How stupid straw men DONT work

I like CDK007's work, he provides a decent education on the topic of evolution, and excels at making visual aids. Needless to say, when I saw this particularly flawed video, I felt I should debunk it.

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Education

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• Atheism
• Dawkins
• Evolution
• Science
• Logic
• Jesus
• God

[onijester56]

@PrometheusWithLight I actually never swear when I am angry...XD

Of course when one asks for what one doesn't deserve, they will only be met (by me) with what they do deserve. Ergo...

[PrometheusWithLight]

@onijester56

Now, now, let's be civil. If you're going to tell someone to go fuck themself, don't do it in anger. Do it because everyone could use a little fun at the end of the day.

[onijester56]

(cont)

That, in fact, is the process of Natural Selection. That is in fact the very process you claim is not possible. Yet it occurs every day. Every time someone is born and dies. Every time any organism at all reproduces, sexually or asexually, that process occurs and applies to the organism until death by definition.

"Oh wait, you are still evolving." Let's put aside that evolution doesn't work like that. You spew ignorance and demand respect for it. Four words: Fuck you, you hypocrite.

[onijester56]

@cmpresents "I'm no prime example." So then you have no children. Pretty sad, then.

"Only in your mind is what you say possible." Actually it's observed every day by every organism. But since the simple way is too hard for you to understand, here's the retarded way:

Mommy and Daddy made a baby! Baby has Mommy's and Daddy's genes so genes survive! Baby died; the genes might not survive!

Or

Mommy and Daddy made a baby! Genes survive! Baby grew up and had its own baby! Genes survive more!

[cmpresents]

@onijester56 I'm no prime example. Only in your mind is what you say possible. Learn to respect. Oh wait, you are still evolving.

[onijester56]

@PrometheusWithLight In a sense he's then also ultimately wrong then. The "point" (to be blunt) of natural selection is to select against genes and hence traits that are harmful to a species. The way to do so is to prevent reproduction because reproduction passes the genes to the next generation.

Any member of a species who then passes on its genes has (essentially, especially in the sense used) "survived natural selection". Ergo...

[But that's a predominately-technical approach...]

[PrometheusWithLight]

@onijester56 No, in a sense, he's ultimately right, at least as regards selection. We all get naturally selected sooner or later. That's why the statement deserved a "duh." The species survives, as you astutely point out, by its members reproducing themselves before they too become selected.

[onijester56]

@cmpresents "No organism would survive natural selection" This is a nonsensical claim. You are a prime example of an organism surviving natural selection because (assuming your channel gives your actual age) you have had plenty of time to reproduce, and hence pass on your genes to the "next" generation.

The variation that Natural selection 'acts on' comes from "random mutations." The bulk of which actually have no effects.

Learn before you spew bullshit.

[PrometheusWithLight]

@cmpresents

Actually, every human has an average of 7 point mutations that weren't present in either parent. In other words, you yourself are evidence that you're wrong. Booya.

[cmpresents]

@PrometheusWithLight YOu have a lot of faith.