Nominate a post for best/worst of the season

[Hierophant]

Winter has begun, and with it a new crop of posters. On this thread, you may nominate posts for best or worst of the season. Post the link to that post, as well as the quote you consider best or worst.

Since our posting is still not that high, I started a seasonal thread instead of a monthly thread. So I guess that means submissions will start retroactively at 21 Dec. and end on 21 Mar.

For the sake of not having too many posts to vote on, only one post per person will make it to the final vote.

[Hierophant]

Here is my submission for worst:

http://www.graveyardofthegods.com/forum ... 4502#94502

Put another way, what kind of evidence do you require (or what kind of standards must that evidence fulfill), before you would be convinced that Jesus was a real dude?

Until you can answer that question about standards in an explicit way, we can all be sure that your real position is either unreasonable, theological, rhetorical, or some combination of the three.

(Beware - the strongest evidence of Jesus' existence is in a form you may not have heard about, yet. Choose your standards well, but don't be so picky that you can't admit of your own existence.)

[Hierophant]

Another quote for worst:

http://www.graveyardofthegods.com/forum ... 5679#95679

In a similar way, evolution is not a process that occurs in the indivudla of any species. Evolution occurs at the species level, not the individual level.

Oh geeze.

[Dil]

Another quote for worst:

http://www.graveyardofthegods.com/forum ... 5679#95679

"In a similar way, evolution is not a process that occurs in the indivudla of any species. Evolution occurs at the species level, not the individual level. "

Oh geeze.

he's not completely wrong. The smallest unit that can evolve is a population as a whole. A parent cannot pass down the adaption it has gained in a lifetime.

[vertigo]

I would say that evolution occurs at the level of individuals (plural) because you must always takes something as atomic and individuals are atomic with respect to evolution. So the proper level is the level of (atomic) individuals.

Perhaps this is a wordgame.

[Hierophant]

You are both idiots who don't understand anything about evolution. Ever heard of Hamilton's Rule?

[vertigo]

Only after conserving well-tried genes can there be competition (selection) between new, yet untested ones (i.e. mutations).

Kinda obvious, Franc. I said as much previously when I said that versatility requires consistent performance of a technique. Are you saying that individuals are not atomic with respect to evolution?

[Dil]

You are both idiots who don't understand anything about evolution. Ever heard of Hamilton's Rule?

what definition are you using?

'modification with descent'? or: Change in the relative frequencies of alleles in a population over time. ?

if so, then no...saying individuals evolve doesn't make sense.

[Hierophant]

Nope. ONLY genes are atomistic in regards to evolution. Individual organisms are not, and "species" certainly aren't.

[TCF]

omg I agree with Franc!

[Dil]

Hayduke:

Food preference is a social construct. Food values are derived from society and culture, not invented by the solitary individual.

Some people value spoiled milk. Some people value grubs. Some people value animal intestines. Some people value whale blubber. Some people value fermented fish heads.

Value is cultural and does not exist outside of society.

food preferene is a social construct? BAHAHAHAHAHA.

[Hierophant]

Well Dil, I think he means the specifics of what you eat. Although of course even that is not totally a social construct, otherwise we (inhabitants of the same society) would all be eating the same thing.

[PlatypusOfCarnage]

Hayduke:

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics did not have a socialist economy; it was state capitalism. The facts are clear. Continuing to draw the Soviet Union card is self-defeating.

LAWL

[Hierophant]

Could you post the URL too?

[PlatypusOfCarnage]

http://www.graveyardofthegods.com/forum ... &start=105