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Old 12-13-2002, 08:40 PM   #1
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I don't recall if the following has been in any
of the long lists of silly designs in nature.
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...It's easy to see
that the molars of vampire bats are non-functional: they are obviously molars,
yet they don't perform the one function that molars tend to have; they don't
chew anything. And they don't seem to do anything else, either. So the
conclusion is that they are non-functional....
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Old 12-13-2002, 09:00 PM   #2
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Silly heathen! Before the Fall, vampire bats used their molars to chew up plants. They didn't become blood-drinkers until after the Fall.
[/Creationist]

Incidentally, the link doesn't seem to be working.

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Old 12-14-2002, 08:50 AM   #3
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In fairness, I heard somewhere that vampire bats are not exclusive bloodsuckers, unlike the Discovery Institute.

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Whether or not you need molars to eat bugs, I have no idea, just as I have no idea if my info is correct since I don't have time to google at the moment...
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Old 12-14-2002, 09:08 AM   #4
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<strong>Whether or not you need molars to eat bugs, I have no idea...</strong>
It would depend on whether you chew them or swallow them whole.
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Old 12-14-2002, 03:07 PM   #5
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Incidentally, the link doesn't seem to be working.

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Either your browser is not correctly configured to read newsgroups or your ISP does not provide you a Usenet feed or does not provide talk.origins in particular. The link I provided was not to the world wide web. You can always search for that message id at groups.google.com
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