{"id":693,"date":"2008-08-20T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=693"},"modified":"2008-09-28T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:59:56","slug":"mr-apple-go-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Apple, go back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m neck deep in college work this week. I’m dealing with molar volume of an ideal gas right now, but will quickly move on to oxidation and reduction. Surprisingly, this stuff hasn’t been too hard. (I might not be saying that, though, once I get my grades back!) But it is time-consuming. So, I haven’t had time to poke and prod a certain Mr. Apple in Wakulla<\/a>. So, perhaps you folks would like to do so yourselves. There’s plenty in Mr. Apple’s piece to skewer. How about this:<\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say by some miracle we did evolve from a single cell organism.\u00c2\u00a0 If so, how did they reproduce?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, they just divided, you say.\u00c2\u00a0 They just multiplied.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Then let me ask you this.\u00c2\u00a0 If that system worked so well, why did it switch over to requiring two people to procreate?\u00c2\u00a0 If you had an efficient system of procreating by simply multiplying yourself, why would it ever evolve into requiring two organisms?\u00c2\u00a0 And how did it make that leap?<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m telling you, asking these questions is like taking a machine gun to a football.\u00c2\u00a0 It rips it full of holes and lets all the air out.<\/p>\n

Oh, but throw in millions of years.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our answer to everything.\u00c2\u00a0 Gee, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a really long time.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess anything could happen if you give it a million years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This one is even more ridiculous:<\/p>\n

Now let me ask you, have you ever studied about the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153magnetosphere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a magnetic shield around the planet that protects the earth from the sun.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m no sun expert.\u00c2\u00a0 I just saw this on a DVD from the library.\u00c2\u00a0 But it pointed out how powerful the sun is (remember, they say at the core it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.)\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so powerful that it would hammer the earth \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if it weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for that magnetic shield.<\/p>\n

Now, are you going to try to tell me that we have evolution to thank for that shield?\u00c2\u00a0 And evolution to thank for the sun?\u00c2\u00a0 And, praise evolution, it all happened at once, because the sun sustains life on this planet, yet at the same time we must be shielded from the full affect of the sun.\u00c2\u00a0 It all had to happen at exactly the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 What are the odds of it happening by chance?\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impossible!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you get the impression that this guy doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about? Yup, me too.<\/p>\n

You’re welcome to rip him apart in the comments, or send me your response to Mr. Apple via e-mail. I’ll then put the best slice and dice up as a regular blog post. Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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