www.livescience.com/9808-fear-spiders-develop-birth.html

What do you guys think?

I saw a show on Discovery Channel, was about phobias and they said it is engrained in us from evolution so on and so forth.... P.S. evolution is Bull Poo theory.

Very interesting article...

Well, although I don't dispute that we do retain some vestiges of our evolutionary experience in our Amygdala, I think the article is worthless fluff.

Phobia, at least in the psychological sense, is a fear disproportionate to the danger or irrational fear. Nothing wrong with avoiding snakes or spiders for the sake of self preservation. Not setting foot outdoors because of a possible spider or snake 'out there' is irrational. The article uses the word 'phobia' in the psychological context but with the literary translation of simply 'fear'.

What I think the spider-cricket experiment could just as easily prove is that a lack of stress in pregnant crickets produce chilled offspring that make easy prey as opposed to a healthy fear of spiders specifically, thereby negating any argument of hereditary fear of spiders from last last couple of million years.

The article also quite effortlessly jumps the chasm from crickets to humans.

In the picture caption, the author mentions that the female consumed the male due to not meeting courtship demands, but propagated anyway. Like, ok, I'll spread your genes, but because you suck at courtship, I kill you. Makes no sense.

The 'kids identifying spiders and snakes' experiment was taken out of context and the original actually proves the opposite: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110124111144.htm

I always thought human eyesight kind of sucked compared to other mammals.

I'll stop now.

spinnerkop wrote: P.S. evolution is Bull Poo theory.

Now, now spinnerkop. No need to knock something that you don't understand :whistle:

Interesting article actually, I first heard about this in an old Aliens comic, where they say that people might be scared of spiders possibly due to the fact that just before the child is born, they see a mass of "legs", which is in fact the Umbilicus, thus the experience is ingrained in their mind, causing arachnophobia. Don't know how true it is but I thought it was quite interesting.

F1refly wrote:

spinnerkop wrote: P.S. evolution is Bull Poo theory.

Now, now spinnerkop. No need to knock something that you don't understand :whistle:

I first heard about this in an old Aliens comic

This is what they teach now days, Comics are, hardcore university accredited information hahahahahahahahahahahaha

All I have to say is 1st pass school.

I can’t see how this add up really, :huh: when we all where little kids we was not afraid of anything, but as you get older you have more knowledge and that’s is giving the phobia :woohoo: