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Darwinian Sleepwalkers

Re: DARWINIAN SLEEPWALKERS                                         more options

Author:    Steve Keppel-Jones                                    author profile
Email:     stevekj@bnr.ca                                           view thread
Date:      1998/08/05
Forums:    alt.fan.publius, alt.atheism, sci.skeptic
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[We follow the Dynamic Duo as they leave the remains of the hideout and head for the Pubemobile.]

Ferret Boy: Oh no! The Pubemobile has a flat. I'll get the jacks and the pump. You check the gas.

In article <6pkp0p$d26@dakota.gate.net>,
Publius  <publius@dakota.gate.net> wrote:
>   I once posted an Article citing - as one example of Life's myriad's of
>"Will Expressions" - a butterfly whose markings are the same as those
>of a deadly moth.

Ferret Boy (in the distance): ...And make sure there are no deadly moths in the Pubemobile! I hate those!

>  As the Darwinists, with the assurance of Sleepwalkers,
>and a cockiness meant to be offensive set me straight:  This was due to
>the "fact" that those butterflies that did not appear like that were eaten
>up

[time passes...]

> and blah-blah-blah and 'ipso facto' up comes the idiotically obvious
>example of Darwinian Evolution. How could anyone be so dense as to
>not see that? etc.

[Ferret Boy returns with the tire changing equipment.]

Ferret Boy: Did you check the gas gauge, Publius?

>   Oddly, lots of other butterflies, colorful and highly visible, are
>flitting about in the same area

Ferret Boy (looks around): What? I don't see any butterflies...

> and without any such defense mechanism
>are surviving OK, thank you.

Ferret Boy: Are you alright, Publius? Did the blast give you a concussion? There's a medical kit in the Pubemobile. Just help me change this tire first.

>   Its really not 'ipso facto'. Its just 'ipse dixit'. (Don't bother to
>look it up. It means "An assertion made but not proved")

Ferret Boy: I'm not looking anything up. I already know how to change a tire. Just hold that jack there.

>   Once "Life" appeared here on Earth it demonstrated a "Willful"
>Process of Evolution along a "Vector" that is better perceived by
>Goethe than the likes of Darwin or Gould.

Ferret Boy (muttering): darn vectors...

>PUBLIUS at <alt.fan.publius>

[Will the Dynamic Duo manage to get the Pubemobile going again? And where will they go when they do? Tune in next time and see!]

Steve

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