Darwin's meme: or the origin of culture by means of natural selection
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- Brookoioioi
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doubtfull...
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I once heard Stephen Jay Gould speak. Educated fellow.
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i will kill a thousand innocent puppies if anyone mentions "intelligent design" in this thread..
- jox0
Indelligent Tesign.
- version30
start killing...
i will kill a thousand innocent puppies if anyone mentions "intelligent design" in this thread..
Crouwel
(Jan 30 06, 13:22)well you brought it up ;)
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I'm right and you know it! :P
- jox0
I'm wrong and I can prove it! :P
JazX
(Jan 30 06, 13:26)
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I love Monaco wussies!
:O
- Brookoioioi0
once heard Stephen Jay Gould speak. Educated fellow.
Educated, Gifted, Wrong...
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once heard Stephen Jay Gould speak. Educated fellow.
Educated, Gifted, Wrong...
Brookoioioi
(Jan 30 06, 13:32)hmmm?
- Brookoioioi0
well not on everything, but on a few essentials, examples like:
asuuming macromutations like whole phylum - level inks could be an impotant part of the process of evolution.(reaches for the bookcase...)
- Brookoioioi0
inks should read leaps.
- flagellum0
Here's a very recent article in which Roger Scruton demonstrates that Dawkin's the "meme" is not only flawed, it's anti-intellectual.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/i…
Oh, but you said "Darwin's" meme? Hmmm.
- flagellum0
Oh oh! It's the Spaghetti Monster you are interested in. Well then...
http://www.uncommondescent.com/i…
The comments are especially fun.
Now don't you feel silly.
- pavlovs_dog0
flagellum = discipler = douche nozzle.
for anyone who's keeping score.
- jevad0
YAWN
- Brookoioioi0
my point was nicely summed up by this "
"One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence."
- ribit0
YAWN
jevad
(Jan 30 06, 14:04)careful you'll have everyone yawning... *hmmm...
- flagellum0
Overwhelming observable evidence? Like the sudden appearance of most significant phyla during the Cambrian era? Or digital code along the spine of DNA? Or maybe Irreducibly Complex machinery on the biochemical level?
- Mimio0
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jevad
(Jan 30 06, 14:04)careful you'll have everyone yawning... *hmmm...
ribit
(Jan 30 06, 14:11)//Careful that's how Jesus designed it. Don't mock the maker.