Re: Retrograde Poe's Law

On Apr 2, 8:07 am, Boikat <boi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 2, 9:58 am, cephalocordata <copy_pa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Case in point: TheFanOfCrypto138's youtube comment onhttp://www.youtube..com/watch?v=yVqJ_mQazik

"It is so odd how people still don't believe in evolution even though
it has been proven! I mean, there is so much evidence backing it to be
true, and no evidence of God! People fighting and killing each other
over religion and what they can't understand! Evolution makes so much
sense and it IS real! Thank you Darwin, you're MY god!"

Seems like a parodying creo at the first read, but he's really just a
15 year old who digs computer games and evolution.
Is there a word for such a thing as a reverse Poe? Someone who writes
so enthusiasticly about Darwin and evolution that you begin to smell a
troll.

There are "loons" on both sides.

Boikat

But he's not a loon; he's a kid. When I was a kid I assumed that the
experts knew what they were talking about (a reasonable assumption)
and that everyone wanted to figure out how stuff worked (in
retrospect, a naive assumption). In time I learned enough about the
current level of scientific knowledge and technology (i.e. not much)
and scientific methodology (pretty simple on the surface) and human
nature (depraved and noble, mixed (like the Shaunessy twins (sigh)))
that I was able to reasonably assess where folks were coming from on
these issues.

When I was 10 I was distracted for a while by the likes of Veilikovsky
because I had a hard time convincing myself that folks would just make
stuff up. However, over time my church convinced me that folks would.

Kermit

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