ERVs and evolutionary predictions

[Tim]

@gbrooks9

The point of my hypothetical story …

That’s the great thing about stories – you, as the author, can make them end up any darn way you want them to.

The downside of that freedom is, that your reader is not under even the slightest compulsion to accept your story as representative, realistic, or anything of the sort.

@gbrooks9

… is that the GAE is the center piece of what we should be discussing …

I already gave you my opinion of GAE three and a half years ago:

@Tim

I also would tend to disagree that, to the degree that he “fully includes God in the mix”, Joshua is doing science. This is particularly true with GAE, which appears to me to be an exercise in apologetics rather than science. The motivation for its hypothesis is blatantly religious, and it is carefully situated such that science can do nothing to confirm nor disconfirm it. Thus, apart from its religious implications, it closely resembles Russell’s Teapot. That said, I am not against it, if it allows some Evangelicals to accept Evolution. I just don’t think that it is of much interest to those who aren’t both Biblically Inerrantist and strongly motivated to keep their views consilient with mainstream science – an intersection that would only be a small subset of either group. I am not, and never was, one of the former, so I am not its target audience.

@gbrooks9

… instead of creating a retirement home for cranky atheists like you.

But if you wont read my postings do yourself a favor and cease commenting out of ignorance!

@tim looks at these vacuous pieces of school-yard name-calling, shrugs and walks away.

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