Posted: Jun 25, 2014 5:45 am
Oldskeptic wrote:Well, JayJay, I guess I could say that's it's been fun discussing this nonsense with you but that would be a lie, and it's actually gotten boring having you misinterpret even what you've written yourself. Having you densely or purposely ignore and deny points of fact and blithely go on is no fun to respond to the second or third time.
It’s OK to end a discussion at any time but it’s not quite OK in my book, to use the ending as an excuse for unreferenced bad mouthing. With all my faults I’ve scrupled to do that.. For my part I have enjoyed our discussion. You have a good ability to see the point at issue.
Oldskeptic wrote:You can have your stupid idea that picking up a stick can create a new genus, enjoy it. And I hope your fantasy of "atheist ideology" controlling biology and evolutionary thought provides for you warm fuzzy feelings.
Small correction. It wasn’t picking up a stick that was capable of creating a new genus it was habitually carrying around a stick (and maybe a stone)and using those habitually in defense against predation by African predators who had as alternative prey, African antelope and baboons. It’s completely reasonable to look into the case that that would have been a game changer for the wielders body, brain, social organization and interest in objects.
In the case of the pom pom crab, an analogous habit is actually shared by members of a distinctive genus Lybia. Let me put in that charming pic again:
And the atheist ideology isn’t a fantasy. Give a sample of people a shared important idea, give them opposition and soon they will develop an ideology that protects and develops that belief. They might develop their own origin narrative, if their opposition has one. I’m baffled why you should deny it. Maybe it’s to do with a culturally dominant ideology gaining power by presenting itself to be the whole world.
Oldskeptic wrote:It's enough for me to know that your foolish ideas have been exposed, as has your lack of reading comprehension and bias towards any fantasy that you lock on to.
Sure Oldskeptic. You go well.