If they're lucky.

 


99% of all species are extinct.




Darwin plays rough.


 

neat snake though

Say there is a fungus that lives on ants. ok now it mutates 1000000 times to add little things the ones that make it smell bad to ants are quickly killed off because they cant lure ants in to become hosts. The ones that live DO get to pass on that smell good gene. Then one of those mutates another 1000000 times (MILLIONS of generations not your lifetime, bacteria can do it in your lifetime but that is MILLIONS of generations(IE BILLIONS of bacterial lifetimes). 99990 of those mutations are lethal, they are things like glow in the dark, or smell bad, 8 will be stupid(glow in the dark, or grow in the part of the brain of the ant that makes them want to climb). By now the original fungi is long extinct the million years (or likely many more) have let the ones that smelled good for the ants take over. and the ones that only smelled good have been made exticnty by the climber ones that also smell good. Now again 1000000 more mutations happen and say 10 are non lethal, the good one is say clamp on so you don't fall. it didn't happen all at once.

Same thing with toxiplasmosis(an awesome parasite that lives in mice, but breeds in cat stomachs, gets shit out by the cat, eaten by mice, where it lives and makes them get stupid/ slow and get eaten by cats). It also has been linked(but not proved) to be part of making women go crazy (and collect cats ironically).

That is not even close to how evolution works. A small mutation starts at random, but the progression of that mutation comes from the survival advantage conferred by the mutation and the knowledge of its use (if any is required) is honed through millennia of trial and error.

I had the same thoughts, but tempered with the knowledge that it just did.

For more reading, I recommend The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.

Ain't nothing "The Judge" can't handle. If Ruger doesn't have majority market share in Persia, someone in corporate is smoking crack.

Is Ruger making a Judge clone or something these days?

Press TV is owned by the Islamic Iranian Government.

Extra dramatic narration.

Brother, you have no idea.   Haji just does what the imams program him to do.  Camel spiders are actually evil.

it is probably better in farsi.

Lots of faith necessary to believe that, I'd say.

 

I'm no longer sure who is trolling, either.


 

The mutations are random, according to Darwinian theory. Natural selection is said to determine which mutations endure.

 

I know what you mean, too. Something is there beyond the Darwinian explanation, IMO. he Darwinian seems adequate as a plausible explanation for  the ordinary and uncomplicated physical systems, but IMO is wholly inadequate to explain the really complex systems—especially those that involve controlling behavior.

 

also...

All the progressions come at random, too. Or they don't come at all. I just don't buy the rest and have come to the opinion that there is something we miss by perseverating on the Darwinian explanation. It's so dogmatic.

 

Arfcom on snakes:  OMG it's a Copperattlerskin!  Nuke from orbit.

Arfcom on spiders:  OMG it's a Widhobrown!  Nuke it from orbit.

Now we have a spidersnake.  

RIP Solar System.

Seriously, that's a fucking devious, scary awesome critter.

Amazing!

That is cool.

Another one of God's critters.

When predators start using fake beer and food to lure us in then it's time to worry.

Complex unlearned behaviors and instinctive behaviors have been shown to be passed down through epigenetics.

It's a likely candidate for why dogs turn in circles before lying or cats bury their crap, even if they were separated as blind youngsters and have never seen another animal like themselves since.

freaky

Just one more reason to turn that place into a giant sheet of glass!

Bump for a cool motherfucker snake.  

could be worse the spider could evolve into a snickers bar look alike

True.  The "dentist appointment" snake is the only one that would be more scary.  Especially if you pay your way through life.