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  • The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.

    All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.

    What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?



  • I think we are supposed to think about Gatsby the same way the narrator, Nick, thinks about Gatsby.

    A great man, a true romantic, but not one suited to this corrupt, fallible world. His relationship to Daisy was a bit more complex than just stalking, she did love him, she just wasn’t capable of leaving Tom.

    “No— Gatsby turned out all right at the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men”











  • If you look at all the traits animals and plants have, there are correlations and patterns unrelated to the environment, consistent only with a pattern of descent with modification.

    For example, all the animals that produce milk also have fur, while all the animals with beaks and hollow bones also have feathers.

    These groups of correlated organisms are found regardless of their environment, so penguins have all the bird traits even though they live in the ocean, seals have all the mammal traits even though they live in the ocean.

    This pattern only has one consistent explanation: life on earth is a result of descent with modification: evolution.