"Intelligent design" is being used as camouflage by some religious folk - trying to pass off teaching belief in God/religion as science. There are many things in this world that help me to believe in a higher power- but my belief, etc. couldn't be further from being rooted in scientific theory. Whatever. So many awe inspiring, incomprehensible things in this universe- the main being the "universe" itself. Another small- or large amazing thing is a cuttlefish. I saw it for first time last Thursday on NOVA- I still can't believe this thing. I wondered why I'd never heard of it- and actually dreamt that night about wondering why I'd never heard of it. Next day, oddly, turns out Friday's Illfri topic is "camouflage". Here are the kings & queens of
camouflageHere's a sketch of another unbelievable thing- the helicodiceros muscivorus (dead horse arum lily)
Can you spot "false" for the "true"?:
1. They smell and look like rotting animal flesh [dead horse]. They even have little hairs all over. Their stink related chemicals were tested, and determined to be exact same found in rotting animals.
2. Their smell attracts flies- who are trapped by plant, get pollen all over - and then are released so they can pollenate other d.h. arums.
3. These plants are thermogenic= they produce their own heat. They auto-produce more heat than any known living thing is capable of. Heat helps get their stink in the air.
4. They have two eyes that are connected to a visual cortex like structure found in their root system.
