Posted on 08/31/2011 8:16:15 PM PDT by RonDog
LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE
August 31, 2011Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were "gaps" in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New York Times.
After his mother had pushed him in front of Perry on the campaign trail and made him ask if Perry believed in evolution, the trained seal beamed at his Wicked Witch of the West mother, saying, "Evolution, I think, is correct!"
That's the most extended discussion of Darwin's theory to appear in the mainstream media in a quarter-century. More people know the precepts of kabala than know the basic elements of Darwinism.
There's a reason the Darwin cult prefers catcalls to argument, even with a 9-year-old at the helm of their debate team.
Darwin's theory was that a process of random mutation, sex and death, allowing the "fittest" to survive and reproduce, and the less fit to die without reproducing, would, over the course of billions of years, produce millions of species out of inert, primordial goo.
The vast majority of mutations are deleterious to the organism, so if the mutations were really random, then for every mutation that was desirable, there ought to be a staggering number that are undesirable.
Otherwise, the mutations aren't random, they are deliberate -- and then you get into all the hocus-pocus about "intelligent design" and will probably start speaking in tongues and going to NASCAR races.
We also ought to find a colossal number of transitional organisms in the fossil record -- for example, a squirrel on its way to becoming a bat, or a bear becoming a whale. (Those are actual Darwinian claims.)
But that's not what the fossil record shows. We don't have fossils for any intermediate creatures in the process of evolving into something better. This is why the late Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard referred to the absence of transitional fossils as the "trade secret" of paleontology. (Lots of real scientific theories have "secrets.") Read More
Presumption.
It would make a great pickup line though. "Hey babe, I'm what you get when evolution runs it's course."
Hooda, yabba, whatsamajiggee? That’s enough empty, pompous verbosity to qualify from some left-wing social-science, deconstruction theory, feminist critique magazine. Perhaps the “Science” section of the New York Times will publish it for you.
Hmmmmm - - - “ allowing the “fittest” to survive. “ That is an idea worth exploring!
Let’s say there was a government, a REALLY big government, in fact this government was bigger than any private company in the world, let’s just say - - - .
And let’s say the Board of directors was nicknamed a “ Congress. “ And this Congress of this government was constipated for three years! Yep, that’s right, they couldn’t budget, even with the expert quantatative-easing of Professor Enema Ben!
Time comes to review the CEO’s performance at the Board Meeting, usually in late January every year and the Congress is split between the Debtocrats and the Redebtwecans, let’s just say.
Everybody is there at the board meeting: Emeritus Sheriff of Nottingham Walk-the-Plank-Hank, current Sheriff of Nottingham Timmy Gee, Secretary of Statements Hilly and so, so many civil servant debocrats from “ both “ parties.
Professor You Lie gives his speech about The State of The Onion, polite applause follows, and then an awkward silence.
Bipartisan Cave-In Senator Bob rises to speak: I’m sure that at the end of the day, the American People want us to get something done. It reminds me of the time - - - .
Senator Weave: Will the Senator from Tennessee yield? - - - . Thank you. What my good friend Bob is trying to say is WHEN YOUR OUTGO EXCEEDS YOUR INCOME, YOUR UPKEEP WILL BE YOUR DOWNFALL.
Senator Bob: Yes, I thank my good friend from the state of Iowa. We have gone for many decades now in the status of “ Upkeep “ and it is time to replace our CEO before we enter the death-spiral of the “Downfall” stage.
Robo-Congressman Sub-Prime Barney: You cannot stand there and accuse me of causing the 2008 Fannie bubble to break! Freddie and the whole FHA collapsed too! This is an insul - - - .
Robo-Senator Crissy Doodle-Doo : ( Barney, shut up and sit down! Bob did NOT accuse you of anything! We have already convinced the Liberal Intelligentsia Elite Media that the Banks did it. Sheriff Hank really came through for us on that CYA! Besides, our necktie-party bill will keep this country in line for the next 6 years. It is a bill because they are still writing it, but it is also a law because You Lie signed it! Our masterpiece, a “ living document: “ bill/law/bill! Just like our Constitution! What a joke that rag is!)
Barney: I thought Bob said - - - . Thanks.
Crissy: ( Just keep repeating the Debtocrat Party motto: REGULATE, CONTROL AND DESTROY. )
Barney: ( Thanks. I’m alright now. )
Bob: Since Professor You Lie cannot make a profit, he even states “ that this is not the time for profits - - - . “
Weave: Let me say it! Professor You Lie is not “ fit” to survive as CEO of the largest financial entity the world has ever - - - .
Bob: Oh, knock it off! Let’s just send him back to teach at his old job.
Weave: Oh NO! The Chicago School of Bureaucratic Socialism is less than a half days drive from Iowa!
Let’s just say that these events could have happened in a world where only those fit to make a profit were allowed to have a job, let’s just say.
to who? the liberals?
Nothing will make us look good to them.
/Snicker
If I had the time to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology just to satisfy the blasphemous ravings of a troglodyte, I would. As it is, I have but one life to live, and that was not the route it took; then again, it doesn’t take much more than a solid high-school education to grasp the fundamental concepts of evolution and the factual support that underpins it. Apparently, your education was either not quality, or else you didn’t make it to high-school.
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Non-political folk with no ingrained party affiliation.
“Instinct” is by definition, teleonomic in that it is expressed as a scripted behavior, not a discrete physical attribute.
“Natural Selection” is by definition, ateleonomic.
and we know they are all ....what? evolutionists? intelligent design? maybe a combo?
I think it would be wise for everyone to simply respond, “this issue has no bearing on the office of president. Now I’d like to discus.....blah blah blah....”
How about plain English instead of pompous, empty verbosity. Leave the obscurantism to the liberals.
Embryonic recapitulation has long been discredited There are no gill slits on human embryos.
You would think that those stating their case would know that. I was about to post the same thing.
I can't say for sure. But I would guess that a lot of them are people who, when they hear the word creationism, think of Jesus riding a dinosaur or some other caricature.
I think it would be wise for everyone to simply respond, “this issue has no bearing on the office of president. Now I’d like to discus.....blah blah blah....”
I hope that's how Perry responds. But judging by his reply to the planted child in New Hampshire, he'll probably brag that in Texas, we're "teaching the controversy."
Pray for America
Not at all, the envelope for “survival” is fairly spaceous.
It is you who must posit a completely static environment to try to make your assertion plausibly falsifiable (without actually subjecting it to experimentation) , not me.
The only question now is “what constitutes an ‘improvement’ for an organism with no substantive limitation to passing on its genetic material?”
Those of the TOE cult cannot survive without government handouts. IF a presidential candidate is NOT a firm believer in the TOE they will be ridiculed as being a Bible thumping fundie. TOE represents 'taxation without representation' by government gods.
But I've still never heard of Gould ever claiming that his model took into account the idea that we may stop evolving. It's his theory, not mine, so I can't speak for whether the thought ever crossed his mind.
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