Do male gorillas partner up with male gorillas?

If yes, I think that answers why the whole "LGBT" thing exists... there's a gorilla somewhere in your blood.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (atheist) on Intelligent Design (40 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASmQmYX-71Q

Eric Holvind (creationnist) on Evolution (30 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHwq4u8b1wg&list=PLBAE82586B7EABD77

I think Colonel is actually a gorilla o.O

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The Genius of Charles Darwin - Full (140 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VnuhHq5m0

Part 1 - Life, Darwin & Everything (0 - 50 min)
Part 2 - The Fifth Ape (50 - 96 min )
Part 3 - God Strikes Back (96 min - end)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (66min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AS6rQtiEh8

How many dang videos do you have?

an overwhelming number, just like the evidences for evolution :P

What about white people? If we're descended from apes, how comes some of us are white and some of us are black and some of us are of varying shades of "in-between"...?

What about white people? If we're descended from apes, how comes some of us are white and some of us are black and some of us are of varying shades of "in-between"...?

- first of all, we are not descended from ape, we are an ape.

- second, your question seems legit and actually interesting. In your world view of Adam&Eve as father and mother of all humanity and natural selection is bullshit, how do YOU explain skin color?


- Now here is how evolution explains skin pigmentation:

The differences in the skin colors of human are due to environmental adaptation.
If you look at the population distribution, you see that there is a strong correlation between the light level of the environment and the color of the skin. So our skin pigmentation (level of melanine) seems to be correlate with the level of UV our skin recieve.

From what i researched, there is no conclusive answer to the why.

A hypothesis to why people living in an area with high level of UV have a dark pigmentation would be that a dark pigmentation protects you against skin cancer (melanoma) and hypervitaminosis D (too much vitamine D). At least that was what people thought, but more recent studies seems to indicate that this is not the cause, the selective pressure isn't strong enough to explain skin pigmentation.

Instead, another study shows that folate (folic acid) one of the B vitamins that plays a crucial role in biosynthesis, including DNA synthesis and repair, is destroyed by sunlight in the blood vessels of the skin. An absence of folate could cause neural tube defects (NTDs) in human embryos, serving as a potent selective pressure.

Now the reason why people living in areas with less solar radiation are lighter is that we need vitamine D for a lot of things (building bones, immune system, brain, etc ). When the light level is strong, we recieve enough vitamine D even if our skin pigmentation is dark and blocks most of the light. So when people migrated to places with less light, they got vitamin D deficiency, and our skin gradually adapted to be lighter in order to ensure an adequate amount of vitamin D.

You will probably find more info in this video (the speaker is the author of the studies i refered to):

The Evolution of Human Skin Pigmentation (60min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZHikOARc8

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If skin colour evolved, that would mean that some people are "more evolved" than others, making Hitler correct.

Loaded statement, any way you answer colonel you're the bad guy.

If skin colour evolved, that would mean that some people are "more evolved" than others, making Hitler correct.

that's stupid, for a moment i thought you weren't gonna troll and engage in an actual reasonable conversation. joke's on me i guess

I'm making a point. If skin colour evolved, that necessitates that some skin colours are more evolved than others. Evolution as a theory is already disproven, but if you believe in it still, I can argue with your own beliefs.

>Beliefs

Theyre facts, and proven ones. You're the one who still thinks the sun revolves around us.


125ch209, I wouldn't even waste my time on colonel. He's neck deep in his beliefs about the Koran, beheading, and anything else his mindless "teachers" tell him.

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I'm making a point. If skin colour evolved, that necessitates that some skin colours are more evolved than others. .

skin pigmentation evolved to adapt to a new environment. it doesn't mean lighter people are "more evolved" than darker people. Evolution is not about "improvement", it is about survival. Put a white guy and a black guy under the sun all day for a week. Lets see who is "more evolved" then shall we?

That guys does seem to be very happy with his "more evolved" skin and all :D


edit:

Evolution as a theory is already disproven, but if you believe in it still, I can argue with your own beliefs

Damn it i missed this movie. can you tell me how the theory of evolution has been disproven please?

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Proof of stupidity:
First result for "evolved car" was a Supra from 1997.
First result for "evolved house" was a Pokemon house.
First result for "evolution car" was, well an Evo.
First result for "evolution house" was a place called Evolution House.
weird.

^

yep, proof of your stupidity.

also, I've always found it curious- why even bother arguing about evolution? your not going to find out til you die, anyway.

on the contrary, you have until you die to find out about stuff. After that its game over :)

edit: but more seriously, what a stupid philosophy. "Lets be dumb and wait until we die so that we don't have to make the effort of looking for the evidences".
This is one of the reason why i think religion are dangerous, but maybe that's another debate.

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edit: but more seriously, what a stupid philosophy. "Lets be dumb and wait until we die so that we don't have to make the effort of looking for the evidences".
This is one of the reason why i think religion are dangerous, but maybe that's another debate.

It's a less depressing mindset than, "There is nothing more, we're all dust in the wind." It's one of the main reasons I hate Atheism on a philosophical level, it sucks all purpose and meaning out of life and replaces it with depression. I would sooner convert to (almost) any other religion before becoming an Atheist.

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”