Posted: May 07, 2012 5:49 pm
asyncritus wrote:Spearthrower wrote:You have equally completely failed to account for the way in which ANY instinct AROSE. All this bleating about the earth's magnetic field and shifting continents is more utter failure to account for HOW THE BEHAVIOURAL INSTINCT AROSE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Why should a fish swim 3000 miles only to die? Why didn't it stay right where it was? How did that piece of behaviour originate?
Why should a swallow fly 7,800 miles to arrive on the same date at the same place every year? Isn't a flight like that a perfect recipe for extinction? And what does evolution have to say for the way that behaviour originated?
Shall I tell you? It doesn't. It can't. It has no hope of doing so.
What i love best about this nonsensical handwaving is that Asyncritus would have us believe the a supreme intellect is the source for them!
On the one hand, Async will wax lyrical about the failings, as he sees them, of evolution to account for the absurdities of instinctive behaviour.
And the very next moment, he'll be claiming they're proof of Divine Intent, of the Omniscient kind.
Forget having your cake and eating it.... this method seems to involve engaging in coprophagia too!
Now can we I have an answer to either or both of the 2 questions?
FIFY
You already had them, what we're waiting for is you actually addressing the explanation, instead of ignoring it or dismiss it out of hand.
Again, FIFY, you're the only one who's continually hand-waving or even outright ignoring answers, explanations and challenges. The more you repeat it, the more ridiculous your disingenuous and hypocritical requests become.
asyncritus wrote:You I say 'absurdities of instinctive behaviour'. I'm still waiting for some explanation of the origin of the absurdities of
a. The swallows' magnificent journey
b. The godwit's (nice name, that) epic two-way trans-Pacific journey
c. The eels' migration.
And of course, how the behaviour entered the genome.
Yes, we're al too aware of your ignorance and incredulity, neither of which are arguments, let alone valid arguments against evolution.
asyncritus wrote:Please begin your statements with something like:
Nope, you still don't get to dictate how someone formulates their response, no matter how much you'd like to.
As long as his explanation is valid and in accord with the facts it does not matter how he formulates it.
asyncritus wrote:The XYZ behaviour in the (name of organism) originated thus...
The XYZ behaviour in the (name of organism) entered the genome thus...
If you can see your way to doing this, it will assist me considerably in evaluating the quality of your evidence/whatever.
It clearly doesn't since These kind of explanations have been provided to you and your dismissed them out of hand!.
asyncritus wrote:I have been away for a few days, and if in the meantime you have produced the required answers,
Nonsense, he produced them before you went away.
asyncritus wrote:then forgive my missing them,
We won't since you've been ignoring and hand waving his answers since the start of this thread.
asyncritus wrote:and link me directly, as I haven't yet had the time to read through the updated pages.
Why? You'll just dismiss them out of hand anyway.
asyncritus wrote:If on the other hand you have been handwaving and producing generally irrelevant posts such as the one quoted, then please regard the above questions as outstanding and awaiting your response.
Still haven't found a mirror yet have you?
