Meaning, now everyone is Jesus but grotesque and bent on killing? That isn’t what the “second coming” means, even in idiotic sects that misinterpret the political satire of Revelations as a literal prophecy.

You did not hallucinate that. Kirkman stated this one of the first times he was on Talking Dead.

Thank you, I was beginning to think I was the only one who realized this!

Right! I mean, in the parent series just off the top of my head we’ve heard walkers, biters, lamebrains...

No, they don’t live in a world of zombie movies. There is no Night of the Living Dead, no Return of the Living Dead, no 28 days later, no zombie comics, no Resident Evil, no other zombie video games. Hence why no one ever says the world zombie... each region probably creates their own slang for them because zombie…

This was back in 2008. The kid that did the hit can beat the shit out of people freely now, because he’s a cop. No bullshit. That kid is now a police officer.

What are you talking about? Scientists ask “why?” all the time. “Why did the water boil at a different temperature than before? Why is this particular strain of bacteria not responding to the antibiotics? Why does htis one species eat this, when it’s very close relative eats that? etc.

The biology dictionary defines vestigial thusly:

Thanks for that. I legitimately thought they misspelled Dennis Rodman’s last name.

For those wondering about the firefighter hats and who Rodeman is, he was a firefighter/marine/great person who was run over and killed while collecting money for muscular dystrophy recently. It’s a murder that truly shocked the Lansing/East Lansing community. It’s nice to see so many Spartans out there taking a…

Is that guy holding a picture of the girl standing next to him?

That just doesn’t make any sense. Science doesn’t ask why? I can’t begin to imagine how you thought that was deep or profound or whatever. Science isn’t even a person! It doesn’t ‘ask’ anything!

Of course scientists ask “why”. Are you on something? Or are you thinking that “why” can only apply to philosophical questions?

Because abortion isn’t now, nor has it ever been about the babies. It’s about punishing women for having sex without society’s permission.

Nope. I’m an engineer. You’re terrible at this.

I love the scare quotes, but whales born with protruding hind limb nubs are demonstrating vestigial structures. Just like a tail in a human, these limbs serve no purpose.

“Creationists” in this case being shorthand for “Young Earth Creationists”, which is what 99% of people mean when they use that word.

Er, that’s the first step of the scientific method. Hypothesizing why something happened the way it did.

Which does not in any way refute the idea that whales were originally at least partially land animals. The use of those vestigal parts for sex could simply be a carryover from their previous function on land.

One of the most compelling vestigial traits I’ve seen, and one I love to point out when arguing with creationists, is that whales have a vestigial pelvis and femur. Occasionally, some are born with more than just the internal bone structure - some have little nubby back legs the same way some humans are born with an…