> In fact, you can't have evolution without natural selection, but that doesn't mean that natural selection is suddenly "evolution", despite your claims to the contrary.
So, how do you draw the line between natural selection and adaptation via selective pressure on random mutations within the genome of some species, and, er, *evolution*?
I feel pretty much the same way. People take so much for granted, Even cutlery,,, how long would it take for an Iron Age blacksmith to craft a single cutlery set? Chariot wheels are actually quite complex. A composite bow? Contrast that with a modern electronic item, or any of a huge range of custom=designed materials. The insight required to modify genomes to produce somewhat predictable outcomes?
It's staggering. I think anyone who misses the significance of all of this is seriously lacking in imagination.
> What about being so humble that one doesn't even consider one's own views on how people should live, and simply accepts the long accepted wisdom of the church as being greater than your own.
> Now as for the internet so for any other public space, would that mean if you open your mouth to speak in any public space would you need you name and details tattooed on your forehead?
That's generous of you, but we can already identify you via our expensive and unreliable biometric systems.
If you consider at least one of the possible outcomes for limited genetic diversity, you end up with hive organisms. Every member working for the common good. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to regard the human race as an example of a social species with at least some hive-like characteristics.
And a mammal's a mammal. A carbon lifeform is a carbon lifeform. Any self-organising structure subject to the rules du jour in Universe A is any self-organising structure in Universe A.
Sure, except that the fact that we live in an universe which is lousy (sometimes literally so) with self-organisation. Magic is what people invoke in the absence of knowledge and critical thinking skills. We call those people 'primitives'.
And the same is true for normal guys - I'm assuming you missed this because you've never wanted to date them. If that assumption is unwarranted, please accept my apologies.
> Why is thinking that their is a fundamental difference between the sexes and that they are better suited for different hobbies/challenges/activities so wrong?
Because as soon as you do that, you a) start to view all of X as Y and encourage the rest of society to do the same; b) almost incidentally piss on the hopes and dreams of all those X who *aren't* Y and c) begin to look like the kind of drooling fuckwit who views life in black and white.
> And for people like HR reps, it would be better for everybody if we paid them to do nothing. Fucking nazis.
Agreed - I think they're damaging to society in general. They make it much more difficult to move jobs until you find something that works for you *and* the employer. They make it easier for the more dickheaded corporates to impose draconian working conditions.
I honestly wish they'd just fuck off and die en-masse in a fire.
It strikes me that widespread use of antivirals and antibiotics to treat obvious conditions will tend to favour the evolution of pathogens with unobvious results.
It's not difficult to imagine pathogens that are very hard to culture or otherwise detect which nevertheless cause immune flare-ups.
Evolution happens quite quickly at the microscopic level. Even at the small arthropod scale, I've seen big changes in insecticide resistance since I was a child. Fly sprays would kill flies with impressive effect when I was young, yet I now have a big can of permethrin insecticide that I've used once or twice and then given up on because it just doesn't work. Malathion-based nit solutions used to work. Now, they do not.
The generation time at the microscopic scale is a lot shorter.
Some seems to have created a platform game called 'Escape Goat', but sadly, there's no equivalent for 'Seating Duck'. It cries out to be given life as a companion to Toilet Duck, though, maybe as a way of gamma-irradiating toilet seats when you live in a house full of aim-challenged hairless proto-simians.
Science is a set of *methods*, an aspect of which is that to qualify as science you have to apply the methodology in all cases, not just the ones that aren't connected to your chosen superstition.
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That was such a good film^^
That wikipedia link was fascinating - thanks for that.
> In fact, you can't have evolution without natural selection, but that doesn't mean that natural selection is suddenly "evolution", despite your claims to the contrary.
Explain the difference.
So, how do you draw the line between natural selection and adaptation via selective pressure on random mutations within the genome of some species, and, er, *evolution*?
