On 1/7/2011 3:25 PM, Warp wrote:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Well, in its essential form, the most popular version /does/ predict
>> something. Like, all creatures should have been there from the beginning.
>
>> So yes, it can be regarded a theory. A falsified one, but a theory
>> nonetheless :-P
>
>    I think that the proper term is "hypothesis", not "theory" (except if
> we are talking in vernacular terms).
>
>> BTW, my favorite about ID is the banana: Gee, it's /the/ ideal fruit!
>> Ideal size and all... how could this not be by design?
>
>> Well, sure, it /is/ by design, or - to use a slightly better fitting
>> term - by intention: The intention of those people who cultivated the
>> banana in the last 8000 years or so :-P
>
>    I think you are confused. The modern banana (that yellow one) is
> only something like 200 years old. It's the product of a mutation of
> a single wild banana plant which suddenly started growing that yellow
> sweet version. The wild banana is much smaller, green, full of seeds
> and almost inedible in raw form.
>
>    The mutation in question is actually so severe that the modern banana
> plant is sterile: It cannot reproduce by itself, requiring human
> intervention for cultivation (this happens mainly by transplanting
> underground stems or tissue cultures).
>
>    (Ironically, the modern banana is so mutated that it can be considered
> by all practical means "unnatural", as without human intervention it would
> have died right from that very first mutated plant 200 years ago, which
> makes it a perfect example of gene manipulation by humans, yet people who
> strongly oppose gene manipulation have usually no problems in eating
> bananas.)
>
But some of them want to make sure they are not "genetically engineered, 
non-organic, bananas!"

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