Letter to a Climate Change Denier

[Jackpine Radical]

24. So I got an answer from him & replied to it…

On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Wingnut wrote:

I admit there is global warming. So what. We just morph to the next life form. What is the problem. Do you really feel we have reached the end of your so called evolution. The definition of arrogance or stupidity.

Here is my reply:

Ya know, it would be a lot easier to discuss this if you had some clue of what evolutionary theory is all about. For example, just off the top of your head, can you list the major ways in which genetic variety increases in a deme? By what mechanisms does it decrease? For that fucking matter, what is a deme?

What is the standard operational definition of fitness in the biological sciences? For that matter, what is an operational definition?

Define heritability in terms of analysis of variance. What are the implications of heritability for the relationship between an organism's genotype and phenotype?

Do you have sufficient knowledge, which I would expect of any freshman biology student, to answer any of these questions?

Do you know ANY damned thing about this stuff? I bet you don't even have the vocabulary, let alone the mathematical and statistical background, to have the right to an opinion on biological science.

Get back to me on evolutionary theory when you can present some credible evidence of having ever read anything more authoritative than a Jehovah's Witness tract on the topic.


Honest to God, there are some things you don't know shit about, and you come across as a moron, which you most certainly are not, when you display your ignorance of the topics you're pretending to have worthwhile opinions on. You're very bright, but--well, it's the Dunning-Kruger effect, if you know what I mean.

But then I guess that's the best I can expect from someone who slavishly adheres to the opinions of a lying moron like Limbo (or is it Limb-Arrrgh?) who also feels free to pontificate on things about which he knows nothing--like when he revealed his ignorant beliefs about how female contraception works. (One pill for every encounter, he thought--I guess he got it mixed up with the Viagra he uses with those little Dominican boys.)