A Heartfelt question on biological development...

...or a big, fat set-up.

What the deuce is going on now?

As you may have seen, Ray ' Not-a-science-degree-guy' Comfort posted a series of infantile questions about which came first; blood or the heart. He has asked this before and, quite unsurprisingly, didn't pay attention to the answers or research it for himself. Now he's at it again.

He received, for his troubles, a series of answers ranging from the best, modern scientific understandings of circulatory development:

" Steven J. said...

As I understand it, blood came first, then blood vessels, then the heart..."

...and...

" Irukandji said...

Ray, I hate to break it to you, but someone has to: this isn't a head-scratching, hair-tearing, brain-breaking conundrum capable of moving grown evolutionary biologists to tears; it's freshman level biology..."

... to some healthy skepticism of Ray's motives...

" Froggie said...

Ray,

That is a very common tactic of fundies all over the web.
Ask a series of questions that would take two years of formal study to answer. And you expect to answer it in a blog comment.

Get real, Ray."

... along with the predictably dumb responses from his ardent followers...

" Wayne Dawg said...

Ray - Great questions......but the evolutionist have never explained whether the chicken or the egg came first, so why would you confuse them with hearts and blood?"

Now he's back with a new post that highlights some responses, seemingly at random, from the post. It's not even as if he's quote-mined people to make it seem like the development of blood vessels etc, is a far fetched concept; he has people telling him to go speak to a biologist or saying that it is too complicated to simplify in a blog post, it makes no sense.

The questions then, are; What purpose does this serve? What is his next move? Why should we care? Who will be the first to say 'Great Post Ray!'? Call it if you can...

Points will be awarded for accuracy and graded on the Prophecy Scale:

0 - 3 points - Biblical
4 - 7 points - Pat Robertson
8 - 10 points - Nostradamus
11 - 13 points - Mystic Meg
14 - 16 points - Dani'El
17 + points - if you're that good, you shouldn't have ruined it for everyone else.

Have fun!


Matt

EDIT TO ADD:

Ray has now included the correct answer to his many questions on developmental biology and the synergistic nature of the circulatory system in living organisms:

"The only answer to these questions is that Almighty God supernaturally made the human body (and every other creature) with a heart, lungs (needed for oxygenated blood), kidneys (to get rid of bad blood) vessels, arteries, blood, skin (to hold it all in), etc., all at once. Unthinkable for an atheist, but true. "

Translation:

"Magicmandunnit"

Did you expect any less?