BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

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Re: BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

Post by Svartalf » Tue Oct 24, 2017 5:35 pm

with reasonable talk or with a birch switch?
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Re: BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

Post by cronus » Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:10 pm

Evolution works with biology, and some technical innovations but it doesn't operate at the cultural level. That's a bizarre set of assorted semi-meaningless motifs, actors, styles and fashions that show nothing except random shit happens.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:58 pm

Random shit happens, but good random shit is pronounced as divine providence while bad random shit is declared as the Devil's doings. So it goes. So it goes.
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Post by JimC » Tue Oct 24, 2017 8:24 pm

Ratzian minds have evolved at incredibly high speeds, dues to the enormous selective pressures applied on this forum.

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Re: BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:30 pm

Indeed, when I first began posting here I thought 'ontology' was the study of light switches and I spent literally days in front of the screen squatting over a bucket of my own filth.

Now I know that ontology is a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them. See, I haz evolved.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:25 am

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Re: BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

Post by von Starnberg » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:55 am

The evolution? It is a ladder. On the top rung is the Prussian, grinding his boot heels upon the fingers of the Bavarian just below him. Is it not so?

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Post by rainbow » Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:31 pm

von Starnberg wrote:The evolution? It is a ladder. On the top rung is the Prussian, grinding his boot heels upon the fingers of the Bavarian just below him. Is it not so?
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Re: BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

Post by Forty Two » Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:59 pm

Rum wrote:
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I've met him.

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Re: BBC - How Do We Know Evolution is Really Happening?

Post by Hermit » Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:34 am

von Starnberg wrote:The evolution? It is a ladder. On the top rung is the Prussian, grinding his boot heels upon the fingers of the Bavarian just below him. Is it not so?
Evolution at work indeed. Bavarians are the missing link between Austrians and humans. Helmuth von Moltke proved that in a little over two months in 1866.
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