I have to disagree there again. While I have witnessed dasein be "whitty" or "snarky" at times I have never seen her/him make inflammatory ad hominen attacks like that. Besides, why are you bringing this up? I never said that he is impeccable?? Is it supposed to be some kind of contest?edbarx wrote: You are right about rudeness, but you should remember this dasein, is not impeccable... rudeness is in their blood.
Yeah... he was talking about design and you brought up that gene analogy to "debunk" his claim. Since genes and DNA are not designed I really don't see why a norm of design should be affected by the existence of genes...Of course DNA was not designed: it evolved, but that does not exclude it from using the laws of physics, mechanics and chemistry which happen to also be used in technology.
Sorry but the large consensus is that anything that is "conserved" is by definition not redundant, even if you don't know what it's function is.What I said about the DNA, is that there are protein coding genes that are redundant.
Yes but there are good solid theories about the reasons why both asexual and sexual reproduction exist.In fact, as an organism, we humans, get two complete copies at conception. So, half of them are technically dormant unless they happen to be passed forward to the offspring from both parents.
No it does no such thing. Although agree that if some one has the idea that things need to be really neat and self-contained it can be a political/cultural/personal preference and especially when we argue over how much of that we want or don't want. But then again, dasein was probably proposing his view as, well, his view. Don't you think?This clearly contradicts the quote posted by dasein. And yes, it is idealist to assume everything must be self contained and simple. Such idealism shows a detachment from reality which works and is very complex.
