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GenesisNemesis said:
No Robots said:
pood said:
To describe the theory of evolution as Darwinism shows your glaring ignorance of the whole subject.
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Erm, it is Dawkins who uses the word in the article. Better let him know.
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You know what Dawkins also says? In The Selfish Gene, he says he would not want a society based on selfishness. But all you do is cherry pick shit and you don't give a fuck about logic.
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This is correct. No Robots is just parroting the tired old Naturalistic Fallacy.
 
I just wanna know more about these 'supermen' with 'fully developed intellects', cause it sounds dope.

1. How do you know when you are one?
2. Would your mum know?
3. If you are one, can you refer to yourself as 'a very stable genius'?
4. Is it possible to get so smart that you actually stump yourself?
5. What if you are one, but are married to, or partnered with, excuse the expression, a dumbbell?
6. Can you be one and still watch Zoolander and eat gummy worms?
7. What if you are one and the other meanies on earth or iidb don't appreciate you?
8. Can you be one and still appreciate Who Let the Dogs Out? (and even answer the question posed by the song?)
9. If you are one, should you be able to out-Mozart Mozart, i.e., write sonatas while you're still in a onesie?
10. Will common folk understand what you're saying, if you are one?
11. What can you do at the beach, if some big meanie in a wife-beater t-shirt knocks your copy of Waton outta your hands???
 
pood said:
One thing that is not unknowable, and which I do know: I’ve read enough of Waton to know that he is a clueless, pretentious wanker.
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Yeppers.
I've read enough about people like Waton and Brunner to stop caring about what they believe.
And I read it all right here on IIDB.
Tom
 
ideologyhunter said:
I just wanna know more about these 'supermen' with 'fully developed intellects', cause it sounds dope.

1. How do you know when you are one?
2. Would your mum know?
3. If you are one, can you refer to yourself as 'a very stable genius'?
4. Is it possible to get so smart that you actually stump yourself?
5. What if you are one, but are married to, or partnered with, excuse the expression, a dumbbell?
6. Can you be one and still watch Zoolander and eat gummy worms?
7. What if you are one and the other meanies on earth or iidb don't appreciate you?
8. Can you be one and still appreciate Who Let the Dogs Out? (and even answer the question posed by the song?)
9. If you are one, should you be able to out-Mozart Mozart, i.e., write sonatas while you're still in a onesie?
10. Will common folk understand what you're saying, if you are one?
11. What can you do at the beach, if some big meanie in a wife-beater t-shirt knocks your copy of Waton outta your hands???
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Not “meanies” on iidb, but Fascists.
 
Whenever I see Waton's last name, I just think Wanton. Then I think of Wanton noodle soup.
 
No Robots said:
The only moral theory of evolution is the one that sees all of existence as a rational process intended to create a rational being in man.
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Uh … I am not going to undertake to explain evolution to someone who is already dug into a false idea about it.
But I will tell you this:
THERE IS NO “INTENT” TO EVOLUTION.

Evolution is a process undergone by every population of imperfect self replicators inhabiting a dynamic environment.
PERIOD.

When you keep basing your invectives on your mistaken notion that there is such intent, you look like a fool to those who have studied and understood evolution.
 
On one hand it's pathetic how little they try to understand the concept. but on the other it's hilarious because they're just arguing against a straw man they made up.
 
GenesisNemesis said:
On one hand it's pathetic how little they try to understand the concept. but on the other it's hilarious because they're just arguing against a straw man they made up.
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Kind of incredible really. Evolution has been “proven” to the same degree as “gravity”. You can call either false, too, but in the case of evolution you will need to offer something beyond “goddidit” to explain the observations that evolutionary theory explains perfectly.

You will also have to explain how predictions made by ToE can come true. How did Neil Shubin know where to look for Tiktaalik?*

* I asked that question on CARM and one of their unflappable faithful replied;
“He looked in the fish layer.”

:hysterical:
 
Elixir said:
GenesisNemesis said:
On one hand it's pathetic how little they try to understand the concept. but on the other it's hilarious because they're just arguing against a straw man they made up.
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Kind of incredible really. Evolution has been “proven” to the same degree as “gravity”. You can call either false, too, but in the case of evolution you will need to offer something beyond “goddidit” to explain the observations that evolutionary theory explains perfectly.

You will also have to explain how predictions made by ToE can come true. How did Neil Shubin know where to look for Tiktaalik?*

* I asked that question on CARM and one of their unflappable faithful replied;
“He looked in the fish layer.”

:hysterical:
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Speaking of Tiktaalik, I see Per Ahlberg online every so often. He's retired. There have been more discoveries since then. But I will never forget that at the time of the discovery and before the announcement, there was an IRC channel where IIDBers and others chatted, and, Per told us about it as it happened. I think some of us in chat were among the first to get the news from the source on the day the paper was published.
 
I follow him (Professor Shubin) on Facebook. Great expedition pics, and he somehow has time to answer questions on occasion. Amazing guy.
 
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