The Official Perfection KOs Creationism Thread Part Three: The Return of the KOing!

[The Last Conformist]

By moving around in it.

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but how do they do that? Since the ancestral plant is supposed to have combined photosynthesis with eating other microorganisms, what you describe sounds like either a very basal plant, or a garden-variety reversal.

In my opinion, the evolutionary tree isn't strictly a nested hierarchy, yet a true "chimera" wouldn't sink ToE at all; the fact that we've never seen a platypus with an actual duck bill doesn't mean such a critter isn't possible. Just unexpected.

I'm quite confident that the overwhelming majority of evolutionary biologists disagree with you.

 

[The Last Conformist]

There are also Koalas and Pandas.

... and?

 

[ironduck]

They're cute?

 

[The Last Conformist]

I never got why people are so enamoured by koalas. They're just little eating machines that look like furry versions of Sloth from The Goonies.

 

[ironduck]

Aren't all animals eating machines?

Snuggly cuddly eating machines!

 

[brennan]

The point being that Pandas and Koalas are not exactly highly adaptable to different environments.

 

[The Last Conformist]

The point being that Pandas and Koalas are not exactly highly adaptable to different environments.

That's true, but I'm not sure how it relates to anything else being discussed here.

 

[ironduck]

Actually, they're very adaptable!

 

[brennan]

It was something Basketcase said about highly adaptive lifeforms not needing to fit into a strict hierarchy. I pointed out that there are some creatures out there that are extremely specialised.

Edit: Ah, I forgot about the super-evolved Pandala.

 

[The Last Conformist]

It was something Basketcase said about highly adaptive lifeforms not needing to fit into a strict hierarchy.

Something, incidentally, that he's not been able to explain to my satisfaction.

 

[sanabas]

Aren't all animals eating machines?

Snuggly cuddly eating machines!

They might look cuddly, but they have really impressive claws. Hauling their fat little selves up eucalyptus trees with fairly hard wood takes some strength.

What I want to know is what kind koalas and pandas fit into. Are they the same kind as polar bears, grizzly bears, etc? Or are they a different kind entirely?

 

[ironduck]

All the unique Australian animals are of the same kind, they all derive from the kangaroo that originally lived in the middle east.

 

[El_Machinae]

They, like the bunny, descended from a specific 'kind'; the uber-cuddly.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Aren't all animals eating machines?

Some animals, like dragonflies, never eat as adults.

They, like the bunny, descended from a specific 'kind'; the uber-cuddly.

Are Playboy bunnies in that kind? Or are they to skinny to be uber-cuddly?

 

[El_Machinae]

Too skinny. You'll note that all uber-cuddlies are eating machines ...

 

[brennan]

Dragonflies are aptly named actually - they predate on flying insects.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Dragonflies are aptly named actually - they predate on flying insects.

That was my English failing me - the English name of the critters I was thinking of is "mayfly".

 

[ironduck]

End-cycle stages of an animal hardly qualify as the animal as a species not being an eating machine

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Anyways, I think it would be more accurate to say that all animals are eating and sex machines. But then we humans had to go ruin it all with society and stuff.

 

[Masquerouge]

Anyways, I think it would be more accurate to say that all animals are eating and sex machines. But then we humans had to go ruin it all with society and stuff.

Indeed!