Re: DI: How Evolution will be Taught Someday

On Jul 25, 11:37 am, Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:55:23 -0000, Bob D <ju.d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:
On 25 Jul, 15:43, "Elf M. Sternberg" <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/07/mathematician_makes_hopeful_pr.html


Is the author simply ignorant, or a lier?

Until I first found this group some years ago, I really believed
nobody could be that ignorant.

Now I know better :)
Oh.

Helping out the 'competition' ... The consideration of ducks alone,
will suffice.

Following on from the OP link:

[Quoting ...] MSNBC Promotes Darwinian Just-So Stories that are For
The Birds

Question: What do you do when a theory logically predicts both (a) and
not (a)?
Answer: Apparently you heavily promote it.

MSNBC recently published two articles promoting Darwinian just-so
stories to the public. The first article about the evolution of
Waterfowl genitalia contends, "Scientists had speculated that male
waterfowl evolved longer phalluses to give them a competitive edge
over those not as well-endowed when it came to successfully
fertilizing females." That makes sense, I suppose. But the article
makes one admission that strikingly contradicts that little just-so
hypothesis: "Most birds lack phalluses, organs like human penises.
Waterfowl are among the just 3 percent of all living bird species that
retain the grooved phallus..." If long phalluses are so advantageous for
reproduction, why did so many birds supposedly lose them? Darwinists
will look back retroactively and claim that under the environmental
conditions or sexual selection pressures experienced by most bird
species, long phalluses weren't advantageous. The problem in so doing
is that they now have a theory which can explain both (a) long
phalluses, and also not (a).

The second article, "Why we quit aping around, began walking,"
hypothesizes that humans began walking upright because ...

[ ... EndQuoting] See http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/07/msnbc_promotes_darwinian_justs.html

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Blue-bill
2) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/yu-bt042707.php

As the saying goes:

... a duck for a fuck, a fuck for a duck, and a fucked up duck.

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