# Are these actual, mature frogs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 22, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-actual-mature-frogs/661619 "2013-06-22T07:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thicksantorum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@thicksantorum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thicksantorum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-actual-mature-frogs/661619/21 "2013-06-23T21:52:28Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > I like some elements of the Intelligent Design theory (primarily that there may in fact be a higher power that guides the universe according to rules established by said power), but it seems more often than not that people associated with that viewpoint are anti-science, religious zealots. I don’t identify with that side of it. You seem to be entertaining/supporting Deism, which is not the same thing as Intelligent Design, and isn’t really compatible with it. Intelligent Design is literally just a rebrand of creationism (look up “wedge strategy”) and is anti-science by definition. There is no pro-science side to it. ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-actual-mature-frogs/661619/22 "2013-06-24T04:26:11Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > So it appears it’s called a [desert rain frog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rain_frog), does actually look like that, and actually makes those sounds. How can any of those ‘intelligent design’-folks look at things like that and not go, ‘yeah, no, that doesn’t make any fucking sense whatsoever’. (“On the underside it has a transparent area of skin through which its internal organs can be seen.”; I mean, why?) > > Anyway, you can ignore this thread, I guess. These are incredibly cute! They also have the cutest threat response ever. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-actual-mature-frogs/661619.md?page=1)