Friday, January 04, 2008

How dumb is too dumb? Denyse O'Leary edition.


Canadian IDiot Denyse O'Leary pushes the very boundaries of stupid:

Questions in evolution: Animals suddenly appear ... and after that nothing much happens. Why?

I have no punchline for this. And neither do you.

HEH
. Even the Americans have taken to making fun of Denyse.

9 comments:

Balbulican said...

I really like her comments on "curstaceans".

Curstaceans. Those damned mollusks.

LuLu said...

Animals suddenly appear ... and after that nothing much happens. Why?

It's magic, right? It's always magic ...

E in MD said...

So basically it's another "If apes evolved into humans why are there still apes" argument.

For the stupid, or ideologically blinded.....just because a certain population develops a mutation which permits said mutant to have enough of a survival advantage to pass on its genes doesn't necessarily mean that the entire existing population of non-mutants is just suddenly going to die. It can happen, yes. Such as when the mutant has such an advantage that it utter out competes the original for food and causes it to die out. Or when the environment changes so drastically that the non mutants cannot possibly survive without an adaptation.

But it doesn't necessarily have to happen if the original unadapted species still holds a survival advantage for it's environment that allows it to continue propagating the non mutated genes.

and that, Denyse is an example of how 'random' the process is. If it were a consciously directed process the consciousness would probably not bother to create a newer version of something while allowing the older version to hang around because it would be redundant and wasteful.

JJ said...

She lost me at "Animals suddenly appear".

E in MD said...

LuLu said...

It's magic, right? It's always magic ...


Yup! Put some meat in a jar with no lid and maggots magically generate from it! Wow! Must be proof that God exists!

counter-coulter said...

jj said...
She lost me at "Animals suddenly appear".


Ohhh "animals"...I thought that she mistaken evolution with Karen Carpenter lyrics and said "Birds".

Now I've got that damn song stuck in my head. Thanks Denyse! Thanks a lot!

toujoursdan said...

"Animals suddenly appear"

Couldn't this be a description of Literal Genesis Creationism?

Don't they believe that God said "Make it so" and animals suddenly appeared in Disneyesque fashion?

Ti-Guy said...

Well, all is not lost. By following the link to "link farm" at Scienceblogs, I came across the term "spamdexing."

Denyse has gone meta-stupid, and may soon achieve sentience and become self-aware. I think we're witnessing the birth of artificial intelligence.

900ft Jesus said...

"...quickly attained dominance because it rules out - in principle - the idea that there is any design of life."

when you read something like that, you know there's no point in discussing anything with the author. Everything is interpreted as an attack on their beliefs, nothing can possibly exist for other reasons.