Comment on I ain't got no Dino in this race.

crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  damn, i had so much arguments with creationists around myself recently, that just the words “plan” and “evolution” put together make me unhappy

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    plan and evolution together feels eugenics-y, yeah that makes me unhappy too

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    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      tbf, if we extrapolate ad absurdum, not reproducing with the first mature enough person we meet, and rather chosing partner based of arbitrary traits we wanna see in our kids already sounds eugenic-y

      i was talking more so about a hlant doing adaptaition “with purpose in mind”

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That weird, because all of our farmed crops and animals are selectively breed, which means planned evolution (usually, but I guess some ancient examples were purely accidental). Evolution is just the process of selection to perpetuate offspring. It being planned or unplanned doesn’t matter. Creationism is just not talking about evolution at all usually.

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    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      yeah, you’re right, but, i guess i’ve chosen my words poorly, as you’re arguing not about what i had in mind.

      OP asked about the end purpose of ihe reproductive mecanism of said tree going so complex, it can no longer reproduce, wether it did that, so we would reproduce the the tree ourselves instead. They obviously said that half jokingly, but i still was trigerred.

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• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maize can’t grow naturally because of the husks, it needs humans

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maize didn’t evolve naturally, we created it. Teosinte on the other hand is generally eaten and shat back out before germinating

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    • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I watched this video a few weeks ago. It’s fantastic youtu.be/dYHEwTQHt24

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wait, you can’t just bury an old ear of corn, you gotta take the husk off? TIL

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have no idea, but I would imagine if you bury if it could maybe still work. Not on its own though. The ear isn’t a seed though. It’s a large cluster of seeds. The natural ancestor corn evolved from looks more like wheet, but obviously still not like the wheet we know.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        i was thinking more “you’re burying the entire fruit” than “you’re burying a single seed” but i didn’t make my assumptions clear.

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a new topic to watch a YouTube video about at 3 am

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