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If someone is going to spam Hare Krishna dogma they should at least make it catchy.

Yanis, I would suggest reading the Wikipedia introduction to evolution and then explaining which claims made therein you think are incorrect. That way you will at least be arguing against a more accurate representation of evolution.

If camels fly, do you think that they can prevent forest fires?

Will post more later, but with regards to the alleged Emory incident. A controversy at Emory University over graffiti promoting Donald Trump led to some predictably inaccurate media reports Be most suspicious of claims you would like to be true. Also: 5 (Statistically BS) Complaints About...

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is Surely if two mutations complement each other then the odds of each one persisting cannot be calculated independently? Related to this is the tendency for some gene variants to be "sticky" and usually be present together. You claim...

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is You can measure the circumference of a wheel directly without relying on calculations of Pi.

In general, I find this article a reasonable overview. Part of why I recognize the potential value here is that I have a son on the autism spectrum. He get upset by things that most kids would find innocuous. Knowing what to expect in advance can help him be prepared which makes it easier for...

Again, Donald Trump is running a campaign explicitly targeting certain minorities and that more-or-less openly courts white supremacists. Additionally, Trump and Trump iconography have been explicitly used as racially-motivated taunts. Why is it unreasonable to expect the university...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. There is no such thing as a "feminazi".

What does protesting Trump have to do with any of this and what student action reported in this article is inappropriate in response to support for an overtly-racist political campaign? This kind of nonsense is why I a stopped reading Coyne.

Any evidence for these mythical beasts you seem to believe in?

So in some imaginary future scenario? And why is NSFW less arbitrary? My work involves images that would not be suitable for some work environments. I'm sure others work with things that wouldn't fly in mine.

Why are you against other people putting warnings on things? In what way does it affect you? And are you against movie ratings?

Many forms of media (movies, music, video games, etc.) have had content warnings for a long time. In some cases, they are fairly detailed. Very few people complain about them. I don't really get why object to the same kind of thing in other media. As an aside, I would hypothesize that if you...

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is You emphasized the wrong part of my point. I have fixed it. First of all, this is a nice quote mine. "Unexpectedly" refers to the next sentence, not the previous one. Secondly, the articule is not saying what you are claiming it is...

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is You're the Pope too? What a coincidence.

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is Really, the whole "X is / is not a scientist" is kind of silly. Even scientists have a domain of expertise and their opinions outside their domain should not be considered reliable. The two named individuals have no relevant expertise...

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is I don't recall saying that. :)

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is No, I can also say that you are equivocating by trying to pretend that similarities in proteins means genetic similarities (which is what you claimed above). Moreover, you are trying to pretend that common ancestry inherently...

Re: Educating a creationist about what evolution actually is This is one of my favourite misunderstandings. We have demonstrated examples of animals with different chromosome counts producing fertile offspring together yet for some reason mutations need to happen to both sexes at once?