Vaccinium sp.

Posted 22 November 2012 by Matt Young

21 Comments

Karen S. · 22 November 2012

Yummy! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Henry J · 22 November 2012

Saucy little things, aren't they?

ksplawn · 23 November 2012

You know how they harvest cranberries, right?
Better check the vineyards to see if the soil replicates the geological column in miniature.

KlausH · 23 November 2012

What came first, cranberries. blueberries, or a different common ancestor?

Sinjari · 23 November 2012

KlausH said: What came first, cranberries. blueberries, or a different common ancestor?

If cranberries evolved from blueberries, how come there are still blueberries? (or vice versa) Checkmate, evilutionists.

stevaroni · 23 November 2012

Sinjari said: If cranberries evolved from blueberries, how come there are still blueberries? (or vice versa) Checkmate, evilutionists.

I always reply "If Americans came from Europeans, then why are there still Europeans?"

Sinjari · 23 November 2012

stevaroni said:
Sinjari said: If cranberries evolved from blueberries, how come there are still blueberries? (or vice versa) Checkmate, evilutionists.
I always reply "If Americans came from Europeans, then why are there still Europeans?"

That's the most common version I've heard. I'm Canadian, so I'm particular to, "If bacon comes from pigs, why are there still pigs?" It's not a perfect analogy, but those making the original argument are usually too slow to notice anyway :-)

Henry J · 23 November 2012

Without pigs, there would be no way to bring home the bacon!

Karen S. · 24 November 2012

Were cranberries on the ark?

Henry J · 24 November 2012

Were cranberries on the ark?

Of course! They'd need them for when they eat the turkeys on Thanksgiving. (Isn't that in the KJV?)

Karen S. · 24 November 2012

Of course! They’d need them for when they eat the turkeys on Thanksgiving. (Isn’t that in the KJV?)

Well then, I hope they had plenty of sugar with them.

Kevin B · 24 November 2012

Karen S. said: Were cranberries on the ark?

Of course. They go perfectly with roast dinosaur.

stevaroni · 24 November 2012

Kevin B said: Of course. They go perfectly with roast dinosaur.

A timely observation, especially seeing as how, here in the States, we just had National Dinosaur Dissection Day.

Sinjari · 24 November 2012

Kevin B said:
Karen S. said: Were cranberries on the ark?
Of course. They go perfectly with roast dinosaur.

I've heard Deinonychus makes FANTASTIC stuffing.

Matt Young · 24 November 2012

Well then, I hope they had plenty of sugar with them.

Cranberries were sweet before the Fall -- all they had to do was dry them. And get to them before the T. rex did.

apokryltaros · 24 November 2012

Matt Young said:
Well then, I hope they had plenty of sugar with them.
Cranberries were sweet before the Fall -- all they had to do was dry them. And get to them before the T. rex did.

I thought tyrannosaurids only preyed on coconuts before the Fall, as Ken Ham alleged God having said so.

Karen S. · 25 November 2012

Cranberries were sweet before the Fall

Then why was sugar still sweet after the fall?

Henry J · 25 November 2012

Maybe the sugar didn't fall quite as far as the cranberries?

Dave Thomas · 25 November 2012

My version of "Why are there still Monkeys":

http://www.nmsr.org/torte.JPG

Dave

stevaroni · 26 November 2012

apokryltaros said: I thought tyrannosaurids only preyed on coconuts before the Fall, as Ken Ham alleged God having said so.

This is true. But little known is the fact that the coconuts back then stood 10 feet tall and had spiked tails and teeth the size of steak knives. Strange place, the Garden...

TomS · 28 November 2012

How come there are still monkeys? at RationalWiki.