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True but only intelligence explains how these animals know what they are eating. Heck we have to use a labratory to know what we are eating, how is it that they automatically know?
Species are clearly being directed to know what to eat, now you can claim its simple instinct, but who programmed the instinct?
True but they are still staying in the same food group. Its an attempt to stay on target food.
In some links I posted on colins thread about ADHD, you would be found to be wrong. ADHD has been identified as changing our genes. Now you might call that evolution but the problem is that they were also able to identify what actually caused all this.
So in essence what you are telling me is that because women smoke when they are pregnant, they are forcing evolution.
What does avocado have to do with a sloth?
It's pretty educational to study the history of avocado. It developed in co-evolution with giant sloths. No, it was not a "target food", but an encounter of a species that needed seed dispersal (avocado) and another species who needed calories and nutrients (the giant sloth).
It doesn't matter, if decision was left up to the individual, there would be individual choices, and there is not. They all eat the same diet. Explain that.
Simple, if taste was the determining factor in food selection, there would be a varied acceptance, and there isn't.
You have no evidence for your position. You say there isn't, but like many of your claims it amounts to you making things up. Evidence has been posted showing that this is wrong.
These can also be signs of desperation where the species is picking up anything to satisfy hunger. It can also be that their natural enviroment had a way of making sure that food was always above where they pooped. You have to take into account that they may not be in their enviroment.
A doubt that chicks eat everything they peck at, but they do eat their own fecal matter.
Here is a discussion of treating chicks since they do eat everything they peck at including their own poop.
Exactly, what is this something that seems to be sharing intelligent information with species that tells them what they are suppose to be eating.
Its trial and error or they learn it from their parents. It's not what they are supposed to eat. It is what they learn to eat.
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The observations of diets have proven that they always eat the same things.
Animals eat a wide variety. Animals do not agree to like the same food. Where did you get that odd idea?
It doesn't matter, the final choice was determined prior to the species locating the food. You see there is no way they could all like the exact same food, so therefore the choice is not being left up to them.
Essentially you don't know and made a guess. You are also limiting the senses to a few. Even humans have more senses than you list.
If you were correct that little section in articles about species called diet wouldn't exist.
Drop a pebble into water and a fish will go after it and taste it if it has a chance. Fish go after lures even if they look like nothing in their environment. The lure is a new food and the fish will try to bite it. Do all animals eat the same thing? No. Deer in different parts of the country must eat different plants since there are different plants in different areas. Your argument is based on falsehoods.
Again if you change the enviroment of course the diet will technically change, but the species will try to keep the same diet by staying in the same food group.
The claim that animals of a single species all eat the same thing is obviously wrong. Animals do not eat the same things across their own lifespan. Moose in Wyoming do not encounter the same plants as moose in Maine. Sessile feeders eat whatever passes by them and it can be just about anything. Benthic scavengers eat whatever rains down from the surface.
Except that if individuals in a species are all eating the same food, they are either programmed through intelligence which your denying or they have some method to communicate in a very technical way.
There is no assumption that animals have a means to communicate. It is well demonstrated that animals can communicate with each other from insects to birds to mammals. Pack animals learn from the pack how to hunt. Herd animals learn from the herd
Any species that we know the diet of, is constant with the species as a whole. All species eat the same within a species.
We don't even know all species let alone their diets. This is a completely wrong claim.
I know thats what everyone is saying, its just that no one is coughing up any proof.
That is a falsehood. That is completely untrue.
Either way, I found no proof they eat their own poop, so it looks like the logical fallacy is upon you.
I reviewed the wiki about chickens and found nothing to support your claims, not that wiki is god, but there seems to be no proof about chickens pecking at anything, if they do, they could be starving.
You are arguing from ignorance.
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This is what I keep hearing in the form of an opinion, but I have yet to see anything from a credible source claiming that its true.
It's an unknown, that seems to share intelligence. We know it exists because there is no evidence of species randomly experimenting with food or having seperate personal choice in the foods they allegedly try.
This is a lie. Evidence has been supplied showing abalone, chickens, deer, fish, crustaceans, barnacles, amphibians, and other animals experiment with food. Read the thread or just admit you continue to tell lies.
Any and all senses used to determine what is food and what is not food would always require a prior knowledge beforehand, therefore intelligence. The sense are not the determining factor in deciding what is proper food as there would always be personal opinion choosing differently within a species group, which is not the case.
Taste is not the determining factor in the choice of food as there would be personal differences and there is none.
Please provide evidence for your claim. I simply do not believe you.
