Re: DARWINIAN SLEEPWALKERS                                         more options

Author:    Steve Keppel-Jones                                    author profile
Email:     stevekj@bnr.ca                                           view thread
Date:      1998/08/05
Forums:    alt.fan.publius, alt.atheism, sci.skeptic
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[We follow the Dynamic Duo as they leave the remains of the
hideout and head for the Pubemobile.]

Ferret Boy : Oh no!  The Pubemobile has a flat.  I'll get the jacks
             and the pump.  You check the gas.

In article <6pkp0p$d26@dakota.gate.net>,
Publius  <publius@dakota.gate.net> wrote:
>   I once posted an Article citing - as one example of Life's myriad's of
>"Will Expressions" - a butterfly whose markings are the same as those
>of a deadly moth.

Ferret Boy (in the distance) : ...And make sure there are no deadly
             moths in the Pubemobile!  I hate those!

>  As the Darwinists, with the assurance of Sleepwalkers,
>and a cockiness meant to be offensive set me straight:  This was due to
>the "fact" that those butterflies that did not appear like that were eaten
>up

[time passes...]

> and blah-blah-blah and 'ipso facto' up comes the idiotically obvious
>example of Darwinian Evolution. How could anyone be so dense as to
>not see that? etc.

[Ferret Boy returns with the tire changing equipment.]

Ferret Boy : Did you check the gas gauge, Publius?

>   Oddly, lots of other butterflies, colorful and highly visible, are
>flitting about in the same area

Ferret Boy (looks around) : What?  I don't see any butterflies...

> and without any such defense mechanism
>are surviving OK, thank you.

Ferret Boy : Are you alright, Publius?  Did the blast give you a
             concussion?  There's a medical kit in the Pubemobile.
             Just help me change this tire first.

>   Its really not 'ipso facto'. Its just 'ipse dixit'. (Don't bother to
>look it up. It means "An assertion made but not proved")

Ferret Boy : I'm not looking anything up.  I already know how to
             change a tire.  Just hold that jack there.

>   Once "Life" appeared here on Earth it demonstrated a "Willful"
>Process of Evolution along a "Vector" that is better perceived by
>Goethe than the likes of Darwin or Gould.

Ferret Boy (muttering) : darn vectors...

>PUBLIUS at <alt.fan.publius>

[Will the Dynamic Duo manage to get the Pubemobile going again?  And
where will they go when they do?  Tune in next time and see!]

Steve