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    I already piped in on my opinion on the athletics...

    I already piped in on my opinion on the athletics issue. That deals with sexual dimorphism, not gender. Plenty of trans folk dislike this campaign also, and the sports associations that have caved on...
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    Seems to be a semantic debate. We can define...

    Seems to be a semantic debate. We can define words however we want to. Are we talking about sex or gender? Are we talking about biology or identity?

    I happen to think all self identity is in our...
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    Not that odd. They don't see gender and sexuality...

    Not that odd. They don't see gender and sexuality as inseparable. She probably describes herself as a lesbian.

    I have a trans friend. It was interesting to hear her story. It costs me nothing to...
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    Not true. Doctors have performed these surgeries....

    Not true. Doctors have performed these surgeries. It is true that the mental screening for competence is significant, and one may need to hunt around for a surgeon who will do it. But mental health...
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    There's good reason to use Newton for firing...

    There's good reason to use Newton for firing probes at planets: it works. You could do all the calculations relativistically, but it would be easier to make a mistake, since there are a lot more bits...
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    I consider myself leftist but I have hit my...

    I consider myself leftist but I have hit my breaking point a few times. Not over monuments... I don't support wonton destruction of public or private property, but I'd be fine outlawing all monuments...
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    Question for evolutionists

    Of course. You can misuse Occam’s Razor all you want.



    Well, it may turn out that something recognizably like evolution by natural selection was involved in the formation of the first...
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    Douchebag fallacy. I don’t buy your vacuous...

    Douchebag fallacy. I don’t buy your vacuous rhetoric or self-serving definitions. I don’t recognize your authority to define all the words.


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    Well, you just busted my chops for saying they...

    Well, you just busted my chops for saying they can coexist ‘in theory’ right after admitting they can coexist ‘philosophically’... methinks you didn’t read my reply very carefully.

    But I don’t...
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    Question for evolutionists

    Simmer down, friend. What disreputable nonsense have I said?

    In no way was I attempting to elevate creationism or ID to any scientific status. The question was about incompatibility or...
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    They can coexist, in theory. There’s issues of...

    They can coexist, in theory. There’s issues of Occam’s Razor (which admittedly is more of a useful guideline than a hard and fast rule): IF evolution is a sufficient explanation for the diversity of...
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    I doubt I’d agree with your definition of...

    I doubt I’d agree with your definition of ‘philosophy’ any more than I’d agree with your definition of ‘science’ or your definition of ‘religion’. There are remarkably few settled questions in...
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    I don’t accept any of your definitions. I don’t...

    I don’t accept any of your definitions. I don’t know why anyone should. It’s all self-serving rhetoric.


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    Nice equivocation fallacy. But lots of...

    Nice equivocation fallacy.

    But lots of branches of science deals with forensically reconstructing unobserved past events. The entire branch of forensic science, to pick an obvious example.
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    I think all this naked tribalism on display...

    I think all this naked tribalism on display counts as a point in the evolution column. ;)


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    Nonsense. Ussher was an archbishop and later...

    Nonsense. Ussher was an archbishop and later primate of the Church of Ireland, not a ‘mathematician’, and he derived that date from adding up the ages of the genealogies in the Bible and setting them...
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    Yeah, your misunderstanding of the relationship...

    Yeah, your misunderstanding of the relationship between variation and selection does not constitute falsification.

    The fact that you think you can falsify it by tugging on your goatee and making...
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    The theory of natural selection has not been...

    The theory of natural selection has not been falsified. *mic drop*

    Anyone can just assert things. But I don’t buy that one.


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    All of this is irrelevant. All you have to do...

    All of this is irrelevant.

    All you have to do is look at the existing organisms in nature and see that circulation systems come in a wide variety of relative simplicities and complexities...
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    You don’t know me, so I don’t know what you’re...

    You don’t know me, so I don’t know what you’re basing that on. Butt hurtness? I have never once in my entire life made the claim that science refutes religion.


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    What’s the name for the fallacy where you keep...

    What’s the name for the fallacy where you keep pretending I’m making a philosophical or logical argument when in fact I haven’t bothered to do so?

    All I’ve said is that I’m not going to...
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    So when you dismiss every book, lecture, etc as...

    So when you dismiss every book, lecture, etc as mere opinion, that was you doing your argument of the stone thing, right?

    I am curious who you think you’re conversing with on the Internet. How...
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    By that definition, anything any of us say or...

    By that definition, anything any of us say or cite or quote or whatever is ‘just an opinion’, right? Which we all can summarily dismiss without investigation: I think this is lazy, too.

    Why bother...
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    Why limit the discussion to mammals? Mammals...

    Why limit the discussion to mammals? Mammals inherited their circulatory system from ancient reptiles, which got their from even more ancient amphibians, which got theirs from even more ancient fish...
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    Even if it were true that I couldn’t answer your...

    Even if it were true that I couldn’t answer your question, that would just make your point an argument from ignorance fallacy: ‘I don’t know how the circulatory system could have evolved therefor a...
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