Most or all of this will be pretty obvious stuff. That's where I'm a Viking.
But it's gonna be fun. For me anyway. Just get a chicken and a monkey, put em in the Octagon & see what happens.
I can't believe this picture exists. Thank you HabzHockey.
Okay, now... Time to get serious. I'm going on the record. When it comes down to the question of a real live chicken and a real live egg, the egg came first.
I got science for this. And you can too. But first the incumbent belief:
Genesis (that's in the Bible, in the unlikely event that you don't know) lays out a scenario in which the chicken comes first. The author (Moses, I think) doesn't mention the chicken by name, but does make a sweeping reference to the birds of the air, the fish in the sea, and everything that creeps on land; chickens fall within that category.
God then saw to it that all these critters would multiply. For chickens, that means eggs.
So the chicken arrived first. Simple.
Future Nobel Laureate.
Evolution is a theory better misrepresented than an Iranian citizen.
In Chapter 1 of "On the Origin of Species," the author (Darwin, I think) lays out something a little harder to swallow - the idea that the egg came first.
Apparently it had been demonstrated earlier that "unnatural treatment of the embryo causes monstrosities; and monstrosities cannot be separated by any clear line of distinction from mere variations." (from the experiments of Geoffrey St Hillaire).
In other words: If you dose an embryo with radiation, alcohol or any other thing it shouldn't have, it'll turn out different than if you'd left it alone.
Our boy Charlie was inclined to take it a bit further, theorizing that variations in progeny could more commonly be attributed to variations in male and female reproductive elements. Not in the overall organism, but just their naughty bits (since they're the most fragile bits; ever been kicked in the nuts? You know...).
In other words: Mutations are also the natural result of changing environments and the effects of same on the parents of the mutant. They're just not nearly as dramatic as what happens when you blast a first-term pregnancy with gamma rays.
Hulk SMASH puny natural selection!
Most of these mutations served no useful purpose at the time, and led nowhere (or to the mutant's early death).
The underwhelming minority of these mutations gave the mutant in question an advantage for survival over its brothers and sisters. It's just luck, for lack of a better word.
This wouldn't have mattered much, since in less than a hundred years they would all be dead anyway. But the mutant chronologically stood a better chance of reproducing, passing its unique advantage down to its progeny.
It's a little thing, but it helped.
From there, Darwin theorized that these mutations continued to sort out who survived what over the course of millions of years, blah-blah-blah-you-know-the-rest-of-it.
At no point anywhere in the theory of evolution did Charlie Darwin indicate that a monkey gave birth to a human. That would be stupid.
Doesn't care about Nobel Prize.
We're not monkeys. Almost nobody believes we are. Evolutionists and Creationists can agree on this. I reckon that's where the common ground ends.
Good news though: Did you know there are people out there who believe in God and Darwin? Better still, they believe in the Judeo-Christian God, and - having actually read and thought about both the Bible and On the Origin of Species - see no reason to choose between the two.
It's all straw anyway, according to your best theologian.
Creationism is not a requisite for belief in a Prime Mover, but a crutch for the gullible git. Not stupid people, but credulous.
It isn't an insult. Ignorance isn't something you can't change about yourself. It's harder to change this kind of ignorance if you don't trust reason though.
Evolution is all but proven. And by "all but proven," I mean it is proven if you believe that your senses and reason can be trusted.
If not, there's no sense in argument and no reason to speak.
Answer: Moses, David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul... and probably a few Greek & Roman converts too. Go back to bed and have another prophetic dream.
Join us next time, when our hero takes on Theocracy vs Secular Dictatorship... and wins, because they're exactly the same thing!
See you in another present...
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