Tim K. wrote:

"Thomas Lee Elifritz" <crackpots@everywhere.net> wrote in message
news:4170A31B.D295AD2F@everywhere.net...

October 16, 2004

"Tim K." wrote:

Mass extinctions are
one of the most probable causes of these rapid bursts of evolution.

Dumbass, extinction does not cause evolution.  Extinct means they

don't

exist anymore.

extinction opens niches
dinosaurs all died off
and there was an explosion of evolution for mammals

You somewhat redeem yourself.

No, he demonstrates you to be some kind of arrogant idiot.

He was making the same point as I, although in a far less technical way.

First, you claim that the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane season was not

particularly

intense, contrary to the evidence :

When did I make that claim and in what words exactly?

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/figure8.gif

Then you claim that inflation adjusted hurricane damage estimates are not
quantifiable metrics, contrary to the evidence :

I'll try to explain it again - if you adjust for nothing more than inflation
you aren't taking the unbelievable increase in real-estate (and thus a far
greater probability of damage) on the beaches into account, and that makes
you guilty of junk metrics.  I do metrics for a living asshole, don't tell
me my business.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/USdmg/

Finally, you claim that extinction is not a process of natural selection

and

evolution, and that evolution is specific to biological systems.

I made no such claim.  This is you spinning what I wrote.
Deal with it, fuckwit.

Hi Tim,

I see you have discovered Little Tommy (The same one I mention in my sig all the time). He's quite the little kook, almost as much fun as Twonky. He styles himself as some sort of scientist, but spouts nothing but meaningless technobabble and bitches at everyone else for not being scientific enough. He's the classic example of a kid who rode the short bus to school, but since he once read "General Science for Complete Idiots" (and understood about 5% of it), he now thinks he is another Einstein. One look at his truly horrible web shite is all you should need to see the true depths of his nuttyness. And like all good kooks, he has a lot of trouble keeping track of who said what. That's why he keeps claiming you said things I don't see anywhere in the thread. Oh, and by the way, he's a saucerhead too. Have fun slapping him around. Be warned though that the little sissy boy will killfile you after a while. But as stupid as he is, he can't keep track of who he has and hasn't killfiled. So don't be surprised if after a while he starts responding to you again.

PS: Global warming is a particular bugaboo with him. That's because he lives on a shitty little island about 6 inches above sea level. That's probably why he is going on and on with this hurricane nonsense. He really hates us energy rich, CO2 producing, Americans. It's my personal mission in life to put him under water. I'm going to go wastefully burn some more gas in my inefficient, over-sized, over-powered vehicle now on another unnecessary trip in hopes of getting his ankles wet.

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