How is the balance between boys and girls maintained?

[Kidlicious]

Then you don't understand the effects of time. Let me ask you, how did life begin?

[giblets]

Then you don't understand the effects of time. Let me ask you, how did life begin?

No, I just think the odds are sufficiently low that it probably won't happen even if humans are around for billions of years.

[Aeson]

It would be pretty funny if it did happen though. Which is why I think God must not have a sense of humor.

[Hauldren Collider]

This has got to be the greatest Kidicious thread in poly history.

[Kidlicious]

No, I just think the odds are sufficiently low that it probably won't happen even if humans are around for billions of years.

Stop with the strawman. No one says the odds are high. But you would be shocked that it would happen, yet you accept the highly unlikely theory that life "just happened."

[giblets]

Stop with the strawman. No one says the odds are high. But you would be shocked that it would happen, yet you accept the highly unlikely theory that life "just happened."

The odds that life happened are 1.

[Kidlicious]

So are the odds that you are a moron.

[Elok]

The OP is fairly inane, but it got me thinking: in a normally polygynous animal "society," such as lions, would the sex ratio be skewed in favor of females, since a few males tend to hog a relatively large number of females? I haven't found much, except this first page of something from JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2461708 . I can't view the rest, since I'm not accessing it via a university, etc.

Anyway, it says that male lions tend to form coalitions to take over a pride, and larger coalitions, unsurprisingly, are more successful at gaining and maintaining control of a pride. And the sex ratio actually skews toward the male "when those males enhance each other's expected chances of reproductive success." What that specifically refers to, I don't know. Anyway, is there a biologist/ecologist in here who can tell me if lions, or other polygynous animals, normally bear more female than male young?

[Kidlicious]

A christian that believes that it's inane to claim that God maintains the balance between boys and girls? What an ass.

[Elok]

A christian that believes that it's inane to claim that God maintains the balance between boys and girls? What an ass.

No, it's inane to point to a single aspect of nature which can be satisfactorily explained by your opponents--and, in fact, hardly requires explanation in the first place--ignore everyone's arguments to the contrary, and call it "proof" of your own POV. Regardless of what that POV may be. God is ultimately responsible for gravity, inertia, etc., but it would still be silly to claim that our inability to propel ourselves into orbit with a single jump is "proof" of God.

[Kidlicious]

I haven't ignored anyone's arguments or claimed any proof you ass. I'm merely arguing that God is in control of things. Your own theory is that things happen because of the laws of probability? Again, any Christian who believes that is an ass.

[Elok]

I have not expounded any theory at all. I have only said that you have not poked the slightest little hole in the opposition's arguments, nor raised a valid one yourself. If you believe the moon landing was not faked, you are IMO correct. If you believe the moon landing was not faked because you think only NASA had cameras back then, you may be correct about the moon landing but your argument is still rubbish.

[Kidlicious]

Not trying to prove it DICK! I'm presenting it as more reasonable. It is not reasonable to assume that God just leaves matters to chance. Good night! The Earth could be hit by an astroid! And you think it's reasonable to expectt such things to happen?!

[Kidlicious]

Seriously. Why on earth would a christian carry on as you do?

[giblets]

Not trying to prove it DICK! I'm presenting it as more reasonable. It is not reasonable to assume that God just leaves matters to chance. Good night! The Earth could be hit by an astroid! And you think it's reasonable to expectt such things to happen?!

You're suggesting that it's more reasonable to think that an invisible, intelligent being is controlling the genes of every fertilized human egg on the planet (it must be a really evil invisible intelligent being if it decides to give some of these people serious congenital defects like this) than to simply think that they inherit genes from their parents by chance?