Niles Eldredge and Punctuated Equilibria (Page 10)

theHating
theHating: Wow, man, thank you achilles for opening the fucking shit out of my mind.
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theHating
theHating: i wish ya had a vagina, bro
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: If you pay for the op....
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theHating
theHating: O.O
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: Is your anti-Mod thread in Wireclub Help gaining any momentum?

Or did they just delete it and slap you with a 24-hour suspension?
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: It's uncanny. You can post anything you like in Wireclub Help and never get a response within 6 years.

On the other hand, say anything negative about the standards of moderation and you'll be gone in 60 seconds.
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theHating
theHating: Lolololol straight up
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: We call it punctuated moderation.
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: My most recent 24-hour suspension incurred the wrath of a mod by saying "It's hard to play Wordy when nailed to a cross".

I was invited to read the rules. Yet found nothing that might incriminate me.
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theHating
theHating: Hahahahahahaha!
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theHating
theHating: Okay, i got me a new acount.

I also found a new page: r/evolutionreddit.

Here is their "about" section:

"We are an activist hive mind based on the principles of equality, freedom, and democracy.... Yada yada"

They also link a youtubey

Unfortunately, they did not embed it in a way that I can watch or copy and paste the link
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AchillesSinatra
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: Just don't mention Jesus.

Or God.

Or Sinatra.

You'll get 24 hours for each.
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theHating
theHating: Prepare to be c&p'd, Achilles!
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AchillesSinatra
AchillesSinatra: Oh, I don't care. My brother and his wife are coming out here for a visit day after tomorrow.

And my brother is one of three people I've ever met who can drink me under the table.

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theHating
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theHating
theHating: Natural selection, my ass.
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theHating
theHating: I was told the modern synthesis was the theory, but now the extended modern synthesis is the theory, and also the theory has always been true somehow....
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SunshineDeb 
SunshineDeb: AchillesJaguar, why do you want to drink under the table? Seems easier if you're in a chair lol 😋
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theHating
theHating: I think what achilles is saying is that there isnt a single theory that encapsulates all the principles or rather, the essence of whats actually happening.

What we have is a lot of theories to study evolution with.

After being confused about this for so long, I'm not embarrassed to admit that I was as fanatical about it as other folks, but achilles' criticism here is very powerful and cuts straight to some of the conditions that plague this discourse.

Achilles IS a moderate. No one knows what they look like or believe anymore because moderates aren't the normal source of our beliefs, it seems.

Im glad to have the pleasure to chat with an amazing person that can make me think, its what social media platforms everywhere need more of, but instead we get a version of fake normative freedoms.

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MJ59
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theHating
theHating: "fit stuff tends to survive" also has many different denominations and variants and to conclude that they are true misunderstands the premise of what a theory even is in science.

"It's just a theory" why do you think this criticism is constantly being leveled against major theories.

Why do you want something that is half true to represent something that is true?

If there is a single overarching theory to explain evolution, darwinian processes are obviously not THE only process.

Just look at how many theories I had to come up with and copy and paste before realizing that the criticism is true: there exists no such thing as a theory that can reasonably be called THE theory of evolution.

Sure, we have loads of data, we can demonstrate stuff changes, we can approximate time frames, but the fact is that our senses are limited and our theories about this idea are under-determined by "unrecognizable forces" constantly.

So, you can hate me all ya want but, zzzz, i hereby choose not to believe your theories are perfect and convey the essence of this powerful idea that stuff changes.

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