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Response to HiPointDem (Reply #23)

Fri May 11, 2012, 08:43 PM

Confusious (8,313 posts)

31. Should I explain why I don't believe

Faith healers or spoon benders? Or isn't it obvious?

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62 replies	Author	Time	Post
The Evolution Paradigm Shift [View all]	HiPointDem	May 2012	OP
You used the word Paradigm	Confusious	May 2012	#1
I didn't write the articles. I didn't notice shapiro saying anything like what you attribute to him	HiPointDem	May 2012	#2
you didn't read the article then	Confusious	May 2012	#3
why don't you paste the passage you're referring to when you say i didn't read the article.	HiPointDem	May 2012	#4
Right here	Confusious	May 2012	#5
"someone who says they have the truth and that others aren't listening" doesn't equal	HiPointDem	May 2012	#22
Nah, I've read enough of these	Confusious	May 2012	#32
"Active information"	tama	May 2012	#6
More quantum diarrhea	skepticscott	May 2012	#9
Sounds like postmodernist Horsesh*t	Confusious	May 2012	#10
I'm not talking to you	tama	May 2012	#11
I guess I hit a nerve	Confusious	May 2012	#13
Mentality?	tama	May 2012	#15
When the shoe fits	Confusious	May 2012	#30
You realize that you linked a joke, right? The page generates random pomo-sounding fake essays.	HiPointDem	May 2012	#26
I used it as an example	Confusious	May 2012	#29
You're talking about a book by a credentialed scientist who, among other accomplishments,	HiPointDem	May 2012	#33
yea, well, to repeat myself from below	Confusious	May 2012	#38
Pseudoscience.	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#7
Lemarck was wrong then, and Lemarck is wrong now.	harmonicon	May 2012	#8
LAmarck.	HiPointDem	May 2012	#21
d'oh!! (nt)	harmonicon	May 2012	#28
If I were as snarky as some of the folks on this thread I would have been all over that, you	HiPointDem	May 2012	#35
Oh, yes, and I appreciate it.	harmonicon	May 2012	#40
Well yeah, but organisms do alter their genome	4th law of robotics	May 2012	#56
The old axiom, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proofs" still holds.	byeya	May 2012	#12
RTFB	tama	May 2012	#16
Woo-Woo.	Odin2005	May 2012	#14
Boo-Boo :)	tama	May 2012	#17
From the interview:	tama	May 2012	#20
Mostly hogwash. Intelligent Design with a new hat.	LTX	May 2012	#18
Thanks for the link	tama	May 2012	#19
interesting. the majority of the posters dismiss with a single word/line = "woo".	HiPointDem	May 2012	#23
Bashing Neo-Darwinism + supporting Lamarckianism = Woo.	Odin2005	May 2012	#24
it doesn't? are you sure?	HiPointDem	May 2012	#25
Well it's "deniable", for sure :D	tama	May 2012	#42
See post 41 by MV, Shapiro doesn't know what he's talking about.	Odin2005	May 2012	#43
Shapiro's response	tama	May 2012	#44
Maybe we should have a discussion	Confusious	May 2012	#49
Yes, it would have been more accurate for him to state...	Humanist_Activist	May 2012	#59
Should I explain why I don't believe	Confusious	May 2012	#31
Shapiro is a spoon-bender? Does he do that when he's not doing bacterial genetics?	HiPointDem	May 2012	#34
Yea, well sometimes people	Confusious	May 2012	#37
no, it doesn't mean he's "right". i don't think his book is about being "right" so much as you seem	HiPointDem	May 2012	#39
Well, first off	Confusious	May 2012	#48
I'm not sure the complexity he observes cannot be incorporated into mainstream evolution.	aikoaiko	May 2012	#27
Maybe it can. Thanks for commenting on the work.	HiPointDem	May 2012	#36
A critique of Shapiro by a colleague	muriel_volestrangler	May 2012	#41
The establisment is wrong!!! ;)	tama	May 2012	#45
I agree tama.	Edim	May 2012	#46
This	tama	May 2012	#50
Answer to 1): Yes	muriel_volestrangler	May 2012	#52
I will gladly admit my agnosticism	tama	May 2012	#55
That shifting is due to the "DNA trees" you're talking about.	jeff47	May 2012	#62
Established theory doesn't require the questioning you claim.	jeff47	May 2012	#58
Newton knew his theory was incomplete at best, and possibly wrong from the get go...	Humanist_Activist	May 2012	#60
Not quite	jeff47	May 2012	#61
There	ProSense	May 2012	#47
"Innovation, not selection, is the critical issue in evolutionary change."	tama	May 2012	#51
It's only math jargon if you're talking about math, otherwise it's just nonsense	mathematic	May 2012	#53
Yup	tama	May 2012	#54
Shapiro's excerpt would need major correction...	bhikkhu	May 2012	#57

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