There is talk in liberal quarters of people—straight white men, mostly—working to preserve their unearned privilege. And it is true that being born into a phenotype that has historically held power constitutes unearned privilege. We all have some, some more than others. However:
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"Doc Crock." I love it. While you're here, mind if I plug my Science Wars series on YouTube? I think you'll thoroughly enjoy it
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Nice. I look forward to watching. For now, I'll just commend you on the crocoduck: It honors the shared Archosaur history of birds, crocs and dinos. And as always when I think of that particular piece of history, makes me wonder what dinosaurs sounded like...
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It's actually mocking a particular partially comedic claim by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron that evolution can't be true because we haven't seen a crocoduck.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az8k0uzQ6sA …
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I.e. they were trying to be clever about denying the existence of transitional forms.
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Oh. Well, I call "fail" on "trying to be clever." Just like we were never chimps (although our Most Recent Common Ancestor with chimps was probably more chimp-like than human-like), ducks were never crocs, and vice versa. Transitional forms won't look like they expect.
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Thank you for the clarification / education though. I often miss the more egregious abuses/misunderstandings of evolution in pop culture. It makes me want to tear my hair out. Which, if I were a bird, would be feathers. Which doesn't mean that angry birds tear their feathers out.
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Glad I could help. :)
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