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“The house has already passed this bill, but it was held up by Rand Paul in the Senate for months.”

So, learning, as far as I see it. Developing some amount of understanding. So, not actually learning. But isn’t imitation just mimicry? You called it intentional learning. How does one tell the difference? And how does any of this mean that evolution has a direction (meaning that you get an outcome that’s not governed by the current environment)?

You specifically pointed to learning, in more than one place. What differentiates intentional learning from unintentional learning?

Is extraordinary the author’s characterization or yours? In what way are these extraordinary? We know that ingesting small, non-lethal, amounts of poison makes you resistant to it (mithridatism) and have known that for more than 2000 years, so it’s hardly surprising that similar effects happen in the wild. We know animals have intelligence and some use tools. What’s the evidence that this is intentional? Did an orca decide one day that they were going to figure out a way to dislodge seals? Or did they just notice that it happened, and learn from it? You just started out agreeing that the gene pool is not controlled, but now we have the switch, like this is three-card monte, and (of course) the agenda that you keep claiming you don’t have. Cherry-picking results and trying to shape data to force it to support a conclusion is not science.

CR passed the house with the modifications Musk wanted, but without the debt ceiling increase Trump wanted. Happy happy fun fun!

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Other countries are less enthralled and entangled with the US’s unholy conglomeration of billionaires and its embracing oligarchy and authoritarian rule, and might do something about it. (South Korea’s impeachment proceedings, for example

That’s good…for the author. But I’m not concerned about their ability to argue about evolution, or science in general. My objection is about what you fail to do. Your claims of evidence often boil down to “this person said so” and that’s not evidence. That author may have referenced evidence in their work, but you are expected to present evidence here, so that we can all access it and be included in the discussion. You were asked several times to do this and declined. A couple of us picked an example for you, and then showed how the Mojave desert woodrat‘s adaptation isn’t contrary to the theory of evolution (only to your simplistic/outdated caricature of it) Again, control over your fate is not control over the process. You can do things that improved your survivability (some control over your fate) that are in no way controlling how your population evolves.

Saw this posted on social media James 5 NIV 1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. Sounds like an endorsement to me! </s>

You’d think the violation of his security clearance protocols would raise eyebrows. You have to report all contact with foreign nationals, and he neglected to do that.

No, it in fact is not. ”scientific work of others” can be a proposal, or a summary. The evidence is the actual data - the details of the observation or the measurements from an experiment. Seems to me we’ve been through this before, and you still haven’t learned what evidence is. I asked you to define what “control” meant, what the context was, and for you to pick one example and discuss it. You didn’t do that. Your discussion has often been by quoting others. Quotes have their place, because sometime it’s the best way to say something, but in my experience, if you can’t present an argument in your own words, you don’t really understand it. The problem here is that you saw “control” and assumed it meant one thing, but it’s not clear that the author means the same thing. The first instance of the word refers to controlling the evolutionary fate ( and later “control over our evolutionary future“) but your posts imply it’s control of the process, which is a very different concept.

Naturalized, after illegally residing here, and which conceivably could have been revoked if he falsified immigration documents. But I doubt that will happen now unless he really angers Trump.

If you want to claim bias, you need to provide evidence of bias. Otherwise this just sidesteps your culpability in the shortcomings of your posts. e.g. expecting you to provide evidence isn’t bias, it’s a basic requirement of science

If “President Musk and Vice-President Trump” catches on, Elon will be shown the door pretty soon. Nobody upstages the toddler-in-chief and gets away with it.

Concepts can be qualitative or at least not sufficiently quantitative to solve problems. e.g. we know Newtonian gravity is an attraction owing to the mass of the objects, but that concept won’t let you solve quantitative problems. You need a specific expression of the law of gravity to do that.

Models are the rules that define actions. Models have been used to predict behavior that had not yet been observed. It’s a very powerful way to show the validity of the model.

In addition to this absurdity, there is likely a lot of diplomacy that happens that never makes the news, because it’s secret, and a lot of that is probably because certain public posturing is required to placate the citizenry, and any private agreements that are contrary to that won’t be received well. We see that in the US when public vs secret votes happen in congress with different outcomes. e.g. the Gaetz ethics report, which is just the latest example

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Assertion without evidence, though it would not surprise me to find some spectrum of thought on the importance of various elements of evolution; we don’t know everything. Further, the responses you might get will depend greatly on the language you use, especially when you use ill-defined terms like control. A far as the general population and belief are concerned: who cares? This is about science, not belief, and not what ill-informed people say.

Sure. We warm the planet and that can affect evolution. So do beaver dams, since they also affect the environment. You seem to be the only one here that sees this as being contrary to the theory.

No you may not dare to bring up consciousness.

Is intelligence inherited genetically? Does thinking cause a specific, chosen, adaptation? (e.g. if I want humans to evolve wings, what must we do?)

Your claim came first, which did not quote anyone, and you are free to ask for evidence. And this is still not evidence - you haven’t pointed to any “known observation” - just deflection. Interesting. (well, rather mundane, really)

https://www.twz.com/air/drone-incursions-closed-wright-patterson-air-force-bases-airspace-friday-night “there has been a flood of mostly unconfirmed and erroneous reported sightings throughout New Jersey. Of more than 5,000 tips called into a national hotline set up to deal with these sightings, fewer than 100 generated leads “deemed worthy of further investigation,” an FBI spokesman told reporters, including from The War Zone, on Saturday. The overwhelming majority of these sightings, as we have previously reported, are crewed aircraft, the official reiterated on Saturday.”

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