There are approximately two billion mothers in the world. How many of those mothers would be thrilled to hear a doctor say, "Mrs._____, your child has a mutation."? To help you with your answer - how many pregnant women are saying, "I hope my child has a mutation."? The answer to both of these questions would be zero. How could two billions moms be wrong?
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"There are approximately two billion mothers in the world. How many of those mothers would be thrilled to hear a doctor say, "Mrs._____, your child has a mutation."?"
You , and every other human on the planet, carry ~150 mutations. How's that strike ya?
By the way, if you have any color eyes but brown, you're a *gasp* mutant!
"To help you with your answer - how many pregnant women are saying, "I hope my child has a mutation."?"
Depends entirely on what the mutation happens to be, now doesn't it?
"The answer to both of these questions would be zero."
I don't see why unless she had no fucking clue what a mutation is, much like yourself.
"How could two billions moms be wrong?"
Argumentum ad Populum is a fallacy no matter if it's 2 people or 2 billion people being polled.
Ad Populum, Appeal to negative consequences, Non sequitor (sp?)
4 sentences with 3 logical fallacies. Impressive.
If that mutation meant that he could turn invisible, read/control minds, or manipulate the Earth's magnetic field, I'd say that would be pretty awesome.
Hey, my mom didn't ask for a son with 11 fingers, but she got it. If you think evolution and mutation is a conscious thing, you fail hard.
Every single baby ever born has at least one mutation, you moron. No one is a perfect 50/50 copy of their parents DNA.
Get off the internet and never come back.
They wouldn't be too thrilled to hear their child died either.
Therefore no infant has ever died.
How could two billion moms be wrong?
How many of those mothers would be thrilled to hear a doctor say, "Mrs._____, your child has a mutation."
Mrs. ______'s child, and the rest of us, almost certainly have some sort of mutation - probably several. The probability that the egg and sperm DNA are exact copies of their parents is actually not that high.
I have an awesome mutation: I can smell bullshit through the Internet!
And it's getting pretty stinky in here, Theophilus...
The mutations which we do detect are usually bad. The good ones go "unseen".
Like my most powerful mutation. The ability to resist tuberculosis. I can walk through a TB ward with no ill effect. (though the common cold will make me whine like a five year old).
The ones that do cause shennanigans are easily seen.
Wait, what? This doesn't even make sense, when you take on the fact that no baby, genetically speaking, is a perfect half-half copy of it's parents.
Greetings from a mutant to a mutant. Yes, we are all mutants here, at Mutants Anonymous, 6 billion strong. Mutations only create superheroes or villains that want to take over the world in comic books and movies. Stop getting your "facts" from these sources.
How can sixty million american voters be wrong?
Quite easily, as witness 2000's election result and the effects thereof.
I'm sorry, is this an anti-evolution argument or a pro-abortion one? Either way it's poorly argued, we all have mutations. I have the one for short-sightedness, which is a pain, but also the one for no first molars, so I had no impaction when my wisdom teeth came (all the back teeth slid one place forwards). I also have double-jointed thumbs which are neither good nor bad. Oh and I'm white.
Erm, what? Mutations don't exist because mothers wouldn't like them? I guess SIDS doesn't exist either, then.
We ALL have mutations, stupid, but most mutations are so small we don't notice them.
Depends on the mutation, if my kid has a double copy of an anti-myles Statton Mutation I'd be thrilled. If my kid has a mutation making them particularly susceptible to certain diseases, then less thrilled.
Yes, Yes, the general reaction to mutation is different or deformed even.
Many mutations aren't even seen until teen years or adulthood and under close medical examinations, like extra pair of ribs, third set of teeth, only the first set of teeth, these are, by definition, mutations. Some of them do nothing that impeeds normal biology and slight advantages can be noticed.
It doesn't matter to the occurance of mutations or the problems related, Mom may not like it but she'll do what Moms do, love them regardless.
What happens in your happy Christian world when one of your congregation gives birth to a Mongoloid, hairlipped or albino? Do you shun them, cast them out or embrace them as God's special people?
Every one of us has around 150 mutations, idiot. I have no toenails on my big toes, that's a mutation. But, like most mutations, it's an entirely harmless one.
Also, nature doesn't give a fuck whether mothers would like their offspring to have a mutation or not.
If I was a parent and I heard that my child had a mutation, you know what would be the first thing I would say?
"F*ck yeah, here we come, X-Men!"
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