Yeah, tell that to this guy!
Posted on 10/27/2009 12:31:30 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
I got tired just thinking about it!
You don't believe in Cro-Magnon man.. you think the Earth is 6000 years old.
Neanderthal women could have easily whipped Schwarzenegger
You don't believe in Neanderthals .. you think the Earth is 6000 years old.
Which is it?
The article wasn’t referring to courage. Nobody has got the greatest generation beat in that department!
This is what is known as tautology.
Survival of the fittest? Who are the fittest? By definition, whatever survives.
Simple fallacy. There's no meaning there. Just self-referencing, circular definitions.
I believe in de-evolution.
I used to say that too, until I realized that devolution implies that we evolved in the first place. I have since replaced devolution with degeneration.
For a lot of American men the biggest work out he has all day is standing in line to stuff his face at McDonalds. We’ve been a country of fat slobs who eat too much and never do anything physical and the difference between now and twenty years ago is stunning. IIRC the statistics correctly the average American man weighs almost thirty pounds more than he did 50 years ago.
Except that the average hight of men today is 6' 9". Exactly the same as the Cro-Magnon skeletal collection.
They were physically stronger because living at that time required more physical strength than today.
Bring on the Captain Obvious poster.
Wow....the writer doesn’t even know what “fittest” means.
Earth to dumbarse, Man of today is more “fit” than men of yesteryear even though we are weaker.
Many modern women are pretty wimpy and whiny, as well.
As for:
Cro-Magnon men were taller, more fit and had bigger brains than the average man of today.
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Perhaps, but they had very short life spans.
I bet a cro-mag couldn’t pry the remote control from my hand regardless of how tuff he’s suppose to be.
Whoa! Im 6'3" and haven't run into very many guys that tall. I think you meant 5'9".
"You don't believe in Neanderthals .. you think the Earth is 6000 years old."
More likely that you misrepresent the argument because you don't like his article. He likely has no problem with the existence of either Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthals but does not accept the assumed timeline that underlies your position. But you knew that we knew that.
"Which is it?"
Fallacy of the false dilemma noted.
“There are WWII vets who fought at Normandy who would disagree with this, those men had courage to face those German machine guns facing down on them on Normandy beach.”
....point well taken!.....however, the other night I was watching a WW2 documentary on the History channel....it was about how America had to gear up for war after Pearl Harbor...the old news reels were interesting because they showed the men standing in line down at the induction center....they were in their skivies and not a man looked over weight....compared to today’s men they looked downright skinny....I remarked to my wife that they really didn’t look like men of today....maybe that’s what the author of this story was getting at....we are a lot bigger, heavier and more sedendary than 60 years ago...it’s startling when you look at the old news reels....women too, BTW.
“they at the same time initiate programs that Thwart Darwin at every turn”
The thing about Darwin is that, so far as this particular theory goes, he can’t be thwarted, sort of by definition. Despite the popular understanding, fitness does not refer to strength, intelligence, cunning, or what-have-you. “Fittest” does not mean best. Whoever survives is “fittest”.
Therefore, if liberals were somehow able to overturn human nature (for argument’s sake), and allowed only stupid, ugly, weak, lazy, insane dupes with stumps for hands to reproduce, Darwin would still be in force. For whoever passes their genes along, by whatever means, are the fittest. In this case, ugly, stupid, crazy sloths are fit.
Begging a question is not legitimate research. Man arose, not because he was the strongest, or the fastest, or had the sharpest teeth and claws, it was because he was the smartest and that allowed him to adapt to every ecosystem on the planet and dominate in the competition for food and mates.
Yeah, tell that to this guy!
Wow...the poster doesn't even know what 'tautology' means.
"Man of today is more “fit” than men of yesteryear even though we are weaker."
Survival of the fittest? Who are the fittest? The survivors, of course. Simple tautology.
"Earth to dumbarse,.."
Indeed.
LOL....Liddell got his block knocked off last week but he is still one hard hitting wb.
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