Comments on: Pretending That Darwinism is Sophisticated (and Difficult-to-Understand) Science in Order to Deflect Challenges (or, Mickey Mouse Pretends to be a Scientist)

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:23 +0000

Punkeek, as the Eldredge/Gould notion is known, was nothing more than recogniton that in the “past” evolution took place in spurts. It sure isn’t doing it now is it.

They offered nothing in the way of mechanism. It was little more than a gimmick to bring attention to the authors both of whom were atheist Darwinians to the core. Eldredge is still a Darwin worshipper of the first water as everybody knows.

It is hard to believe isn’t it?

Not at all. They were “born that way.”

By: David Kellogg

David Kellogg — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:20:15 +0000

jerry, when you have time, could you respond substantively to the question I had about your view of punctuated equilibrium? I followed up in [96] above, as did Dave W in subsequent comments.

By: Alan Fox

Alan Fox — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:36:45 +0000

John, Look here

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:21:20 +0000

Please all visit my weblog and especially the Why Banishment? thread where I continue to expose the sordid business that is still taking place on Scordova’s thread. It is a sad commentary on the present status of Uncommon Descent as a venue for honest dialogue.

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:53:11 +0000

Who is Orly or for that matter who is Alan Fox?

By: Alan Fox

Alan Fox — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:41:59 +0000

I love to answer questions!>/blockquote>

Orly?

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:20:37 +0000

Thank you Gil for permitting me to hold forth, something fellow “author” Salvador Cordova, “scordova,” is loathe to do. I don’t have anything further to contribute to this thread unless someone has questions. I love to answer questions!

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:02:45 +0000

Stephen

In order to appreciate the extent to which I am being deleted at Scordova’s thread you can visit the “Why Banishment” thread on my weblog where I have copied every comment that I transmitted to that thread which appeared however briefly for others to read. I have never seen such a policy implemented before. It strikes me as a sort of suicidal masochism to practice discrimination in such a flagrant manner.

Maybe that is a good thing!

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:45:16 +0000

woops, Scordova not Cordova

By: JohnADavison

JohnADavison — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:42:33 +0000

Thanks Stephan Henry Proulx. You are welcome to participate on my weblog. I will be eighty one in June and anyone who thinks he has plenty of time left at eighty one is a damn fool.

I have been perfectly civil here. I have attacked only the Darwinian fairy tale and not the poor souls who still believe it. Christ had it right -

“Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.”

The tough part is the forgiving. I do my level best but it is not easy when you have been banished from nearly all their isolationist, protectionist, intellectual bastions. I am currently being deleted wholesale at Cordova’s thread. Drop by and see for yourself. It is very revealing.