AS IF things haven't been weird enough lately, I give you the 1-eyed cat:

[file83]

From YAHOO News: Famous One-Eyed Kitten to Go on Display

GRANBY, N.Y. - The one-eyed, noseless kitten that inspired an international debate last year over whether it was a hoax is coming to a new museum of oddities in central New York.

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The kitten died in December, a day after being born. Veterinarians in Oregon said it suffered from a rare disorder called holoprosencephaly.

Okay. That's weird. A cyclopse kitty. Is this a sign of end times or somethin'?

[skooooo]

1. Oh ..poor thing :-(

The fundies are claiming this is proof against evolution.

Go figure.

[MADem]

2. It's probably proof of some bad shit in the air, water and food chain

that is harmful to sensitive, pregnant cats. But hey, using make-believe makes them feel better, we imagine, eh??

[cynatnite]

4. So it was intelligent design

first thing I thought of when I saw this on KO tonight.

[Radio_Lady]

30. Someone pointed out that newborn kittens' eyes are CLOSED!

Maybe this picture was PHOTOSHOPPED. I've seen it before and I think it was supposed to have been born somewhere in Oregon.

I owned a puppy born from a litter produced by my Boston Terrier dam in the 1950s. He had a cleft palate and a hare lip. We had to euthanize that little guy because he could not nurse -- the milk just bubbled out of his nose. There were six other male puppies that were fine.

Nature makes mistakes. It happens all the time. (Let's not debate whether it's happening more now than before, because I assume it is -- that's another subject.) I had a stillborn child in 1960 that had a huge head filled with water (macrocephalic). If she had lived, she would have had to be institutionalized.

Bill Nye on Keith Olbermann's show pointed out that these "biological errors" usually don't live long enough to pass on their faulty genes to others. That's a good thing!

[Radio_Lady]

32. UPDATE: Same kitten, different view (WARNING NOT A CUTE PHOTO.)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/04/07/cy_narrowweb__300x522,0.jpg

Here's the story out of Sydney, Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cy-sold-to-creationism-show/2006/04/07/1143916687059.html

[Suich]

3. Bill Nye the Science Guy explained it on Countdown tonight. eom

[YouthInAsia]

5. oh, it was so cute!

[Vexatious Ape]

6. That;s my new wallpaper

Can't wait to see my wife's reaction.

[file83]

7. LOL! Cat lovers would NOT like this photo.

:rofl:

[Occulus]

14. I just love cats.

This makes me sad. Poor thing.

[Cooley Hurd]

21. Me too...

:(

[Brigid]

12. Your Wife

I don't think she's going to like the new wallpaper very much. ;)

[file83]

17. Welcome to the DU Brigid!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

22. Hi Brigid!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Behind the Aegis]

8. this is the scary part...

...

The museum founder, who believes in creationism, said the kitten is meant to launch another debate about how science and religion intersect.

The Oregon woman who owned the kitten said she turned down Ripley's Believe it or Not! and sold the remains to John Adolfi of Granby because she liked his religious reasons for wanting them.

...

[W_HAMILTON]

13. How the hell...

...is it supposed to have anything to do with religion? Was there some proverb about a one-eyed cat I happened to miss in the Bible?

If anything, it just proves evolution. It's a random genetic mutation, and seeing as how the cat died, apparently it isn't a mutation that helps promote an individual's own survival. So the poor cat dies, doesn't get to pass on its genes, and that's probably why most people (including myself) have never seen a one-eyed cat before today. That's pretty much the story about evolution. So I see why it would "launch" a debate on evolution (ie its proof), but what the heck does religion have to do with it?

[Behind the Aegis]

15. I agree with you!

The rationale this woman gave for the donation of the kitten to that one man is as disturbing as the kitten's disease, IMHO!

[file83]

16. Welcome to the DU!!

:hi:

And your point is excellent. It's funny how people see anything out of the ordinary and automatically conclude it must be prophecy or a sign from God. :rofl:

[malaise]

20. According to the "morans"

any deformity is proof of ID rather than evolution. There is nothing to debate here - they are ignorant "morans". When they put Bush in that musuem as proof of the reverse of evolution, I may just give their premise a rethink. :sarcasm:

[MissB]

24. And that is why MSNBC had Bill Nye on last night.

Bill Nye is wonderful at explaining to the viewers exactly how poorly one-eyed kitties support the idea of creationism. :rofl:

[TahitiNut]

25. "she liked his religious reasons"

Yep. All those "In God We Trust" reasons ... long green reasons. :eyes:

[HuffleClaw]

9. EEEEEEP

really.

EEEEEEEEEEEP

that is just downright disturbing. makes me think of FUTURAMA for some reason too.
FRY
Can I ask you a question?

LEELA
As long as it's not about my eye.

FRY
Uh...

LEELA
Is it about my eye?

FRY

Sort of.



LEELA
Just ask the question.

FRY
What's with the eye?

[file83]

10. lol

:rofl:

[Brigid]

11. Poor Baby!

Now there's something to give you nightmares. Thank God I have two healthy, happy, normal cats.

[TheBaldyMan]

18. here's a picture of a President with no brain *caution graphic*

[applegrove]

19. Still cute. But why is its eye open on day one? Sorry it died. Given the

lighting of the camera.. shouldn't we be seeing a smaller pupil? Poor kitty.

[FlaGranny]

29. If the kitten is dead in the photo

its pupil would be dilated (wide open) and the eye would look black even in the brightest light. Don't know about the eye being open on day one, but perhaps the deformity affected the eyelids so that they didn't work.

[Radio_Lady]

34. See my post #32. This kitten was born in Oregon last year.

Full story out of AUSTRALIA.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cy-sold-to-creationism-show/2006/04/07/1143916687059.html

[Bill McBlueState]

23. I'm still trying to figure out

how this is evidence for any religious theory of anything. The article doesn't really say anything specific.

[Generic Other]

26. Dang! All the cute kitten threads I manage to avoid...

And I had to open this one! What is the matter with me?

[file83]

28. lol - depends on what your definition of "cute" is!!

You 2 eyed bigot! :rofl:

[Terran]

27. Oh that poor creature...

Very sad.

[DanCa]

31. My cat Domino has one eye

I wish I could post picks but my dial up is too slow. How do I describe Domino? She's a long hair white cat with black spots and black fore legs. Her front legs are white. She has a streaked black spot in the middle of her head and one of her ears is black the other is white. She's missing a left eye.

We found her scrounging in our garage this winter looking for food. We took her in cleanned her up and ever since then she's been my baby. She even gets along with my torties Tsonga and Kimaul. Though they were cool toward each other first.

[Orsino]

33. Every cat is a cyclops...

...from the right point of view:

[Radio_Lady]

35. In dog parlance, many breeds standards say that "the tail should cover

the 'vent'" -- maybe they have changed the verbiage, but that's what I remember.

That ain't no eye, Orsino!