Belle Rose

Simon:

The Homo erectus cooperative breeding was the culmination of a long process of peeling un-weaned infants away from their mothers, that might have taken 2-4 million years. Great ape mothers do not like to give up their babies to anyone else. It makes sense that the first people whom mothers trusted, was their own mothers, the grandmothers…

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Jake:

Enco, I can’t sign on to your read of Lamarck. I see him as a rationalist who sought to explain the natural world.

You just did sign on, because that and more is exactly what I said of Lamarck. But Rationalists can make mistakes as well, zas long as Reason is free to correct them, which Reason has.

Mendel’s understanding is so pri…

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Greater threat of achieving power in USA, USI or some version of a Dominionist Christian? Which would be worse?

I am pretty sure the kneejerk response is gonna be far right Christians are a legit threat of achieving power. Islam is a fringe fad among far left and young.

What do i think? I guess it depends on whether far left or far right is…[Read more]

Enco,

Was not familiar with Dan. What an ignorant moron.

One more example that being an atheist in and of itself is no assurance of intelligence.

Enco, I can’t sign on to your read of Lamarck. I see him as a rationalist who sought to explain the natural world. Acquired characteristics passed on to offspring that are the stuff of change in that era is impressive. And while he did not know the mechanism in terms of the biology he was proposing evolution. And we are learning that the unknown…[Read more]

Hemant Mehta of the Friendly Atheist Channel has it right about which religion is the bigger threat to freedom in the U.S.A., but not which one is the biggest threat globally. This probably also informs Mehta’s support elsewhere of the propaganda of Gaza Genocide by Israel. Armin Navabi and Johanna Browne call Hemant Mehta out on his…[Read more]

On the Talk Heathen Channel, Emma Thorne, so-called Objectively Dan, and caller David all garble a few kernels of facts about Evangelical Christians and Observant Religious Jews with the usual hateful screeds of Israel as an Apartheid, Colonialist Ethnostate, with Israel smeared by all conversationists and all viewers left rolling their eyes and…[Read more]

Reg and Jake:

Great article from The European Conservative! Perfectly in the same genre as the resolute works of Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, and Salman Rushdie!

What I find disturbing is that the Jew/Israel hatred is not only spreading among the politically fanatical Woke Left and Woke Right, but it is even spreading among people who professedly…[Read more]

Jake:

Epigenetic inheritability is a fact, but that, of. course was not what Lamarckianism defended.

What Lamarck defended would amount to saying that a tattoo, a cut, a burn, or an amputation on a parent would pass on by heredity to offspring. Obviously, none of that is the case.

Epigenetic Inheritability is closer to Mendelianism in that…[Read more]

Hope you are right Reg about it being a small minority. If you are only including those who go out in kefiyeh’s and scream the slogans then i think that is true. In terms of actual views i don’t believe it to be the case. Certainly not in the USA. And from what i have read many places have greater numbers of anti-Israel/Jew like Belgium,…[Read more]

Enco, the inheritability of acquired characteristics is not wrong. It is part of the story of genetics. Mendel’s rules are part of that story also but the simplest version. Maybe there is an analogy between Newton’s understanding and Einstein’s. But the inheritability is beyond dispute. It is factual if not satisfactual to you.

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Jake:

To get back to Lamarck, just because his notion of inherited acquisition is mistaken, does not mean he made no contributions to biological (and indeed other sciences.).

He served in the French Army against the Prussians in the Seven Year War. He was a great botanist who collected many species of flora, as well as fossils and minerals for…[Read more]

Jake:

Maybe you could change your name to Burt Sugarman, run an all-night entertainment law firm, and offer a Midnight Special:

Jake and Reg:

So Taoiseach Michael Martin is willing to exchange the precision of Israeli visual and navigation technology for the Luck O’ the Irish?

Maybe he can have passengers like this or her Muslim equivalent to guide the plane:

I’m just glad that I have never had the need to fly anywhere, especially in the…[Read more]

Yet even if you put together all the hardcore Islamist loons and their allies on the braindead European Left, these people still amount to a small minority. How then have they become so seemingly powerful and threatening?

That is from the article I linked above. I recently drove past the US Embassy in Dublin while there was a ‘Pro-Palestine’…[Read more]

Need a good man in your corner? Better call Saul Sugarman.

Gave me a chuckle remembering how i used to toy with idea of a trip to the probate court and a hundred dollar bill to change my name to Sugarman. Such a name for a lawyer. Ya wanna fuck with Sugarman? No, ha. Better give him what he wants…

Decent article Reg.

Bout sums it up.