Timothy McDougald
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Joined: Dec. 2006
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| Quote (Kristine @ May 20 2010,20:08) | | Quote (afarensis @ May 20 2010,19:40) | Low and behold another email. This one full of gross mischaracterizations of natural selection - and an insulting account of "cavemen" to boot:
| Quote | Darwin was definitely right about natural selection.
To be fair, being right about that is no Nobel Prize
winning accomplishment. The weaklings die and the strong
survive. I think our cave man ancestors were familiar with
that one.
(Rog hits Grog over the head with a rock and kills him,
then they both get eaten by a hungry tiger. Survival of the
fittest... nothing profound about that.)
Seriously, natural selection does not have any kind of
creative power at all. All it does is kill of the runts. |
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*Headdesk* So, to use their own comic book version, whose child went and hunted the tiger - Roc or Groc's? Because which one of them had children? And which one was the swingin' bachelor back at the cave?
They always forget - everything dies. Natural selection kills everything. It isn't "death" that is the essential factor, it's differential reproduction.
And being "fit" in this cartoonish caricature has nothing to do with happiness. A lot of animals never reproduce, and they're not walking around with long faces, thinking "I'm stupid and weak, and my genes will never be passed on." As long as your sibling reproduces, you essentially do; once again creationists have no clue what long time spans we are talking about when we are talking about adaptations. Arg! |
I think creationism - of any stripe - can be summed up in the phrase "I can haz equivocation?"
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