Friday Squid Blogging: 500-Million-Year-Old Cephalopod
The oldest known cephalopod—the ancestor of all modern octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses—is 500 million years old.
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name.withheld.for.obvious.reasons • April 2, 2021 4:31 PM
1 Apr 2021 — Lack of Proof, is Proof!
On a religious broadcast network, NRB, a recent science segment covering topics of interest that might include, in this example biological functions of evolutionary adaptation, manages to refocus specific scientific theories as “intelligent design”. The idea that goose bumps were a hold over from a time when hominids had more hair. But the rewrite of the scientific postulate regarding the use of the hair to “signal” specific conditions associate with threats looks at new information about sub-dermial muscle tensioning that is part of a perfect design and not an affectation of homo habilis or other early bifurcation in human evolution and the loss of bodily hair.
The argument was literally that as science has yet to describe the idiosyncratic function in terms of evolutionary biology and that fact is indeed proof of the “perfect design”. In other words, lacking clarity respecting a scientific definition, then the creationist hypothesis stands and proves the concept of “perfect design”. Kind of a priori with apriori as proof. You cannot make this stuff up.