International Scientific Conference Deems Evolution A "Hoax"

That isn't what our friend Bulma wants from Lamark. That is just saying that in addition to passing down my genes... I pass down more to my children in the way of behavior, nutrition, and bathroom habits.

Im sorta ignoring him. When he posted the various critters an their skelatal structures an then tried to deny relationships induced via evolution, he missed the whle point that "Evolution is taking something youve already got an doing something entirely new with it".

I just wanted to post to you that Lamarck is getting a new batch of scientific interest. Remember, like St Hillaire, Lamarck really didnt say a whole lot.(He had no system or entire "theory" surrounding his proposals). They were just interesting ideas among more complete panoplies of ideas about "transmutation of critters" through time.
Science still is the closest to fully understanding the whole schmagig. Its just that, with our level of knowledge today, were able to introduce earlier "ideas" that have some possible (albeit small) part of how transmutation can be affected.

We still have not counted out how archae have introduced species that may have their roots from other places besides earth.

We just have to keep open minds but be critical of garbage when we can (like you first said)
PROVE THAT ITS GARBAGE.

Im one who, through my career, my own scientific contributions were more often based on NOT what is right, but WHAT AINT WRONG/ Ive had a number of fthings in surface chemistry work out for totally incorrect reasoning. It wasnt till I and some colleagues challenged ourselves that we found all this out and had to generate new physical chem relationships.

Happens all the time.

Its kinda interesting that the entire re-evaluation of Lamarkian ideas has only happened during the priod that A2K has been on the air. about 20 years eh?

Guys like LYSENKO, who practiced some kind of Lamarkian thinking xcept that h was like the example you mentioned .Lysenko would cut fox tails off, hoping that successive generations would have short tails. (Kind like the fly wing experiments)

Strict Lamarkian thinking doesnt damage or remove a critters tissue or organs , that would leave nothing on which evolution could work its business.

Unlike you, you mean (as you are the only poser with a history of such ignorance).

anything you can add to the subject??


I thought not.

No one has ever accused you of being able to think.

Something that I can add? Gungasnake is alive and well. I can see that he is posting on other messageboards. His most recent post is today.

I do not know if his current absence from a2k is imposed by the moderators or if he is just tired of putting up with frauds like you.

ok, if thats a fact, then i was misinformed. Im glad that hes out there still. Still fulla **** though (I dont have to show reverence to any memory if hes alive).

You really dont deserve any consideration since youre just a teeny mind fart.

He liked to have his clock cleaned on subjects like natural science and biology. It was the way he learned. I was glad to oblige cause hed bring actual data from his sides "champions"

You engage in childish name-calling because you're too stupid to produce an intelligent argument.

Your claims to have bested him are just as suspect as all your phony claims about me that you are never able to back up.

Just a minor point ,but while youre engaging in recriminations, I believe that you should refrain from engaging in the very behavior you are criticizing.

Takes away all the impact and most of the pizzazz .

I prefer factual accuracy. Your lack of intelligence is in fact the reason why you engage in childish name-calling.

I do understand that factual accuracy is not a concept that you are familiar with.

"FACTUAL ACCURACY"

Language is also not one of your skills is it?.

My language skills are just fine.

well that was a fun bit .
Back to max.The book re: Lamarck's re-interest i called "Lamarck' s Revenge" by Peter Ward . Its an investigation of the evidence that supports the "retention of acquired characteristics" Like any good scientist, Ward knows he is dancing on the edge of science where you wanna avoid taking abject statements of ignorance and turning them into abject statements of certainty (Im sure youve had your work taken and run with by newspapers and the writers make statements like " these Scientists will have to go back to their drawing boards based on these new findings).
Ward knows that reporters will **** it up with giving them more and more so, when they report the "Drawing board phrase" LET IT GO FROM THERE

Its not a theory, it is a fairly well developed hypothesis and Ward is working on several spinoffs based on epigenetics in Paleobiology. Much more evience is needed but most of it looks really encouraging.

Gunga died? I hadn't heard that. That makes me sad, even though I disagree with him most of the time.

Ollie came back and said that wasnt true because hes seen gungasnake post at some other more conservative leaning sites.

At the beginning of the pandemic he was posting some highly irresponsible and very dangerous nonsense about the Covid 19 virus.

I reported him, which was a first for me because I usually only report spam. I don’t know if I had anything to do with it, but he stopped posting shortly afterwards.

You don't want to go there.

why not.My day to day working vocabulary is probably much more voluble than is his. If you are trolling about my spelling skills, you try to type one handed with little feeling in the other hand. I can use the spellcheck but setanta always said I was just lzy , Probably so.
Anyway, he speaks mostly in bumper stickers, rarely creative new thoughts.

ahaaa. Why am I not suurprised. Gunga's "Alternate views" of all the sciences sounds like hes been taken in by Lysenkoism.

Still following, and waiting for someone to address the argument in the OP.

I did enjoy farmer's incredible execution of the no true Scotsman fallacy.