Comments on Evolved and Rational: I am not a Darwinist

Among the "cretins showing off their stupidity" in...

2008-04-16T10:29:00.000-04:00

Among the "cretins showing off their stupidity" include the following.

Stephen Jay Gould: "Either half my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs -- and equally compatible with atheism."

Richard Dawkins: “As I have often said before, as a scientist I am a passionate Darwinian. But as a citizen and a human being, I want to construct a society which is about as un-Darwinian as we can make it.”

Daniel Dennett: "The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists."

Sam Harris: "Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life. Many scientists who are upset by the ongoing lobbying insist that it is bad science or pseudo-science."

Oops.

*snicker*

Some theists just don't understand what its like t...

2008-04-09T14:33:00.000-04:00

Some theists just don't understand what its like to know something and not take it on faith.

Its like when creationists say we "believe" in evolution... No, we accept evolution and you deny it.

gruntled: The Theory of Evolution Made Easyhttp://...

2008-04-09T09:38:00.000-04:00

gruntled: The Theory of Evolution Made Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SAGDZXLxI

For more, check out that guy's channel.

The other night one of my friends referred to hims...

2008-03-29T13:03:00.000-04:00

The other night one of my friends referred to himself as a "Darwinist." I said, "Calling yourself a Darwinist is like a theoretical physicist calling him/herself an 'Einsteinist.' Einstein set the ball rolling, but physics has come a long way since then. The same thing applies to Darwin and evolutionary theory."

Evolution is preserved luck bootstrapping its way ...

2008-02-09T05:45:00.000-05:00

Evolution is preserved luck bootstrapping its way towards the infinite and unknown.

I don't think they care, but if you could figure out a quick explanation of it that makes sense. Some of them are probably just ignorant. Like a game of Yahtzee it's really hard to roll a perfect game but if there were no limit on the number of rolls you were permitted you'd do so fairly trivially. Same concept, except we're dealing with nucleotide sequences which code for proteins and cause slight developmental tweaks.

I wonder if there is a short, current, clearly sta...

2008-02-08T20:07:00.000-05:00

I wonder if there is a short, current, clearly stated description of evolution theory that one could use in discussions with theists. That could be useful.