RE: "Teach the Controversy!" Facepalm*
December 9, 2016 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2016 at 2:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Bringing this back down to earth and out of the hallowed halls of academic arcana.......you don't need a phd to either observe or understand evolution. You don't need to know -anything- about modern synth, or any component of modern synth. The people who came up with the notions, as a point of fact, could have never gone to school to learn them. No one was teaching them, no one knew about them....they didn't have sequencers or electron microscopes.....they didn't have a robust working knowledge..even of basic biology.
The attempt to place it -into- arcanum, particularly by the religious, is just an excuse to mount an argument from incredulity, the kind of argument that RR here worships at a veritable altar...despite it being something that doesn;t require belief in, or belief in the statements or observations of others.
Go grow a garden. What you see, is evolution. Hell, don;t grow a garden, just take a field survey of the weeds in your yard. There won't be a single impenetrable mystery of evolution not laid bare, by staring at a patch of dirt with seeds in it. That;s how simple the whole thing is, from the perspective of a layperson, interested only in determining it;s veracity for himself, and not assigning exacting and excruciating terms to each and every variable. Gregor Mendel figured out the basics of genetics with fucking peas. Darwin figured out NS by staring at bird beaks. If a person can't handle that, all on their own, any talk of understanding something more complicated is moot point....phd or not.
The attempt to place it -into- arcanum, particularly by the religious, is just an excuse to mount an argument from incredulity, the kind of argument that RR here worships at a veritable altar...despite it being something that doesn;t require belief in, or belief in the statements or observations of others.
Go grow a garden. What you see, is evolution. Hell, don;t grow a garden, just take a field survey of the weeds in your yard. There won't be a single impenetrable mystery of evolution not laid bare, by staring at a patch of dirt with seeds in it. That;s how simple the whole thing is, from the perspective of a layperson, interested only in determining it;s veracity for himself, and not assigning exacting and excruciating terms to each and every variable. Gregor Mendel figured out the basics of genetics with fucking peas. Darwin figured out NS by staring at bird beaks. If a person can't handle that, all on their own, any talk of understanding something more complicated is moot point....phd or not.
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