Secondly, diversity may be advantageous if a population survives a population-threatening event but there is no way to assert that diversity is good for a population before the population-threatening event is known because it is threateningly unknown.
The above seems to be the typical problem of evolutionary thinking: on the one hand the actus reas (the guilty act, to use legal terminology in relation to the sin of evolving) is confused with the mens rea (the guilty mind) in the sense that evolutionists all believe they have evolved because they think they have evolved, on the other hand the mens rea is confused with the actus reas in the sense that it is believed that we can evolve before there is time to evolve, simply because we are already thought to have evolved, mistakenly.
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Great googly-moogly. That is some powerful rectal emission your slinging there, Gottservant. I do think you subscribe to the saying "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit."
Evolutionary thinking? Is that thinking done by those who back evolution or the thinking done by those who work in fields that deal with evolution? That would be the best fundie insult ever: "You, you, you... evolutionary thinker!"
Secondly, diversity may be advantageous if a population survives a population-threatening event but there is no way to assert that diversity is good for a population before the population-threatening event is known because it is threateningly unknown.
"Truly you have a dizzying intellect."
"Wait till I get going!... now where was I?"
@szenah
Don't throw big words around until you understand them, dipshit.
The only thing I could get into my mind after that is Jimmy Buffett's version of the Hokey Pokey.
Ok, just put it this way. Imagine there is a new virus, or a new glaciation and everyone is like in Brave New World, we all have the same genetic code. Do you know what happens?, WE ALL DIE, end of the tape. So, before your mens rea looks like DIARRHOEA, be a little less pseudoscientific.
...the end didn't make sense anymore. Your becauses were unclear. You mean we think our evolution was caused by us, at this point in time, thinking it backward over the millenia? Because that would be a fascinating basis for a new religion but it isn't part of the theory of evolution.
The second bit seems to be saying that we decided we'd evolved and therefore decided the world is older than it is so that that was possible. Which, blah. Geology was an important part of early evolutionary reasoning.
And you, sir, seem to have fallen victim to teleological thinking.
Mutations are undirected. They don't happen to serve any particular purpose. Evolution is when they persist in a population and become regular. Usually because they're advantageous, although some things have almost certainly managed to evolve simply because they weren't disadvantageous and happened to occur a lot in specimens who perpetuated their genes for other reasons.
The catastrophe that kills everyone who doesn't have the sickle-cell trait (i.e. the malaria epidemic to end all malaria) will also kill all the people who don't have fairly recent African ancestry along with most of those who do. The sickle-cell trait isn't in any way linked to pigmentation genes, it's just that is the population in which that mutation is fairly widespread. Which in turn has to do with selection and where malaria has historically been most common.
But all the white people dying in the magic malaria pandemic wouldn't be because pale skin was maladaptive. It'd be coincidence.
This stuff is pretty random. Really.
"...to the sin of evolving..."
So evolving is a sin? Then go blow your brains out and rid us of your stupidity, moron. Sheesh.
Failing at law, biology and latin at the same time.
And it's actus reUS, for god's sake.
Confused?
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