TheEncogitationer

Jake:

Fantastic, enlightening video and book on Lamarck! I learned even more about him from this video.

I didn’t know Lamarck was the first weatherman! Napoleon really screwed himself and his troops by dissing Lamarck. If Lamarck’s weather correspondence had extended to Russia, maybe Napoleon’s men wouldn’t have had to eat their own horses…[Read more]

Jake:

I DuckDuck-ed up the words “Epigenetics” and “Dutch Famine 1944” and “Holocaust victims.”. I think I now see where you get your attachment to the idea.

I also watched some short videos on the subject and am in the middle of a Neil DeGrasse Tyson video on the subject of Epigenetic Trauma.

Without meaning to drag up any pain you may have,…[Read more]

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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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]

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]

Simon and Reg:

Both child care by the tribe and child care by AI need thorough oversight to insure a good result and really should only be an auxillary and a last resort. It would probably tear my nerves up if I were a parent!

Jake:

I have troubles with posting too. If I post more than one link or one video, the post won’t go through. I didn’t mean that to rhyme this time.

Jake:

Oh and as an aside there is documentation apart from microbes of insanely fast evolution. Moths during industrial revolution when trees turned black due to pollution made white moths targets. Selection pressure caused very rapid response and produced black moths. There are others as well.

You’re right. I forgot about the British moths.…[Read more]

Jake:

In both instances when pondering Lamarck and Darwin change or evolution is dependent on individuals.

The genetic mutations that produce Evolution does originate in individual organisms. But there has to be a large enough population of individuals with the same mutation to have a breeding population. And if the mutation assists survival…[Read more]

Jake:

A big difference between Lamarckianism and Darwinianism is that Lamarck’s Theory focuses on agency of individual organisms, whereas Darwinianism focused on developed biological adaptations of whole species.

Another shortcoming of Lamarack is that a giraffe with a longer neck would have to grow added hide and hair, added muscle, added…[Read more]