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The world got a lot more retarded the day retarded people became convinced formatting their retarded thoughts as thesis statements would make them less retarded.

That guy banned my server after I made a fool out of him by proving that "There is only one race, the human race" constitutes a denial of Darwin's theory.

@cjd @phnt @Hoss it's very interesting how liberals don't actually believe in evolution. they only liked it because it was a way to attack Christianity. they do not want to grapple with concepts like "the sahara desert as a speciation barrier"

It's scientifically well-established that Tibetans possess genetic adaptations for surviving in high-altitude environments, but we can't talk about all the other more problematic ways human sub-populations might've genetically diverged.

The Science is an even more frustrating little circle-jerky cult. Most of their ideology is contentious if not outright discredited in the relevant fields, but they still manage to bamboozle ignorant people with their pretense of authority because most actual scientists would rather not waste their time and energy having retarded arguments with retards.

Spiritually speaking, I'd consider myself an agnostic, but two millennia of history has shown us that Christianity produces the best civilizations across the board. Therefore, I support Christianity remaining the dominant spirituality in the western world.

Traditionally, Christians would go and build missions in foreign lands to spread the word, they did not import foreigners into Christian lands. The church was brought to them, not the other way around.

I would say Christian teaching makes really good followers, top leaders though need to be a little bit more system thinkers. Machiavelli's Prince kind of thing...

I'd say Christianity's spiritual framework is dynamic enough to provide a beneficial common morality while not being so culturally stifling that it represses innovators and out-of-the-box thinking. The Vatican's historical role as both an archival guardian of human knowledge and patron of scientific advancement cannot be understated.

Not an endorsement of the current sorry state of the Catholic Church, to be clear. The modern Vatican is a disgrace to its history.

@cjd @Hoss @phnt @vonzeppelin I affirm the basic historical validity and reliability of the Genesis Narrative, up to and including a Global Flood. AMA 😂

The key factor missing in most Creationist narratives, isn’t lack of “Scientific-ness” - it’s an underdeveloped sense of Intentionality, and its significance.

It was a mistake to allow rocks to think

I have no beef with Creationists. I spent many years being an edgy Internet skeptic fedora-tipper who tuned in to watch Thunderf00t own the fundies with facts n' logic, now I look back on all that pointless debatebro circlejerking and cringe.

@Hoss @phnt @cjd @vonzeppelin Yeah, same; I was raised “militant secular humanist”, and certainly would have fit right in to the fedora scene had I not been older and otherwise engaged 😆

Any sufficiently advanced creationist theory is unfalsifiable - which is really the best place for a religious ideology to position itself.

A lotta Millennial chud uncs (myself included) were fedorabros back in the skeptic era. Then the Great Fedora Brother War happened (Atheism+/GamerGate) and lines were drawn between the skeptics who were willing to question the cult of progressivism and those who weren't, with the former becoming the ur-chuds.

@cjd @phnt @vonzeppelin @Hoss Indeed, the huge vast majority of even White Mankind aren’t in any position to falsify much of anything current within the establishment dataset and paradigm. It’s really a priesthood by every metric. And we find ourselves beholden to them very much like the typical shopkeep in medieval Europe was beholden unto the Papal Church. The Ivory Tower remains gatekept by everything they can throw into it.

I don't remember the exact numbers here, but I'm gonna say actual mutations account for maybe 3% of evolution, the HEAVY LIFTER is random recombination. Everyone has 2 copies of their DNA, one from each parent - but every parent has 2 copies, so sperm and egg creation is randomly selecting each gene from father or mother genome. That gives you randomness within known-working limits, which is a big amplifier.

"Fitness" is more accurate than "improvement". Adaptations to fit one specific environment can also sometimes be detrimental. See: sickle cell trait, confers malaria resistance in regions where malaria is a persistent selection catalyst, but also causes debilitating genetic disorder when children are born with two copies of the gene.

Sounds right, like I said I don't have the numbers...

Sometimes a virus shows up, infects a germ cell, and ends up as a piece of fossilized viral graffiti in the genome. Usually the viral DNA remains inert, but on at least one occasion a protein originally encoded by an ancient viral drive-by tag got repurposed to help embryos attach to the uterus (Syncytin-1).

There's also some interesting arguments to be made about how certain psychological disorders (psychopathy, bipolar disorder, etc) persist in the population because there were ancestral contexts where selection favored them (a psychopath in the right place becomes a competent Machiavellian political operator, a bipolar individual in certain contexts might become a highly-patronized artist, etc).

@cjd @Hoss @phnt @vonzeppelin @AGARTHA_NOBLE Can confirm; for …. uh … reasons 😅

Probably. As somebody who has known bipolar individuals, they can have crazy bursts of both productivity and creativity when they're manic, the wealthiest man I know is also a bipolar lunatic. Most of the time somebody born with their wires crossed wrong like that is going to crash and burn, but occasionally they'll find their way into a context where being unhinged in that way plays to their advantage.

@cjd @phnt @vonzeppelin @Hoss @AGARTHA_NOBLE Well as far as I can tell that’s the Traditional position.

(ED: updated specific emphasis)

@egirlyuumimain @Hoss @Jewpacabra @phnt @cjd @vonzeppelin @AGARTHA_NOBLE Old close friend of mine fits in this category; still alive fortunately but haven’t heard from him for years.