Every once in a while, I question whether or not it’s polite to point out every single time I’m proven even just a little bit more right on something than I already was, but then I realize that I don’t give a fuck and rub it in anyway…
Ethnic Tibetans’ ability to thrive in high altitudes with low oxygen is the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
The evolutionary biologists say the results of their study, which compares the genomes of 50 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese, shows that Tibetans rapidly developed a unique ability to survive in altitudes above 13,000 feet, where oxygen levels are about 40 percent lower than at sea level.
Survival of the fittest…adapting to harsh environments…Yeah, that definitely sounds like the theory that we all incestuously came from two people’s kids in a garden, then were wiped out by a worldwide flood and repopulated by the lone surviving family’s incest. Science may be less kinky, but it’s certainly much more fascinating…
Human adaptation to high altitude is a field of obvious interest, but another reason for the appearance of three studies on the same subject in matter of a few weeks may be that the technology to assess which parts of the genome are under selection has only recently become available.
You mean as science learns more (thus creating new technology), we learn more?! What a concept! Many of you may think this is just common sense, but then you learn that people like this guy actually exist (despite evolution)…
In every debate I’ve had with evolutionary scientists, the arrogant, asinine accusation is made, “Well, evolution is scientific while creationism is religion.” Evolution is about as scientific as a voodoo rooster plucking ceremony in Haiti. Almost.
Chicken bones and pins in cursed dolls? Fucking stupid. Humanity was created by incest and saved from their sins by a god who is his own son and was martyred to please his own will? Totally plausible and rational.
