Moments of Permanence - October 13th, 2009

About October 13th, 2009

Shut up, Richard Dawkins. 12:46 pm
Okay, here's the deal:

Richard Dawkins gets to keep acting like anyone who doesn't see that evolution is just the COMPLETELY OBVIOUSLY TRUE answer to the origins of life is an idiot if he, or anyone else, can explain the following things:

- How cellular-sized organisms arose.

- How single-celled organisms make the leap to multi-celled organisms.

- How the transition from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction happens.

- What happened to the Neanderthals.

- No, really, I know that the photosensitive chemical reactions and whatnot in the eye are widespread across all branches of the animal kingdom; please, nonetheless, explain to me how the hell that happened, how lens and cornea evolved, what on earth the transition stages from "proto-creature with no eyes" to "eyes" actually are.

- The precise mechanism by which species show adaptive change to their surroundings even when it doesn't actually make the difference to survival.

Reasonably simple answers, please. Do not show your working. And please stop using the sneering dodge bullshit that is the hallmark of your opponents, thanks - some of us are intelligent enough to notice the way you dismiss the hard questions without actually answering them.


See, I can see that evolution does, in fact, make sense. I am not in any sense a creationist.

However, to me, the theory of evolution is incomplete. I have not yet seen satisfactory answers in it to all the questions I have, and I think Dawkins - and most people who think "Darwinist" is a good concept - have got dangerously doctrinaire about the idea that evolution is The Truth. Once upon a time Newtonian physics was the height of scientific accuracy and understanding... but it turns out that Newtonian physics was incomplete. A good approximation, but partly wrong.

I'd give Dawkins more points if he were less of a dick, but since the man is a giant douchenozzle who makes it seem like I should be offended if he agrees with me, I doubt that's going to happen.
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