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hey yall, i am gonna be visiting Maui in December and I gotta try as many exotic and rare fruits as I can, one of the last chances I’ll have to do so for a while. I’ve done some research and seen places like ’Oko’a Farms, Upcountry Farmers Market, and Rowenas Produce consistently mentioned as great spots to find fruits. are there any other places that are specifically great for rare ones? some long shots that I’m in search of (if possible) are gac, pitanga, black sapote, and really anything you won’t easily find elsewhere. If anybody has some advice on this topic please share. Thanks!

The story of Noah's Ark already has faced a ton of criticism for very valid reasons like space constraints, compatibility with modern science, but I think that the pure genetic diversity observed today is the strongest reason to question the reality of this event. My main, specific example for this will be the Human Leukocyte Antigen system.

For those unaware, the HLA system is a core set of genes in the human immune system that code for proteins differentiating between self cells and harmful cells. It contains the most polymorphic genes in the entire human DNA code, with over 44,000 alleles found across several genes. The largest database possessed by any single gene in this system is the HLA Class I, B gene, with exactly 11,110 known alleles. HLA-B is the main reference point I'll use for this because it's the best example, but note that the same argument works for basically any polymorphic gene, ever.

Now, this is where Noah's Ark runs into a few problems. We verifiably know there are over 11,000 alleles today, and the Bible claims that there was a population bottleneck of 8 human individuals (8 humans on Noah's Ark) at MOST a few thousand years ago. Each individual can hold two alleles for this gene, one inherited from each parent, so at most, this created an allelic bottleneck for the HLA-B gene of 16 alleles. This creates a severe constraint that must be explained by any recent bottleneck model.

The most obvious reason why is that, simply, it is orders of magnitude outside what is considered physically possible for 11,000 alleles to evolve from 16 in just a few thousand years. Evolution just does not happen that fast, and it has never gotten even close. For anyone with a basic understanding of just what evolution is, this is obvious. So I hope I don't have to elaborate.

It does get deeper, though. Phylogenetic tree analyses, trans-species polymorphism studies, coalescent time modeling, and the study of balancing selection signatures all reach the conclusion that the origin of HLA alleles are ancient lineages that coalesced over millions of years throughout large populations. If the remaining 11,094 alleles somehow miraculously appeared after The Biblical Flood, these patterns would be nonexistent. This fact also defeats the ostentatious counterargument I've often heard, which is that "God designed the human genome to rapidly evolve after the flood to reach modern-day genetic diversity." Not only does this go against everything mentioned above, it is unsupported post-hoc rationalization that has no biblical, genealogical, or paleontological support.

While HLA-B on humans is just one specific example, in many immune and self-recognition systems across plants and animals, we observe similarly deep and structured polymorphism. Humans are just the most documented and intricately studied species on Earth. The other HLA genes with thousands of alleles are also clearly contradictory to Noah's Ark, as well as every other polymorphic gene in humans, as well as across all other species in existence. Other examples (though not as thoroughly studied) are MHC genes in teleosts (fish), SI genes in flowering plants, and MHC genes in chickens.

So yeah, overall, modern genetic diversity and every single fact pertaining to the evolutionary lineages of these genes are completely incompatible with the story of Noah's Ark.

so this is one of my favorite Godspeeds songs, and it’s very very underrated as well. but I feel that what it’s really trying to convey is a bit more powerful and clearer than other songs, and from what I’ve construed, it’s that of a bombing.

the first section starts out suspenseful, minimalistic, and gradually grows into a climactic, dramatic, and triumphant ballad of war. I personally think this represents the perspective of the attacking country, a short, nationalistic anthem of being proud of your country’s war crimes. The buildup is what id imagine encapsulates a Bomber pilot’s mind racing as he looks back on the disgusting act he just made with pride.

Then, it slows back down to the perspective of the other side. The middle is very slow and uneasy, I think representing the conditions in the attacked region before the bomb is dropped. Tensions rise, planes fly overhead, and a sense of impending doom encapsulates it all. This continues till the bombs are dropped, till the destruction spreads in the climax of the latter half.

I believe the drums exploding into this section is the exact moment the planes fly in and the bombs start to fall, everything crumbling into devastation as innocents are reduced to ash and buildings are leveled.

The last few minutes are slower, and more representative to the state of the area after the bombing, everything totally destroyed and hopeless and desolate. The piece is devoid of life as it finally fades out of existence.

So yeah, tazer floyd paints a picture of two sides of a bombing. I also believe that the first part is much shorter than the second to really signify the bleak obliviousness in the people of the attacking country, not in the slightest aware of what is really going on. But that’s my interpretation