I feel pretty much the same way. People take so much for granted, Even cutlery,,, how long would it take for an Iron Age blacksmith to craft a single cutlery set? Chariot wheels are actually quite complex. A composite bow? Contrast that with a modern electronic item, or any of a huge range of custom=designed materials. The insight required to modify genomes to produce somewhat predictable outcomes?
It's staggering. I think anyone who misses the significance of all of this is seriously lacking in imagination.
No ^^
> I'm gonna bet its because they think that government is the "supreme being", not God.
Why, exactly, are you so full of shit?
> What about being so humble that one doesn't even consider one's own views on how people should live, and simply accepts the long accepted wisdom of the church as being greater than your own.
Spoken like a good member of the flock.
> Now as for the internet so for any other public space, would that mean if you open your mouth to speak in any public space would you need you name and details tattooed on your forehead?
That's generous of you, but we can already identify you via our expensive and unreliable biometric systems.
Regards,
Your Corporate Overlords.
If you consider at least one of the possible outcomes for limited genetic diversity, you end up with hive organisms. Every member working for the common good. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to regard the human race as an example of a social species with at least some hive-like characteristics.
Oh, and while we're on a rant, one argument is exactly the same as any other argument. Thanks, that's me convinced.
And a mammal's a mammal. A carbon lifeform is a carbon lifeform. Any self-organising structure subject to the rules du jour in Universe A is any self-organising structure in Universe A.
Sure.
> On the inside, pretty much any dog is just like any other dog. Gee, just like homo sapiens!
You've either never owned dogs or you've spent your life in a bubble of blissful oblivion.
Sure, except that the fact that we live in an universe which is lousy (sometimes literally so) with self-organisation. Magic is what people invoke in the absence of knowledge and critical thinking skills. We call those people 'primitives'.
The funniest comment I read in a while - thank you^^
And the same is true for normal guys - I'm assuming you missed this because you've never wanted to date them. If that assumption is unwarranted, please accept my apologies.
> Why is thinking that their is a fundamental difference between the sexes and that they are better suited for different hobbies/challenges/activities so wrong?
Because as soon as you do that, you a) start to view all of X as Y and encourage the rest of society to do the same; b) almost incidentally piss on the hopes and dreams of all those X who *aren't* Y and c) begin to look like the kind of drooling fuckwit who views life in black and white.
Screw you for needing to have this pointed out,
I would blow Baroness Thatcher for a fission powered hover duck.
> And for people like HR reps, it would be better for everybody if we paid them to do nothing. Fucking nazis.
Agreed - I think they're damaging to society in general. They make it much more difficult to move jobs until you find something that works for you *and* the employer. They make it easier for the more dickheaded corporates to impose draconian working conditions.
I honestly wish they'd just fuck off and die en-masse in a fire.
It's the ultimate measure of biomass.
To be fair, if you spend any time on the Youtube hot-button topics like Creationism, you'll find that people can believe some seriously outré things.
It strikes me that widespread use of antivirals and antibiotics to treat obvious conditions will tend to favour the evolution of pathogens with unobvious results.
It's not difficult to imagine pathogens that are very hard to culture or otherwise detect which nevertheless cause immune flare-ups.
Evolution happens quite quickly at the microscopic level. Even at the small arthropod scale, I've seen big changes in insecticide resistance since I was a child. Fly sprays would kill flies with impressive effect when I was young, yet I now have a big can of permethrin insecticide that I've used once or twice and then given up on because it just doesn't work. Malathion-based nit solutions used to work. Now, they do not.
The generation time at the microscopic scale is a lot shorter.
Some seems to have created a platform game called 'Escape Goat', but sadly, there's no equivalent for 'Seating Duck'. It cries out to be given life as a companion to Toilet Duck, though, maybe as a way of gamma-irradiating toilet seats when you live in a house full of aim-challenged hairless proto-simians.
Science is a set of *methods*, an aspect of which is that to qualify as science you have to apply the methodology in all cases, not just the ones that aren't connected to your chosen superstition.
Meh, give me Saronite.