Re:3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor d...
by whowhatwhy on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:57PM
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- It is a pointless exercise for the scientific community to engage with crackpots and people dishonest about their actual goals (e.g. promoting religious views, fighting atheism, whatever it is they believe they are doing).
You haven't touched on one single aspect of any of the actual ideas being discussed. All you've offered is ad hominem attacks on the purveyors of the ideas.
Re:3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor d...
by the_af on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:51PM
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His ideas are fringe pseudoscientific ideas at odds with mainstream biology, and he misrepresents the current knowledge he claims to "demolish". He relies on pop culture books from discredited people who are not subject matter experts and who have a religious agenda.
What aspect is there to touch?
I argued that:
- The author of TFA is not a subject matter expert.
- He relies on the opinions of people known to hold fringe, debunked opinions on the subject matter, like Stephen Meyer.
- Said people belong to the Discovery Institute, known to promote religion as science.
- It is a pointless exercise for the scientific community to engage with crackpots and people dishonest about their actual goals (e.g. promoting religious views, fighting atheism, whatever it is they believe they are doing).
- A persecution complex ("they want to suppress dissenting views") is usually a sign of crackpottery.
I believe this is substantive, don't you?
> way to do a lot of arguing without actually arguing about anything substantive, A+
If you meant to say "I disagree with you" just say so.