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I'm a kid who is interested in too many things. I post about my art when I make it, my lab work when it’s interesting, and atheism and gender issues when they come up.

I'm doing my undergrad degree in evolutionary biology at McGill University, Montreal, and I hope to be a renegade palaeontologist/illustrator extraordinaire someday.

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- Games: Bastion, Mass Effect 2, Minecraft, Portal, Psychonauts, TF2
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- Novel: Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
- Star Trek TNG episodes: Chain of Command pt II, Darmok




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January 30, 2012
re: #school
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Lowering the bar for “things I find interesting”

My course pack here says water is an ideal constituent for living systems for many reasons, including that it’s transparent to visible light, which allows our vision to be possible. But… no. It’s the other way around. It’s not that water happened to work out for us because we see visible light, it’s that we’re able to see the spectra of what we anthrocentrically refer to as “visible light” because we’re comprised of a lot of water.

It’s really just the same old “argument from design” bunk, but not in a creationist context at all and it was so weird and off-putting to find in my course material, and I was totally going to say more and then I realized holy shit my life is just so dull right now.

Notes:

  1. maxhashimablog said: I wouldn’t have caught that. Who’s thing is it? You should go argue with them about it?
  2. ednatheflighty posted this