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"Makes as much sense as anything else. "
ARRELL — (archived)

Only if you love wallowing in ignorance...

I had a 4th grade teacher that gave essentially the same answer when asked how spiders are able to make such complex and patterned webs....

Even at that age I knew the question was a good one and the answer was a criminal one coming from a 'teacher'. So I watched spiders at work, particularly as they made the intricate spiral in their webs... there is a simple system at work that creates the pattern. There is a beautiful economy in the way a spider detects disturbances to its web and determines if it is prey or not... no god, but a set of simple rules that govern complex behavior.

"Because God wants it that way" is ALWAYS a bullshit answer given by the ignorant who are too lazy to do anything to cure their ignorance.

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