Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

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Common sense is about seeing rational reality. For example, the sun will rise each morning with 100% certainty,

Yup, that is common sense, the sun rises. reality says otherwise. So much for common sense.

 

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asnd you obviously just ignored my argument which actually holds water. Newton proved gravity.

What exactly did he prove?

We still don't know what gravity is but now we know its approximate speed and we know the weight of the earth.

 

[cladking]

Common sense is about seeing rational reality. For example, the sun will rise each morning with 100% certainty, at least within the time scale beyond humanity; billions of years. This is not a statistical observation, based on chance, fear of potential risk, or uncertainty; whims of the gods. Common sense can see the rational cause and effect of a world based on certainty, unburdened by fuzzy dice thinking.

Evolution and the life science are led by statistical math, to massage data, thereby adding uncertainty to common sense; reason. This whims of the gods approach allows replicators to suddenly appear, for no reason other than to serve the needs of a theory, that is based on odds. There is no sense of direction with the current evolutionary model, because the math that is used to lead, is designed that way; both use that same premise.

Math is a tool, and this situation of the tool leading, is like a hammer leaving a dent in the wood, because the hammer is leading the hand, so the hand, by not going first; math before science, cannot always stop the hammer to avoid the dent; margin of error. We get side effects; dents, as predicted by and approved by the theory of uncertainty that leads. This approach defies common sense.

I believe in the gist of evolution, but not the current version based on the hammer leading and making dents. I am more of a rational common sense type of guy and I look for on-off connections, like the sun will rise tomorrow and nearly forever. The one variable in life that can do that is water. Water was there at the very beginning, billions of years before life. Water has not changed since it first appeared in the universe, and it will continue to be the same way into the future. Life does not work without water at any scale. There is no fuzzy dice or dented wood.

Water appeals to my common sense. Water is also the most studied substance in all of science. We know more about that one common sense variable of life, than anything else in science or life. Water is also the most anomalous substance in nature, where it behaves differently than the patterns of most other materials. This is all based on the logic within hydrogen bonding. Water has the right stuff to animate all the contents of cells and achieve that on-off state called life. Things are alive or not. Virus are given fuzzy dice status; almost alive, by the tool; hammer, leading the brain; hand.

Virus are more like indigestible contents that can take advantage of equilibrium water effects to multiply.

You hit the nail on the head.

Meanwhile believers are flailing wildly with and without hammers.

 

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Common sense is about seeing rational reality. For example, the sun will rise each morning with 100% certainty, at least within the time scale beyond humanity; billions of years. This is not a statistical observation, based on chance, fear of potential risk, or uncertainty; whims of the gods. Common sense can see the rational cause and effect of a world based on certainty, unburdened by fuzzy dice thinking.

I wish I could be so confident of anything at all. I am pretty sure though that if the sun explodes it will be about 8 1/2 minutes before we never know it.

I don't even believe in "laws of nature" and I certainly don't believe Darwin could tell how life evolves by simply looking at it and drawing picture of bird beaks. We've had a century and a half to get real but we're all mystics deep down who think reality conforms to anything we believe.

 

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Holy Mehet Weret Cow

This is probably a different cardinal today since his mate isn't with him. They almost always travel in pairs and watch over each other as they feed. This one might be a little lighter coloured but I'm not certain it's a different individual. this guy landed on the branch of a buckeye tree above and swung it until he could grasp the hosta stalk below. He then deftly interlaced them to create a secure platform from which he quickly devoured all the seeds.

Why can't people see these things! Bird beaks and drawings have nothing to do with how species change. Consciousness rules every single life and all change in it. Yesterday's cardinals didn't select their mates through instinct or happenstance. They waited for the magic. They waited to find a consciousness compatible with their own that could produce the best and most conscious off spring. There's nothing more or less "fit" about either bird or any bird at all. They're all fit and nature designs nothing as a meal for another species and it doesn't design humans to be trod underfoot or thrown in front of cannons to cushion their blow. It is humans who believe in nonsense who kill for sport and wealth.