You realize you're using a creationist argument against evolution, right? Confounding quality of life with reproductive success?
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostYou realize you're using a creationist argument against evolution, right? Confounding quality of life with reproductive success?
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostBut there aren't any real disadvantages either, given that she has already reproduced.
You are using a totally subjective and arbitrary definition of failure, here. It doesn't belong in a discussion of natural selection.
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostBut there aren't any real disadvantages either, given that she has already reproduced.
You are using a totally subjective and arbitrary definition of failure, here. It doesn't belong in a discussion of natural selection.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostSimilarly they could reproduce for a thousand generations, but if the end result is an evolutionary dead end, then that's also a failure in my eyes at least.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostGiven that you were using a definition of conservative that only made sense in the US context...DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.
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Originally posted by Lorizael View PostThis is a very bad definition of failure, because the vast majority of species that have ever lived are now extinct.
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostSo? Why is it 'very bad' to consider them failures? Also lots of species go extinct for reasons that have very little to do with their evolutionary paths. You can hardly blame evolution for a species that goes extinct because of a meteor hitting the planet for instance.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostNo, what you said made no sense in the UK context, which is why I called you on it. Being that I'm from the UK and all.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.
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