It's always touching to see cool people on the internet being nice n' stuff.

This guy.... epic

Yeah, but how do i girl?

thank man, im not that bad when it comes to making friends, its just, girls, i cant

Same here.

best advice ive read on this site ever

yep, that's what happened, you're imagining me too!

You called?

I think it helps remind me what I really am every once in while to appreciate life more.

Think of it this way, bones create structure and support while also making movement possible, also muscles create structure and support while also making movement possible. Without one or the other we're useless, it's an amazing concept. We are the most perfect machine out there, which is why I have a problem not believing in creationism to some degree because I can't fathom how all these cells would just "come together" to make organisms with so many different functions.

true i see your point. but break it down logically it was not a step from single cells too boom humans.

I know that, but one of the stipulations is that cells come from like cells, meaning brain cells only make brain cells and so on and so forth. Even if it took a long time and path from single cells to organisms, it's still a very unstable one and very fishy how different cell types can come together to form even a small basic organism.

P.S. I'm not trying to be derogatory or negative, or cause trouble or anything, it's just a normal conversation with some thoughts I've had before.

Keep in mind when you think about it that many aspects of humans (and other mammals) are QUITE poor in design.

Like eyes: we have a blind spot in each, and it would be way more efficient to have multiple sets of smaller eyes, because they would require less fluid (cube square law) and it would be harder to go blind. Plus, you could have different sized lenses in each pair so we could have a wider range of vision.

Also, babies can drink and breathe but we lose the abliity.
The female reproductive system running through the pelvis is terrible for us.
And why is the clitoris where it is!?

lol, also human babies are the only babies born in the entire animal kingdom that aren't fully developed when we're born. I personally don't think humans were meant to survive as long as we do considering the HORRIBLE degradation on our body that we suffer at a relatively early age comparatively to our entire life. But everything else is sufficient enough for us to survive. We don't NEED a lot of eyes and it seems to be getting harder for humans to give natural birth probably due to the increased medical assistance.

No, there are plenty of other altricial infants. Kangaroos look like embryos when they're born for instance, look up newborn kangaroos. They do most of their growing post-birth in the pouch. I just took my evolutionary biology final yesterday. I know that we don't need a lot of eyes, I'm just pointing out things that show if we were created, whoever created us wasn't very competent.

That depends on what you mean by competent. If I have something I don't need I get rid of it, but that's just my way of thinking. Since we don't need multiple eyes, why give them to us? and most of our current evolutionary predicaments are due to technology and tools giving us a leg up

Also, kangaroos are marsupials, they at least carry their young in a protected pouch and don't take so long to become functional whereas human babies have to be out and nearly unprotected besides from artificial means. Also it takes years upon years for babies to be functional enough to even try to survive on their own, (not talking about in a civilized scenario of course) and even when they can try, humans aren't strong enough to fend off most predators especially at an early age.

Cats. dogs, and most rodents are also altricial.
But why would we be given ineffective eyes if they were designed? We have plenty of organs we don't *need* too.

cats dogs and rodents can move around when born and within a couple days have decent enough motor function to actually get around albeit very clumsily. Human babies are completely worthless as far as actual mobile function for at least 4 months, 6 months for actual decent motor control, a year to walk in a decent enough line, and this isn't including the mentality to survive as well as the, to me anyway, seemingly illogical and horrible idea of putting EVERYTHING in your mouth to eat it...

Also, our eyes aren't "inefficient" we can use them and see can't we? There's no reason we need more eyes or eyes that we cant make use of. yeah, it'd be nice to have eyes that can do more, but in reality they're not needed and humans are still subject to evolution.

Working and inefficient are not mutually exclusive. I can murder someone with a butter knife but it would be inefficient. Yeah our eyes work, but we can't see nearly as well as an eagle, or in the dark like a cat can, or both like an owl. And re: subject to evolution, so are cephalopods, and they have no blind spots and can see the polarization of light because their eyes evolved independently. I'm just saying that if we were designed and intended to be the super special planet masters, then there are a lot of things that should have been created differently. QED not designed :)

Picture is unrelated.

I myself don't think we were intended to be planet masters. I think we were made to share in part with everything else equally, but animals like to be on top and that's what we did. Once again, we don't need to see long distances like raptors or have necessity to see the polarization of light because there's nothing we could do with that logically speaking, especially when we are so adaptable otherwise in the first place. (by the way, this is a very intriguing conversation)

Seeing the polarization of light allows us to see through the camoflauge of animals. I mean, I guess that's not necessary, but... why is it that human women are one of the only animals to have like a super painful and potentially fatal childbirth?

I blame that one more on modernization than anything, medications and easy living compared to other animals have made the human body much weaker in terms of our past counterparts, in essence, our civilizations and technology have far exceeded our ability to adapt and evolve with it so our body gets confused in modern days. Couple it with all the chemicals floating around in food and the air, there could be any number of reasons why we can't manage like we used to be able to.

No, childbirth is easier now than it has been for our entire history as a species. That's because of the increased skull capacity over time and the additional brain development inside of the womb. Human children gestate longer than other apes, I believe.

