The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

Here's something I've never quite agreed with. "Where are the transitional forms?" Everything is a transitional form. Everything, to include human beings, have small differences from one another. You might find someone missing half a chromosome and end up with downs. Someone else might have their sex organs doubled up or something. This shows up in their genes. If, one day, a thousand years later we were all a race of downs people, "the transitional forms" would be us. The whole thing reminds me of the Futurama episode where they insist a transitional form be shown, Farnsworth shows it, they want a transition to THAT form, he shows it, they want one to THAT form, he shows it, ad nasauem until he gives up. Then they "propose a new theory" that involves riding dinosaurs (ala Discovery Institute) and Farnsworth is all "I don't want to live on this planet anymore..."