en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1259957 Comments by Good Wolf http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110390878 If they're supernatural then they have no need for eyes - clearly they must be able to see through some other way (ie. astral-projection or something along those lines). I can think of a much simpler explanation than all those ideas. Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:41 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110390878 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110295832 If we're too genetically incompatible to breed with chimps, we're too incompatible to breed with goat, let alone lizards. If two animals can reproduce, they must, by definition, be the same species. Mutations are cumulative, once a population diverges into two and those two cant cross breed any more they're forever too genetically distant for an embryo to be viable. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:29:03 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110295832 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110295128 Well I was being conservative in working just on the assumption of aliens having DNA. You're right. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:23:48 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110295128 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110294799 He didn't. those are the words of a quoted ARTICLE! Goodness, can't people read any more? Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:21:05 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110294799 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110280870 Putting some human DNA and some ET DNA under the microscope isn't hybridisation, it's genetic engineering - and I'm guessing here but if they could do genetic engineering to that degree, there'd be no point even sourcing human DNA. They'd have data banks with genetic instructions on how to code for specific things. Further problems is that they mightn't have the same DNA structure as us, which come to think of it sounds more likely. Double Helix? Current abiogenesis theory seems to reckon it started with short strands of RNA - maybe that's still their genetic medium - maybe singular or triple helix instead. If you assume technologies to allow for this, the use of humans becomes needless. We weren't put here millions of years ago, since our ancestors go back further as you can tell by comparative genetics. And I seriously doubt (its laughable) that we'd still be able to cross breed after millions of years of normal evolution even if we were put here. Given enough assumptions, OK it's not impossible. But getting back to my original point, the idea of any monster (maybe doubly so since these things so often seem feral) being an alien human-hybrid is just beyond-words stupid. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:32:07 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110280870 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110245359 You would realistically have to have an infinite universe with an infinite number of galaxies before you could expect just one extraterrestrial that could breed with humans. But that's the tricky thing about infinity. You take the probability of anything specific happening and multiply it by infinity and you get infinity. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:21:41 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110245359 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110244247 Sound is just vibrating air. Inside a mouth, we make it by vibrating sections of our throat. Stands to reason if you could vibrate any body part with great enough amplitude and frequency, you could make sound. It would be like an inbuilt speaker. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:12:55 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110244247 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110238813 Pretty sure if they meant reflective eyes (like a cats - which aren't hard to tell aren't actually glowing since when they move, they either become drastically more or less bright) they would say something to distinguish. Even "Reflective" would suffice. Then when the depictions are made, they go unchallenged. And I can say this about alien DNA in absolute confidence: If it evolves by a darwinistic mechanism, there's exactly zero percent human cells, whether grafted directly or in reproduction, would be compatible to make a hybrid with an alien. The odds against it are incredible, astronomical, cosmological - so great that if I endeavoured to write it down, there wouldn't be room enough in the known universe for that piece of paper. I don't have to know anything about alien DNA to know there's no reason to think human-alien hybrids are possible. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:24:24 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110238813 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110231724 Can I just point one thing out right now about all these silly crptids? Glowing eyes. Imagine how difficult to see it would be if your eyes glowed. Your eyes are their to collect light, and a glowing light collector is going to be no use to anyone. The only way it makes sense is if someone who perceives a monster with glowing eyes is looking at an animal with reflective corneas. The notion of an alien-human hybrid is even more nonsensical. You couldn't breed a human and an alien together because, assuming the aliens have DNA, in no way will it be like earth-DNA, let alone ours. "You'd have more luck mating a human with a petunia." Nor could you graft a human and alien together since the microbiology can only be just as different, the cells would not get on well. If these things weren't so ridiculous, they'd be scary no matter how frightening a tale the 12 year old eyewitness weaves. