Comments on: In which I waste time bashing another creationist numbskull

By: kemibe

kemibe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:34:48 +0000

Warren:

I was coerced.

I also admit that “Adult Swim” is about the fucking guiltiest of pleasures anyone can have. I try to avoid it, generally.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:49:28 +0000

TV, okay, sure … but … good heavens, K-man. I mean, “Tim and Eric”?

Really?

By: hopper3011

hopper3011 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:06:38 +0000

The idea that “evolutionary dogma” (in the Oxford Dictionary defined sense of: “an inflexible principle or set of principles laid down by an authority”) exists today is a fallacy in itself, so the claim that it existed 200 years ago is hardly the most egregious lie in Menton’s essay. Critically examined, Menton is talking rubbish, but, as with most of these things, he is relying on people to nod along. He doesn’t seem to be interested in new converts, just keeping the faithful, faithful.

By: kemibe

kemibe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:42:51 +0000

That was bad. Fixed. I’ve rarely been accused of living in the present.

Regardless, the idea that anything akin to “evolutionary dogma” existed 200 years ago is more than a small stretch. This whole essay is a wreck.

By: hopper3011

hopper3011 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:37:56 +0000

Kevin:

“Charles Darwin was born in 2009″ – I think you mean 1809? I think Menton is laying a trap for the unwary – Lamark was born much earlier than Darwin, although I think his Philosophie Zoologie was published in 1809. Evolution wasn’t Darwin’s idea, but he came up with a reasonable mechanism for its operation.