No lunch for Huckabee, Is it the same?

[Jazzta]

Also the same party that nominated a true 'centrist' in Hillary Clinton. The democratic party is a big tent.

What do you call a true “centrist”? Certainly not someone that brags about the US being involved with the death of a leader from a sovereign country in the fashion that she did.

 

[Archie Moses]

In terms of evolutionary survival, it could be said that intelligence breeds ruthlessness.

Survival of the fittest, eh?

 

[Red]

Most intelligent.*

Maybe. But Neanderthals were likely more intelligent then we've given them credit for until recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ans-were-first-artists-on-earth-experts-claim

 

[Red]

I imagine Homo Sapiens are the human species that survived because they are the cruelest.

Well, I know I can't answer that. Seems like, where prehistory is concerned, there are always surprises, and apple carts getting turned over. Take the Denisovans. We didn't even know they existed until 2010, and they are only known from a single finger bone found in Denisova Cave, Siberia. Yet they contributed their genes to a percentage of present day humanity.

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ated-with-the-mystery-denisovan-people-twice/

 

[Ron Mexico]

How do religious people view other humans such as Homo Sapiens or Homo Erectus? Do they go to heaven/hell along with homosapiens? Or do they have their own place? Are they viewed the same as animals?

 

[One Brow]

Well, it might depend on what we mean by "distant", when we refer to the distant past, but, say 50,000 years ago, besides modern humans, there were Neanderthals, (and most Europeans, and no black Africans, have some small amount of Neanderthal genes), the so-called Hobbits, and the Denisovans( many Southeast Asians and Australasians have some Denisovans genes. Such genes provided altitude tolerance to the Tibetans for instance), and maybe other subspecies(?) that we don't know of. And only modern humans remain.

https://www.seeker.com/our-connecti...d-other-ancient-humans-deepen-2169789944.html

That the genes persist in modern humans show they were part of a the same population (there was interbreeding).

 

[One Brow]

Survival of the fittest, eh?

Not an evolutionary principle.

 

[One Brow]

<rollseyes>

I used scientifically defined terms, but hey continue patting yourself on the back for finding out that a very few select genuses can mate and create mostly sterile offspring.

Are you just trolling, are you really that ignorant and spouting off like you done some serious reading on this?

Either way, I noticed you didn't present any definition of species or race. Repeating something over and over doesn't make it true for Trump, and it's not true for you either.

So, put up or shut up. What's your "scientifically defined" notion of species, or race?

Let's use, what, four off or five or six off outliers to throw out terminology.

Let's recognize when terminology interferes with understanding instead of enhancing it.

There is no monotypic or polytiypic variation in Home sapiens either.

There all kinds of variation in Homo sapiens, much of it is visible and inheritable. Why are those useful for division into separate categories? Why are people with different skin colors different races, but those whose mother had the BRCA1 mutation versus those whose mother did not can be the same race?

 

[One Brow]

But the whole "democratic party is a big tent" statement is laughable. Where are the people that think there should be restrictions on abortion?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/el...nti-abortion-democrats-move-oust-them-n886151

Where are the people who think that social programs should be reduced?

The way Bill Clinton did during his Presidency?

Where are the people who feel protecting religious rights are e.g. as important as protecting LGBT rights?

Almost all of them. Seriously. The majority of the Democratic party is Christian.

Where are the people that think Clinton's email server is/was an issue of great concern? Etc. Etc. Etc.

I think they are investigating Colin Powell's use of a private email server right now.

Just about every member of Congress communicated with an email address ending in @clintonemail.com over 2009-2013. So, what is your current concern?

And yes, while I do agree with democratics more than republicans on some issues, it's not nearly enough to make me feel like I would seriously ever feel I had a place in the "big tent".

I can see why.

 

[Archie Moses]

Not an evolutionary principle.

Considering I think we're programmed, not gonna argue.

 

[idestroyedthetoilet]

Give your scientific definition of "single population". Ability to interbreed sure as hell isn't it.

But I don't really care to get into a semantics debate with someone who has graduated from trying to split hairs to trying to split protons or neutrons. Bringing up a cancer suppressor as even being remotely relevant here?

Races and sub-races have clearly existed, and in flux, for a very long time. That's good enough for me.

 

[fishonjazz]

I didn't even think about that.

I must hear them so often I don't even hear them anymore.

My apologies.

That’s how I am too.

And I have said this before but, who decided what words are swear words? They all come from the same alphabet. Swear words are bad but words that use different letters to mean the exact same thing are ok? (Butt vs ***, poop vs **** etc etc). I don’t get it.
Is there a list of bad words in the Bible or book or Mormon or something? All seems kind of arbitrary to me.