Posted on 11/01/2005 6:27:26 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
It's made of Gorgonzola. I thought everyone knew that.
Dunno. A good sub-thread might follow on the relative merits of different types of green cheese, and if green paint on cheese counts.;->
See what I mean?
That would be my excuse. That and the Oxytocin made me do it.
Gotta get me some of that stuff.
Can it help me leap tall buildings in a single bound?
What is it with oxycontin? I know it's supposed to be addictive, but what else?
I knew nothing at all about it until I read that the Dover school board used it. I figure if something is good enough for the people in charge of educating our children, it's good enough for me.
We should keep two issues distinct: (a) the criticism of evolution and (b) the qaulity of communication between disparate levels of ability of understanding.
If evolution does not concern itself with this feature, something else does. Or is it that you wish to deny the existence of complexity?
My general goal has been to stick to learning and education rather than turning another's loss into a side-show sport. I think it helps build a character of patience, which is greatly needed in an ambitious and adolescent world.
Being intoxicated this early in the morning is not good.
My point is simple. If you intend to be a critic of science you must understand it and not argue against straw men.
If you debate, you must understand your opponent's position and be able to state it correctly.
I have noticed that most of the evolution critics on these threads are unaware of what biologists have to say about evolution. This could be remedied by a bit of reading. Ernst Mayr's This is Biology would be a good start.
Oddly enough, most of the ID supporters on these threads have no idea what the ideological founders of ID have to say. Posters on these threads are generally unaware that Behe, Denton and, to some extent, Dembsky, accept the historical fact of evolution even while being skeptical of natural selection as the only shaping force.
Nothing on these threads is so technical that it is inaccessible to someone interested in learning. Having strong opinions on a technical subject without basic knowledge is inexcusable.
Carry on.
In terms of biomass, bacteria, beetles, and earthworms are candidates for the most.
In terms of diversity of individuals and habitat, it would have to be bacteria.
Half blue cheese and yellow cheese respectively, well blended, may look green at the distance of the Moon.
Perhaps "Oxytocin" is the name of The Designer.
My point is that the modal trend in evolution is not toward greater complexity.
Sacre bleu!
What a cheesy suggestion. Mixing color cheeses is an affront to the palette.
One of the attitudes that is becoming popular is to demand people find out things for themselves. Why not rather join the conversation? I've discovered that no matter how well others understand things and post them on various websites, and publish their ideas, and teach them, it helps me to understand things for myself by "professing" the views myself. It's a pedagogic stance that is more interested in dissemination of knowledge rather than score-keeping with insuations.
The advice that I have tried to follow: "Whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever is of good report, think about these things. "
With constant Hope,
Yes, you have a point. And another point is that fitness and survival involves a trend toward the opposite.
The "trend" looks a lot like just "drifting into a niche" (or sort of like some movies I've seen.)
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