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They don’t believe in evolution? No, apparently not.

Most people don’t, across North America, it seems.

Some idea why not, from a pop science article

An unusual arrangement of particles has been discovered in the cells of chicken eyes. It’s the first time scientists have seen such a system in a biological system — one that allows materials to behave like both a crystal and a liquid.

The unique arrangement is called “disordered hyperuniformity,” and it could help researchers design advanced materials, such as optics that can transmit light with the efficiency of a crystal and the flexibility of a liquid.

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It has to do with the way the chicken’s four photoreceptors — violet, blue, green, and red — and a fifth light-detecting type are crammed into a single tissue layer on the retina. Finding a way to organize these five elements in an optimal way is a huge technical challenge (which is called a “packing problem) — but evolution found a way.

“Evolution,” used this way, = “magic” and we were all told not to believe in magic.

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Mung:
Evolution, just another word for Goddidit.
Here's my take on it. * Darwinian evolution = Dirtdidit. Darwinist = Dirt worshipper. * * Creation = Goddidit. Creationist = God worshipper. *Mapou
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Evolution, just another word for Goddidit.Mung
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