Do all humans eat the exact same food?
This is based on your previous statement which is not believable.
The food is only nutritious when its target food.
But how did the first species learn if no one was there to teach them, and how did they come to realize that the food chosen is also the best for them?
Prove that the foods animals eat are the best for them. I do not believe that is true. In fact the most nutritious foods can lead to the deaths of animals due to acidosis.
Ya but what your saying is that all the wiki pages are missing diet information. Prove it.
The wikipedia is an introductory text. to argue that the information does not appear in the wikiipedia is unfounded. This is an argument form called personal ignorance. It is a logical fallacy.
There is no proof that all wiki pages, or even a single one for that matter, is incomplete or failing to include the part that says a species deviates from the known diet. We always know what they eat.
Again, where is your evidence that this is correct? It is fairly obvious that you made this up. Another way of stating this is that you have constructed a fantasy that is not a part of reality.
Target food is not a construct of varied foods and food groups, its a concise diet that gives the consumer everything it needs probably in just a few foods.
Nothing is missing a fantasy.
Oh I see so the very first time was granted by some magical epiphany that told the species what to eat, what it looks like, what it smells like, and what it tasts like, and this of course locked in the choice to make sure that they would in fact be eating the right food for the correct nutrients. Only problem is who programmed the epiphany?
Who taught them the first time?
Their parents. Themselves.
Which is another fallacy of evolution. What is a new species suppose to eat once it emerges into the world. I have heard two things. The first is that it just eats what it used to before, which is a load of crap because what I eat looks nothing like what an anteater eats, or the new species just trys out new food untill it finds some that it likes. If this were true we would see species always trying new food. It would be noted and highlighted as the experimentation phase of a species but we have no such thing, and if you argue we do, I want to see where this is in writting, not from your opinion.
Usually such an argument is based on the close minded approach of the creationist that thinks there has to be a start to a process. In that start there is a lonely first individual. No. That is not reality. The evolving, i.e. adapting and changing, population adjusts to new challenges. So do the foods. They too adapt and change. There is no target food. There are changing foods out there and changing consumers.
Of course, they can't, but I'll be they keep it in the same food group trying to stay on target food.
Individuals in a population do not all eat the same foods. They can't when a species is spread across a wide distribution. An elephant in Namibia cannot be eating the same foods as an elephant in the Congo.
How is that for a reality check?
There is more proof that says we were brought here in biblical times according to the bible. Not that there wasn't allready some humans here, in addition to there being many varied species here.
Humans appear well after dinosaurs went extinct. Humans appear well after trilobites went extinct. So what? There are many hominid fossils showing the evolutionary past of modern humans.
The great flood may have been limited to locations that were only at certain altituides. In other words not all of the land was under water. Genesis is a classic alien abduction scenerio if you have any experience reading into these things. Your speculate that none of it happend. It was witnessed by many people. There wa
What we do know is that the stories from the bible are for the most part stories. No exodus. No genesis. No flood. None of that happened.
There were a lot of people that aided in the construction of the bible. People witnessed supernatural events that to this day are in high debate. IMO it was the whole reason the documented it, because it was so amazing.
What we do know is that the stories from the bible are for the most part stories. No exodus. No genesis. No flood. None of that happened.
All you can do is say that I'm repeating a falshood but you can't seem to tackle the explanation of why it is they all eat the same thing. Probably because I'm right.
Repeating a falsehood does not change it. It still is wrong. Your inference is also invalid as explained many many many times before.
I see so the other parts in the bible that also talk about aliens and different planets were just a coincidence as well I guess.
I have been following the thread and you have not posted that link before. I checked it out and you are clearly misrepresenting the blog. The sentence suggests that our home is with god. The sermon states that Earth is just a temporary place for our souls.
Hey target food inadvertantly proves evolution wrong, its not my fault.
You took this from "Sermons Preached at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC." Here is what the Presbyterian church has to say about evolution.
That is false, religion does not believe we evolved here on this planet, they believe we were placed here.
You quote from a church that accepts evolution as a valid scientific theory and this statement is dated 1969. That means that for over 50 years the Presbyterian church has supported evolution as a scientific theory not in conflict with the bible.
This is proof that you purposely and thoughtlessly have misrepresented the sermon you linked to.
If you don't believe in this, then you must believe that all animals have personal choice when it comes to food, so I must ask, why don't they choose? They all eat the same food, provided of course they are in the same element. Do only humans have personal choice?
Another fantasy with no supporting evidence.
