[Do you accept the fact that genes control skin color (as well as the color of hair and eyes)?]
No...genes are the ultimate cause of nothing. Genes are the end result of a deeper cause. Genes, however, do play a role in change. Just as a car is involved in the process of rolling down the street, it is not in itself the cause -- the driver is.
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John wrote:
"Supersport goes on to say "that is the non-malignant variety of skin cancer". Non-malignant cancer? That's like saying non-lunar moon or non-aqueous water." Cancer is only classified as malignant if some of the cancer cells have broken free from the main tumor and swim freely in the bloodstream. If one of said loose cells find a new place to settle down and start raising a family, the cancer is said to have "metastasized" at the new site.
There really is such a thing as non-malignant cancer. Thing is, a non-malignant tumor can become malignant if some part of it undergoes the right mutation.
Tracer wrote:
"Cancer is ONLY classified as malignant if some of the cancer cells have broken free from the main tumor and swim freely in the bloodstream."
Obviously somebody hasn't heard of the lymphatic system before.
I read the news today.. Oh! Boy.
I don't even know where to begin with this twoddle.
Has he got Genes mixed up with Jeans, because they have no bearing on skin colour?
Whenever I start worrying about the future of humanity, I read something posted by Supersport.
Then I break down sobbing.
You mean mutations are the driver and genes are the car? Or maybe natural selection is the car, mutation of genes are the fuel, and evolution is the road. That's more like it.
I think he's on to something, people.
I think something has happened to you. You're worse than you were before, if that's possible. What is the point of having genes if they don't do anything?
Let's play your game then. Genes are not the cause of skin, eye and hair color, it's the proteins and other compounds the genes code for. I can't roll down the street by myself in my imaginary car any more than those compounds can come into existence under ordinary circumstances without the expression of DNA (genes).
If what he means to say is that genes are a contributing factor too, but not the ultimate decider of, your decisions, (that would be your brain) than yes that happens.
The rest of this is just "GODMAKESITSO!!!" though.
If the car is just rolling, not being driven, I'd say gravity and momentum are the cause, not the driver.
It is still my guess that SuperSport had broken out of an asylum. Now that he has been off his meds, the insanity only worsens as time progresses. I, for one, cannot see how someone without abnormal patterns of cognition draws these conclusions. It boggles the mind!
Also there is no such thing as non-malignant skin cancer.
There are non malignant cancers, but if it happens on the skin then it gets cut out before it inevitably spreads.
This guy must be like a fundie mini-boss or something, with all the quotes attributed to him here. Here's hoping he never gets into any positions of power.
Okay, who was driving a car down the street with my genes in it? I have a right to know! o.O
Made as much sense as Supersport. Think my brain needs a vacation from here...
"Just as a car is involved in the process of rolling down the street, it is not in itself the cause -- the driver is."
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Some say, that he thinks genes are what you put on. And that even he can recognise fundie bullshit when he hears it. All we know is... he's called The Stig!
Here's where Supersport/Guzman leaves sneering messages on the Facebook condolence page of a deceased fellow CARM member, one [b]Chemist 99a.[/b]
It's a Google Docs archive of the original posts, which don't exist anymore. Chemist happened to be a theistic evolutionist.
His comment, when called on it later:
it's funny how you hypocrites find those words so disgusting and insulting to the memory of chemist, yet you constantly, regularly link to them. One would think that if you honestly cared about the memory of that guy you wouldn't link to it so regularly. I think the truth is that you evos could care less about him.
of course the reality is there is nothing wrong with what I wrote and I stand behind it 100%, no matter if he's dead or alive. I'd say the same thing to his face now...and I'm sure I said it before he departed. chemist knows he's a baby-killing atheist.
There are no words for how loathsome Supersport is.
@Tempus
"of course the reality is there is nothing wrong with what I wrote and I stand behind it 100%, no matter if he's dead or alive. I'd say the same thing to his face now...and I'm sure I said it before he departed. chemist knows he's a baby-killing atheist."
Your analogy is horrible. A car can be controlled by the driver, but genes that control pigmentation can't be controlled by the parents who give birth to the person who has them. Also, genes are an established part of science, so no, shoving "Goddidit" will not work with genetics.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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