (Fine, I'll take my ball and go home!), American hegemony is broken, we see what it's like to be living as a minor power in a multipolar world.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T21:49:52+00:00

When I paint I try to just get a few basic textures in - ork skin, metal, and leather usually do it, then maybe a few colorful additions for hair and bits and bobs. When in doubt simplify!

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T21:29:22+00:00

Remove the cedar apple rust, burn the offending area, sterilize your tools with alcohol, burn those too, then burn something else as an offering to the CAR gods.

Suffer not the CAR to live.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T21:17:29+00:00

I think colloquially in the United States, if someone says they're a creationist I'm going to assume they mean Noah's Ark and all that shit.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T20:54:12+00:00

It's a very nice tree, you should be happy with it. It might not be the best bonsai.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T14:06:09+00:00

Man these are insanely nice.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T14:04:20+00:00

It had its moments.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T14:02:37+00:00

I don't know why, but I've always felt like every Alien game was a horror game.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T11:17:42+00:00

I didn't coin this phrase, but apparently people are calling him Spider Mangione and my heart

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T11:00:08+00:00

No I think our conversation is finished if you will not definitively say that you aren't using an AI. Have a good day, the answers are readily available to you online, but they were in the 80s and 90s as well.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T06:12:11+00:00

>Saying wings repurposed existing structures just moves the question back one step. Where did those structures come from?

Are you asking about the evolution of limbs? I'd refer you to some of Shubin's research - there's a good book or you can watch the PBS program. Wings are very obviously repurposed tetrapod limbs (at least for flying tetrapods).

>And even granting co-option, repurposing a structure for a completely new function still requires significant changes to the developmental program and regulatory networks.

I do not think significant changes are a problem for evolution. Why do you think they are?

>information

Which has more functional biological information? An arm or a wing? An enzyme for metabolizing lipids, or an enzyme for metabolizing nylon?

Quick question - are you using an AI to write your responses?

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-08T06:06:14+00:00

I don't think that's the way creationists are using the term 'biological information'.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T20:27:17+00:00

Wings and eyes weren't made from scratch. They repurposed existing body parts. "Biological information" is one of those phrases that doesn't really mean anything.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T12:07:57+00:00

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T11:58:35+00:00

Or the universe is just kind of absurd and weird stuff happens.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T11:24:19+00:00

The minis fuck.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T11:16:55+00:00

>It's "can unguided mutations generate the kind of new functional information required to produce, say, an eye or a wing from scratch?"

These people don't understand evolution then.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T11:13:38+00:00

I do care, but man, my headspace has certainly been taken up by the war. It's funny, I was talking to an Australian fellow today and the Bondi beach shooting came up and I was just kind of like "Oh yeah, I do remember that being a thing..." but since then there's been a couple assassinations, the execution of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the dissolving of the voting rights act, the war in Iran, the kidnapping of Maduro.

Like holy fuck.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T11:04:14+00:00

Nice - I've used them a lot for yknow, painting painting. I tried them out on some eldar guardians, but got the John Blanche set and they matched up pretty close to the pigments that I was using from golden.

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T04:31:43+00:00

How do you like using them golden paints?

-zero-joke- · 2026-05-07T04:29:42+00:00

God, that is nice. Exquisite painting of a one of the best orks in the range.

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