I stumbled upon this article about the strange creature above. The author writes,

As some readers of the Times may notice, this mole article appears in the science section a day after an op-ed column appeared in the editorial section promoting Intelligent Design. Michael Behe, a Lehigh University biologist, claims that evolutionary biologists have not offered hypotheses for how complex things evolve in nature. Given this supposed lack of explanations, and given the supposedly obvious signs of design in biology, Behe concludes that life must be the product of an Intelligent Designer.

Behe is incorrect. In fact, evolutionary biologists have put together hypotheses for many complex systems, which they have published in leading peer-reviewed biology journals.

And what is the explanation for the above mole’s complex and bizarre nose?

“The star, Catania argues, evolved on a coast-mole-like ancestor. The swellings became larger, the nerves became denser, and the brain dedicated more space to processing the star’s signals.”

Don’t you see? That is a hypothesis for complex systems!! They “became larger” and “became denser”.

This is how complex organs and systems in nature evolved: “Just So“.

These commercials are awesome. The one with the two ladies in the supermarket is especially funny.

The laptop guy did not get in touch with me yesterday afternoon.

UPDATE: 11:12am The guy called me, and said that he spoke with Sony, and things are in the process of being taken care of. He said he will contact me again when he gets more info, like where to ship the laptop I have now, etc.

Also, he said that I would be involved in the configuration of the new system when they get around to ordering that. I asked if it had to be from Sony, and, unfortunately, it does. Just for kicks, the other day I configured a Dell for $1500 and it was so much more computer. But… beggars can’t be choosers.