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To: AndrewC

As I said, my source is as reliable as the OP.

Thanks for agreeing.

As far as childhood somehow undermining TToE — only when you don’t understand science. This is the most specious “analysis” I have ever seen — even from one of these sister-to-WWN sites.


12 posted on 06/02/2009 4:18:47 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003; GodGunsGuts
As I said, my source is as reliable as the OP.

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As far as childhood somehow undermining TToE — only when you don’t understand science.

No, this is what you "said": "In related news from an equally reliable source:"

The original source was the "Seed" article which contains the fairytale.

You continually assert that because someone disagrees with your viewpoint that they don't understand science. Well, something has to be able to undermine TToE or it is not science, by definition. On top of that, it was a comment that was made by the researcher/author during the interview which seems to undermine TToE(but a just-so story comes to the "rescue" in a comment following it), not a comment made by the article's author. The undermining comment being "It’s related to one of the basic things that came out of our research: Why do children exist at all? It doesn’t make tremendous evolutionary sense to have these creatures that can’t even keep themselves alive and require an enormous investment of time on the part of adults. That period of dependence is longer for us than it is for any other species, and historically that period has become longer and longer.

And specious is the act of making up just-so stories to justify a conclusion. Especially when that conclusion involves defining childhood(children) as useless. Do you think children are useless?

27 posted on 06/02/2009 6:22:29 PM PDT by AndrewC (Metanoia)
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