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Topic: John A. Davison: An Evolutionary Manifesto: A New Hypothesis For Organic Change
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posted 25. February 2008 09:25
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/why-isnt-all-life-extinct/#comments
This thread, introduced by DaveScot/David Springer contains not a single grain of significance with respect to the question it poses. This is a perfect example of why I have been baned from contributing to a question about which I have presented substantial commentary in the past. It is sad that I must be denied the opportunity to contrubute to a question of such significance. It is just as well because the answers I would offer, if I could, would only lead to my summary banishment. No one differs with David Springer and survives at Uncommon Descent - no one. He is the world's expert on all matters, large and small. Fortunately I can still speak here and on my weblog -
john.a.davison.free/
The only thing that matters at UD and most other forums is summarized in one word - CONTROL. Internet blogs are little more than islands of intellectual protectionism, each naturally crowded with those who share similar congenitally warped views of the world around them. I thank God that is not a problem for me or my weblog.
"Birds of a feather flock together."
Cervantes
Here are just a few of the things that are wrong with the above thread.
"In breeding is bad."
That is nonsense. Inbreeding is a wonderful way to rid a population of defective genes. The homozygotes all die, leaving the few survivers free of the lethal and semi-lethal genes which populations, including human, accumulate. That explains why very often species on the verge of extinction can undergo a resurgence in vitality after their numbers reach a critically low level. It is known as the "bottleneck effect."
Plant and animal breeders frequently use inbreeding to restore vigor to their material. My Semi-meiotic hypothesis (SMH) accomplishes the same end and was probably a mechanism for progressive evolution in the past. The objections to inbreeding are purely cultural, not biological.
As for why we are not all extinct, most species soon will be! The history of life on this planet is the history of creation versus extinction. Creative evolution ceased long ago, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand the implications of that reality. There are hardly any present-day terrestrial species that even existed several million years ago, certainly no very large ones. There hasn't been a new Genus in two million years and I still maintain that there has not been an experimentally verified new true species produced in historical times.
The opossum, Didelphis marsupialis (ca. 10 pounds),is the only reasonably large land mammal that I know of that could even remotely be described as a living fossil. One reason for its survival is its enormous reproductive potential with litters of up to 16. It is also one of the least specialized mammals and I believe the one with the greatest natural range.
Large mammals are doomed to extinction because sexual reproduction is not suitable to the elimination of accumulating deleterious genes and their progeny, few in number, acquire defective genes, leaving few opportunities for natural selection to cull only the unfit. They all become unfit! All that natural selection ever did in the first place was to eliminate the unfit. It certainly never had anything to do with creative evolution.
All that nonsense about entropy and information storage has nothing to do with the question either.
Which brings me to another point. Why do the folks at Uncommon Descent insist on wasting their time criticizing the biggest hoax in the history of science? Don't they realize that is just prolonging the idiotic debate? Apparently not.
"Let my enemies destroy each other."
Salvador Dali
Let us pray.
There is little doubt in my mind that the entire evolutionary sequence was planned from beginning to end just as Einstein always insisted -
"Everything is determined... by forces over which we have no control."
Evolution stopped but extinction continues. Apparently that was the Plan and the Plan has been executed. We are now in the terminal stages of a "prescribed" sequence which I believe will soon come to an end as man is destroying the very environment that permitted it to take place, and with it himself. Furthermore, I do not believe there is anything we can now do about it.
The whole thing seems to me like a kind of bitter Cosmic joke.
"La commedia e finita."
Pagliacci
"Mankind fiddles while earth burns,"
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"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 26. February 2008 06:12
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I am happy to report a positive comment, and my response, #82 and #83.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 27. February 2008 04:05
http://www.uncommondescent.com/off-topic/wanted-more-greenhouse-gases/#comments
Here is DaveScot/David Springer at his egomaniacal best. Has he ever been wrong about anything?
His arrogance stems from a one year drop in overall global temperature estimates which have always varied widely on a year to year basis as the graph he cites clearly indicates. The overall trends continue steadily upward in rough parallel with the increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. There are also a number of flat out falsehoods in the article he cites which is from someone's blog.
The next thing you know Springer will be telling us that the glaciers are not receding, both poles are not melting, world wide precipitation is not increasing, weather is not becoming more severe, sea levels are not rising, and the earth is not undergoing the most rapid climate changes in its entire geological history. Have I left anything out Dave?
Frankly I think you are straw-clutching myself. Whatever else you do don't stop behaving as you always do with your unsurpassed arrogance and Olympian certainty.
Incidentally Dave, one reason for a cold year is because polar ice is rapidly melting. Where do you think the energy (80cal/gm) comes from when ice melts? Why it comes from the atmosphere of course. I thought everybody knew that by now!
I love it so!
It is hard to believe isn't it?
"Mankind fiddles while earth burns."
John A. Davison
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posted 01. March 2008 05:37
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Visit again to see how Ed has responded with insult and the F word and how he then baned me from any further discussion. I am confident that the thread will now reappear in the Archives from which it was definitely deleted. I will check in any event. P.Z. Myers has pulled the same stunt.
I love it so!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 02. March 2008 16:14
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Both DaveScot/David Springer and David L. Hagen/DLH continue to ridicule the global warming alarmists, Springer claiming they are "full of hot air."
Davids, both of you, it is not the alarmists that are full of hot air. It is the air off the Gulf that is hot and is spawning the violent weather, flooding and excessive precipitation that characterizes the current weather. Hot air holds more moisture than cold air and when it collides with cold air from the north, all hell can break loose as it has and as it will continue.
I repeat, that by the end of this decade, anthropogenic global warming deniers like you two Davids will be as scarce as hen's teeth. I can't wait for you to be finally forced to admit it.
It is hard to believe isn't it?
I love it so!
"Mankind fiddles while earth burns."
John A. Davison
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posted 03. March 2008 15:52
This is for the two Davids, Springer and Hagen, and all others who ignore us climate alarmists. Fox News just forecast tornados and "baseball-size hail" for the Gulf Coast. I didn't know hail stones got that big!
"Mankind fiddles while earth burns."
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posted 06. March 2008 04:28
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/too_little_too_late_too_cheesy.php#comments
Here goes P.Z. Myers again dumping on the Catholic Church for honoring Galileo. I wonder if Myers has ever heard of the Pontifical Academy of Science with Nobel Laureates in its membership. Where is the Protestant Academy of Science or, better yet, the Atheist Academy of Science P.Z.? Why don't you start one P.Z.? Just think you could be a charter member!
I love it so!
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 07. March 2008 05:09
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#57 offers a prediction on the '08 election. Real scientists make predictions you know. When was the last time a Darwinian made a prediction? Did they ever make one? Random walks are not predictable. Neither are accidents. So much for Darwinism!
I also repeat my prediction that those who deny a man made climate crisis will be scarce as hen's teeth before the end of this decade if not sooner, probably before the November elections.
I love it so!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable....Mankind fiddles while earth burns."
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