Southack's Top Ten Rules for maintaining the Invincible Superstition:
1) Pretend not to comprehend any relevant information.
2) Compartmentalize all facts to prevent comparison.
3) Anything that can be easily understood by someone with a third grade education is automatically nonsense.
4) No lie is too big if it supports the superstition.
5) Keep the mind free of any knowledge of the basic subject matter so as not to lose sight of the superstition.
6) Take everything out of context.
7) The rules of logic and evidence were made to be broken.
8) Never discuss randomness and selection together.
9) Never doubt the superstition.
10) When in doubt, see rule #9.
If not, then please, substantiate your ten individual claims in that post.
Southack's Top Ten Rules for maintaining the Invincible Superstition:You're doing pretty good, even if you're no gore3000. Did he teach you these?1) Pretend not to comprehend any relevant information.
2) Compartmentalize all facts to prevent comparison.
3) Anything that can be easily understood by someone with a third grade education is automatically nonsense.
4) No lie is too big if it supports the superstition.
5) Keep the mind free of any knowledge of the basic subject matter so as not to lose sight of the superstition.
6) Take everything out of context.
7) The rules of logic and evidence were made to be broken.
8) Never discuss randomness and selection together.
9) Never doubt the superstition.
10) When in doubt, see rule #9.
I particularly like number 8. So many Cs like to chirp on "randomness doesn't go anywhere." (Yes it does, with the square root of the number of iterations/generations.) "Survival of the fittest is a tautology, 'The survivors survive.'" Algebra is full of tautologies, but you get to things you didn't know fooling around with them.
Anyway, the joint operation of variation and selection isn't really random and isn't a tautology.