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May 27, 2012 • 10:45 am
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Is he really that ignorant of the “time” dimension of the equation, or just insulting everyone else’s intelligence by assuming they are. Mind boggling!
His comments are an example of a type of Poe’s law: they are indistinguishable from a satire of a creationist argument. To expect to get a dog from a cat or an amoeba from a bacterium is a sure-fire indicator that you don’t understand evolution (or modern biology for that matter). You could, with the help of generations of dedicated descendants, turn a cat into something else, perhaps doglike, using selection, but the result would be neither a dog or a cat but something new. That point is never apparent to creationists (who still view the biological world as superficial “kinds”).