What the fuck is the point of having toes?

Balance.

Balance.

I agree, his stupidity does outweigh his reason, and balance is needed.

Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:36:30 AM

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

I'm pretty sure I can get use to standing with an inch off my foot

Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:39:20 AM

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

I'm pretty sure I can get use to standing with an inch off my foot

Lol try surviving with only walking like a moron anywhere between 1000 bc-1600 ad

to suck on

As challenger said, our big toe would have been a thumb. But when our ancestors began to walk upright, the need for a second set of hands was gone, so our toes tunred into what they are today.

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

I'm pretty sure I can get use to standing with an inch off my foot

Lol try surviving with only walking like a moron anywhere between 1000 bc-1600 ad

That sentence made no logical sense

Not if you consider that you're trying to compensate for no toes. If you have no toes, you can't walk normally, and thus sprinting would prove even harder.

How would you move around efficiently? How would you hunt, and fight? How would you work without being able to walk normally?

Lol sure I would have trouble for a couple of days but I'm sure I can get use to it

It's just an inch off my feet which really isn't much

Fine, then chop of your toes. Eventually, they should stop existing in your line of predecessors. If not, then the toe will still be there, because they serve a function. There's no reason for it to disappear, so it won't, but if you give it a reason for long enough, then it will.

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

I'm pretty sure I can get use to standing with an inch off my foot

Lol try surviving with only walking like a moron anywhere between 1000 bc-1600 ad

That sentence made no logical sense

Not if you consider that you're trying to compensate for no toes. If you have no toes, you can't walk normally, and thus sprinting would prove even harder.

How would you move around efficiently? How would you hunt, and fight? How would you work without being able to walk normally?

Lol sure I would have trouble for a couple of days but I'm sure I can get use to it

It's just an inch off my feet which really isn't much

Fine, then chop of your toes. Eventually, they should stop existing in your line of predecessors. If not, then the toe will still be there, because they serve a function. There's no reason for it to disappear, so it won't, but if you give it a reason for long enough, then it will.

What the fuck kind of logic is this?

You do know that toes use to be longer and used for climbing when we were apes right?
And the reason we still have them is because evolution hasn't gotten rid of them yet?

Speaking of evolution, do you even know the first thing about it or are you using Lamarck's logic?

Chopping off your toes won't mean that your children are born without toes lol
And you meant successors, not predecessors

Don't try to make me seem retarded when you can't get facts straight yourself

"And the reason we still have them is because evolution hasn't gotten rid of them yet?"
please stop repeating my words, jackass.

So you're telling me that your successors won't be influenced by anything that their predecessors did, and went through?

Then tell me, why are some more hairy than others? Our bodies adapt, and our brains are adjusted ever so slightly. Exercising alters the DNA, so I imagine exercising different parts of your body for millions of years would have an effect, which would make the toes useless. Your dna would be altered for less space taken up by the toes, and eventually they'd disappear.

The only thing I got wrong was the predecessor part.

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:36:30 AM

Quote from: Ingloriouswho98 on January 25, 2015, 11:35:59 AM

Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

I'm pretty sure I can get use to standing with an inch off my foot

Lol try surviving with only walking like a moron anywhere between 1000 bc-1600 ad

That sentence made no logical sense

Not if you consider that you're trying to compensate for no toes. If you have no toes, you can't walk normally, and thus sprinting would prove even harder.

How would you move around efficiently? How would you hunt, and fight? How would you work without being able to walk normally?

Lol sure I would have trouble for a couple of days but I'm sure I can get use to it

It's just an inch off my feet which really isn't much

Fine, then chop of your toes. Eventually, they should stop existing in your line of predecessors. If not, then the toe will still be there, because they serve a function. There's no reason for it to disappear, so it won't, but if you give it a reason for long enough, then it will.

What the fuck kind of logic is this?

You do know that toes use to be longer and used for climbing when we were apes right?
And the reason we still have them is because evolution hasn't gotten rid of them yet?

Speaking of evolution, do you even know the first thing about it or are you using Lamarck's logic?

Chopping off your toes won't mean that your children are born without toes lol
And you meant successors, not predecessors

Don't try to make me seem retarded when you can't get facts straight yourself

"And the reason we still have them is because evolution hasn't gotten rid of them yet?"
please stop repeating my words, jackass.

So you're telling me that your successors won't be influenced by anything that their predecessors did, and went through?

Then tell me, why are some more hairy than others? Our bodies adapt, and our brains are adjusted ever so slightly. Exercising alters the DNA, so I imagine exercising different parts of your body for millions of years would have an effect, which would make the toes useless. Your dna would be altered for less space taken up by the toes, and eventually they'd disappear.

