John-Paul, that’s a good question. It also makes me wonder why biting your tongue or the inside of your cheek creates a minor injury that seems to take about half a lifetime to heal.

I read “if evolution were real” as a subjunctive statement leading to a flight of fantasy. I haven’t met you, Ian, face to face but I have this notion that you are capable of flights of fancy.

Of course if one is serious, then we have to ask “how hard can the biting be?” and “what does the biting do to us mentally and physically?” Romantically it might seem that bringing blood might correspond with bringing new life. Realistically I suspect getting there first with the most is the key.

Biting our own lips
brings blood, a self sacrifice
to spur future life.

Another haiku for the ages there. If I evolved I might write longer poems.

Robert

The second part of this was “Besides, God told me Darwin isn’t real,” but I’m trying to make my Random Thought posts as short as possible; essentially, they”ll be like Twitter but without the lag or the extra effort on my part

First, is biting your own lips a genetic trait or a learned behavior? I’m really not sure it can be attributed to genes alone.

Second, if biting your lips is genetic, then we have to examine how it affects mating, survival and fertility and whether or not it is linked to other genetic traits that may in some way inhibit ones ability to reproduce and pass on genetic material.

If it does not, then evolution never even comes into play, no?

Or are we attributing “purpose” or “direction” to evolution as a joke poking fan at anti-evolutionist activism and I just missed the punchline?

I didn’t remember ever hearing the expression “biting our own lips” so I Googled it. Google already had this post but only three other pages with that exact expression. One was a very fascinating poem titled “Savour.”

Evolution is a theory.
Living our own life is a theory perhaps
but we don’t get to test any alternatives.

Robert