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The first is the unbelievable argument that people aren't evolved because they don't have a third pair of teeth.  Holy cow.  Well that's true - but we also don't know how to run at 70 miles an hour like a cheetah.  The answer in this case is very simple.  By the time you would replace your teeth, you would no longer be child bearing in all likely hood.  Even if you happened into the mutation, there is no selective pressure to distribute that gene around as it never helped you when you were young and alive.  On the contrary it may have been a hindrance initially - prone to infection and possibly distorting the earlier rows of teeth.  Additionally, mutations like that usually develop from some more vestigial part of the body.  There would need to be something that could be mutated to something more and more like teeth.  More teeth wouldn't just appear as a mutation.  This is just a fact of embryology.

The first is the unbelievable argument that people aren't evolved because they don't have a third pair of teeth.  Holy cow.  Well that's true - but we also don't know how to run at 70 miles an hour like a cheetah.  The answer in this case is very simple.  By the time you would replace your teeth, you would no longer be child bearing in all likely hood.  Even if you happened into the mutation, there is no selective pressure to distribute that gene around as it never helped you when you were young and alive.  On the contrary it may have been a hindrance initially - prone to infection and possibly distorting the earlier rows of teeth.  Additionally, mutations like that usually develop from some more vestigial part of the body.  There would need to be something that could be mutated to something more and more like teeth.  More teeth wouldn't just appear as a mutation.  This is just a fact of embryology.

The second is the almost laughable point that Andrew tries to make about teaching "nearly 200 hundred" students.  Most teachers do that every day.  You made a horrible complaint that public schooling creates illiterates.  Not true-  they were illiterate to begin with.  At best, they failed to get the child and the parents to become literate.  The numbers appear overwhelming because an overwhelming  number of people go to public school.  And thank god for that.  Public school was one of the most dramatic changes of fortune the country ever saw.  And thank goodness conservatives of the time failed to block the laws instituting it.

The second is the almost laughable point that Andrew tries to make about teaching "nearly 200 hundred" students.  Most teachers do that every day.  You made a horrible complaint that public schooling creates illiterates.  Not true-  they were illiterate to begin with.  At best, they failed to get the child and the parents to participate.  But surely you don't mean to let the parent off so easily do you?.  The numbers appear overwhelming because an overwhelming  number of people go to public school.  And thank god for that.  Public school was one of the most dramatic changes of fortune the country ever saw.  And thank goodness conservatives of the time failed to block the laws instituting it.

Finally, at best I may respond to the question of evolution - but ONLY if someone is interested in understanding it and not arguing it for arguments sake. [[User:Mhildred|Mhildred]] 00:12, 14 December 2009 (EST)

Finally, at best I may respond to the question of evolution - but ONLY if someone is interested in understanding it and not arguing it for arguments sake. [[User:Mhildred|Mhildred]] 00:12, 14 December 2009 (EST)

:We're very open minded here, Mhildred.  I suggest you take our quiz to see if you are: [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness]].  Second, we are here to create an encyclopedia, it is most of the Colbert crowd who have come here to argue. [[User:JacobB|JacobB]] 00:16, 14 December 2009 (EST)

:We're very open minded here, Mhildred.  I suggest you take our quiz to see if you are: [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness]].  Second, we are here to create an encyclopedia, it is most of the Colbert crowd who have come here to argue. [[User:JacobB|JacobB]] 00:16, 14 December 2009 (EST)