Again, vulgar language has no place on a scientific forum and belongs in the cesspool forums.
Thread. It's a thread. Not a forum. Some forums call them topics, but they're generally known as threads. A forum contains threads. Although, to be precise, the usual structure is that a forum contains subforums which contain threads...
Anyway.
Vulgar language belongs anywhere I do.
I like saying 'fuck'. So what? Are you now going to throw up the age old fallacy of equating profanity with inanity?
Lots of scientists are vulgar motherfuckers. Just because you're smart doesn't mean that you're a proper gentleman (or lady.)
Bear in mind that, as has been said to you several times over, we're not writing scientific papers here. Try to loosen up.
As admitted by spurious, it doesn't matter if you have a Phd. Are you familiar with my educational background and degrees?
I already knew that phd's don't matter. The reason I brought it up was because of your use of 'we'. By saying 'In genetics we...', you were basically conjuring up this mystical army of geneticists to stand beside you and placing yourself squarely in their ranks. I know for a fact that you're not a geneticist. I don't know what you are. But I know you're no geneticist. You're no scientist period. (Don't worry. Neither am I. I'm a construction worker...)
As to your level of education. Who knows? I'd guess not very high though. I'm thinking you're young. You might not even be out of high school yet. You probably are though. College? Maybe. I haven't seen you demonstrate anything I'd call real competency yet though. You're new though. I'm sure there's something you're good at.
If you read my reply about using the proper definition of forces in evolution, you would know that I was rejecting the use of a god or a spiritual force to describe evolutionary change: dah!
Yes. Yes. I know. But Spurious posted his simple statement about driving forces of evolution and you still tried to show him up. And conjuring up your phantom armies to do it with.
I very clearly understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. I've seen no strong evidence on either side. You obviously have at the very least gone googling for it, but that's not to say that you understood it when first mentioning it... (or now, for that matter.) Now. I'm not getting on your case here. As I've said, I see no evidence either way. Maybe you didn't go googling for thermodynamics as you might have a strong grip on it already, but you did go googling for thermodynamics and evolution, didn't you? Not for resources, but for understanding and nomenclature.
See. Maybe you do have a strong grasp of thermodynamics, but you don't have a strong grasp of molecular biology. And therefore your troubles might have come from trying to explain something you don't understand very well with something that you do. In the attempt both come across as shakey.
Maybe.
Dunno.
You, on the other hand, are more concerned about "trashing" a person than investigating the merits of applying this law to evolution! That's being "closed minded,"
I'm not trying to trash you. I'm trying to get you to loosen up. I'm trying to get you to state your case better. I'm trying to get you to only defend those things which you understand not those things which you've heard or read somewhere but don't really understand. When you do so, you come across as someone trying to pretend to be more than he is.
Maybe it's all misinterpretation. Maybe you're just a poor communicator. I don't know. I can't say for sure.
Rest assured that I'm not going to keep dogging you like this. I do hope that you become a more able communicator but I can't force you into being one.
You never answered the question the other day. Are you American? I recall reading in some post of yours that you speak as if you are. I'm surprised. You come across as foreign and are having difficulties with cultural translations.
I know that I'm not the only one who gets this from reading you.
And. Please. I'm not 'trashing' you. I'm not trying to belittle you in any way... I actually like the liveliness of the biology forum since you've shown up. I would like the threads to be more intellectually honest though.
or perhaps I should put it in your own words: You are "talking out of your ass!" Grow up!
You could tell me to fuck off. I wouldn't take offense. Promise.
You and Aphiolite's postings are counterproductively generating animosity on this forum rather than objectively searching for answers. What is the purpose?
I don't mean to be generating animosity, and I feel that Ophiolite feels the same way. The purpose? Intellectual honesty. You come across as being dishonest about your knowledge.
Like I said, maybe it's just poor communication. But, that's the sense that I continue to get from you. At times.