New Discoveries!

I learned today that human beings have been wasting time opening bananas for centuries. I'm not sure what happened, but we have found a way to make banana opening a sometimes difficult and damaging (to the fruit at least) process.

From what I understand, the majority of humans open their bananas from the "top" or the stem that forms somewhat of a "tab" (to quote the horrendous Ray Comfort of "The Atheist's Worst Nightmare" fame). This "tab" does not always yield easily. Sometimes you have to dig your finger into the skin, sometimes you have to cut it, and sometimes the top comes out mushy.

No longer! Apparently, humans are the only species to do this. It's quite interesting. All other species open it by pinching the bottom of the banana and peeling the two flaps that are created.



This presents an interesting conundrum for the previously mentioned Ray Comfort.



Notice how he describes the banana. He describes it from the "top." Everything that he says is presented from the human view of opening a banana. But, if you try opening the banana from the bottom it is a lot easier. So interestingly, by looking at a banana from the majority human perspective with an intent of using it for the argument from design, the argument completely fails.

I love fundamentalists. If you love them too, I recommend you watch

Thunderf00t's (that's two zeroes instead of the letter o) Why do people laugh at Creationists series


And Thunderf00t's debate with Ray Comfort:




Also, I'd like to point out Richard Dawkins debates too. Not the John Lennox one though, that was a patently rigged debate.



In other news, I rediscovered Python, the programming language. Now, I must admit, I never actually used Python, I simply had it. I didn't know the language so I couldn't ever create something. But, I recently found that the Baylor libraries keep guidebooks to different software programs as "electronic resources" which means that they can be accessed at any time from a computer. That's pretty sweet in my opinion. So I'm gonna try my hand at Python and maybe learn the language!