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Message 67 of 165 (689146)
01-28-2013 2:01 PM
Reply to: Message 65 by Arriba
01-28-2013 1:08 PM


Re: The story is not complete.
Arriba writes:
Natural selection is, at best, a tautology. Anyone can state that the fittest will survive as long as you can define what "fit" means after you know who does and does not survive.
No.
We can predict natural selection and show it actually happen. There are many repeatable experiments with bacteria and of course the peppered moth studies have shown it in the wild.
If you want to see more - for example wall lizards diet and mouse camouflage colour, go have a look at the evolution of novel features threads.
Natural selection is an easy part of the ToE to find really good evidence for, you don't have to rely on linguistic argument - you can see it.

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Message 123 of 165 (689882)
02-05-2013 3:11 PM
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02-05-2013 9:04 AM


Re: Unprovable Postulates
Arriba writes:
I can tell you for a fact that Newton wasn't a scientist.
Who cares? Gravity would work the same way if a poet or a pig farmer wrote the equations.
Perhaps Catholicism is more responsible for us getting to the moon than science, eh?
Einstein was a patent clerk, does that mean government bureaucrats discovered relativity? (this in the days when scientist were called scientists and everything)

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Message 138 of 165 (690612)
02-14-2013 3:21 PM
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02-14-2013 3:05 PM


Re: Unprovable Postulates
Arriba writes:
Now I know you are anxious to claim posthumously that everyone you approve of was indeed a scientist because it fits in well with your theory of the world. Unfortunately, it’s not going to work.
You seem to be under the impression that anyone here cares whether Galileo, Newton, various Egyptians, my mum or whoever was a scientist or not. I doubt anyone give a flying tea trolley. We're only interested in what they discovered.
Do you have a different point you're trying to make or am I missing something?

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Message 141 of 165 (690616)
02-14-2013 3:48 PM
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02-14-2013 3:25 PM


Re: Unprovable Postulates
Dr A writes:
Character flaw or hobby? --- you decide.
Hobby.
Do I win the tea trolley?

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