Abalone eat seaweed and kelp, thats it.
Abalone eat a wide range of foods and their diet changes over the life time of the animal.
Abalone are normally found on rocks near food sources (kelp). An abalone iron is used to pry the abalone from the rock before it can fully clamp down.
But again your once again leaving the decision up to the individual, which means personal choice which means different choices, and we don't see that. They all eat a concise diet. Please prove that wrong.
Your not doing to bad your just epically failing at proving what the mechanism is that is choosing food, or how it knows what to choose, or how it knows what not to choose, or how they are all choosing it as a species.
The means has been explained many times beginning with morphological considerations to digestive considerations. Discussions have also lit upon the mobility of the animals.
Who said you have to have a creature...
You argument is based on arguing from incredulity and arguing from ignorance, two logical fallacies. In the case of evolution it is a process. Billions of species have existed. Probably true. But evolution isn't a creator. It is the change observed. The search for a mythical creator is not needed. Evolution is a process that produces a variety of lifeforms and the process does so without intelligence or guidance.
cre·a·tor/krēˈātər/Noun: 1.A person or thing that brings something into existence.
2.Used as a name for God.
Thats an unfair comparison. Humans have way more things that go wrong with them them by comparison. The order is not even in the same ball park. We have more sickness, more disease, more health problems period.
Tooth will simply write that he knows what food is best, and that what he perceives as "target food" would allow humans to live forever with no diseases. It's completely ridiculous and founded on zero logic.
It's like he's never seen a sick animal before. He thinks that if an animal eats only what he thinks it should eat, then it will never have a health problem
I didn't move them, you did. I had always meant random rocks, not specifically salt or minerals, its just another classic example of you evolutionitsts trying to move the goal posts.
You did move the goal posts after days and days of posting in which none of these arguments appeared until it sunk in that animals do eat rocks and animals do eat dirt. Now you want to pretend that you meant something else. No one here is accepting this baloney story of retelling the thread. You are at this point telling another lie instead of simply admitting a mistake.
I never saw them.
I produced links showing that the diet of deer and abalone and squirrels was larger than what was found in the wikipedia. To say that did not happen is another lie.
DNA is listed in that list of changes. Evolutionists have always maintained that DNA changes through evolution. Of course this means that our entire understanding of DNA used for forensics and paternity which is obviously no longer valid in the eyes of evolution.
You've proved nothing in this thread. You have lied for the third time in your post.
Evolution does not change genes. Evolution is the changes, not the cause or a force, or a creator, or any of the other numerous misrepresentations you have claimed. Read the first sentence from the wikipedia - your favorite resource.
I saw the chicks one and nothing supported your claims.
I've already posted a link to a peer reviewed article on snails. There are links to chicks already posted and abalone, and deer.
Experimentation has never been proven to be a standard part of any diet for any species, at any time.
This is the fourth lie in this post. The experimentation evidence has been produced numerous times.
True but you would have to be open minded to believe in such things.
You claimed to be open minded because you believe in something inane. That is not what being open minded means.
I have watched Pyes work for hours, his work is solid, and he is highly intelligent.
It is clear that you did not go back and check the thread. You also did not read the links on the first time. You are free to believe in a liar like Pye. It takes very little research to find out what a liar Pye is.
No but the sites do.
Google does not use tags.
Only if by meaningless you mean nothing specific.
In other words you used random with in a vague and meaningless way. Thanks.
Then you should have no problem in finding several diets that clearly indicate rocks to be a standard part of their diet, and I don't mean mineral licks.
The only 1 making this odd and seemingly pointless assertion is you. It has nothing to do with anything to date other than an invalid excuse to cover a mistake. You were and continue to be wrong that animals do not eat rocks. They do.
I see no links, no supporting evidence as you were asked to supply. Do that.
What by? Where is the evidence for your assumption?
Simple, if taste was the determining factor in food selection, there would be a varied acceptance, and there isn't.
I told you they PECK at anything until they learn what is and is not food.
What we really know is the complete opposite of your unfounded claim. A chick will peck at anything until it learns what is food and what is not food. There are countless examples of this that have been observed and documented.
Now thats a good observation, but is there anything that proves they actually eat everything they peck at, and then after trying it, make a decistion.
Nope, Nope, Nope. I asked for evidence as I have had a gut full of your opinion
What is this 'something' and show evidence that this something even exists.
Exactly, what is this something that seems to be sharing intelligent information with species that tells them what they are suppose to be eating.
Why would I explain your fallacy?
