Michael Ossipoff

Today I requested that my membership at these forums be cancelled, because I won’t participate in a forum whose moderators are allowed to tamper with ...

As I said, compared to McCarthy, Myers is uncredentialed in hybridization-genetics. ...casting doubt on his qualification to "refute" him. Michael Oss...

Yes, and most of their babies have two parents of the same species, accounting for the better fertility-rate. But, incidentally, human fertility is in...

The obvious rarity (and evident nonexistence) of survivable, fertile inter-order hybrids gives it a very, very low a priori probability. McCarthy mere...

You ask for evidence, and then ask that I not mention it :D No one denies that survivable fertile offspring from inter-order hybridization is, if poss...

McCarthy answered that argument. No one claimed that every such inseminization would result in a pregnancy, much less a survivable and fertile offspri...

Is that your expert professional opinion, as a genetics PhD? Michael Ossipoff

Things interact, and have properties related to those interactions. That doesn't sound like something new. Density and albedo are determined by intera...

It just means that you were a malfunctioning purposefully-responsive device. For some reason known only to you, the desire (purpose) to say that you h...

No. But your preferences, and your circumstances in the context of your preferences, determine your choices. Your circumstances don't have or need bra...

Obviously there isn't "free-will", any more than a Roomba has free-will. What you choose is determined by your (hereditary or acquired) preferences, a...

I'm just replying because no one has yet. There's nothing in the forum-guidelines against bringing up topic related to your academic course, and it se...

Because of the above, McCarthy's suggestion isn't "unscientific" or "absurd" or "ridiculous". What's unscientific is the pretense of asserting what yo...

Aren't you forgetting what you read, when you read McCarthy's pages about human origins? Oh, that's right, you didn't read it. You're just expounding ...

(quoted from McCarthy) If there are survivable closer hybrids, then it would hardly be surprising if there were non-survivable more distant ones. ...n...

One might do one's best, but what would it mean to "want" to be someone else other than who one is? This life started, period. Speculate about how or ...

As already clarified, McCarthy didn't write those chicken reports, and doesn't endorse them as true. If inviting donations for publication-expenses we...

You need one to qualify you to expound about the correctness or incorrectness of what McCarthy says. If you assert that an inter-order mammalian hybri...

Whereupon Baden quotes some text from Prothero or Myers. Neither Prothero nor Myers have credentials in the area they're discussing. In my previous po...

You mean like Baden's background and understanding of the field? Where did Baden get his PhD in genetics? Michael Ossipoff 13 Tu 2115 UTC

Baden’s quote is from an unsigned article. Not only are the author’s credentials unstated, but so is the author’s name. . The anonymous writer claimed...

. No, hybridization refers to interbreeding of different species, not different subspecies of the same species. . . No, and I suggest that you read so...

. All of the attributes by which humans differ from all of the other primates--and by which all the other primates are like eachother—are attributes t...

Of course. But what you said is still true--though easily explained by separate convergent evolution,. Michael Ossipoff 13 Tu 0306 UTC

Of course it's unlikely. Maybe often no offspring. And when there is, nearly always stillbirth or offspring that soon dies. But, very, very rarely (ju...

Very true, but those are just psychological traits. And that's easily explained by separate convergent evolution. Obedient sheep are chosen for breedi...

McCarthy doesn't deny that. What you're referring to happened later. Michael Ossipoff 13 Tu 0251

Genetic drift caused by what? Mutations from cosmic rays, and maybe from some natural mutagen chemicals in the natural environment. But maybe also fro...

Is that your professional opinion, as a PhD geneticist? Michael Ossipoff 13 Tu 0241 UTC

Various species have done that experiment in the old-fashioned manner,, and the answer to your question is "Yes" they can and have. Michael Ossipoff 1...

If you believe in the religion of Materialism, the metaphysical theory/belief of Materialism, then it's simple: For you, reincarnation is ruled out. I...

:D No one denies that we have more recent primate ancestry. McCarthy speaks of many, many generations of primate back-hybridization. Maybe you should ...

And it isn't just a few. It's all of the attributes by which we differ from all of the other primates. McCarthy points out that that's a standard way ...

Is that your expert professional opinion as a PhD geneticist? Michael Ossipoff 13 M 1634

Semantics. It was an ape that was more a chimpanzee than anything else that there's a word for. Michael Ossipoff 13 M 1620 UTC

Here's a link to McCarthy's self-introduction, listing some credentials: http://www.macroevolution.net/about-me.html

Even his opponents on that issue acknowledge it. McCarthy, at his website, states his credentials. Feel free to check out his website. You're certain ...

The proximity to April 1st is purely coincidental. As i said in my initial post: Commonly and typically, many generations of back-hybridizations will ...

Yes, the suggestion is that that survivable initial hybrid that was our ancestor was a female. ...because there's no cost for a male to impregnate a f...

No. What you quoted isn't even the extent of the evidence that I stated in my post. Check McCarthy's articles--Human Origins, and The Other Parent, li...

No doubt nearly all inter-order hybrids aren't survivable. Most likely nearly all pig-chimp hybrids were unsurvivable. Most likely the initial pig-chi...

Be specific. McCarthy is a world-class hybridization-geneticist. Where do you find that he's wrong? Michael Ossipoff 12 Su 1804 UTC

By bashing anyone who competes with them for food, or status in the group. Among other social hunter-gatherer species, such as chimpanzees and wolves,...

You're talking about the time after you're dead. Your survivors will experience that time. You won't. From the point-of-view of your survivors, there ...

You're quite right about regret, when we did what seemed the best at the time, Or at least, even if we knew better, there was some reason why we could...

Natural selection. Dangerous men, violent men, by harming others, can do better for themselves (and their female partner and their offspring). Females...

I like "Normal" and "Usual". Of course, in a different sense, "Natural" is useful to distinguish between manmade and not-manmade. Michael Ossipoff 12 ...

You can't That presupposes words from God. If there were such, they'd be true. The Bible isn't the word of God. God didn't write the Bible. A bunch of...

Though I quit replying to S. about philosophy when he tried to deny that his circular definition of "Exist" was circular (but I should have quit reply...

Who says that life should be judge-able as good or bad? ...when, as you said, there's nothing to compare it to. For us, the fact that we're in a life ...