Recent content by Ophiolite

You posted this to counter @Estrid's observation that science does not deal in proof. Perhaps you did not notice that none of your definitions make any reference to proof. Thank you for confirming Estrid's observation, though no confirmation was necessary. Note: it is normal practice, complying...

I don't presume anything. I infer from your inability to express an understanding of how sickle cell confers benefits on a population that you have been unable to grasp the simple principles involved. I laid these out yet again in my last post and remain dumbfounded that you do not perceive the...

I shall be happy to address this point once you have got around to responding to my post #239 where I offer you a correction of your misunderstanding of the nature of mutations, especially in relation to sickle cell.

And some people have won major prizes (>$1,000,000) more than once. Other people experience the reverse effect, for example having the main and reserve chute both failing. The chances are most people don't understand probability.

Did you not read the detailed descriptions of how mutations work? While some mutations are undoubtedly and always "bad", most mutations are neutral, while some mutations are "good" in one environment and "bad" in another. So it is with sickle cell. Mutations that generate sickle cell have...

There is a real opportunity for conscious, or unconscious equivocation in this matter. (For example, I have seen it argued that "sound" is not a systematic vibration of molecules transmitted through a medium, but rather the perception of such a vibration. ) I read your original post to be...

Fine. "When a tree falls in a forest."

I worry about it with almost every post, but I fear that is just a form of patronising arrogance that thinks my rhetoric is skillful enough to break through the barriers.

I see you have done some studying on the matter. I was fortunate to begin my undergraduate career before the term "plate tectonics" had been coined, though the pieces of the puzzle were already in place and the theory was (excuse the pun) primed to erupt. It did so before I ended my...

Metaphorically it looks like a form of bait and switch. @eleos1954 has been arguing within the confines of physical science. His interpretations of the data may be different, his perception of the data may be different, from those accepting of AGW, but it is the same playing field. His arguments...

Is it your contention that the tens of thousands of researchers into evolution and its related fields have consciously and deliberately lied about it? If so, what evidence do you have to support such an assertion? In what way is the theory of evolution "death dealing" and what would be the...

Ok. I was unclear. My apologies. I'll try again. I have read several of your threads and they share a common feature. You ask curiously slanted questions that hint at an underlying thought, that never seems to surface. This is repeated manytimes. The questions and some of the observations are...

My post is intended to reflect my view that the topic is a veritable rabbit hole that, to mix metaphors, lies well above my pay grade. It was the most concise way I could express that thought.

I feel compelled to say that free will exists.

To be assured of defeat all that is required is a defeatist attitude. I realise you do not see your position that way and therein lies the disagreement and why I view your position as an existential threat to humanity in particular and the biosphere at large. (The biosphere will survive and...