So you ignore the taste also tells the animal what is good and what is enjoyable to eat and you still have not explained why a section of the tongue recognises the taste of salt.
If you are correct, please explain how it is that humans have such a varied diet mostly on personal taste while animals seem to all agree on liking the same food?
At last well done. Now answer why the tongue has these regions
There is a section of the tounge that is better able to detect salt, a section that is better able to detect sour, and a section that is better able to detect sweets.
Do you actually read the posts you reply too???????????????????
So you admitt that somehow eyesight and smell must be the determining factor, especially since thats all thats left
What? what?
The only problem is that within that, you are still leaving the personal factor of choice in the equation, which is obviously a fail.
What poppycock. We see it every day. Please stop giving me your opinion as it is always wrong and more often than not completely wrong as above. Show your evidence.
We just don't see animals making personal choices about food, or if they are, they all just so happen to match within a species.
Oh please stop. Even in this you are wrong and my point was to illustrate proof is not supplied by what is obvious. The colouration in the water is the alga suspended in it. The water still has no colour.
Proof is not supplied by something being obvious. Pond water is obviously green. Research will show you that the water has no colour it is the algae that is green.
But if the algae is green, it in turn makes the water appear green. So your not seeing the water your seeing the algae, but its still green.
And I have asked for the million dollar answer your title claims you have. WHERE IS IT?
You cannot even supply the name of the 'something' that directs. Do that.
That is the million dollar question
And by default it is no less significant. So why it is acceptable for you to spend page after page writing fallacy's about calcium but you refuse to accept salt as a valid on topic subject?
It's not any more signigicant than calcium, water, or air either.
You are obviously wrong because I have posted evidence that supports my statement above.
See my post on the anteater. They are taught by their parents another common theme we share with ALL higher animals.
There is nothing, no proof to support the idea that all species do in fact do this.
Nope. I supplied supporting evidence it is you that is making the assumption they don’t based on your opinion that flies in the face of observable and well documented evidence.
You are assuming first off that all animals have a complex communication structure, your also assuming that all species have the ability to learn in complex ways, do you have something that proves this to be true?
You claimed we do not see this. A 2 sec search proves you wrong. Show your evidence that supports your latest claim.
If you were correct in your observation we would still see individuality in species, and we do not.
What like this shark? There are many examples you just will not look.
This link is an example of something being wrong with a species.
Nope. Only evidence is enough and the above is not that.
The fact that all species have a known diet that can't be explained, is proof enough.
We have already been through what you consider as being obvious does not constitute evidence.
The know exactly what they are looking for as the food also matched their needs. We rarely hear about animals dying from malnutrition, at least that its not common.
What do you base that on. Here is just one link that shows how wrong you are Wiki -Plains Zebra
Even with parental protection, up to 50% of zebra foals are taken by predation, disease, and starvation each year
They are obviously missing target food.
Again. Where is the evidence that supports your claim? All I see is more wrong opinion.
As your link indicates there are examples of the parents teaching the young how to eat. This is a form of adaptation which means that instinct has failed either due to extinctions or being moved out of the element.
Nope. My link shows that parents teach their young what to and what not to eat. The rest of your reply is based on nothing but your preconceived opinion and as usual you have nothing to support that opinion.
Well sure I do, the absence of your claims from any diet I have found.
Who created your creator?
That is not what has been observed and documented many times with countless species so unless you have any supporting evidence your answer is again based solely on your predetermined opinion and is therefore not acceptable
Who taught them the first time?
WHOOPEE!! Yep the individuals decide what it likes to eat through teaching by its parents, availability and experimentation
Oh dear oh dear. The detectors are sight, smell and in some instances sound. Animals searching for food is probably the number one documented habit so how you can write the above is beyond me.
Which all results in the the species coming to a final conclusion of what it likes to eat.
Anteaters spend a lot of time teaching their young how to live off this specialized diet.
The youngster gradually learns the techniques for finding nests, tearing them open, sucking the ants and larvae from inside, withdrawing once defensive soldiers appear, and maintaining a map of feeding sites that it has visited.
Finally, anteaters have a very low metabolism compared to other mammals of their size, an adaptation thought to help them survive on a nearly pure diet of ants and termites, which provide a regular but not rich source of calories.
It doesn't matter, if decision was left up to the individual, there would be individual choices, and there is not. They all eat the same diet. Explain that.
These can also be signs of desperation where the species is picking up anything to satisfy hunger. It can also be that their natural enviroment had a way of making sure that food was always above where they pooped. You have to take into account that they may not be in their enviroment.
