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¿Question #546?
EndersGame: Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if Charles Darwin had evolved into a goldfish before the age of 50, with special attention to its probable effect on the English Parliamentary System. Prove your thesis.

dbriel: Bacon.
Woelf: [This answer currently on loan to the Smithsonian Institution.]
Narl: Blub blub blub, oh my god we drowned. No effect on EPS. Evidence is prominent.
Hendal: So you lost at Heroscape and thought you would feel better asking this crazy long question? How did that work out for you
Brentoon: Questions I don't know how to answer so I spit out the first thing in mind: I sure think about poop. Should I get a therapist?
Polgara: that sound
Darilian: Fnord
scriptorum: It is with profound regret that I proffer this unsatisfying and trite reponse to your detailed essay instructions: This is not a question.
waza: No
foxxdye: We would all drive giant sphere vehicles. The proof is in the numbers.
DHEK: Someone else would have come up with the theory of evolution. You can't hide the truth forever. I don't think the English parliamentary system will be affected.
Benzebub: Um, no.
vampywife: ...right...
POvidiusNaso: We'd be in less of an anti-evolutionary backlash right now, still embracing its brilliance.
kuchick: eh. He wasn't the only one to develop ideas like 'Origin of Species'; Wallace springs to mind. I say little to no effect.
aleo09: sure read on
mpw182: beans
diehard4life: If Darwin had evolved into a goldfish before the age of 50. One might say that there would be a legitimate belief that all things can make a dramatic change for the better, even Parliment.
Skeletor: you mean we evolve that fast? sweetness, i hope i turn into a spider monkey!
prolifekilledmywife: Let me know if anyone actually answers this.
jellospike: Yeah.
themightyhump: Ha! That's a trick question! Evolution is not something that can occur spontaneously or even over the course of someone's lifetime. Now, if Charles Darwin had MORPHED into a goldfish before the age of 50, then that would have had everlasting dramatic effects on the English Parliamentary System, which I could provide to you in great detail. But since you didn't ask that question, I won't answer it.
Bearcat89: Evolution is a farce...NEXT!
BeatPosse: Akron, Ohio.
Datek: Darwin was God. He just didn't have a good marketing team. Eh, better luck next time Darwy.
Tushratta: 27.
verandi: lol
RyanMC: For someone with such a cool nick, your questions suck
Igloo cool: Deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined this Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics; revisionist studies in the history and philosophy of science have cast further doubt on its credibility; and, most recently, feminist and poststructuralist critiques have demystified the substantive content of mainstream Western scientific practice, revealing the ideology of domination concealed behind the façade of ‘objectivity’. It has thus become increasingly apparent that physical ‘reality’, no less than social ‘reality’, is at bottom a social and linguistic construct; that scientific ‘knowledge’, far from being objective, reflects and encodes the dominant ideologies and power relations of the culture that produced it; that the truth claims of science are inherently theory-laden and self-referential; and consequently, that the discourse of the scientific community, for all its undeniable value, cannot assert a privileged epistemological status with respect to counter-hegemonic narratives emanating from dissident or marginalized communities.
thugbert: this question makes even less sense than it does cents.
Legend Dan: There is nothing smartassy enough for me to say here.
CharlieWonka: We'd feed him to the cat having little effect on the English Parliamentary system. Proof - ask the cat he says yummy
Lord_Prussian: Wow, that's a lot for one GQ&A.
skrutsch: Next.
MisterCranky: Gyaaaah! Mongo leaving.
melissa: blub. blub. blub.
Jern: Bullshit
erli: Are you on crack? Next question!
puffinge: Can't we just play a game?
rootbeer: Goldfish crackers would have been a lot more popular. Or maybe less popular. Certainly, English Parliament would ensure that their popularity either rose or fell.
2amp: ahh, no
AlorielLelyn: In how many pages would you like this written? I'm certain that I could write days worth of reading material on this subject with the right amount of research.
jpact: I think that reading this question just made me dumber.
Cal Mac: The question is a non sequitur, as any mammal to piscene metamorphisis would be, by definition, devolution. Devolution of course would result in a Scottish Parliament.
GuyHill: 42. Trivial
tragicpoet: We would eat Darwin crackers and religious people would loathe the Goldfishian theory of evolution.
Chris Schreiber: bleh
TG Mittler: 42
fsumarc: mmm goldfish... the snack that smiles till ya bite it's head off....
Blackwind: I can prove beyond a doubt that Ender asks the dumbest GeekQuestions on the Geek.
klarkinhistrep: See below
CDRodeffer: He didn't so devolve, so I doubt the English Parliament would have changed the discussion from maritime trade.
fellonmyhead: Without establishing the religious inferences of this occurrence, I cannot be 100% accurate but I am able to prove that a resurgence of the Holy Roman Empire under Pope Blancmange IV would have gained a solid foothold in the consequential election after they had hung parliament. It is debatable that Pankhurst would have raised her skirts in defence of Bob (as Darwin would have been known by then), however that chap who said he must have had a monkey for an uncle would have been kicking himself his uncle wasn't a shark with darwin on the menu.
StormKnight: The EPS would not exist, as it the entire planet would be destroyed by the ion-drivers developed for use in the intelifish/human wars.
geberus: well, first off evolution happens on the species level, not the individual level. That aside, someone else was hitting on evolution at the same time as Darwin, so not much different
gnomehome: 3,5. 2 + 2 = 4, so there
BobDodgerBlue: Never Answer
raolsson: I think things would more or less stay the same. Basically, things have stayed the same. Ergo sum.
chaddyboy_2000: Elephantitis of the testicles.
sdownin: Wookie
netfilterz: First back up your claim that turning into a goldfish is evolution and not devolution...
Shakar: Cum again.
ejmowrer: This is not a question. I only do questions.
Pseudo Nymh: Man, how hard was it to think up a question? Key element: ?
snoozefest: goldfish swallowing would have become popular YEARS earlier. As a result, there would have been more deaths by suffocation. This would clearly have lead to a ruling in the EPS disallowing goldfish swallowing while parliament was in session. In outrage, the english people would have revolted, there would be widespread anarchy, and the world would have ended in 1927.
Denise: Other than the inevitable death and rebirth as a swan of Woodrow Wilson, no major changes. Proof is provided by the existence of canned spaghetti.
jttm: We *blub* *blub* would be talking *blub* *blub* like this... *blub*
djlg: 42
Mike A: It would be largely the same, based on the strong correlation between attributes of individuals involved in the English Parliamentary System and goldfish.
CortexBomb: I would be willing to do the exercise but for the last line. It is impossible to conclusively prove such a hypothetical scenario, the best I could do was to convey convincing proofs that the thesis was possible, and as this clearly isn't enough for your exacting standards I won't waste my time
HBGlover: Individuals do not evolve. Generations evolve. Individuals mutate.
pernishus: Go away
Spielfreak: Mmmm....goldfish
skelebone: England would have two monarchs, one regular monarch, and a super robot overlord.
statonv: 42%
ValJor: This is so copied from a joke I saw the other day in the internet...
Flyspeck23: No.
UhhhClem: Thirteen, because paper doesn't talk.
Gelatinous Goo: we medical doctor, Taiwan
nexttothemoon: Wait...would it be one of those googly-eyed goldfish? Because that would change everything.