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  • So, human evolution is caused by eating shellfish? Really?

    From Claudius Denk@21:1/5 to JTEM is so reasonable on Thu Mar 30 14:33:45 2023
    On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 2:25:37 PM UTC-7, JTEM is so reasonable wrote:
    Claudius Denk wrote:

    Answer my question, you evasive piece of shit. Explain why the hundreds of DHA
    consuming species didn't develop hominid/human evolution?
    The sheer stupidity here is in thinking they should.

    You got nothing!!!


    Why don't we all fly?

    Why aren't we all like Whales, living entirely in the water?

    You pretend you believe in evolution yet you always describe
    Intelligent Design where things HAVE TO happen a certain way.

    TONS of stories like this one:

    https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2014/02/making-smarter-monkeys-feed-them-an.html

    Feed monkeys Omega-3s and they get smarter!

    And you think this is a theory of human evolution? Really?

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  • From JTEM is so reasonable@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 30 14:51:50 2023
    Again, you're frightfully stupid and emotionally unhinged but
    humans evolved. If we didn't have the DHA we still would
    have evolved, but we'd look like Lucy or Ardi. The evolution
    was going to happen, but the direction it took would have
    been different.

    The Aquatic Ape/Littoral/Waterside diet all by itself meant
    that brains were going to grow just as big as genetics
    would allow. That probably wasn't very big, not at first, but
    with all the pieces in place -- the environment, the diet --
    they were poised to take up the moment any lucky mutation
    allowed for still larger and/or smarter brains. And with
    free hands to work with and a whole lot of new problem
    solving skills, they were ready to advance...

    One of the "Space guys" on Youtube talked about intelligent
    species. He speculated that the odds for some water worlds
    out there were greater than zero, but even if intelligent arose
    you couldn't imagine them advancing much. I mean, how to
    you make fire when you live under water?

    And do you have hands or fins?

    The point of the story is that having access to the right
    diet, having a bigger, brighter brain is pointless if you're in
    the wrong environment. There would be ZERO selective
    pressures on such a water world being to evolve along
    technological lines...





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  • From Claudius Denk@21:1/5 to JTEM is so reasonable on Thu Mar 30 15:08:25 2023
    On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 2:51:51 PM UTC-7, JTEM is so reasonable wrote:
    Again, you're frightfully stupid and emotionally unhinged but
    humans evolved. If we didn't have the DHA we still would
    have evolved, but we'd look like Lucy or Ardi.

    Silly, meaningless speculation.

    The evolution
    was going to happen, but the direction it took would have
    been different.

    Like you have any fucking clue.


    The Aquatic Ape/Littoral/Waterside diet all by itself meant
    that brains were going to grow just as big as genetics
    would allow.

    What are you talking about? Where are you getting this absurd line of reasoning?


    That probably wasn't very big, not at first, but
    with all the pieces in place -- the environment, the diet --
    they were poised to take up the moment any lucky mutation
    allowed for still larger and/or smarter brains. And with
    free hands to work with and a whole lot of new problem
    solving skills, they were ready to advance...

    Worthless, meaningless, speculation. You have nothing.


    One of the "Space guys" on Youtube talked about intelligent
    species. He speculated that the odds for some water worlds
    out there were greater than zero, but even if intelligent arose
    you couldn't imagine them advancing much. I mean, how to
    you make fire when you live under water?

    Nutcase.


    And do you have hands or fins?

    The point of the story is that having access to the right
    diet, having a bigger, brighter brain is pointless if you're in
    the wrong environment. There would be ZERO selective
    pressures on such a water world being to evolve along
    technological lines...

    You have no business in a scientific discussion.

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  • From JTEM is so reasonable@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 30 22:31:40 2023
    You don't grasp evolution. You have an agenda. You have an answer
    that needs to be true. This is not the case with me. My journey to
    Aquatic Ape was not a rapid or direct route. I was not educated
    outside the mainstream. I was not exposed to a great many
    "Alternative" viewpoints. My one saving grace was that I never tried
    to memorize things but instead I tried to understand them. And
    this is a guaranteed formula for spotting contradictions.

    ...if things aren't consistent, if they're not based on facts or if they're just plain made up, "Understanding" is gone. There's going
    to be conflicts -- contradictions -- and things aren't going to make
    sense.

    This isn't to say that I can't spot a nut job when I see one, and you
    are a nut job.





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