Comments on: Argument from Food

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:57:14 +0000

Wow, What an impressive collection of bunk. Who knew anyone would even be willing to stand up and propagate this tripe, let alone the illustrious panel you have assembled. Yeah, there has to be some collective psychological source of the food correlation. Or maybe not, maybe they’re just riffing off of each other in some moronic blind faith driven meme frenzy accessible through inexpensive props. That is after all what many have been taught to do and rewarded for.

By: elementalmuse

elementalmuse — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:58:45 +0000

Jonathan,

I also find it interesting that people would ridicule another person for finding similarities between the natural world (i.e. food) and the human body.

This is the statement that gave me the impression you were perhaps claiming that the above referenced materials deserved some sort of respectful exclusion from critical review.

I also did not imply that you had made the claim of a *mystical link* rather that the videos had.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:23:21 +0000

Elementalmuse,

“In case you haven’t noticed all carbon based life forms have some amount of common DNA with humans and every other life form on the planet.”

Umm? That was exactly my point!

“Health diets are essential in maintaining good health, but that doesn’t mean there is some mystical link between food and our individual body parts as presented above.”

I do not seem to remember saying there is any “mystical link between food and our individual body parts.”

To better understand my views check out the Evolution thread under General SciTech Discussion on the Ironwolf Forum.
http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/forum/index.php/board,21.0.html

By: elementalmuse

elementalmuse — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:09:30 +0000

Jonathan,

In case you haven’t noticed all carbon based life forms have some amount of common DNA with humans and every other life form on the planet.

Think about that. Health diets are essential in maintaining good health, but that doesn’t mean there is some mystical link between food and our individual body parts as presented above.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:11:46 +0000

While I do find it pathetic to state false information (such as the sodium bone celery comparison) as proof of design, I also find it interesting that people would ridicule another person for finding similarities between the natural world (i.e. food) and the human body. Considering that humans and daffodils share about 1/3 the same DNA! (Jonathan Marks- “What it really means to be 99% Chimpanzee”) If the natural world shows this much DNA similarity to that of humans, than it would be expected to see similarity between the structure of some food and some human parts.

Just saying.

By: Ascius

Ascius — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:38:34 +0000

Wow… I wondered where they could come up with such grossly wrong information, so I just did some hunting around on celery. The only source I could find for their celery ‘facts’ was an entry in a “make money while you show and tell” web site that said exactly the same thing as the video and had no upvotes (incapable of being downvoted, and the site stank of being a pyramid scheme anyway).

From what I gathered looking at multiple other sources, celery is about 0.1% sodium, isn’t high in anything that specifically helps bones (there’s a lot of vitamin K, which may or may not be useful to bones, and some calcium) but it’s mainly a low calorie source of dietary fiber. Medicinally the seeds (which aren’t the stalks) are good diuretics, and generally celery and it’s seeds help your blood, liver, kidneys, and urinary tract more than anything else.

Plus, celery doesn’t actually resemble bone at all.

On the other hand, mandrake root can look like a little human figure, so it must be the best thing to eat for the whole body of anyone who believes this stuff.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:20:34 +0000

I had no idea about the coconut link to Old Nick…