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On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:09:40 +0100, Snit
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On Apr 16, 2021 at 11:00:16 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote
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On Apr 15, 2021 at 7:14:23 PM MST, "rbowman" wrote
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On 04/15/2021 12:02 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:12:00 +0100, Rod Speed
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Commander Kinsey wrote
Another account must be made so they don't get the last
word
in.
The
silliest thing I got banned for was saying the word
"damn".
And
not
even
in a rude way, probably something like "the damn weather
is
awful
today".
Turns out the admin was a religious nutter.
Yeah, I got the same thing from another religious nutter
for
using the term "hell of a lot", not a moderator in that
case.
You have to wonder how far we would be today if religion
had
not
impeded
science.
Do you know who first formulated the Big Bang theory? Ever
here
of
Gregor Mendel? Blaise Pascal?
Quite a few scientists manage to have a foot in both worlds.
In
general
the Catholics seem more flexible than the Protestants,
particularly
the
'gimme that old time religion' branch.
In the past the two were heavily tied together... but that is
no
longer the
case. There are still some religious scientists, but
scientists
tend
to be
atheist at a higher level than the general public. They also
tend
to
be more
liberal, which makes sense given how at least in the US
conservatives
tend
to
reject our best evidence.
Scientists are liberal because they want funding for free.
Scientists are liberal because the conservative mindset is to
deny
evidence.
We can see this with COVID,
No, we just don't make such a fuss over a small thing. A thing
that
kills
4 times less than cancer and 40 times less than the world
population
growth.
man-made global climate change,
It was 1C here in Scotland a few days ago, in spring. There is no
global
warming.
research on reduction of abortions,
That's not science, that's morals.
and in some cases even things like evolution.
Evolution could take place if we let coronavirus kill off the
weak.
Nope, because it mostly kills those way past reproducing.
Irrelevant if it kills those or not. And they can hide indoors.
The point is we should let it kill off any younger folk that it can,
as
they're the weaker ones.
In fact there isnt any evidence that it does kill of the weaker ones.
The Spanish Flu didn't, in fact it killed off the stronger ones
because their much better immune system grossly over reacted
and it was the cytokine storm that killed them very quickly.
Grossly overreacting was therefore a trait that needed removing for
the
next generation.
Nope because it means they do much better with the
non pandemic infections and don't have to bother to
wash their hands all the time and can get away with
doing what is more convenient like not throwing
away food that has had a fly walk on it etc etc etc.
Having a trait that makes you better at 9 things but worse at another,
getting you killed, is not a good trait to have.
Depends on the death rate.
The death rate of coronavirus is high enough to remove those with the
wrong genes.
Nope, the death rate is minimal with those who can still reproduce.
It isnt even that high with those over 70 either, below 4%
We must let it happen.
Nope, it would make no difference.
In fact we evolved like that with kids sure that nothing can kill them
and in fact that works fine.
What kids are you referring to?
Late teenagers. That why they have always been the cannon fodder in wars.
Even those now don't die at a high enough rate from anything
to have any real effect on evolution, even if we scrapped seat
belts, air bags, cars with crumple zones etc etc etc.
Say you could do calculations twice as fast, you could sing perfect
pitch, you could do 1000 pushups, but the sight of a car made you
spontaneously combust. That would not be a good thing to have.
Yes but we never have evolved to have the sight of a car
make you spontaneously combust for some odd reason.
It's called an analogy, stretching something out of proportion to mare you
see the point.
No one get to mare me and don't you forget that, cow face.