[supersport explains the Luria-Delbruck experiment]
the problem for you people is that genomes work as a whole....the population works as a single unit, on which there is no selection.....there is a colony-wide communication going on that evos can't see and don't want to see, and the unfit members of the community are self-destructing for the benefit of the whole, not being murdered by selection, as evos would like.
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the problem for you people is that genomes work as a whole....
It does?
the population works as a single unit, on which there is no selection.....there is a colony-wide communication going on
Soooo... we're ants?
that evos can't see and don't want to see, and the unfit members of the community are self-destructing for the benefit of the whole, not being murdered by selection, as evos would like.
WTF?
Evolution doesn't say anything about murder, although if a badly-camouflaged skink gets spotted by a bird and eaten while his camouflaged brothers slink off into the swamp, I suppose that might be called "murder". With social animals like humans and wolves, the dynamics of who lives and dies gets complicated. It's almost certainly not what supersport thinks.
the problem for you people is that genomes work as a whole....the population works as a single unit, on which there is no selection.....there is a colony-wide communication going on that evos can't see and don't want to see, and the unfit members of the community are self-destructing for the benefit of the whole, not being murdered by selection, as evos would like.
FAIL
Outsider:
Supersport reminds me of a fundie version of Edgar Cayce sometimes. He does seem to spout quite a bit of woo from another planet on top of his crazy fundyism and his utter ignorance of science.
This, for example, sounds like he was reading Rupert Sheldrake while stoned and doing Delsym shots.
I can't, for the life of me, understand why they keep SS around. All but a few of the CARM regulars realize he makes them look like complete idiots by association. Alas, much like AV what's 16 his name, SS inhabits an impenetrable bubble of delusion and there's no hope. At least I usually get a "nobody can be that stupid and remember to breath" moment. And a chuckle or two.
Hey! I wonder if we could use fundies' delusion bubbles to store toxic and or nuclear waste? If reality can't get in, maybe waste can't get out? We could just stuff a fundy with several kilos of waste and then bury them, drop them in the ocean, or shoot them into space.
Does anyone know where to apply for research grants?
Ah yes... Horrible fail from understanding science...
1. Genomes do work as a whole.
2. The population does not. There are instances in population of behaviour that is learnt that others do not. There are also local selective pressures. Are you kidding me? There are selective pressures to survive. Why do you think money is such a powerful aphrodisiac? Hugh Hefner gets laid because he is rich, not because he is more likely to kill a lion with his bare hands.
3. Unfit members are killed by selective pressure from other life forms. What the hell, rabbits are eaten by foxes all the time and you are telling me that there is no selective pressures on either?
4. Unfit members do not self destruct. Else you would have died by now.
5. Colony wide communication is called "learning". It happens when one member of the colony learns to do something different that improves the acquisition of food, shelter and mates.
Oh and we are "like ants" we work in colonies. Without them we are "very weak".
It's like he opened up his mouth, threw up on the screen, and said to himself "There, that makes great pearls of sense."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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