Sunday, July 10, 2005
Gets Them Every Time
Nothing like hanging a red light in the window to attract some customers.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that there has to be an evolutionary reason, or the fact that they won't admit that there is an evolutionary reason they haven't figured out. Either way, the faith in their own understanding is tremendous, and unwarranted.
A newfound deep-sea relative of the jellyfish flashes glowing red lights on twitching, stinging tentacles to lure fish to their deaths more than a mile below the surface.Interesting, but here is the really interesting part
The discovery is odd, because scientists had figured deep-sea animals can't see red light, since they live where sunlight doesn't reach and therefore have no evolutionary reason to detect the color.Well, God forbid something to exist without an evolutionary reason. But how do they know they don't "see" red light? Maybe the red photons react with something in the sea water to produce something that fish do detect? Maybe the luminesence reaction produces a chemical that fish smell?
I don't know what's worse, the fact that there has to be an evolutionary reason, or the fact that they won't admit that there is an evolutionary reason they haven't figured out. Either way, the faith in their own understanding is tremendous, and unwarranted.
