John Harshman <jharshman.diespamdie@pacbell.net> wrote:

John Wilkins wrote:

John Harshman <jharshman.diespamdie@pacbell.net> wrote:

Stanley Friesen wrote:

John Harshman <jharshman.diespamdie@pacbell.net> wrote:

Now we find that according to Ernst Mayr, Darwin was "seriously
confused". That being the full extent of the quote, though, we have no
idea what he was confused about. MacBeth seems to leave the impression
that the answer is "everything". But I wonder what Mayr actually meant.

Certainly not "everything". Based on what I have read of him, probably
genetics, which is true.

Most likely. I wonder why David has never replied to that post. He seems
to drop a thread as soon as anyone gives a serious reply to anything he
says. Is he just a troll?

Are you guys only just getting that? I killfiled david a long time ago.
Life is too short.

And yet I swear I've seen you respond to Zoe, Murphy from Ohio, Glenn,
and all sorts of other complete wastes of time. David at times comes
tantalizingly close to arguing in favor of a real position. Perhaps this
is just part of his trolling strategy, but if so he's good at it. Keeps
me on the hook just a little longer.

I responded to david for a good four years before I killfiled him.

Zoe I
sometimes read, and make only passing comments, because she, too, got a
lot of discussion from me in the early days, and eventually I realised
she was just channelling the same old same old each time, with no
apprent learning. Murph is still too new, and I like Glenn...