03-05-2005 10:19									#1
	Creationism vs. Evolution II: Peanut Allergies Tired of ads?

So I'm on a plane this weekend where, once again, I did not get peanuts. If you haven't flown lately, you may not know that peanuts seem to have been phased out of the airlines' food repetoire -- rendering anachronistic hundreds of stand-up comedy routines -- because some people are so allergic to peanuts that even being near them can lead to illness, if not death.

But, as Homer Simpson often reminds us, peanuts are really, really yummy.

So, I'm sitting at 35,000 feet, not eating peanuts, and I'm thinking: which better explains peanut allergies, creationism or evolution? On the one hand, an allergy to peanuts serves no evolutionary purpose that I can fathom. On the other hand, I also can't imagine the twisted theology that explains how an omnipotent deity wants some of us, but only some of us, to die from eating peanuts.

So I want an explanation. Whose got it? Let's settle this whole creationism/evolution thing once and for all.

(Incidently, instead of peanuts, got yummy cashews one way, icky rice-and-seaweed stuff the other way, great meals both ways -- including a steak in economy! Thai Airlines )

	03-05-2005 10:21									#2
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Joseph Heller already complained about this.

I'm slightly allergic to peanuts, and I don't give a **** if other people eat them.

	03-05-2005 10:22									#3
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quote: I also can't imagine the twisted theology that explains how an omnipotent deity wants some of us, but only some of us, to die from eating peanuts.

God is a sadistic *******.... good enough for ya?

	03-05-2005 10:23									#4
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Rufus is gay. Real men spend flights thinking about screwing the stewardess in one of the washrooms.

	03-05-2005 10:25									#5
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* Imran Siddiqui wonders what Agathon will do when his next flight is staffed by an all male crew

	03-05-2005 10:27									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui * Imran Siddiqui wonders what Agathon will do when his next flight is staffed by an all male crew

Plan B = look around the cabin for attractive women to mentally undress.

Are you gay too, or have you never flown?

	03-05-2005 10:30									#7
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I saw this article in Maxim about how stewardresses on Virgin airlines are the most... adventerous about those sort of thing

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Are those people alergic to peanuts also alergic to other types of nuts such as macadamias, wallnuts and cashews?

	03-05-2005 10:37									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Plan B = look around the cabin for attractive women to mentally undress.

* Imran Siddiqui wonders what Agathon will do when every woman around him looks so bad that Ted would NEVER hit it!

quote: Are you gay too, or have you never flown?

I got better things to do than check out women on an airplane.... that's what computer porn is for .

	03-05-2005 10:41									#10
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quote: * Imran Siddiqui wonders what Agathon will do when every woman around him looks so bad that Ted would NEVER hit it!

Get the copy of Hustler out of my flight bag and show it to the ten year old boy in the next seat.

	03-05-2005 10:41									#11
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Sweet... love to see the mother who punches your lights out after that

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quote: Sweet... love to see the mother who punches your lights out after that

Nah. Chicks love Hustler.

	03-05-2005 10:44									#13
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They do?

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quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly So, I'm sitting at 35,000 feet, not eating peanuts, and I'm thinking: which better explains peanut allergies, creationism or evolution? On the one hand, an allergy to peanuts serves no evolutionary purpose that I can fathom...

Maybe not for humans, but I imagine becoming an allergen has some rather obvious advantages for the peanut

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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus They do?

Note those woman have no interest in men.

	03-05-2005 10:46									#16
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You mean you didn't know? Next time you're at a bus stop, show the woman next to you your latest copy. You'll be surprised at the reaction.

	03-05-2005 10:46									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus They do?

This type of thing (by Agathon) is exactly the reason that philosophy majors need to get out more .

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I'd prefer you do it and have a buddy videotape you then upload it here

	03-05-2005 10:47									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Qilue Note those woman have no interest in men.

Ah that'd explain it....

	03-05-2005 10:48									#20
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quote: This type of thing (by Agathon) is exactly the reason that philosophy majors need to get out more .

I live in Canada: it is too cold.

	03-05-2005 10:50									#21
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Well I guess that explains both you and Asher

	03-05-2005 10:51									#22
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Stop trying to spoil my juvenile fun.

	03-05-2005 10:53									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat Maybe not for humans, but I imagine becoming an allergen has some rather obvious advantages for the peanut

Except that it decreases the peanut's value as a crop.

	03-05-2005 11:02									#24
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I love peanut butter, the natural kind is freakin awesome, not bad oils in them. So I'm glad I don't have the allergy.

In school, we had this kid who carried around a HUGE needle, for peanut allergies. I mean this needle looked like freakin nail or something. Anyway, in case of peanut ingestion, everyone was instructed to take the needle and stab him in the heart with it.

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soy peanuts: the epitamy of evolution

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quote: Rufus is gay. Real men spend flights thinking about screwing the stewardess in one of the washrooms.

Nah, Rufus is happily married; it's like being gay, but with less sex.

quote: God is a sadistic *******.... good enough for ya?

Well, that certainly jibes with my understanding of the Old Testament. Score one for Creationism...

quote: Maybe not for humans, but I imagine becoming an allergen has some rather obvious advantages for the peanut

Ooo, but evolution comes back fighting! It's tied, 1-1!

	03-05-2005 12:16									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Except that it decreases the peanut's value as a crop.

Unless there is a strain of peanut which is not an allergen, there's no intra-peanut competition, so no selective advantage either way.

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Allegies are auto-immuno responses (I think I got the spelled correctly) that are triggered by the system going bonkers.

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allergies are the biggest pro for evolution...because of modern medicine a lot of people life that in a 'natural' world wont. combine that with the totally wrong dieet people are having now a days and you start being allergy for almost every thing...natural selections has gone bonkers because of our inventions.....lets say it like this do you think that any starving dude from africa (or where ever people are starving) has an allergy for peanunts? hell no it is a western decease

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"In school, we had this kid who carried around a HUGE needle, for peanut allergies. I mean this needle looked like freakin nail or something. Anyway, in case of peanut ingestion, everyone was instructed to take the needle and stab him in the heart with it."



Everyone? Not just one person?

Poor kid...makes me feel alot better about my tiny insulin needle.