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Undead Squid Army Attacks!
Mar. 23rd, 2006 09:22 amThe guy who blogs at Pharyngula is so prolific that I usually want to repost three or four of his links every day. However, I thought this one was particularly worthy:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/god_hates_squid.php
He's picking apart an argument about animals with different kinds of blood (red blood cells or no) that seems to prove that squid aren't really *alive*.
The blogger's comments:
There's much more, but it's all masturbiblation, picking at words and extracting far more significance from them than is warranted, all to determine that squid actually aren't alive*. There's hairsplitting in Genesis, and a silly exegesis of the dietary rules in Leviticus.
What I'd really love to see now, though, is the rhetorical squirming they'd go through when it's pointed out that human embryos do not develop red blood cells until about the 5th week of development, and therefore the early embryo, by their own definition, is not living. Heh.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/god_hates_squid.php
He's picking apart an argument about animals with different kinds of blood (red blood cells or no) that seems to prove that squid aren't really *alive*.
The blogger's comments:
There's much more, but it's all masturbiblation, picking at words and extracting far more significance from them than is warranted, all to determine that squid actually aren't alive*. There's hairsplitting in Genesis, and a silly exegesis of the dietary rules in Leviticus.
What I'd really love to see now, though, is the rhetorical squirming they'd go through when it's pointed out that human embryos do not develop red blood cells until about the 5th week of development, and therefore the early embryo, by their own definition, is not living. Heh.
