Talk:Four-toed statue/Theories
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Balance
In response to a theory commenting that the little toe is evolutionarily doomed, Silentounce wrote:"Where is this said? The last toe is crucial for balance." Actually, the largest toe is critical for balance. It bears more weight than the other 4 combined. ([1]) --Bastion 07:45, 3 May 2007 (PDT)
- Huh. I once knew a guy with no toes at all. (Mountain climbing mishap.) He had no balance issues. Anyway, the "evolution" idea is hogwash. It reflect a common misunderstanding of how evolution works. Evolution doesn't make life forms "better." Evolution only happens when there's some kind of selection pressure. Is somebody going around killing people with five toes? Do four-toed people have a better chance of breeding? No and no. --Zicsoft 16:00, 24 May 2007 (PDT)
- Exactly. People have been saying four toes is the future of human evolution. Well these people don't know a thing about evolution. There is no reason to believe people will evolve to have just four toes. First, there'd have to be that specific genetic mutation in an individual (which we can't predict), then that mutation would have to not also create other health problems (genes are more complex than just how many toes you have), and finally that individual would have to have a long, fertile line of children. With today's huge population and human behavior, it is almost impossible for more than just a few "genetic freaks" to have four toes in the future. People also claim that Lost will claim we evolved from four toers to have five toes, but we know that five digits goes back very, very far in the evolution trail. So far that all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have the bone structure for five digits, including bats, dolphins, and whales. This is tremendous because mammals evolved from early reptiles (before the dinosaurs) and birds from the dinosaurs and reptiles from an early amphibian-like family. -- macosx 17:22, 15 December 2007 (PST)
- Um ... no, the little toe does not bear more weight than the other 4 combined. If you actually take the time to read the abstract you linked to you'll find that it's the big toe that bears more weight than the others combined. On a side note, evolution can also bring about changes that are insignificant or even detrimental to a species - often through genetic drift. For example, check the Vadoma (a.k.a. ostrich people) [2] --Doc 12:34, 1 October 2007 (PDT)
- It's amusing that you would take me to task for not reading what I linked to when what actually happened is that you misread what I wrote. I didn't say the little toe bears more weight than the others; I said "the largest." See? Right up there, unchanged since this page was created. --Bastion 11:21, 18 April 2008 (PDT)
- So why can't we just delete that comment like I tried to long ago? It's obviously not the case.
Opinion: Will never be explained
Lost will never be able to explain every little weirdness on the island. Running through all the details would be too boring. (That's why I can never read fan fiction, it always dwells too much on details only an obsessive fan would care about.) Presumably we'll get some kind of general explanation as how all these weird things got to the island. (Lots of angry fans if there isn't!) But don't expect detailed explanations of exactly what they are.
My guess is that we'll eventually find out about some mysterious force or entity that can suck a portion of a colossal statue from the present or the past or a parallel universe. But we'll probably never find out why the foot only has four toes. Hey, maybe it's a statue of Homer Simpson! --Zicsoft 15:52, 24 May 2007 (PDT)
- The writers made it a point for Sayid to ask why the statue only has four toes. Somehow I think we'll find out.Androo 14:42, 31 July 2007 (PDT)
Plane Crash?
Is it possible a piece of the plane could have fallen and hit the statue? This could have destroyed it, as well as partly account for it still looking somewhat new. (If it was a relatively new statue, the destruction would also have to have happened recently)
