Oh, so you're not a creationist (or intelligent design-ist or whatever else you call it)? I would be ****ing shocked if that's the case. What other reason could there be for such denialism?
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Oh, so you're not a creationist (or intelligent design-ist or whatever else you call it)? I would be ****ing shocked if that's the case. What other reason could there be for such denialism?
PearlWatson
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I don't buy into other people's religionz, and there is no denying Darwinism is one...well, it is more the creation myth for liberalism.
So you're not a creationist? Go on. Answer. Tell us how you don't buy into other people's religion unless it's, you know, actual religion.
No. A lot of intelligent people believe in God. Some people even have incredibly deep reasons for suspecting the existence of such entity. Take our fellow Jazzfanz member AtheistPreacher for instance. But I have yet to meet a non-creationist who denies the validity of the theory of evolution (I'm counting those who believe we were created by aliens and such). There is absolutely no way someone objectively looks at the evidence and independently decides that another theory offers a better explanation.
larryselbows
Banned
You're ugly and you smell bad.
I wish I'd thought of that when I neg repped Troutbum that one time.
Can't say I have either.
larryselbows
Banned
Is troutbum really dead?
Temporarily. He was gang fake-raped.
Hotdog
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Ya, I guess he is banned for good now. Apparently he pushed his luck by creating a duplicate account. They up'd his 3 infractions to 5.
I'm still trying to figure out what he did for his third.
pickledXgrandma
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What's going on with cyrone torbine? I swear I never see him post anymore
Nice to see you at least thinking of something besides hating on repubs and Romney. Exapnd your mind my friend. Messign with Trout is a good place to start.
Ummmm.....no. I was making clear that he in fact was a science fiction author and that he believed in a whole bunch of paranormal nonsense. I used the past tense because he's dead, but I highlighted his "to be" verbs for you to emphasize the truth value of those things. This little misunderstanding is kind of endemic to how you read everything though.
Incisive analysis.
Already answered by Darkwing Duck. But it's demonstrable that over the course of just a couple decades perfectly identical strains became very demonstrably different strains through natural selection. In the most notable instance one strain became capable of ingesting substances as food that are indigestible by the other strains. It is hard to say these are not, at some point, notably different species of e coli now that they have notably different properties from one another. Some e coli strains, in effect, did evolve into something more closely resembling salmonella. Models on the creation of new species have also been extensively tested and are repeatable. The evidence that these types of divergences from common ancestors occurs is overwhelming.
At some point you're just stating that you don't like consensus. By itself that isn't an argument that global warming or evolution isn't true. It's only an argument that you're being a contrarian *******.
For example:
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (UK); Independent Climate Change Review (UK); International Science Assessment Panel (UK); Pennsylvania State University first panel and second panel (US); United States Environmental Protection Agency (US); Department of Commerce (US); National Science Foundation (US)
Sorry it's not someone selling a book about juice fasts.
It would be quite the challenge. Even to someone like Michael Behe, one of the few respectable scientists in the ranks of the intelligent design movement. He accepts the common descent of all life, including humans. He simply objects to the notion that naturalistic processes offer a better explanation than a conscious guide. Not some hilarity about how not everything is bacteria. PearlWatson simply memorized a few soundbites to throw at proponents of evolution from the usual denialist channels. It is very difficult for him to look at the theory objectively because he has created quite the web of fantasies to justify his irrationality, to the extent where any rational inquiry on the subject represents a serious threat to his worldview.
Said he's just taking a little bit of a break during the off-season.
Darkwing Duck
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Natural selection is too narrow a term to use. Evolutionary measures/mechanics is a better term. Involves more than just natural selection.