The only thing I got wrong was the predecessor part.

Are you retarded?

No
Children are not affected by what their parents went through
They receive a "base model" blueprint of a human from their parents

You are using Lamarck's logic right now
Even worse, you're trying to play off your retarded logic as truth

Read this

http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/lamarck/intro./lamarck_intro.html

The last three sections

I know how evolution works.

Scientists know that certain genes become active or quieter as a result of exercise.

Not exercising certain parts for millions of years will most definitely have an effect, don't you think?

This is my argument; it is not complex, so please realize that. If you can't understand it, then I end this discussion now, because there'd be no point to it.

Edit: relevant
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/jul/27/higher-latitudes-bigger-eyes-brains

Our feet used to be like a second pair of hands back when chimps, gorillas, and other great apes were all one animal. Our feet changed drastically as we evolved to walk upright.

Funnily enough, our little toes are disappearing. I'd say in the next couple thousand years little toes will be gone.

Quote from: Numb Digger on January 25, 2015, 12:29:42 PM

Our feet used to be like a second pair of hands back when chimps, gorillas, and other great apes were all one animal. Our feet changed drastically as we evolved to walk upright.

Funnily enough, our little toes are disappearing. I'd say in the next couple thousand years little toes will be gone.

Thousands?

More like millions

I kind of derped out for a moment there. No, not millions, but maybe a few hundred thousand.

It only takes around 10 million years for a species to become completely unrecognizable, after all.

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Quote from: Royal Light on January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

That's like asking why we have feet.

We have feet to stand

Why do we have toes though?

No, our legs are for standing.

Lol try standing without your feet

Lol try standing without your toes

I'm pretty sure I can get use to standing with an inch off my foot

Lol try surviving with only walking like a moron anywhere between 1000 bc-1600 ad

That sentence made no logical sense

Not if you consider that you're trying to compensate for no toes. If you have no toes, you can't walk normally, and thus sprinting would prove even harder.

How would you move around efficiently? How would you hunt, and fight? How would you work without being able to walk normally?

Lol sure I would have trouble for a couple of days but I'm sure I can get use to it

It's just an inch off my feet which really isn't much

Fine, then chop of your toes. Eventually, they should stop existing in your line of predecessors. If not, then the toe will still be there, because they serve a function. There's no reason for it to disappear, so it won't, but if you give it a reason for long enough, then it will.

What the fuck kind of logic is this?

You do know that toes use to be longer and used for climbing when we were apes right?
And the reason we still have them is because evolution hasn't gotten rid of them yet?

Speaking of evolution, do you even know the first thing about it or are you using Lamarck's logic?

Chopping off your toes won't mean that your children are born without toes lol
And you meant successors, not predecessors

Don't try to make me seem retarded when you can't get facts straight yourself

"And the reason we still have them is because evolution hasn't gotten rid of them yet?"
please stop repeating my words, jackass.

So you're telling me that your successors won't be influenced by anything that their predecessors did, and went through?

Then tell me, why are some more hairy than others? Our bodies adapt, and our brains are adjusted ever so slightly. Exercising alters the DNA, so I imagine exercising different parts of your body for millions of years would have an effect, which would make the toes useless. Your dna would be altered for less space taken up by the toes, and eventually they'd disappear.

The only thing I got wrong was the predecessor part.

Are you retarded?

No
Children are not affected by what their parents went through
They receive a "base model" blueprint of a human from their parents

You are using Lamarck's logic right now
Even worse, you're trying to play off your retarded logic as truth

Read this

http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/lamarck/intro./lamarck_intro.html

The last three sections

I know how evolution works.

Scientists know that certain genes become active or quieter as a result of exercise.

Not exercising certain parts for millions of years will most definitely have an effect, don't you think?

This is my argument; it is not complex, so please realize that. If you can't understand it, then I end this discussion now, because there'd be no point to it.

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Not exercising certain parts for millions of years will most definitely have an effect, don't you think?

So why did you say that my children won't have any toes if I chop off my own?

And this directly contradicts your earlier point of saying that the children will be affected by what the parents go through

When did I say that? Might have done it without realizing, but it was a small mistake, and you should ignore it, because I've repeated my points enough times for you to understand it.

They will be affected.

It's not like they'll lose their toes, or that there will be any changes, but they will be affected on a microscopical level. It might be that a small adenine strand will be 1 mm to the left, if the size of the strand was 10 km wide, and 20 km long.

Still, it is a change none the less.