Cane Toads and Evolution (and othe stuff)

A meandering through some stuff including cane toads, the Deccan Steps, the Perth Canyon and Palm Valley.

Sources: http://www.canetoadsinoz.com/toadevolution.html
http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/2008/12/cane-toad-evolution-good-ba...
http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/species/cetaceans/conference/pubs/bw-ban...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Valley_%28Northern_Territory%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Canyon
http://filebox.vt.edu/artsci/geology/mclean/Dinosaur_Volcano_Extinction/

Music: It ain't necessarily so by George Gershwin.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• cane
• toads
• evolution
• biological
• pest
• control
• deccan
• traps
• palm
• valley
• red
• cabbage
• livistonia
• mariae

[tattooskin72]

That's actually quite cool how moving just one species of toad has influenced so much of the Australian wild life to evolve. I really never thought about how it would effect other species.

Great video, very educational :)

Did you try to contact those websites that have the incorrect spelling?

[AuntieDiluvian]

Good point Michael! I will, and I shall be very smug!

[bjeh001]

I got curious about you and your channel from those nice little jabs of comments you've thrown at Franksvoice. And that Nephilimfree Mr. Potato Head video was priceless! This too was well done, Auntie and well worth my subscribing :)

[AuntieDiluvian]

Thanks! Frank is excellent comment-fodder. I kinda like him because he's earnest, but he's also a sad case! :)

[h4tchetman]

good vid btw I know cane toads are a pest but it just facinates me how they are evolving... I think its kind of cool :) lol soon we will have a Sub-species of Wallaby sized cain toads... that would be both fucked up and cool at the same time, nature is amazing

[h4tchetman]

hehe care to share the otehr story about what happens to people who lick cane toads ;P

[PerthPete1]

Hi Roz,

You can just hear the creationists falling back on there standard mantra, you are wrong the bible is correct.

Clever video.

Peter.

[anubis2814]

If you are interested in the mindset of an ex-creationist, check my stuff out. I was deeply emersed and brainwashed in it. As a matter of fact I'll be coming out with a video series called "Why are intelligent people still religious?" Some of the things I was taught to rationalize creationism will blow your mind.

[MilitantPeaceist]

It gets me how many creationist's forget about Australia. I mean the Platypus stuff's them right from the start or why else did they raise the bar and ask for a crockoduck 8s.

But awesome work on the canetoad - going to load that one in and zighail it over their way and see what comes back 8)

[Rockster969]

I think the only way to REALLY get into a fundies head is with a .357 magnum(thick skulls innit?) but it only makes a messy hole pumping out brain ejecta and not really condusive to continued neural activity and lordy knows theres little of that anyway.

It's a difficult question Auntie?

Finger paintings with large diagrams and arrows? Na,even that's information overload for the mono browed ones,hmm?

Carrot and stick? Na,the other lot do that already!

[fathermoelest]

You have a HOT voice auntieDiluvian! You rock!

[endergt]

My favorite "Creationist Nightmare" is the in-the-lab observed evolution of a multicellular strain of Chlorella from a single-celled strain in response to predation, documented by Martin E. Boraas, Dianne B. Seale and Joseph E. Boxhorn.

dx.doi[.]org/10.1023/A:1006527­528063

[TheLivingDinosaur]

Great vid!

Unfortunately the others who have commented are right. The average fundie will just say "God put the riverbeds and canyon there" and "But nothing had changed into another kind", then stick their head back up their arse and go to church to pray so they can make themselves feel better for f*@king people over for the other six days of the week.

Still, at least the rest of us get to watch an interesting and informative vid! Keep it up!

[ItsDaSuperFly]

Answer? Plug the ears and say "Gawd Dunit"

[terminaldeity]

...but creationists can answer all these questions with three words..."GOD DID IT!" (shouting makes it more true)

[terminaldeity]

I think Galapagos is a better example.

[EvolvedAtheist]

Interesting ;)

Cane toads and rabbits! What were they thinking?!

[trilobites4truth]

Be my guest... Like I said, Australia has a peculiar enviroment that can only be explained by evolution... Even though in Europe there are enviroments similiar like in Australia, why doesn't Europe has for example kangaroos.... Surely if life was dotted out at random, they could trive...(I know the answer.. And you surely know it also).

[AuntieDiluvian]

Australia the creationist's horror? I like that!  Will use it :)

[trilobites4truth]

Well, that's kind of a oxymoron...

It would be easier to find a honest thief. At least there is some chance that they exist...

[trilobites4truth]

Well, for starters there is: Why are marsupials so prolific in Australia, but they don't seem to thrive in the rest of the world... This alone would be a good question. But you surely know this already.

Also... Why are reptiles a vital part of australian's ekosystem. (In Europe, we practicaly have only small lizards and vipers... Mammals replaced them, as they are better adapted).

[trilobites4truth]

Well... Good morning then... (I guess it is by the time i write, as you're living on the other side of our globe... Also, can't stress that enough... there are plenty of nutjobs out there who think that the earth is a pancake). Still, a banana is supposed the atheist nightmare, then australia is the creationists horror. I would have settled on pineapples...

[AuntieDiluvian]

I will - thanks :)

[AuntieDiluvian]

next time :)

[trilobites4truth]

Good explanation... You could also ask creationists why australia has so many unique species wich only live in australia... Surely if they would populate the world at random, they would be all over the place, but they are not... Is it magic, or maybe the australian continent broke of of other continents and developed it's own unique habitat? I would go for the latter.

[bdf2718]

I am surprised that you didn't bring up marsupials. Your map of Gondwanaland becomes far more credible given the distribution of marsupials. And evolution becomes far more credible given Gondwanaland and marsupials.