Frazz Comic Strip, May 07, 2013 on GoComics.com

emjaycee said, 8 months ago

But at least our dead stuff, except my salad, is cooked and not scraped off the road. When I worked at a raptor rehab center, nearly all of our vultures and most of our Bald Eagles came in from car accidents from eating road kill. A non-moving meal saves the most energy for the devourer.

Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago

re: richard S russell

I’ve only 51 graduate credits in biology (and an M.S.) and that idea of randomness for evolution is precisely what we were taught. All changes were via mutation since learned behaviors are not genetic. You don’t find many biologists in the field (I used to work in the mid-Klamath, Shasta, and Salmon Rivers with endangered fish species) that take evolution seriously. There’s a massive difference between what is seen in the field vs. the antiseptic laboratory or sterile college campus. Most professors haven’t a clue what goes on in the real world.
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Every mutation we have seen has been uniformely deletarious. Humans have about 15,000 “bad genes” and according to Cornell’s genetics dept., we acquire 50 to 300 errors in our DNA in each generation. In a sense, we can predict when the human race will cease. Unfortunately, it’s also being observed in every species we’ve looked at.

Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

Evolution functions on environmental pressures. If there are few or none evolution stops or nearly so. In others where it is active evolution is very busy.
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Why aren’t you touting Creationism then? But your type likes to set Evolution in the worst light possible. You however have nothing else to replace it. And I don’t have such credits as you profess. I see why you have to keep taking it. The lessons aren’t working.

franbarces said, 8 months ago

this is a comic strip not a forum for your beliefs

Varnes said, 8 months ago

To tell you the truth I’m not that big on eating live things….Ya’ll go ahead……

Pacopuddy said, 8 months ago

@Varnes

Think I’ll give the ‘breathing buffet’ a miss, too.

Fancy meeting at some ‘Dead Things on a Plate’ all-you-can-eat night for a meal that doesn’t sob pitifully when you stick a fork into it, Varnes?

I’ll buy the drinks.

Pacopuddy said, 8 months ago

@Night-Gaunt49

To me, evolution the the extraordinarily clever way that God achieves a creation which continually manages to adapt to a world that mankind constantly c@cks up.

seyleigh said, 8 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

Most mutations are bad, and only a freakishly small percentage are good. Then, there are some genetic mutations that do nothing. It is all luck and chance.

That being said, eating dead stuff isn’t gross as long as it doesn’t kill or sicken us. But, eating dead stuff probably would’ve grossed me out when I was nine.

vwdualnomand said, 8 months ago

we eat a lot of stuff. bacteria(yogurt and cottage cheese). animals(from snout to tail), plants, insects, blood, snakes, lizards, etc…

Notsoastute said, 8 months ago

El Condor Pasa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4kdUuHSXk

pschearer said, 8 months ago

Darwin didn’t know about Mendel, so he didn’t understand the randomness of genetic mutation. But his whole point was that natural variation within a species would create new species over time, guided by natural selection. Natural selection (as opposed to the artificial selection by which humans create new breeds of domesticated animals) imposes a purposefulness on the randomness, the purpose of perpetuating the species.

(Someone might try to argue that the environmental circumstances of individual survival are still random, but that’s missing the point. Evolution operates on populations and over long periods.)

(@franbarces: Do you want us to clear our discussions with you first? Sorry that your horizons are so limited.)