How is the balance between boys and girls maintained?

[MikeH]

So beautifully elegant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle

[loinburger]

Some wasps will explicitly manage the balance between males and females in their population. One wasp will lay female eggs on healthy caterpillars and male eggs on small/stunted/sick caterpillars - this way there are many more females than males, which is good for the survival of the species (you don't need many males to fertilize a lot of females). Another wasp lays its eggs in fruit: some of the larvae become bloated food-absorption machines, while other larvae become hunter-killers who eat any eggs or larvae laid by competing wasps; these hunter-killers will also eat some of the male food-absorption larvae in order to leave more food for the females. Eventually the food-absorption larvae pupate and fly away (with female/male rations on the order of 1000/1), and the hunter-killer larvae die.

[Dauphin]

I posted that before, got lost in the ****fest.

[giblets]

The real reason for the balance between boys and girls is inevitably going to be SO much more interesting than "because God said". I'm going to read more.

All the gods had a meeting on Mount Olympus where it was decided that the ratio of men to women should be approximately 1:1 even though the ratio of gods to goddesses appears to be 7:5. Very strange.

[MikeH]

I posted that before, got lost in the ****fest.

[Kidlicious]

Ah, an appeal to the masses. Millions of people think lots of stupid and/or totally unfounded things. Millions of people think vaccines cause autism, for example, despite their only evidence being a long-discredited study by one unethical researcher. The fact that millions of people think such things does not make them any less silly.

I know that you think you're superior to the masses, but evidentally you're wrong. Out of the masses there are many people more educated and smarter than you. zYou're a coward. That's why all you can do is deny the obvious. You are a disgusting human being. Go crawl under some rock somewhere.

[Kidlicious]

Based on this thread alone, calling Kid ignorant is probably the understatement of the year.

Using one's existence as proof that god exists is setting the bar really low.

Figures that a strawman would be your best effort.

[giblets]

[loinburger]

Out of the masses there are many people more educated and smarter than you.

None of them agree with you either.

[rah]

Kid,

What a convincing argument. The last bastion of poor debaters, ignore everything and just insult.

And how Christian, those insults. How can you consider yourself one.

This has gone beyond hilarious, this boy is truly touched.

[Kidlicious]

Has anyone attempted to explain the Law of Large Numbers to Kid?

I see. So when you see a building or a car or a computer you assume it was not created by an intelligent being because of the Law of Large Numbers?

[loinburger]

And this is why nobody had attempted to explain the Law of Large Numbers of Kid.

[giblets]

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire. -Matthew 5:22

I guess Kidicious is going to hell for calling people fools

[Kidlicious]

You're really not getting it. In siding with the skeptics here, I'm not playing by "my rules," to use your parlance. I believe in God for personal reasons having nothing to do with empirical proofs. The best that can be done to win converts, IMO, is simply to give Christianity a good name. And part of that is being honest and striking down blatant illogic such as you've been pushing here, not siding with it because "we're on the same team."

1) They aren't skeptics and either are you.

2) This is more game play.

3) You don't play by any rules that decent people considet fair and civil.

4) You're a hypo rite and a horrinle person in general.

[loinburger]

4) You're a hypo rite and a horrinle person in general.

Are you drunk?