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:19:13 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/11/17/10-more-terrifying-and-mysterious-creatures#IDComment110231724 http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/11/christian-apologist-takes-on-atheist-ad.html#IDComment109696650 "Christians should use this as an opportunity to share the Gospel and address the point that good and evil are meaningless if God does not exist." Whether you believe in god or not, good and evil is at most a subjective concept. One would ask god what his basis is for deciding what is moral and what is not. Is god's actions good because he is god or does god simply do what is good? Either way it leads logically to assuming an even higher basis for right and wrong. And infinite regress. However, as a social species, we're inbuilt with the same set of moral guidelines as any other social species; one that generally says sharing resources with the less fortunate is good, and wrongdoers should be punished or refused privileges. Monkeys and other apes manage to show compassion to one another without the need of a book of moral instruction, as do we which is why any bright 4 year old has a better moral understanding than the 10 commandments could ever give. Any thinking person can understand what right and wrong is. "Is it not Humanist thinking that gave us abortion on demand?" That would be medicine. The reason for this is that more than half of all pregnancies will naturally spontaneously abort on the mother leading to miscarriage which, if not dealt with quickly, can be very harmful to a woman's body. It's humanist philosophy to teach the correct use of condoms to avoid the need of unnecessary abortion in the first place. It'd humanist philosophy to adopt a child that already needs a home before reproducing your own and ignoring the plight of homeless and loveless children. Besides god doesn't seem to bothered by abortion considered that, as mentioned before, most are of the spontaneous nature (over half of pregnancies) and therefore by his hand. Add to this his willingness to beset a she-bear upon children for teasing a prophet, he hardly strikes one as the most pro-child, or even pro-life guy around. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:25:35 +0000 http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/11/christian-apologist-takes-on-atheist-ad.html#IDComment109696650 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment105171273 being honest. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:59:42 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment105171273 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104924673 there are zero EYE witness records. You can tell that by the plagiarism across the gospels. One story got copied and altered. I called shenanigans when I noticed the contradictions. I'm an atheist, I don't determine that anyone goes to hell. But I know enough to know that if god were the judge of us all, he couldn't send people to hell AND be a just or good being. "overwhelming LEGIT evidence" LULZ They call it "faith" for a reason. There is no choice, since no one offers it to us. People like yourself only pretend that an invisible and silent being talks to us through a book of indeterminable factuality. That's no basis to make an informed decision, let alone one people ought think makes any sense either way. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:16:31 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104924673 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104507060 oh really. well I rescind the comment then. I just notice you're the author of the lists that typically annoy me. Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:53:20 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104507060 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104413317 My point is that the bible's Adam and Eve aren't just the common ancestors of humans but the first humans. In the grand scope, Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve are our most recent common ancestors, but all of their ancestors are our common ancestors too so those two recent ones aren't that important. Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:28:55 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104413317 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104412300 Hated that movie. Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:23:16 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104412300 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104411604 Harshly?! Goodness me, wouldn't want to hold someone to high standards! I might upset them. n____n I haven't actually even criticised you on this list - there's nothing particularly wrong with it (you're a lot less biased that you have been this time), I just wondered if bible/christianity themes were all you were capable of authoring lists on. But despite being told my criticism isn't worth anything because it's negative, you're still taking time to complain to me about my comments? Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:17:12 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104411604 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104409457 I don't think he was really all that different from those south american gods at all. You look at ancient judaistic beliefs and, even in the old testament, they were a pretty blood thirsty people. Animal sacrifices, scapegoating, etc. Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:07:39 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104409457 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104331088 Yea, I certainly wouldn't let my kids anywhere near it. It should have a hard R rating. Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:44:23 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/15/top-10-fieriest-books-in-the-bible#IDComment104331088 http://listverse.com/2010/10/16/top-10-worst-man-eaters-in-history#IDComment104319282 Fantastic list. I'm loving this Kesagake bear. Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:10:43 +0000 http://listverse.com/2010/10/16/top-10-worst-man-eaters-in-history#IDComment104319282