I get mail

PZ Myers recently encouraged people to subscribe to a free creationist publication, which I did. It arrived today and this is my initial reaction.

PZ Myers blog post about the newsletter: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/those_awful_ads.php

A direct link to subscribe to the publication: http://www.gnmagazine.org/evolution/

PZ Myers talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba2h9tqNYAo

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[MicrosoftsourceCode]

The real question is why do we have eyes and ears to see and hear. @ what point in evolution did creatures develop a sense of balance, smell etc. Maybe natural selection at some point had many creatures with no eyes and ears. I can't figure out how all creatures from bees to whales have eyes. Who was the common ancestor?

[askegg]

In a blind world the one eyed man is King. Eyes and ears give the organism an advantage over those which cannot see of hear, so are selected for.

What was the common ancestor of all these animals? I do not know for sure, but it's wrong to think of it as an individual. Mutations occur in individuals, but it is the cumulative effect of many mutations from many individuals which transition through the ages.

[JohnFredricksen]

Maybe god created us with less than perfect eyes so that we would seek ways to correct our sight and therefore create lenses which in time would lead to microscopes and telescopes and thereby expand our micro and macro vision of the universe. All of which lead to atronomy, cosmologies, quantum physics, big bang theories etc. So you "see" god really is an intelligent designer. The eye is perfectly designed so as to lead us to see distant, very distant, worlds.

I am just playing the ID game!

[askegg]

... and playing it well. You have been paying attention.

[alphacause]

My one reservation about subscribing to the magazine is that the people who publish it will get a false impression as to the number of Creationists out there, and they might report an inflated number.

[askegg]

Yes - it's a trade of between giving them political power verses debunking their pseudo scientific rubbish.

[TheFlST]

Creationism = Retarded

[NerdsUnited47]

please Please PLEASE someone make a religion to ridicule these heartless bastards, I don't know, make some religion about some pink unicorn, or some spaghetti god...Oh wait...someone has done that already :) We need more satire and parody to take my mind off the depressing notion that this world may end due to zombie jesus worshipppers :(

[cnocspeireag]

Alphacause, don't let the possibility of giving creationists evidence worry you. When they want to pretend there are more creationist they will simply lie about it. That's what they do.

[12TattooYou]

Love the vids!

[10sodot]

it might also go the other way:

if all the YT atheists subscribe/order the free books ,it could blow these creationists budget.

[Temuldjin]

okay i am dislexic and im English is my second language.... but issent it called I got mail? and not i get mail? :) if not please explain why :) if im corect... IN YOUR FACE! :P hehe

[NerdsUnited47]

You know, humans have designed "eyes" and "ears" much more effective/sensitive then our biological ones. Aha!

[grumpychuck]

I'm going to order these!