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The idea that people thought the world was flat is a myth btw

The problem here is he says gorillas are fully grown by 12 and yet humans have a prolonged childhood

But gorillas only live like 40 years max

So that's 30% of their life as juveniles

Conversely using human life expectancy in the US and assuming full growth by 20, humans spend 25% of their life as juveniles. Even less if you assume full growth at 18

A LOT of use of the r slur here. It was NOT proper medical terminology in 2009 when this book was published and the author surely knows that.

"For each of us a person’s face is their most memorable part"

Jokes on you asshole I have partial face blindness

Man just said we are born with the coordination required for reading and that's famously NOT true lmao

Why would an evolutionary biologist view the kidneys as simple filters

This is a very weird strawman

Man just said that no animal could exist without kidneys and that'll be news to every single invertebrate

"Tackle football could be a fatal sport"

Famously it causes brain damage and sometimes kills people even with all the protective gear people have to wear lmao

The entire concite of his argument btw hinges on the idea that genetic conditions don't exist

The repeated blocks that just quote the book are so cringe

This man just said that deoxygenated blood is blue just in case you were wondering exactly how unserious he is

Like Sir idk how to explain to you that knowing when to eat is not in fact a given for all of us. Some of us forget to eat.

We have no evidence of functional VNOs or pheromones in humans so this entire segment is just wild speculation when it isn't outright lies

On the subject of vision: 1. All of these things benefit survival actually so they don't defy natural selection at all
2. I could not at all recognize a relative I hadn't seen in 50 years that's insane, sometimes I can barely recognize a relative I haven't seen in 1 year let alone 50
3. The whole point of the phrase needle in a haystack is that it's *almost impossible to do* you dumb fuck

Also man just said "life begins in the brain"

Bro idk how to tell you this but most life on planet earth doesn't have a brain (most life is bacteria)

Once again this man is gonna lose his shit when he finds out about jellyfish

Oh look DEBUNKED LEFT BRAIN RIGHT BRAIN PSEUDOSCIENCE!!!

This man's entire argument requires disabled people to not exist btw

You don't have to ask any of those questions until you prove the existence of the human soul

Which you can't because that's a theological and philosophical question and not a biological one

I would say this man is gonna lose his shit when he finds out about platypus milk patches but I think the mere existence of monotremes would break him

He is now formula shaming so fun fact about me: I wouldn't suckle. I would not latch onto a human nipple. I would not take a bottle. The only thing I would take was a human thumb which famously, does not produce milk

Eventually they got me to take nipple but it did not start that way!

"In stark contrast to monkeys humans are born hairless, tailless, and plump"

Yeah man so first off our closest relatives are chimpanzees which don't have tails
Second off their infants are relatively plump for their body mass
Third off many human babies are born covered in hair (it usually falls off)

"This never happens"
> lists extremely common and potentially fatal labour and delivery complication
> lists thing that I literally had to be surgically removed about

Hey what field did this idiot work in because it clearly wasn't OBY

"there is no fossil evidence that some embryos lived an intermediate life (partially inside and partially outside)"

Bro is gonna lose his fucking mind when he learns about kangaroos

It is extremely unclear what this man thinks a chromosome actually is

Also the man tried to portray pregnancy as a binary system of "pregnant or not pregnant" and "born or not born" with no intermediate steps as though pregnancy isn't a billion complicated steps that can and do frequently go wrong

"There are no prehistoric hand fossils with three fingers"

Bro there are humans CURRENTLY ALIVE who were born with 3 fingers

Also I just saw the book is endorsed by William Dembski who is NOT a biologist of any sort and is instead a mathematician and as a result

Not qualified

So if you google hand chromosome it just pulls up articles about hand malformations

Because there is no "hand chromosome"

Thank Gd this guy isn't a geneticist holy fuck