Would any of you drive a car made by Darwin's ideas?

[JesusHChrist]

I think this post ends the discussion.

Yes, but it would be nice for the "prof" to acknowledge evolutionary processes to solve problems, are used throughout the technological world.

If he did, I missed it.

Will you redeem yourself prof, or do you intend to be forever relegated to the ranks of ignorant Jesus shitheads?

[professor]

My initial thought with this post was, you guys would never use darwinian principles to go to grandma's house- you would never get there.
We would rather not buy a car assembled on friday (or is it monday?) in case there was any shortcuts in it's construction, and yet you think this whole shebang just assembled itself?

I see a huge disconnect betweeen everyday life (including making very complicated machines) and the belief system that has become a dogma.

[Crossless2.0]

I say that either the "Professor" acknowledges that he was wrong on the specific point of the OP, as well as stunningly ignorant of biological evolution, or a couple of his knee-slappers in this thread should be immortalized in the Hall of Shame.

[Mudhammam]

I build machines, am involved in design, and testing.
We make intensive effort to eliminate all randomness from our products.

Every machine begins with an idea and a bank of historical engineering knowledge, plus thousands of hours of development.
This is the real world.
Not the land of Academia.

Recently, one of the engineers said that a suggestion from the 6Sigma people was to take one of the bearings we are dealing with- walk it around the yard and put it back in the machine.
To test "Randomness". We all laughed at such idiocy.
Then, I thought- where would such a stupid idea come from?
Where else? From school.
Now, who is up for owning a Darwinmobile?

Like, um, a horse?

[Bad Wolf]

Dogma? Do you even know what that word means?

[LastPoet]

I confess I haven't paid much attention to the old fool since I heard about his theory in grade school.

Giving the transparent lack of knowledge about the ToE, yet parroting such ignorance to the point of calling Darwin a fool, what does that make you?

[Alex K]

My initial thought with this post was, you guys would never use darwinian principles to go to grandma's house- you would never get there.
We would rather not buy a car assembled on friday (or is it monday?) in case there was any shortcuts in it's construction, and yet you think this whole shebang just assembled itself?

I see a huge disconnect betweeen everyday life (including making very complicated machines) and the belief system that has become a dogma.

You were just given evidence that this disconnect only exists in your imagination, including a listing of published engineering papers. Are you too dumb or to indoctrinated to acknowledge that?

[Esquilax]

My initial thought with this post was, you guys would never use darwinian principles to go to grandma's house- you would never get there.

"Thought" is probably too generous a word for what you spewed out. And then when you were shown that, in fact, grandma's house could be located through evolutionary principles, you threw a little bitch fit as each of your tired old arguments were debunked.

Now you're reduced to this baffling, ranting nonsense.

We would rather not buy a car assembled on friday (or is it monday?) in case there was any shortcuts in it's construction, and yet you think this whole shebang just assembled itself?

Misinterpreting abiogenesis as evolution? That's a paddling.

I see a huge disconnect betweeen everyday life (including making very complicated machines) and the belief system that has become a dogma.

Can I ask you something? I mean, I know you're not actually forming coherent thoughts at the moment, but even if we didn't use evolutionary ideas in engineering, even if your initial point was exactly right, how would that invalidate natural, organic evolution? Manufacturing is very different to the natural world, in case you haven't noticed.

You could use the same premises of your initial argument to say that, since you wouldn't want a car that poops, therefore defecation isn't real. You're just being stupid, now.

[Simon Moon]

My initial thought with this post was, you guys would never use darwinian principles to go to grandma's house- you would never get there.
We would rather not buy a car assembled on friday (or is it monday?) in case there was any shortcuts in it's construction, and yet you think this whole shebang just assembled itself?

I see a huge disconnect betweeen everyday life (including making very complicated machines) and the belief system that has become a dogma.

Yes, your straw man version of evolution does not hold up to scrutiny.

What a shock.

[Chad32]

Misinterpreting abiogenesis as evolution? That's a paddling.

Do you watch BionicDance too? She likes posting that clip from The Simpsons.