Creationism vs. Evolution II: Peanut Allergies

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
* Imran Siddiqui wonders what Agathon will do when his next flight is staffed by an all male crew

Haven't seen anything like that, yet.

[Drogue]

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

Real men would screw the stewardess in the washroom

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Drogue

Real men would screw the stewardess in the washroom

Truth.

[KrazyHorse]

None of the stewardesses on flights I take are screwable.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
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.

Peanut butter by the spoon

[Kuciwalker]

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

There is competition with other crops though.

[Richelieu]

I'm allergic to peanuts and i'm glad: i can't stand even the odour. I've had reactions ranging from severe asthma attacks when i was a kid to just rashes nowadays.

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.

In the heart?

It was probably an epipen. Very common for peanut and other allergy sufferers. You're supposed to stick it in your thigh.

[lightblue]

A lot of allergies are because we live in such an artificial environment. It's becoming more and more because kids aren't playing outside anymore and eating worms/dirt/grass etc to challenge their immune system. This makes the immune system cranky and it'll start looking for other antigens it can go and inflame too

[Odin]

Originally posted by lightblue
A lot of allergies are because we live in such an artificial environment. It's becoming more and more because kids aren't playing outside anymore and eating worms/dirt/grass etc to challenge their immune system. This makes the immune system cranky and it'll start looking for other antigens it can go and inflame too

Yep, and also, we don't have parasitic worms in our guts anymore for our immune system to attack.

[Urban Ranger]

Nah, any successful parasitic worms in our guts have evolved sufficiently to fool our immune system.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by lightblue
A lot of allergies are because we live in such an artificial environment. It's becoming more and more because kids aren't playing outside anymore and eating worms/dirt/grass etc to challenge their immune system. This makes the immune system cranky and it'll start looking for other antigens it can go and inflame too

If there is a more efficient disease distribution mechanism then the public school, I don't want to know about it.

[lightblue]

Too late i think, it's the very early years that matter.

[St Leo]

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?

Evolution.

Creationism thinks of a peanut as a peanut as a peanut -- Noah took two peanuts of the two kinds with him onboard the Ark -- whereas Evolution allows for unpredictable interaction of component chemicals. Allergies are a sign of a paranoid body that trusts nothing and over-reacts in the name of self-preservation.

[Dinner]

I am happy to report that I am not allergic to any food stuff, that I know of, so after WW3 when Aggie and I are stuck on an island with nothing to eat but jars of peanuts I will not be the one starving.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I am happy to report that I am not allergic to any food stuff, that I know of, so after WW3 when Aggie and I are stuck on an island with nothing to eat but jars of peanuts I will not be the one starving.

No, but given that scenario, you'll be the one envying the dead..