Friday, December 18, 2009

Stupid Quote of the Day: Vox Day and his argumental tunnel-vision

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Falling off the edge of a flat Earth
“See? If evolution was real, we’d grow wings and just fly to safety, now!”

The Internet SuperCrank shows how he really doesn’t get all this “arguments” stuff:

Should you ever find yourself pondering the probability of evolution by natural selection being true:

PZ Myers: "Yes, it is quite probable that global warming has a significant anthropogenic component. About as probable as the idea that HIV causes AIDS, species diversity is driven by evolutionary processes, and that the world is round."

For once, I quite agree with the chicken-hearted biologist. The idea that global warming exists and has a significant anthropogenic component IS about as probable as the idea that evolution by natural selection creates new species.

Of course, following this line of reasoning leads us to understand that Vox is also an AIDS/HIV denialist who fears wandering too far out at sea less he fall into the bottomless void beneath the Earth.

Which are totally reasonable things to expect from the likes of him, really.