[PatrickHenry]

... if a duck flew into a beaver, you'd get a platypus.

Ah, a new theory arises to challenge the Darwinian stranglehold on academia -- the catastrophic collision theory of speciation. This indeed deserves equal time in the schools.

[Hoplite]

Well, I called the Nobel committee, just to see what the holdup was, and, much to my chagrin, it turns out that CCTS has been around for some time.

The leading edge of the field is now concerned with firing birds at aircraft with pneumatic cannons, which only proves science is evil as none of those concerned appears to have given any thought as to what happens when the inevitable pigeon/7E7 cyborg relieves itself on some poor family as they're motoring down the road in their sedan.