Re: How Our Brains Ignore Unpleasant Facts was: Re: The Reasonable

On Dec 26, 6:11 pm, Evopeach <keaton1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 25, 12:42 pm, Davej <galt...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 24, 4:18 pm, Evopeach <keaton1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]
Quote mining...... isn't that the evo term for rejecting the words of
their own experts across the entire domain of your hypothesis when
they slip up and tell the truth?
[...]

No, it is a childish tactic used by the desperate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quote_mining

Let's leave the wiki alone its banned at every grad school in America.

The egomania and irrationality of the evo team just guarantees plenty
of infighting and constant disagreement since its all a contest to
prove which one is the most brilliant. It is frequently an open window
into the hopeless facade of the entire theory and its many, many
weaknesses.

A little more quote minig on your great theory.

Encarta
Natural Selection, in evolution, the process by which environmental
effects lead to varying degrees of reproductive success among
individuals of a population of organisms with different hereditary
characters, or traits. The characters that inhibit reproductive
success decrease in frequency from generation to generation. The
resulting increase in the proportion of reproductively successful
individuals usually enhances the adaptation of the population to its
environment. Natural selection thus tends to promote adaptation by
maintaining favorable adaptations in a constant environment
(stabilizing selection) or improving adaptation in a direction
appropriate to environmental changes (directional selection). Charles
Darwin and Alfred Wallace first proposed this concept in 1858.
James W. Valentine, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California at
Berkeley. Coauthor of Evolution.


Valentine is one of the prominent people in evolutionary sciences and
although his explanation is far superior to any contributed by the
nemnals herein........its pitiful...NS is meaningless.

"the process by which environmental effects lead to varying degrees of
reproductive success"

Environmental effects are undefined and open ended.............lame

"The characters that inhibit reproductive success"

First undefined environmental effects and now characters or traits
which is it

....reproductively successful individuals usually enhances the adaptation
of the population to its environment."

Adaptation is undefined unless it means the enhanced ability to
reproduce long term in which case it is circular

....tends to promote adaptation by maintaining favorable adaptations...

or equally informative: tends to promote motion by maintaining
favorable movements"... will this help Newton

An adaptation is trait of an organism that has been favored by natural
selection . The concept is central to biology , particularly in
evolutionary biology -your beloved wiki urp!

Natural selection is meaningless, circular, tautological,
metaphysical, and lame depending on which writer is considered.

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