RE: The code that is DNA
December 25, 2019 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2019 at 3:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
a...specific...phylogeny...is...a...hypothesis. The category of "phylogeny", is not.
Do you understand?
Lets say we wanted to order cars into makes and models. We would use all sort of information to determine this - but all the while, we would know that every internal combustion engine powered vehicle was a member of that set - with a shared technological heritage. Does that help? We could order our cats or our dogs into family trees...but all the while, we would know that every cat..is a cat...every dog, a dog. We might want to order people into groups of "sons" and "fathers", but all the while, we would know that sons and fathers were both members of the same tree.
Do you accept that paternity tests work, or do you not? Conceptually, it's fine if you don't. You would be wrong, but you will at least, then, have a position on the matter. What's not fine, conceptually, is when you decide to accept a certain set of evidence for a conclusion, and then reject that same evidence, for the same conclusion, in any other situation that it may arise. Then, you do not have a position.
I appreciate that your cretinist religion has taught you to assert otherwise, and that there is more than this, to this - but there is not. Here again, a position would be dandy - you either accept biology - or you do not. It's fine, conceptually, if you don't. You would be wrong - but at least you would have a position. This, ultimately, is why cretinism fails. As witnesses in it's defense conceded when they folloishly drove it to trial, it is not a position on anything at all. It fails basic standards of formulation and scrutiny.
It's up to you whether you want to saddle your personal christian religion with failed cretinist dogma.
Do you understand?
Lets say we wanted to order cars into makes and models. We would use all sort of information to determine this - but all the while, we would know that every internal combustion engine powered vehicle was a member of that set - with a shared technological heritage. Does that help? We could order our cats or our dogs into family trees...but all the while, we would know that every cat..is a cat...every dog, a dog. We might want to order people into groups of "sons" and "fathers", but all the while, we would know that sons and fathers were both members of the same tree.
Do you accept that paternity tests work, or do you not? Conceptually, it's fine if you don't. You would be wrong, but you will at least, then, have a position on the matter. What's not fine, conceptually, is when you decide to accept a certain set of evidence for a conclusion, and then reject that same evidence, for the same conclusion, in any other situation that it may arise. Then, you do not have a position.
I appreciate that your cretinist religion has taught you to assert otherwise, and that there is more than this, to this - but there is not. Here again, a position would be dandy - you either accept biology - or you do not. It's fine, conceptually, if you don't. You would be wrong - but at least you would have a position. This, ultimately, is why cretinism fails. As witnesses in it's defense conceded when they folloishly drove it to trial, it is not a position on anything at all. It fails basic standards of formulation and scrutiny.
It's up to you whether you want to saddle your personal christian religion with failed cretinist dogma.
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