Random Rants Thread

This thread is intended to be a place for us to get off something off our chests in a quick manner. It is intended for random rants and perhaps a few responses. If you want to debate a point brought up in one of these random rants, go and propose a topic.

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I just watched a video called "Collapse of Darwinism". You can look for it on youtube if you want.Throughout the video, the narrator kept saying that evolution and abiogenesis are all based on random chance. Goddamn it, that is downright a fucking lie. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy fucking neighbor! There is absolutely nothing in the video that is not either a quote mine or downright lie.I don't know why I sat through the whole thing and managed to not have my head explode.

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For crying out loud, I already gave you everything you needed. Just go to youtube and type in "collapse of darwinism".

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A half-truth is worse than a lie, nem.

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Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style.

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He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!

Look, do yourself a favor and learn some programming. Then use the monte carlo method to solve a physical (preferably chaotic) system.In other words, the bulk of your program will be calling up random numbers. You only need a single line of if-then. When you're done, come back and we'll talk some more.

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Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style.

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He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!

Gee, you missed my point.Your original complaint was that natural selection was a non-random process in a sea of random processes. Hence, you implied that the video was justified to call the whole evolutionary thing a totally random process.At this point, I'm not even talking about evolution. Any program that uses the monte carlo method would have a single selective if-then statement in a sea of random numbers (I'm talking about literally millions of random numbers here) and random equations. And yet, I've been able to make pretty patterns and very nice curves as a result of this one selective if-then statement in a sea of random processes.So, clearly, just because a large part of a system depends on a random process doesn't mean you can make a blanket statement and call the whole thing a random process.That's what I was bitching and moaning about when I watched the video. Do you even know what the monte carlo method is? Have you even written a program or attempt to solve a physical or mathematical system with it?Frankly, having dedicated a large part of my life studying and using these concepts, I find your back hand waving dismissal very insulting.Here is another rant for you. Produce a scientific paper proving that the rest of us are dumbasses or...

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The engineer would get out a ruler and precisely measure out the dimensions to calculate the area?Nice joke.

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He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!

Hahaha. I know. That's the point. Instead of integrating it directly, the engineer uses his ruler to do so. Engineers do use his ruler a lot, you know. This works, too.

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Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style.

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He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!