The observations of diets have proven that they always eat the same things.
It doesn't matter, the final choice was determined prior to the species locating the food. You see there is no way they could all like the exact same food, so therefore the choice is not being left up to them.
If you were correct that little section in articles about species called diet wouldn't exist.
Again if you change the enviroment of course the diet will technically change, but the species will try to keep the same diet by staying in the same food group.
Except that if individuals in a species are all eating the same food, they are either programmed through intelligence which your denying or they have some method to communicate in a very technical way.
I know thats what everyone is saying, its just that no one is coughing up any proof.
Either way, I found no proof they eat their own poop, so it looks like the logical fallacy is upon you.
Do all humans eat the exact same food?
The food is only nutritious when its target food.
Ya but what your saying is that all the wiki pages are missing diet information. Prove it.
This is where everything has just bit you in the rump. Everyone else is wrong and you are right, and there is no way for you to prove that.
There is no proof that all wiki pages, or even a single one for that matter, is incomplete or failing to include the part that says a species deviates from the known diet. We always know what they eat.
Target food is not a construct of varied foods and food groups, its a concise diet that gives the consumer everything it needs probably in just a few foods.
tooth. You cannot have looked very hard as there is even a word for it. Coprophagia
Originally posted by stereologist
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Either way, I found no proof they eat their own poop, so it looks like the logical fallacy is upon you.
This is a logical fallacy called arguing from personal ignorance.
Not 1 piece of evidence has been offered to support target foods.
Mods please close this thread as it is a willful hoax.
So as you can see you are very wrong again.
Coprophagia /kɒp.rə.ˈfeɪ.dʒi.ə/[1] or coprophagy is the consumption of feces, from the Greek κόπρος copros, "feces" and φαγεῖν phagein, "to eat". Many animal species practice coprophagia as a matter of course; other species do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions.
Note it says they need to eat the feces of the mother or other animals to be able to obtain any nutritional value from plants. What is the diet listed for them? you got it, plants.
Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers or other animals in the herd to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation found on the savanna and in the jungle.[4] When they are born, their intestines do not contain these bacteria (they are completely sterile). Without them, they would be unable to obtain any nutritional value from plants.
Which is another fallacy of evolution. What is a new species suppose to eat once it emerges into the world. I have heard two things. The first is that it just eats what it used to before, which is a load of crap because what I eat looks nothing like what an anteater eats, or the new species just trys out new food untill it finds some that it likes. If this were true we would see species always trying new food. It would be noted and highlighted as the experimentation phase of a species but we have no such thing, and if you argue we do, I want to see where this is in writting, not from your opinion.
Of course, they can't, but I'll be they keep it in the same food group trying to stay on target food.
There is more proof that says we were brought here in biblical times according to the bible. Not that there wasn't allready some humans here, in addition to there being many varied species here.
The great flood may have been limited to locations that were only at certain altituides. In other words not all of the land was under water. Genesis is a classic alien abduction scenerio if you have any experience reading into these things. Your speculate that none of it happend. It was witnessed by many people.
There were a lot of people that aided in the construction of the bible. People witnessed supernatural events that to this day are in high debate. IMO it was the whole reason the documented it, because it was so amazing.
All you can do is say that I'm repeating a falshood but you can't seem to tackle the explanation of why it is they all eat the same thing. Probably because I'm right.
I see so the other parts in the bible that also talk about aliens and different planets were just a coincidence as well I guess.
Hey target food inadvertantly proves evolution wrong, its not my fault.
That is false, religion does not believe we evolved here on this planet, they believe we were placed here.
If you don't believe in this, then you must believe that all animals have personal choice when it comes to food, so I must ask, why don't they choose? They all eat the same food, provided of course they are in the same element. Do only humans have personal choice?
Abalone eat seaweed and kelp, thats it.
I'm sorry but I was unable to find anything that indicated that abalone have diets that change over a lifespan of the animal, I was also unable to find anything that indicated they eat a wide range of things.
Your really looking like the person that any scientist needs to know about diet because you seem to have the inside scoop on every species we have talked about so far.
But again your once again leaving the decision up to the individual, which means personal choice which means different choices, and we don't see that. They all eat a concise diet. Please prove that wrong.
As you can see, evolution qualifies as being a thing. No god is needed. Evolution creates new species, therefore it is by all definition, a creator.
Thats an unfair comparison. Humans have way more things that go wrong with them them by comparison. The order is not even in the same ball park. We have more sickness, more disease, more health problems period.