Mikeyboy

THere are these weird yet pretty funny things called fainting goats http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17316&highlight=fainting+goats and they might just hold the awnswer... They apprently have developed a totally useless, and if they were wild, fairly fatal ability to fall over whenever something exciting happens. Perhaps this is evidence of to contradict that great anti-evolutionary angle of there never being anything in nature half completed. It could be just that intermediary step that nature takes before the next step that might make something useful and change the species for the better. If your parents don't go with it, at least they'll have a good laugh.

I think there might be more to the good old fainting goats than just a bit of a laugh.... Perveyors of Intelligent Design and other Darwin critics often point to the fairly tricky and not well answered issue of nothing really being half complete (eyes are useless until they're finished etc..) Perhaps with the goats we are seeing an evolutional trait that wouldn't last 10 minutes in the wild but is adapted to their domesticity and even survival on account of a clear and growing breeding market due to their cuteness. Perhaps this is an example of something that doesn't work on its own but is useful or non-threatening enough to move a species on a step before the next mutation which might be a bit more effective. This is my first post so please be gentle....