Posted on 08/08/2024 6:49:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
My father espoused Darwinist evolution and “The Big Bang” theory. Challenging when I knew God from when in diapers. I pointed out that in the NICU, we never saw improvements, only defects and deformities. We never saw any “good” mutations. He had not come backs for that.
My first thought, too...lol
Well, I swear....my mom had eyes on the back of her head, too.
Not challenging your religious beliefs, but Darwin did not think that natural genetic mutations would always be good. He said that if they were good then they would tend to become dominant and the species would naturally improve.
He based his theories on direct, first hand observations.
I’m waiting for you to post an article about today being International Cat Day.
TIA!
Huh? What observations? He never witnessed a species improvement. He speculated.
I usually limit the ‘Days’ postings to edible things.
Are you Korean?....................
We did not buy a cat.
We did not adopt a cat.
She just showed up one day and decided she would live here............Now, Feed me!............
We are in the same boat. The cat showed up on our back porch about two years ago. Now it owns the place. When it arrived, it was normal sized. Now it weighs 17 pounds and keeps getting bigger. In many ways acts more like a kitty shaped dog. It attacks and chases off racoons and other critters that try to move on what it considers his space.
>>>I usually limit the ‘Days’ postings to edible things.
Are you Korean?....................<<<
All righty then, go ahead and post about this important day because
Sum Ting Yum
Cats frequently show up on my property. I treat them kindly and feed them ... but they stay outdoors.
Except on winter when we hat 40” of snow ... one of them got to spend a little over a week in the garage with a space heater, a blanket box, and a litter box. It was grateful, but glad to get outside when the snow melted. They’re all outdoor cats.
UHF and VHF Receivers.
So does ours!
She will follow me around the yard like a dog, occasinally chase a chicken................
No, sorry, that is definitely not “adorable.” Hideous.
Much closer to Nashville than Oak Ridge.
We lived right across the Clinch River from Oak Ridge National Lab. One day I saw a bug walking across the living room floor, and it had a head at both ends of it. One must’ve been the dominant one ‘cause it kept going in one direction. I put a bucket over it until Hubby came home from work.
Also, just about everyone on our street had some kind of cancer, including me.
We live on the outskirts of an urban area and a lot of cats are abandoned here. He was a little scruffy when we first encountered it. My wife insisted on taking it to the vet to make sure that it didn’t belong to someone else, and she was trying to find it a new home.
It was already obvious that it had grown quite a bit since it first showed up. It has a thick fluffy coat and I thought maybe it was just getting fat because it has a very good appetite. But the vet said it was not overweight; it is just a very large cat who was still very young so it will probably get bigger still. She identified it as a Siberian and said that it could go past 20 pounds.
Our teenage granddaughter is crazy about the cat and drags it all over the place when she comes to visit. The cat tries to hide from her. One might think that the cat would bite her or cut her to ribbons... but for some reason he does not.
My wife and I have been strictly dog people for the previous 35 years... So, this cat has been largely treated like a dog. It comes when it is called, and it likes to play fetch.
It’s adorably hideous................😁
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