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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

OK, now I need to know.

... tl;dr: a combination of "optimal seed dispersal" and breeding.

Remember the guy who claimed bananas are a sign of god's existence because they are optimally shaped for inserting in your mouth? (edit: the banana is an atheist's nightmare)

[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I need to find me a banana that feels so good in my mouth it makes me believe in god

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A good Christian would swallow it whole

Those crackers might be the body of Christ but the banana is the holy dong of Christ.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Man that phrasing really got me, lmao. Thanks for the chuckle.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's the wrong end if you want to see god.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

"Someone sees a soda can, and knows it must have a creator."

I guess the watchmaker argument was a bit too high brow for this guy.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well if bananas are so well designed why do they have a 1 in 6 chance to go extinct

So we can evolve the mult-nanas

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bananas are optimally shaped to be inserted into other orifices in our bodies .... God is either super intelligent or just has a bad sense of humour.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why do guys have a pleasure spot about halfway dick length up their assholes? Sadly, God left that out of the instruction manual and yet I feel like the best features don’t need documentation to be understood.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol ..... God designing bananas and the corresponding openings of the human body

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

sorry for the reminder that POS exists

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron. High caliber idiots.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well... not just your mouth

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sure. My mouth, too, but that's it. Just the two of us and no one else.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

And the Lord Our God saith "That's What She said" Amen!

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

I just assumed it was like how ships have bulk heads to isolate damage.

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It does not. Most fruit in western world is cherrypicked through generations to increase favourable proportions of f000d.

An unaltered banana looks much different and has less flesh, same likely goes for oranges, I think.

You can’t trust me, I don’t know shit tho. Perhaps take what I wrote and turn it upside the fuck down…

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I like to bring this up whenever anyone argues that natural is better. There's no such thing as a natural food anymore. We made the food we eat as edible as it is through thousands of years of selective breeding.

This is why I hate the anti-GMO argument so much. We've already genetically modified fucking everything.

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Anti-GMO is not about genetically modified food in general, but more about opposing the pesticide-industrial complex. Monsanto and Bayer don't make plants resistant to pests, but resistant to the pest killers they sell.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Anti-GMO, if coming from a place of reason, is a stance against pesticides in your food. One of the primary reasons to genetically modify some plant is so Roundup herbicides can be used on it.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I also bring this up in people who get overly defensive about their (excessive) meat consumption. I hear the argument that we evolved to eat meat and they want to eat a "natural" diet and this involves eating chicken breast and steak every day.

I mean don't get me wrong, I also eat meat sometimes, but I do realize that there is no good reason to do so. Indeed it is hypocritical of me, knowing how it is both bad for the environment and morally wrong to kill an animal for my consumption when I can get all the nutrients in it from elsewhere, be it "natural" via food choices or "synthetic" via supplements. Because sure as fuck it's also not natural to have cooked pasta with brussel sprouts, tomato sauce, a grotesquely large chicken breast, with a dessert of blueberries and yoghurt in the wintertime. Like, just own it. Just admit there is no good reason other than I like it and that the choice is very self serving.

And yes, bring on the GMOs.

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oranges wouldn't even exist without humans

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Whelp, guess I'm not getting any work done today then:-|