Are learned and innate the only types of behaviors?

Why? In Message 61 you wrote:

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Nothing I have seen conflict with the existence of something in the atmosphere that is being called 'nitrogen'.

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What, exactly, have you seen that conflicts with the idea that behavior is either innate or learned? Yeah right Would you care to expand on this personal evidence? Can you simply just say what it is?Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

WEAK!The citations don't exist and neither does your persona evidence. You're avoiding the issue because you have nothing. You're just making up crap.I'm sorry I wasted my keystrokes on you.Get back under the bridge, troll.

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You know, you could just assume, for the sake of argument, that the citations have been provided and then tell us your observation.But that would require that you actually do have something, which I realize you do not.Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

The crows were not taking drugs.You're saying their behavior was not necessarily either learned or evolved.By what other mechanism could they exhibit this behavior?All you are doing is bitching about the proposed ones, but you haven't provided anything better.What is the other option besides learned or evolved!?

Do you honestly think that that is a plausible mechanism?That is, that there is some foreign substance in the nuts that makes the crows find the optimum drop height.I'll grant you that it is not impossible, and I did ask, so thanks. But, seriouly, do you think that is in any way plausible?Or do you like it only because it is not-learned and not-evolved? You know, because you're biased against those being the only options...

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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country"

The behavior in question is finding the optimum drop height. The scientist concluded that the behavior was learned or evolved. You claim that it could be something other than learned or evolved. When pressed for what it could be, you claim it could be from ingestion of foreign substance.My question now is:Do you honestly think that the crow's behavior of finding the optimum drop height could be comming from the ingestion of foreign substances?

Bullshit.You haven't seen anything with your own eyes that suggests that.If you did, you would have shared it by now.

I admitted it was possible, it just doesn't seem plausible.How can this induction of a change in behavior be in all the crows if it comes from the diet? All the crow would have to be eating the same foreign substance and it would have to affect them all in the same way.This possibility does not explain the phenomenon better than the one that postulates that the behavior is learned or evolved.So I guess I was correct when I said in Message 125:

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Or do you like it only because it is not-learned and not-evolved? You know, because you're biased against those being the only options...

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I can't get over realizing that you are just grabbing at anything you can think because you want there to be a non-learned, non-evolved mechanism.I have no interest of discussion of that nature.It is preposterous to suggest that there is something in the nuts that allows the crows to find the optimum height. And that this is a non-learned, non-evolved behavior.The crows are on drugs, that's how they find the optimum height. Basically, I'm not going to argue with you that the sky is not green.

I don't think you're being honest in your arguments.You just want to oppose evolution...You're a troll and I'm an asshole so you can expect more rants from me.