nihiliad
"We're The Mesopotamians / Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh" -- TMBG
| @mattcutts So substituting, "The didn't not withhold with the jelly"? |
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| @jotr Has he no fear of right-wing dictators? Has he not noticed we almost have one _right now_? Oh wait, he's wearing a TRON suit. |
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| @zacharyjohnson +1. People have been praising Dark Knight like it's the next Citizen Kane. WTF? |
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| @truetone Thanks for letting me know I would've been welcome, but I couldn't get out last night, anyway. Maybe next time! |
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| @vauxia Guess that looked like I was arguing with myself, didn't it? Tho I do enjoy arguments with intelligent people. ;^) |
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| @vauxia I was arguing with @arikjones earlier. Just for the record, was ex post facto correcting some mistakes I made. |
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| @truetone Mmmm... Surlys @ Buster's. [Homer Simpson drool] I live just a few blocks from there. :) |
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| is enjoying the challenge of arguing in 140 character bursts. :) |
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| natural selection: genetic variation + differential reproductive success = descent with modification |
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| Though Darwin was influenced by Malthus' "more offspring than can survive" observation, he correctly emphasized reproduction. |
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| Wish that Spencer hadn't confused everyone with that non-Darwinian "survival of the fittest" crap. |
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| In discussing natural selection http://tinyurl.com/58d9lz with @arikjones should have used "reproduce", not "survive". |
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| @arikjones BTW, thanks for a great discussion. :) |
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| @arikjones I just think that the number of truths humans don't understand far outnumbers those that we do. |
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| @arikjones I suspect we agree to a large extent on unchanging truths. Depends how "truth" is defined, but I believe many are not relative. |
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| @arikjones Does lack of exact knowledge of life's origins invalidate all observations of changes in life over time? |
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| @arikjones I don't have absolute answers to all your questions. I want *good* answers if possible, and will savor the mysteries if not. |
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| @arikjones @aric The "something" provoking change: organisms produce more offspring than can survive. Those that do pass on their genes. |
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| @arikjones So "a consistent truth" is unchanging over time? I think that human understanding is limited, but improving over time. |
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