charleton

Don't be a . If you have something to say, about me, then have the decency to read what I have written.

No. That's part of the point. Selection is not partial. Any member of a species can survive and maladaptive traits can flourish just so long as it doe...

Seriously. I've not got the patience to teach you guys that you are thinking about Evolution wrongly. It's a common enough error, and you can't be bla...

What last words

I've read OofS front to back twice, and DofM once. I've read Darwin's Autobiography, his account of the Voyage of the Beagle and his monographs on hum...

Then I suggest you stop doing it.

No because I already had THE LAST WORDS

"You can do as you will but you cannot will as you will", Schopenhauer You cannot experience what you experience. This is getting silly.

Faith is the death of reason the cessation of investigation. Faith is the failure of knowledge Faith is the cry of the weak and the hopes of the dispo...

I think you have a false premise. There is no dichotomy between experience and experiencing experience. We experience; that is enough. If by experienc...

Not really. In fact not at all. Science only describes. If you want reasons, talk to a priest, they have all the solutions with no effort whatever. Sc...

"This is the LAST WORD"

Show me how evolution is the cause of anything.

This is the writing on the Wall.

You just figured out I'm right.

I think better than you since you have taken what I have said and missed the point, despite me making it as simple as possible. Now tell us what you t...

You simply do not have a clue about causality. It's a pity science teaching is so poor.

That which becomes 'selected' by nature is what is evolution. Variation is not evolution and neither is survival. Evolution occurs when species charac...

Said... "Language is only for getting laid?" If that is what you think, go with it. Otherwise you could follow the discussion in more detail.

The big questions of metaphysics were always predicated on the assumption that the universe was designed;... Thought that was self explanatory.

Natural selection is a cause of evolution Artificial selection is a cause of evolution Domestic selection is a cause of evolution. Changing environmen...

Evolution is not a cause, its an effect.

I think you now agree that confusing evolution as a cause of change is not going to work, and you have started to back away from that idea. So instead...

The big questions of metaphysics were always predicated on the assumption that the universe was designed; that god, and or gods were behind that desig...

Why ask a question that can have no answer?

ALL the evidence suggests that mind is inextricably linked to neural matter. If you screw around with that you screw around with everything that makes...

You almost making my argument, but are stuck in an important fallacy. A cause has to be driven you are saying that there is an ineffable force in the ...

I've not made any such cliam. Misquote? or xmas drunkenness?

Of the four, 3 are closely related. Only incongruity stands alone. Play, superiority and relief are all linked if you think about it.

FFS. Life INHERENTLY good, is absurd.

My point exactly An otherwise completely useless adaptation wholly given over to sex and reproduction.

SO much for the school boy understanding of evolution. Evolution is an EFFECT, not a cause.

Your silly comment is demonstrably false.

This is hopeless idle speculation. You are imposing a false duality that is inherently false. I can change your personality. I can make it so you forg...

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If god can make a personality and an identity without a brain, then what the fuck is the brain for? If you want to know god by consulting the book of ...

But value discussions need to recognise that values require a valuer. Please go further back and try to understand what we were ACTUALLY talking about...

Indeed. Even if there was a 'spirit' whatever that is, it would not have a personality, since you demonstrably need a brain for that; it would have no...

Come on down and take the challenge!!! No?? Why not? You are nothing more than your physicality.

This is an abuse of language.

Not at all.

If you don't know what you are talking about then I suggest you look back and reacquaint yourself with the substance of the discussion.

Evolution does not innovate. You need consciousness for that. There is a real, hard and incorrigible distinction between somatic/ genetic evolution an...

I think not. You seem to be at the mercy of eastern crackpots

Believe what you will. But mention it and I'll unpack it. Your choice. Alternatively you could embrace rationalism and stop with the myth making.

What if things were not as they actually are. What if everything we know about what we are, about life, about the very nature of life is not true. How...

That we need our brains to make us who we are is not debatable. If you want I can prove this to you in a few minutes. Come on over and take the blunt ...

I know that, I do not have to believe it.

The evolution is genetic terms would not necessarily extend more than the use of the phrase "fancy a fuck baby".

You care confusing genetic evolution with cultural/ social evolution. You have no account is these "linguistic innovations" could be encoded in the ge...