To: Calpernia; Vaquero
I did not say they do. If we follow the logic (or illogic rather) of Vaquero, then the only explanation for this is that snakes MUST live in cold climates because this feature CAN ONLY occur in order to help conserve heat.
90 posted on
08/15/2006 10:00:30 AM PDT by
unlearner
(You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
To: unlearner
your response is simply diabolically insipid.
92 posted on
08/15/2006 10:05:26 AM PDT by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: unlearner
Oh, agreed with the illogic. I was just being a nitpicky herp :P
99 posted on
08/15/2006 10:42:49 AM PDT by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: unlearner; Vaquero
I did not say they do. If we follow the logic (or illogic rather) of Vaquero, then the only explanation for this is that snakes MUST live in cold climates because this feature CAN ONLY occur in order to help conserve heat. Only if we assumed Vaquero was stupid. As stupid as, say, folks who think mammoths were flash-frozen by some Velikovskiesque catastrophe.
Otherwise we would assume that only comparisons wrt closely related taxa (e.g. NOT SNAKES) would be relevant. E.g. comparing the ears of mammoths to other elephantine mammals would be relevant, with respect to ears and other cold/heat adaptations.
102 posted on
08/15/2006 11:07:44 AM PDT by
Stultis
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