Topic: Evolution
Quote: My contention is that shape and form is quickly molded in the first days, weeks, or months of life. For example, an animal\xe2\x80\x99s diet can quickly shape his morphology, as in this tadpole example:\n[snip misrepresentation for which supersport has already been busted on multiple boards]\n(Could this be why Neanderthals had their brow ridges? Since they had a slightly protruding face (as many in Europe still do), the exertion that no-doubt came from eating a diet heavy in meat (vigorous chewing) could very well have put pressure on the facial plates and brow ridges -- and as youngsters with soft bones, this diet help dictate their morphology.)
Response: For any of you who missed it: Those soft bones can be molded in the first few "days, weeks, or months," says sport, but Neanderthal infants got bony brow ridges because they were doing so much vigorous chewing.\nsupersport also insists that Neanderthals were fully human. Last I checked, it took a long time for enough of a human\'s teeth to erupt in order to vigorously chew meat.\nOnce again, supersport has proposed an idea that we can test scientifically. All he has to do is secure guardianship of a newborn and feed said newborn a nice, healthy, high-in-protein diet requiring heavy chewing. If the child ends up looking like a Neanderthal, supersport will be vindicated.\nWhat are you waiting for, supersport? Oh, I get it: you\'re doing to do the peppered moth experiment first, right? Then you\'ll do the Great Dane \xc3\x97 Chihuahua to produce Chihuahuas experiment. Only then will you get around to this one...\nTo respond to some of the other comments in this thread:\nsupersport was eventually banned from IIDB for ignoring directions of moderators. While there, he averaged over 50 posts per day of trolling. His points were -- without fail -- repeatedly slapped down in the most convincing fashion imaginable: IIDB is crawling with experts in various fields, evolutionary and molecular biology certainly not excepted. Every time supersport\'s argument would get slaughtered indisputably from countless angles, he\'d abandon the thread and start a new one, usually saying pretty much the same thing.\nsupersport has said that nobody from there dares come over here to debate him. I know that Collin and I are both here and on IIDB; the fact that the majority of the people over there make me look like a novice coupled with the fact that supersport hasn\'t fared too well here should tell anybody who has any semblance of reasoning that supersport is once again talking out of his XXX.\nDon\'t take his word for it, but you don\'t have to take my word for it, either: head over to IIDB and do a search for threads started by supersport. It\'ll only take the first couple of pages to see him thrashed, but I certainly won\'t stop you from reading more of the carnage.
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