Evolution at work or god creates new cockroach. You decide.

[itfitzme]

Either way, you gotta marvel at them from afar, and hate them in your home.

"This image made from video provided by Ayako Wada-Katsumata shows glucose-averse German cockroaches avoiding a dab of jelly, which contains glucose, and favoring the peanut butter. For 30 years, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison. But in the early 1990s, a formerly effective product stopped working. Some cockroaches had lost their sweet tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant to attract them. Later studies showed they were specifically turned off by the sugar glucose in the syrup. Scientists reported Thursday, May 23, 2013 that the key is an altered behavior of certain nerves that signal the brain about foods. (AP Photo/Ayako Wada-Katsumata)"

News from The Associated Press

News from The Associated Press

 

[waltky]

Evolution Used to Move 5 Times Faster...

Big Bang of Evolution Moved at Warp Speed
Posted September 13th, 2013 ~ Evolution during the “Big Bang of Evolution,” also known as the Cambrian Explosion, happened at five times the rate it occurs today, according to a new study, a finding that is consistent with Darwin’s theory of evolution.

The Australian researchers said they’ve been able to estimate, for the first time, just how fast life evolved during an incredibly productive period in Earth’s history some 520 to 540 million years ago. It was during this Cambrian explosion when most modern animal groups first appeared on Earth. The research group’s findings, published in Current Biology, also provide an answer to Darwin’s dilemma. In his classic book “On the Origins of the Species,” where he lays out his theory of evolution, 19th century scientist Charles Darwin pointed out a potential problem with his theory.

Marine life during the Cambrian explosion 520 million years ago.

While there was a rich fossil record of creatures dating from the beginning of the Cambrian Period, Darwin thought a lack of fossils from the years prior to that geologic time period might present a contradiction to his evolution theory. “The abrupt appearance of dozens of animal groups during this time is arguably the most important evolutionary event after the origin of life,” says lead author and associate professor Michael Lee of the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Critics of Darwin’s theory of evolution have pointed to the nearly impossibly fast rates of evolution to discredit Darwin’s work.

Up until this new research, no one has been able to accurately measure the rates of evolution during this prolific period because of the “notorious imperfection” of the ancient fossil record. In this new study, the researchers said that they were able to estimate that rates of both structural and genetic evolution of creatures that took place during the Cambrian explosion were five times faster than they are today. The scientists say these changes are also consistent with Darwin’s theory of evolution.

A living arthropod, centipede Cormocephalus crawls over a fossil of its 515-million-year-old relative, trilobite Estaingia, which lived during the Cambrian explosion.

The researchers focused their work on invertebrate animals called arthropods because they considered them to be the most diverse animal group that existed both back during the Cambrian period as well as today. This group of animals includes insects, crustaceans and arachnids. “It was during this Cambrian period that many of the most familiar traits associated with this group of animals evolved, like a hard exoskeleton, jointed legs and compound (multi-faceted) eyes that are shared by all arthropods. We even find the first appearance in the fossil record of the antenna that insects, millipedes and lobsters all have, and the earliest biting jaws,” said co-author Dr. Greg Edgecombe of London’s Natural History Museum.

Big Bang of Evolution Moved at Warp Speed « Science World

 

[ScienceRocks]

Evolution

 

[Coyote]

Cockroaches are cool.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Great one less weapon against those things

 

[JimBowie1958]

Why can it not be that God created new species of various forms via evolution?

Methinks you present a false dichotomy.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Yanno..........................God created a lot of things, and He created things that would last, which is why those things evolved.

Sorry, but with all the things we've seen, but God believes not only in creation, but He also believes in evolution as well.

 

[idb]

Yanno..........................God created a lot of things, and He created things that would last, which is why those things evolved.

Sorry, but with all the things we've seen, but God believes not only in creation, but He also believes in evolution as well.

Now you're fucking with my head...stop it please!!!

 

[JimBowie1958]

Yanno..........................God created a lot of things, and He created things that would last, which is why those things evolved.

Sorry, but with all the things we've seen, but God believes not only in creation, but He also believes in evolution as well.

A common mistake for even the most brilliant minds is to try to limit God merely because we think something incompatible. True, God cannot do that which is irrational, self-contradictory, etc, but more often it seems the limitation is in our ability to imagine, and not Him.

 

[syrenn]

so whats the problem... put the poison in peanut butter based bait. Something wrong with human adaptation to a new problem?

 

[ABikerSailor]

so whats the problem... put the poison in peanut butter based bait. Something wrong with human adaptation to a new problem?

Depends..................are you a conservative, or are you a liberal?

Liberals know that things learn and evolve.

Conservatives think that things should stay the same.

If you believe in adaptation, you also believe in evolution.

 

[orogenicman]

Why can it not be that God created new species of various forms via evolution?

Methinks you present a false dichotomy.

Really? What evidence do you have for the existence of your creator? Once you've established its existence with unambiguous evidence, perhaps you could then provide unambiguous evidence that your creator is actually creating new species.

 

[Sunni Man]

If you believe in adaptation, you also believe in evolution.

Incorrect. ..

 

[orogenicman]

Yanno..........................God created a lot of things, and He created things that would last, which is why those things evolved.

Sorry, but with all the things we've seen, but God believes not only in creation, but He also believes in evolution as well.

A common mistake for even the most brilliant minds is to try to limit God merely because we think something incompatible. True, God cannot do that which is irrational, self-contradictory, etc, but more often it seems the limitation is in our ability to imagine, and not Him.

On the contrary, one could argue that what limits the human imagination is the inability to contemplate a world that exists by means other than the whims of an authoritarian alpha male that lives in the sky.

 

[Vikrant]

There is not a single example that one can point at to prove that something can be created or destroyed in this world yet there are people who believe in the myth of creation. It is much more logical to assert that nothing (including the universe) can be created or destroyed because this is what conforms to our observation.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Great one less weapon against those things

Just as we're making ourselves more susceptible to many pathogens through overuse of antibiotics, we've made them resistant by over-using poison. But, we can control them easily and cheaply with the old and very basic mixture of boric acid and bait. You can treat your whole house for less than $5 a year and it always works.

I've posted this before but -

Buy boric acid (or use Twenty Mule Team Borax or the more expensive diatomaceous) earth, mix approx 70% boric acid to 30% bait, such as sugar, flour, etc. Ratio is not critical. Save old jar lids, flat like mayo lids are great but almost any lid will be fine. Put a spoonful in the lid and place the lids in places where roaches are likely to be - under the sink, in the pantry.

As long as it stays dry, it will remain effective.

Roaches have a hard waxy coating that the natural desiccant breaks down. Since roaches like to cuddle, if one walks through the lid, it could kill hundreds of its fellow roaches.

Store the remaining mixture in a jar or any tight container.

All of the active ingredients are non-toxic, won't hurt animals or kids who might get into it.

One thing that people don't like about this is they don't get to see the roaches, belly up, feet waving in the air, in the middle of the kitchen floor. Put out the mixture and forget about it. One day, you'll realize you haven't seen a roach in a long time.

 

[midcan5]

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