Aya

[Dildo Argentino]

Read on a bit more.  The Sheldrake section wasn't about Sheldrake being right.

The point RAW was making was that Darwin is seemingly held up as TRUTH™, and dismisses other theories.

RAW then brings up Sheldrake, Kroptokin, de Chardin, Lovelock, Smuts and Dreisch (neo-Lamarckians), Bateson, Bergson, McDougal... Even Neitzche, Jung, and Reich; and points out that most people haven't even heard those names before, and therefore have no grounds to refute them, apart from what the Experts with the biggest megaphones have to say.

What he doesn't point out is twofold: First, while Kai was still around, she clearly was updating her priors about Darwinism, to the point that "Darwinism" wasn't even a thing anymore.  The understanding of Evolution itself is evolving, as new information comes to light.  Secondly, while no one person has refuted all of them, all of them have been examined and been found wanting, so the collective understanding refutes most of the ideas; and the ones that aren't refuted are folded into the common current understanding.

"Collective understanding" is a contradiction in terms.

[Doktor Howl]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

Holist doesn't like the uppity females.

[Dildo Argentino]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

Holist doesn't like the uppity females.

No, I do! It's the lying bastards like you that get me all het up.

[Demolition Squid]

[Doktor Howl]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

Holist doesn't like the uppity females.

No, I do! It's the lying bastards like you that get me all het up.

Nope.  I've seen your behavior over the years, and you hate women that speak their mind.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

1. I consider your declaration of ignoring me to be a personal victory.

2. I consider every time you click on "show post" and frantically, sweatily, shamefully read it despite the fact that you've put me on ignore another personal victory, and I know that because your ego is fragile, constantly addressing you directly is a great way to ensure that happens.

Hey, what can I say... I'm out of school, in a bad mood, and there you are.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

Holist doesn't like the uppity females.

He doesn't like being asked questions that are too hard for him to answer, either. It's extra convenient to just claim to be ignoring me, while cherrypicking what to respond to because somehow he doesn't understand that it's obvious to everyone just how intellectually over his head he is.

[Doktor Howl]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

1. I consider your declaration of ignoring me to be a personal victory.

2. I consider every time you click on "show post" and frantically, sweatily, shamefully read it despite the fact that you've put me on ignore another personal victory, and I know that because your ego is fragile, constantly addressing you directly is a great way to ensure that happens.

Hey, what can I say... I'm out of school, in a bad mood, and there you are.

It's like watching someone get beaten with a gila monster.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You are not a very bright man, Holist. You are, at best, on the slow side of average.

That doesn't HAVE to be a character defect, you know.

[Doktor Howl]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

Holist doesn't like the uppity females.

He doesn't like being asked questions that are too hard for him to answer, either. It's extra convenient to just claim to be ignoring me, while cherrypicking what to respond to because somehow he doesn't understand that it's obvious to everyone just how intellectually over his head he is.

Again, it's the same as paganism (of the mahdjgicle variety):  If you aren't really GOOD at anything, spew bullshit and make shit up.

[Doktor Howl]

You are not a very bright man, Holist. You are, at best, on the slow side of average.

That doesn't HAVE to be a character defect, you know.

Naw.  But being a mean-spirited, preachy misogynist IS.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

1. I consider your declaration of ignoring me to be a personal victory.

2. I consider every time you click on "show post" and frantically, sweatily, shamefully read it despite the fact that you've put me on ignore another personal victory, and I know that because your ego is fragile, constantly addressing you directly is a great way to ensure that happens.

Hey, what can I say... I'm out of school, in a bad mood, and there you are.

It's like watching someone get beaten with a gila monster.   

I almost feel bad, because he's a little on the stupid side so I wanted to give him a chance. I have a soft spot for the intellectually challenged. But he's also just a relentlessly nasty little crapweasel, so, hey.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What I want to know is, Holist, if you want to believe so badly, why can't you just go ahead and be religious, instead of trying to shoehorn your religion into science, or trying to distort science so it can comfortably accommodate your religion?

Frankly, I don't understand why you and your ilk want to make the world smaller with hand-waving and magic, but it's your prerogative to believe in the supernatural if you want to. What's not your prerogative is the corruption of science in an attempt to give your beliefs legitimacy.

The beauty of science is that every answer raises a thousand new questions. That may be too big and scary for you to cope with, but that doesn't give you the right to try to diminish the vast wondrousness of the natural world for everyone else by explaining it away with superficial ideas about special magic science vibrations that work outside of the realm of all the other science.

What I want to know, Nigel, is why you keep talking to me if, as you previously claimed, you are glad I have decided to ignore you.

Holist doesn't like the uppity females.

He doesn't like being asked questions that are too hard for him to answer, either. It's extra convenient to just claim to be ignoring me, while cherrypicking what to respond to because somehow he doesn't understand that it's obvious to everyone just how intellectually over his head he is.

Again, it's the same as paganism (of the mahdjgicle variety):  If you aren't really GOOD at anything, spew bullshit and make shit up.

I bet he's frantically scanning his collection of bookmarked pseudoscience blogs in the hopes of finding something he can paraphrase that will make people think he sounds smart.

[Doktor Howl]

I bet he's frantically scanning his collection of bookmarked pseudoscience blogs in the hopes of finding something he can paraphrase that will make people think he sounds smart.

Maybe Faust could make a bot that would listen to his shit and respond in an awed manner.

Everyone would be happy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I bet he's frantically scanning his collection of bookmarked pseudoscience blogs in the hopes of finding something he can paraphrase that will make people think he sounds smart.

Maybe Faust could make a bot that would listen to his shit and respond in an awed manner.

Everyone would be happy.

That would be perfect.

If Holist bloviates in a sub, and only a bot is around to see it, is it still trite and obnoxious?