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Forum: Evolutionary Psychology October 19th, 2006, 09:45 AM
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Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

I suppose there’s some truth to the 80/20 thing, which suggests that a minority of inputs/effort tend to cause most of the results—some things resonate and/or are important, many things...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology October 18th, 2006, 09:44 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Just to finalize this thread, and perhaps rub it in a bit, let me summarize things by saying that William Provine, the distinguished evolutionary scholar who sits in an endowed Chair in biological...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology October 17th, 2006, 03:10 PM
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Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Well, if you’re still out there Carey, I doubt thinking of natural selection as both an outcome and a mechanism is really all that viable.

Consider looking at it this way: As human...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 17th, 2006, 01:36 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

I guess the “faith” in “rationality” that, say, atheists often seem to have, may leave them vulnerable to “irrational” people, but I’d say that’s...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 13th, 2006, 09:16 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

OMG Todd, it seems that you may, in your typical gentle fashion, have helped MM begin to see the reality that sane humans adults are indeed capable of choosing to hold “rational” and...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 12th, 2006, 06:37 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Yeah Todd, I’d say that you’re probably right that we’ll continue to “better understand” things. But regarding the “point” of MM’s...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 12th, 2006, 09:56 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Yeah, well, no one wants to hear that their baby is ugly. But frankly Todd, when a Provine acknowledges that natural selection is not even a mechanism or an active cause of evolution, then...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 11th, 2006, 11:17 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Yes, I suppose we can understand how it is that MM “feels compelled by her emotions,” to believe that the “rules” of “our present science” are a “parochial...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 11th, 2006, 08:13 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Well, when Dawkins says, “that evolutionary biology gives us the only known mechanism whereby the illusion of design, or apparent design, could ever come into the universe anywhere,”...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 10th, 2006, 05:51 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

I think perhaps you’re being a tad dramatic here, JimB. I’d suggest that self imposed intellectual rigor and honesty (which you yourself certainly seem to possess) might be quite...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 10th, 2006, 08:30 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Carey, read what Provine said:
See that? He’s equating natural selection with “adaptation,” and he’s saying that adaptation (or natural selection) is, duh, the...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 9th, 2006, 10:02 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Carey, you’re in denial. Here’s what you said at http://www.behavior.net/bolforums/showpost.php?p=4156&postcount=31 :

And here's what you said at...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 9th, 2006, 06:26 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Wow Todd, I’m impressed. I hope Carey is listening and learning.

Well Todd, what I find rather annoying are the Darwinian atheists who, OTOH, seem to “need to see” a universe...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 4th, 2006, 03:56 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

Here’s something Provine said/wrote last year regarding a debate that he apparently had with some ID guy (Stephen C. Meyer, apparently at the National Press Club), from...
Forum: Evolutionary Psychology September 4th, 2006, 09:22 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 74,549
Posted By Fred H.
Re: Ann Coulter & Wm. Provine: Evolution's Odd Couple

From JimB’s post:

Yeah, well put—selection isn’t really even a “mechanism," as I, carelessly perhaps, in some of my posts have occasionally indicated (although I at...
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