Posted: Jul 28, 2010 2:41 pm
Varangian wrote:I think we can safely ignore Stevebee; his ideas about evolution is a dead end on the evolutionary tree of fucktarded evasions of reality. His attitude is similar to that of flat-Earthers - one could take them into space and make them look through the window, and they would still claim it is a trick.
And I wholeheartedly agree. But it becomes a challenge to ignore people like this who don't know that they're better off just giving up and finding a different topic to rant about. SteveBee lacks credibility and has no authority to coin terms like "evolutionaut" or improperly use terms like "bio-system". He certainly has no authority to dismiss papers without actually reading them or dismiss hard facts.
We should probably focus our energy towards the real threats to evolutionary biology. Organizations like the Discovery Institute, Institute of Creation Research, and Answers in Genesis. These pseudoscience pushers are the bigger threat because they have money and political connections. Then there are other evangelical ministries that support the same YEC crap that need to be the focus because they too have the power to influence their large sub-layman audience.
Fortunately, we can rest easy knowing that they often have a next-to-zero chance when taken to court. Facts are never on their side and as one prominent person once said: "Facts are stubborn things."