-This weeks movie was Kevin Reynolds' Waterworld (1995) starring Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Dennis Hopper. IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/?ref_=nv_sr_1

-What a strange movie. This was thought to make loads of money, but ended up flopping at the theaters and for good reason. This movie takes place in the future world where the polar ice caps melt and send the world into a huge you guessed it, water world. The Mariner, Kevin Costner, must rescue an orphan girl who will lead them to the "dryland" which is like the only piece of earth that isn't water. Along the way he faces people trying to kidnap her and take the dryland for themselves. This movie was not the greatest. 4/10.

-Evolutionary, it wasn't great either. I didn't mention before, but the Mariner has developed gills in order to swim without going up for air. We run into the same problem we had with the X-men. The Mariner is in fact a mutant, but he developed the gills based on need. One is simply not able to adapt based on need, as Dobzhansky said, "Natural selection is a blind, yet creative process." The gills would have had to randomly mutate before his actual need for them. This is a Lamarkian idea. He proposed that giraffe's necks were originally short and grew in length in order to reach the leaves high above them. This was proved wrong many many years ago, but Hollywood somehow missed the memo. We won't see any gills mostly likely on anyone very soon, unless you are Harry Potter and live in a magical world where evolution does not exist.