Creationism vs. Evolution II: Peanut Allergies

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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 )

[Agathon]

Joseph Heller already complained about this.

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

[Imran Siddiqui]

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?

[Agathon]

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

[Imran Siddiqui]

/me wonders what Agathon will do when his next flight is staffed by an all male crew

[Agathon]

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?

[Barinthus]

I saw this article in Maxim about how stewardresses on Virgin airlines are the most... adventerous about those sort of thing

[Qilue]

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

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Agathon
Plan B = look around the cabin for attractive women to mentally undress.

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

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 .

[Agathon]

* 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.

[Imran Siddiqui]

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

[Agathon]

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

Nah. Chicks love Hustler.

[Barinthus]

They do?

[Immortal Wombat]

Re: Creationism vs. Evolution II: Peanut Allergies

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

[Qilue]

Originally posted by Barinthus
They do?

Note those woman have no interest in men.