I was talking evolutionary pre human species lol, should have said that, and I'm actually pretty sure you're right. humans have the longest gestation of the apes, but like I said, we as a species are still developing, we always will be, but our surroundings change much quicker than us as a species are able to change as well, which is what my guess is, even from much older times hundreds of years ago was this kind of thing occuring.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Look at the middle ages, women were dying left and right in childbirth. I mean, Neanderthals probably had a comparable gestation period, but H. erectus was dumber and stronger, they probably had an easier time of it,

I meant physically we're the weakest animal out there compared to our size. I know we're good predators, but aside from our tools is what I mean. Without our knowledge we're an incredibly weak race.

I would assume so myself. I don't know, modern humans have always intrigued me, we're incredibly weak as an animal, but ridiculously smart, and in order to survive efficiently we must work as a group, yet nobody likes to play nice with others. Whenever I get to thinking about it I can never get to sleep at night.

Actually, we've been apex predators for as long as we've existed, because our ancestral species invented tools. Like, Homo habilis was the first in our lineage to use tools, but they were a staple food of some scimitar-toothed jaguar or something, Then h. ergaster made better tools and probably had a spoken language...

Just check this out
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo

yeah and thats why ive wondered that.. but hell im christian but i cannot deny evolution thats a fact, so my point is to focus on the science and only the science for those purposes, but in my own mind i just believe something started all this, because i want to. but im not going to deny proof, it was science first for me, then i came back to religion. but i guess we can marvel at it even in the scientific way how amazing and complex the human body is. in medicine its different from astronomy. all the learning we need is not far away unreachable but right out in front of us. yet we still have tons to learn about the body. although im in love with space medicine also intrigues me

I have to agree with you on that, many people have a hard time believing that because I'm a biology student that I'm also a Christian... I guess it's become something of a stereotype that if you're hardcore into science than you're not into religion but I don't know... I'm not very religious myself but I am a full blown Christian.

yeah but wait, do yo mean like you are a christian but you arnt very like devout like going obsessively to church ect? how else would you be a full blown christian but not very religious

I've discovered that churches are some of the most hypocritical sons of bitches out there and so I want nothing to do with most of them but I follow the values of Christianity myself. I believe in Jesus and God, but whenever I read the bible I take it with a grain of salt in some areas because I know of how the churches used to be back in the old days.

Basically I got tired of going to church and seeing these people saying "praise God" and "bless your heart you poor thing, God has changed my life" and then seeing them go out and get piss faced drunk later that night, shooting up, judging EVERYONE behind their backs and just over being douchebags.

Hell even my old preacher was calling Obama all kinds of derogatory things over facebook and to me that's not something a "Christian" would do.

Yeah, I went to a Catholic school and the few priests there were pretty cool about stuff (and liberal too, they were Jesuits) but I'm not really religious now myself. Sort of an agnostic deist.

I'm still Christian, just not religious by any means, but you can bet your ass I'm nicer than 85% of the church goers around here. Sometimes I think I'm too nice...

well im glad you arent one of them. its just silly how people go off of one line in the bible that says god says being gay is a sin, doesnt say he hates them however. but yet jesus tells them soo many times to love everyone equally, yet they go with all this hate, as if it is their right to judge. people can relay be hypocritical

Precisely, as for me, what I say is what I mean, however if I think something negative of somebody they won't know unless they just REALLY piss me off, which my patience is near endless so that never really happens. I AM a nice guy, mostly, and so that's how I act.

As for gays, they're fine to me. Now I mean homosexuals, not the freaking attention seeking fruitcakes, they irritate me, but then again most attention whores do. But most true gay people I know aren't all open about it and keep their sex life private. The only other thing I truly dislike are stupid people, which I seem to see too much of as of late.

im so smrt

Also...I noticed the picture was posted before, but I've had it since the 2. of december, 2012...

No

oh okay then

really? i thought it was you'd get your ass sued off if you did anything to a burglar...

wouldn't stop me like, if someone breaks in while i'm at home then out comes the sword and off come the fingers...

- In 1994, at a popular vacation spot in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a resident dolphin known for his peculiar friendliness towards female swimmers attacked two human males he apparently considered to be romantic competitors. One of the men died of internal hemorrhaging after being butted by the envious dolphin.
DON'T FUCK WITH DOLPHINS

Source: http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2012/04/when-a-dolphin-loves-a-woman.html

Wat

Sauce?

Thanks anon!

I typed this to make fun of OP, but seriously a mountain in the middle of London would be fucking amazing

Nope, you're just psychotic.

I actually do have a little bit of Psychosis. Good guess.

It always astonishes me when people freak out about a dark-humored joke. I mean, I know there's a time and place for everything, but jokes are usually told with the intention of lightening the mood or just giving people something to laugh about. Yet, in tense situations, people insist on being serious and stoic even though that's when I would most prefer to find something to be happy about. What sensible person could pass that up?

Plus fuck me, what do you do to actually help someone with pneumonia. Fucking chicken soup and a blanket? Throw a Sopranos box-set at them?

It's not like a grazed knee or a cold.