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Topic: John A. Davison: An Evolutionary Manifesto: A New Hypothesis For Organic Change
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Martin
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posted 25. May 2007 16:17
It's a right thing that John noticed Myeres employer of Myeres despicable behaviour. It seems to me weird that doctor Myeres write his "articles" like an automata every two hours from 8 AM till 22 PM 24/7/365 - does have the poor doctor of darwinism Meyers enough time for his work and lectures at UNI?
Anyway I would like to quote G.B.Shaw opinion about darwinism and Natural selection (after I quoted Nietzsche and Nabokov thoughts on the darwinism in my previous posts):
"...the Darwinian process may be described as a chapter of accidents. As such, it seems simple, because you do not at first realize all that involves. But when its whole significance dawns on you, your heart sinks into a heap of sand within you. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration, to such casually picturesque changes as an avalanche may make in landscape, or a railway accident in a human figure. To call this Natural Selection is a blasphemy, possible to many for whom Nature is nothing but a casual aggregation of inert and dead matter, but eternally impossible to the spirits and souls of the righteous. If it be no blasphemy, but a truth of science, then the stars of heaven, the showers and dew, the winter and summer, the fire and heat, the mountains and hills, may no longer be called to exalt the Lord with us by praise: their work is to modify all things by blindly starving and murdering everything that is not lucky enough to survive in the universal struggle for hogwash." (Shaw 1921, p. xliv-xlvi). "
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posted 25. May 2007 17:10
Good show Martin!
We don't need anyone else. That is the way it was determined to be, "prescribed" to be. We are each a victim of our determined fate. You and I happen to be among the relatively few lucky ones. Rejoice as I do!
"Everything is determined...by forces over which we have no control."
Albert Einstein
I would only substitute was for is.
I love it so!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 25. May 2007 20:05
I regard it as very significant that neither Martin nor myself are permitted to introduce threads on this forum, virtually the last forum where we are even allowed to speak. I have asked others to introduce a thread dealing with global warming and received not even an acknowledgement that such a request was even made.
I grow tired of this sort of treatment and so tomorrow I will present my analysis of why we must take global warming very seriously and I will do it right here in this thread and in this forum where I have not yet been summarily banned. I call particular attention to David Springer, the biggest bully in cyberdom who has rejected global warming as a "swindle."
Such personalities have no place in rational discussion and I do not expect him to engage in this futile attempt on my part to introduce an element of rationality into a world dominated by pontificating blowhards such as himself. That goes for any other arrogant blogczar who has found it necessary to ban either Martin or myself from their egomaniacal, ideologically dominated, thoroughly hypocritical proceedings.
This wholesale demonstration of insecure intellectual bigotry has gone on long enough. It is time for "the moment of truth." Are Martin and myself allowed to express our convictions freely or are we not?
Tomorrow we will find out right here at "brainstorms" as we already have on so many other blogs and forums.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 26. May 2007 18:41
I will delay until tomorrow to introduce my response to DaveScot's (David Springer) characterization of global warming as a "swindle." I have been too busy exposing another sociopathic bully, P.Z. Meyers, on "One Blog a Day" which has now reached over 700 messages! I recommend it highly.
First things first!
It is hard to believe isn't it?
I love it so!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable"
John A. Davison
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posted 27. May 2007 10:45
One of my convictions presented in the subject of this thread is that creative evolution is a phenomenon of the distant past. What we see today is the terminus of a once immense phenomenon no longer taking place. This was the firm conclusion of both Robert Broom and Julian Huxley as well as the apparent positions implicit in the writings of Otto Schindewolf and Pierre Grasse.
We see today powerful evidence which will lead in my opinion to a complete destruction of the balance of nature that in the past has always served to permit evolution to reach its climax with the production of the only rational species that will ever emerge, ourselves.
Never before in the history of the planet has there been a monoculture of nearly seven billion relatively large mammals coexisting with approximately the same number of chickens along with billions of other assorted domesticated creatures, cattle, sheep, pigs etc.
In my opinion the earth cannot possibly sustain such a situation for even a relatively short period of time. That is why I regard the subject of global warming of such paramount importance.
Since I am a physiologist both by background and inclination I am going to present a physiological argument. Like every other aerobic organism, Homo sapiens is a chemical machine deriving his energy from the oxidation of foodstuffs. A typical human being at rest is the energetic equivalent of an 80 watt light bulb or approximately a tenth of a horsepower. One horsepower is 746 watts in case anyone has forgotten. A well trained athlete can only for very short periods of time approach one H.P. or ten times his resting metabolic rate.
Man's many machines are consuming their energy sources also by the oxidation of their particular fuels, coal, gasoline, natural and synthetic gas etc, etc.
Consider a person cruising along in his conservatively rated 200 H.P. automobile. Such an automobile while in motion is the equivalent of 2000 human beings at rest like the driver of that automobile. The major products of all these oxidations are the two major green house gases, H2O and CO2.
In the meantime, one of the major sinks for atmospheric CO2, the tropical rainforests are being destroyed.
Of course we all hear about how CO2 is good for plants. There is not a shred of evidence that CO2 is ever the limiting factor for natural plant growth. It is without exception either water, mineral nutrients, temperature or light.
This is why it really rankles me to hear pontificating blowhards like David Springer dismiss global warming by describing it as a "swindle."
The warning signs continue each year with small but exponentially increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 and similar increases in recorded sea levels. On a per annum basis these changes may very well be the most rapid in the history of the planet. It is probably already much too late to save ourselves. The only solutions I can forsee are pandemic disease, mass genocide and, if all else fails, nuclear holocaust. They all seem equally likely if you ask me.
To ridiclule these warning signs as of no significance is arrogant, dangerous and unscientific.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 27. May 2007 14:00
Over at Uncommon Descent DaveScot (David Springer) just presented his latest pronunciamento under the title "CLIMATE CATASTROPHE CANCELLED."
It is too bad I can't answer him there but if even I could he would ban me again as he already has - twice. He doesn't like being challenged.
It doesn't get any better than this.
A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 27. May 2007 14:33
Doctor of darwinism Meyeres is a funny guy. Did you notice his latest article about John Davison email to prevost? I like it - especially doctor "innocent" remark he wrote specially with small font:
P.S. I haven't written any obscene comments about Davison, let alone posted them under his name. I think he has gotten … confused.
O really? Didn't really poor doctor post it under John name? Strange enough I can see it there still (nr.45, he commented me btw.) - and John is banned, you know...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/its_still_going_on.php
So - confused is here obviously someone else - no wonder when the poor doctor believes in darwinism...
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posted 27. May 2007 14:44
Myers thinks nothing of deleting and reinserting comments. Sometimes it is whole threads.
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