It's typing, not talking, and I accept your yielding the point in that you have no acceptable response to my post.
Really? My impression of Tsing Tao is that he is *not* a guy who loves hearing himself talk and is in fact a man who is thrifty with his words. He doesn't use 20 words to say something when he can express his idea or thought with 10 words. His posts have generally been short and brutally honest. That kind of economic writing requires someone to be concise with very little rambling. The only long post I can recall was about his change of worldview after the November election and he was attacked relentlessly for weeks afterwards. I just don't know how you can be so wrong about so many things lately Ricter. Your posting style has changed dramatically over the last year and people here in P&R have openly speculated as to whether you are ill or perhaps impaired by drugs or alcohol. You've made a few posts about me recently that are way off the mark. You've taken to saying things with certainty that is clearly unjustified. I sincerely hope you are not sick or suffering from any addictions. In the past I was a fan of your posts even though we disagree on almost everything. I think it was your tendency to stick with facts and hard data and the way you were unaffected by personal attacks. Lately you have almost nothing factual to say and your posts are vengeful and filled with hatred, particularly towards pspr. You're a different guy than just 12 months ago.
I'm still waiting for fc to spell out what he thinks the theory of evolution proves. or What EXACTLY do you think the belief in the theory of evolution provides you? I don't get what the big deal is here What stupendous implications does that belief entail?
Perhaps the most profound thing it means to me is that all life is related. As opposed to the Christian mindset, which puts us apart from nature as a special creature with dominion over all else, the knowledge of evolution makes us see that we are kin to all that is alive on this planet. Our blood vessels are like those that stretch through the branches of trees while our cells contain earlier versions of life that have been assimilated. The hand, the fin, the paw and the wing all contain analogous bones that have arisen from those first lobe-finned fishes that dared crawl up onto land. We are not separate creations from, but created by all other life that has gone before us. From the simplest of bacteria through the first worms, fish, amphibians and a scurrying rat. Look at us now. Nature is not "over there", it is our mother.
I'm sorry but your stupid beliefs about "the Christian mindset" have nothing to do with the theory. You could have concluded the same from watching too many episodes of "lost in Space" when you were a little girl. IOW:Strawman arguments are designed to crumble no matter how trivial your point. But perhaps that point escapes you.
But you will see that if you ignore the second sentence there is no change in the intent of my statement. Read it again and skip the second sentence.
You don't get it do you? There's nothing inherently special/ new about that concept. So I'll ask again what do you think that proves or provides evidence for? BTW: I think your first answer was the most honest. All this other crapola you are spewing is just to make you fweel better.
What the power of time, randomness and selectivity can do? That purely through the natural forces of time and physics that from rock and water a creature now can hurl itself onto the moon? That the universe has created a way for it examine itself through us? In a way Nature has become self-aware. It sees itself in the mirror and recognizes what it sees. Life has lifted itself by it's own bootstraps from the slime into space.