Even Charles Darwin admitted that it was ludicrous to apply evolution to the way that the human eye has been formed and operates. Yet he persisted in his foolishness.
I asked an evolutionist once if anyone had ever discovered a gorilla who could communicate fluently in English (even on a basic level). That would clearly establish evolution. The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo.
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Here's that quote in context.
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound."
"The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo."
By which, presumably, you mean a coherent and probably well-restrained and polite explanation of why you're a moron who doesn't understand evolution.
"The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo."
No Ezra, that's what's called an answer .
"Even Charles Darwin admitted that it was ludicrous to apply evolution to the way that the human eye has been formed and operates. Yet he persisted in his foolishness. "
"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Charles Darwin
You know, when you started off with
Even Charles Darwin admitted that it was ludicrous to apply evolution to the way that the human eye has been formed and operates.
I thought you already had achieved the maximum level of ignorance. But then you went on and turned it up to eleven with
The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo.
Brilliant.
I love how it has to be english. It can’t be chinese, or russian, or french, or even mexican. No, it HAS to be english. Subtle racism or just stupidity? YOU decide!
"That would clearly establish evolution."
No, that would clearly establish "magic". But we already know that you believe in magic, and that you have no evidence to back it up.
"The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo."
What you call "technical mumbo-jumbo" is what other people call "an explanation". Just because you don't understand the explanation doesn't mean the explanation is invalid. It means that you're talking about a subject you don't understand.
One day. One day it'll be legal to slap the living fuck out of you idiots for uttering that misquotation. That will be a glorious day for humanity.
++"I asked an evolutionist once if anyone had ever discovered a gorilla who could communicate fluently in English (even on a basic level). That would clearly establish evolution. "
No, that would clearly establish that someone had heavily modified a gorilla and taught it English. All you've clearly established is that you don't even know what the fuck evolution is. The English fucking language is not genetic. You know what is? Hair color. Bone structure. Basically all the thing that you refuse to acknowledge.
++"The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo."
A) The word you wanted there was "scientific".YOU'VE JUST FUCKING ADMITTED THAT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE TOPIC! That "mumbo-jumbo", as you call it, is the very information you were asking for. So which is it? Were you dishonest from the start in asking for an explanation that you weren't going to pay attention to or are you simply too stupid to understand something a six-year-old could grasp? Hm?
I asked an evolutionist once if anyone had ever discovered a gorilla who could communicate fluently in English (even on a basic level).
Here's a gorilla that can communicate, maybe not verbally but you can get the gist of it.image
"I asked an evolutionist once if anyone had ever discovered a gorilla who could communicate fluently in English"
What about Koko? That gorilla they taught sign language... I don't know, you're too dumb to understand why that doesn't have anything to do with evolution. I bet the ape's smarter than you though.
"I asked an evolutionist once if anyone had ever discovered a gorilla who could communicate fluently in English (even on a basic level)."
Even with their poor fluency in human languages taken into account, a gorilla would be a more preferable drinking companion than an ignoramus of a humanoid.
The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo.
Meaning he answered your question and you were too ignorant - or couldn't be bothered - to understand it. If you want technical mumbo-jumbo, try asking why the sky is blue. Just because an easy question doesn't have an easy sound-bite answer doesn't mean the question is being avoided.
"The question was deftly avoided with some technical mumbo-jumbo."
No, that was the answer. If you're too stupid to understand it, it's your problem, not ours.
@tfaddict Fairy Tale characters are now drinks?
@tfaddict, again. I'd err on stupidity. They are likely hardheaded enough to demand conformation but are unlikely to tell another language apart form gibberish.
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