A quote from my FB FL today, "For those of you who braved the crowd at the Creation Museum today..."

I would totally go if I didn't have to pay to get in. Because (1) I don't want them to have any of my money, and (2) I would get thrown out for laughing, which would be a waste of my money. (Seriously, y'all, this is a for-real billboard for the Creation Museum: [link] Now, the museum is supposed to be based on the Bible, right? I don't remember there being DRAGONS IN THE BIBLE. I eagerly await the unicorn billboards.)

(Shit, if they start pimping out unicorns, I might have to cough up the dough and go see it.)

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Congrats, GC!!

I am having bean-and-cheese-and-onion enchiladas for dinner! I made them myself! Okay, my mom made the enchilada sauce. And gave me the tortillas and cheese. And dehydrated beans. But I bought the onion and chopped it! I don't know, it's nice to be eating a dinner where none of the components were frozen.

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The DH got up early to go to Jay Leno's garage to photograph him and his Bugatti. Reported Jay was actually nice, the car collection was mind=blowing

I would give a LOT to see his garage. He has, hands down, the most interesting collection. And he loves them.

"For those of you who braved the crowd at the Creation Museum today..."

I want to have a smartass comment but it's just ... really?

I don't know, it's nice to be eating a dinner where none of the components were frozen.

Yes. Though I am currently stocking my freezer with usable portions of things. I figured if it's something I cooked, it doesn't really count as "frozen" in a derogatory way.

I made green curry chicken and zucchini over rice for Mom tonight. So I froze extra rice and the surprisingly extra zucchini (because I bought nearly three pounds) went in there too. The green curry was shockingly delicious. I made that! With science. And coconut milk.

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The best part is that the person that posted about the creation museum lives in San Diego, so he travelled to be there.

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Well, sure. They have a DRAGON.

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Is that better or worse than a Cave Troll?

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Yum Cass, I lurves me a good green curry.

We had an exciting dinner first (for us that is): pork ribs, cooked low and slow on the grill with a dry rub. I am not good with the barbeque so I never try anything more ambitious than burgers, but these were delicious! And the kids ate them too, although Franny mostly ate artichokes for dinner (the big kind, not the wee ones that come in a jar).

Another culinary first for the day: getting the kids to try coconut milk in place of soy milk. We figured out Isaac is at least mildly lactose intolerant so we switched him off cow milk and I've been trying out various alterna-milks. There are so many variations now, even hemp milk. But I can report that the TJs refrigerated almond milk and coconut milk are delicious.

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Burrell, have you tried the mix of almond and coconut? It's yummy.

I am drinking rumchata, thanks to a trip to the brand new opened-yesterday BevMo, and Cash's suggestions. NOM

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A quote from my FB FL today, "For those of you who braved the crowd at the Creation Museum today..."

My dentist had a creationist magazine in the foyer yesterday. It strikes me as not overly professional, but it's their business I suppose. It is also the magazine I gave to Ryan while we waited, because he can't read it, and giraffes! Which raises another question (to which I don't know the answer, of why a creationist mag has a clear piece of evidence in favour of evolution on the cover. Partly through the fossil evidence of a shorter-necked lineage, but that's not the most entertaining reason. Way back when we were fish, we developed a nervous system. Go us! It included nerves which, given the relative locations of the various organs, travelled efficiently from the brain, past the heart, to the gills.

Fast forward through history, and our ancestors developed a neck and lost their gills. The left recurrent laryngeal nerve was repurposed to work the larynx; it retained its old route, however, and now although it travels from the brain to the neck, it still has to travel into the thorax, loop around the aorta and double back to the upper throat. A long history of gradual changes never allowed it to jump over to the other side of the heart. That's an odd design in most creatures; but for the giraffe, it becomes quite ludicrous. This nerve now travels a distance of up to five metres, most of it entirely redundant (costing unneeded resources and increasing the risk of nerve damage), to innervate a structure located only a short distance from its starting point.

The point is that both creationism and the theory of evolution posit that creatures will be for the most part very well suited to their environment. However, evolution also predicts that some adaptations will be inefficient, being constrained by their evolutionary path. The giraffe's laryngeal nerve is consistent with the one, but makes no sense under the other.

So I don't know why the giraffe was on this magazine, and what story goes with it. "We got it wrong", perhaps; more likely "Long necks is hard! And we don't understand redundancy, gradual selection or evolutionary time-scales." But I like to think it was "God built in a kill switch when designing giraffes as a safeguard against them going rogue".

In any case, Ryan liked the giraffe pictures. So there's that.

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But I like to think it was "God built in a kill switch when designing giraffes as a safeguard against them going rogue".

That's totally how evolution works!

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