There is no naturalistic explanation to account for the origin of sex

It has always been an active mystery to me how evolution allowed the male of the species to evolve in just such a way that sexual relations with the female of the species was not only possible but successful. Darwinian theory should make such chance parallel evolution by random chance and natural selection an impossibility. All this is discussed here: Evolutionary Theories On Gender And Sexual Reproduction.

Exactly how did we arrive at two separate genders-each with its own physiology?  If, as evolutionists have argued, there is a materialistic answer for everything, then the question should be answered:  Why sex?  Is sex the product of a historical accident or the product of an intelligent Creator?  The current article reviews some of the current theories for why sexual reproduction exists today.  Yet, as these theories valiantly attempt to explain why sex exists now, they do not explain the origin of sex.  We suggest that there is no naturalistic explanation that can account for the origin and maintenance of sex.

I have asked biologists but no one knows, and there are no theories that even come close to sounding plausible. 

 

A woman can do anything if a man does it first and then shows her how

Well, almost anything and usually not as well. There is some evidence that the feminist tyranny we see at every point is coming towards an end. It will never end completely since there are many women who reward any male who is nice to them. But there have been a few amongst the male of the species who have been seeing through this process lately and saying so, but this was the best: Women’s Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas. This is how he begins which is a good place to start since he notes other bits of writing on the same issue:

Having mentioned the concept a few times, many have been encouraging me to write a Substack on the feminization of political life and its connection to free speech issues. Noah Carl beat me to it, and the idea has also been picked up by no less an authority than Tom Edsall at the New York Times. I’ve already written about the overrepresentation of women in HR. We can understand the decline of free speech as a kind of female pincer attack: women demand more suppression of offensive ideas at the bottom of institutions, and form a disproportionate share of the managers who hear their complaints at the top.

Read the entire article and watch the video he attaches.

And since we are at it, there is this as well: The coming era of feminine tyranny. This is the opening two paras:

Leftists and feminists have seized control of the vast majority of our civic institutions and are coming for the rest of them. For a glimpse of what this future could look like, observe what’s been happening on some of our most prestigious college campuses. Administrators, disproportionately female, are seizing tight control over the student population through aggressive COVID policies (see Michael Tracey’s excellent coverage of this). College students, nearly 100% of whom are vaccinated already, have been limited in their activities, prevented from socializing and gathering in groups, and even stopped from leaving the county, in the case of Princeton University. So far, colleges have also been slow to remove restrictions.

Many campuses opened up snitch hotlines or email addresses for people to rat out their fellow students for failing to adhere to mask mandates or other COVID policies early in the pandemic. At a few colleges, administrators have required the use of certain technologies to track students’ movements as part of their COVID enforcement efforts.

This is how he ends:

Under the guise of advancing women’s interests or a more progressive criminal justice system, we’ve allowed our fundamental shared values – individual liberty, autonomy, free speech, due process, and much more – to collapse. I’m not sure of the way out but it sure seems like the drug companies and big tech and big government are using this new feminized landscape to push too hard on the people and force us towards some kind of grand-scale cultural re-evaluation.

It’s just how it is and how it will be perhaps until some other religion becomes dominant (not saying which). And then there’s this: Has feminism gone too far? He does beat around the bush a bit, but eventually makes his point, sort of.

We need to drop this narrative around toxic masculinity. Because I tell you what folks until we do, I reckon we’d be hard-pressed to win any war were the Russians or the Chinese to catch the Eurostar over the Channel to invade these shores. But what do you think? Has this whole equalities agenda and feminist movement gone too far? Or do you think I’m talking rubbish and women do have it wrong in modern life?

He is on the media in the UK so no matter what he might really think, that is about all he is able to say. But what he means is that so long as the feminist tyranny continues, which is as far as the eye can see, they will be hard pressed to win any war at any time in the near future. And it is not just against the Russians and Chinese, but against all those migrants who are crossing the Channel on a daily basis.

The striking similarity between the threat of global warming and covid

The most striking fact is the similarity between the threat of global warming and covid. There just is a fairly large proportion of the voting population who are susceptible to such fears who can be led around by those who offer safety. We are being driven towards a mediaeval outcome, with the “elite” being those who promise action to save us from these perils, and there is no arguing with these terrified political morons who are lining up to support them. They are determined to be saved even if there is no danger whatsoever.

Just how terrified so many are about covid may be seen with the flocking across the world to vaxxinations of experimental injections for which there are endless statistics on just how dangerous they are. I know this and the data are easy to find. But the political lemming-class who follow their leaders never look and ignore whatever evidence they turn up should they ever come across any of it.

The absence of evidence of global warming is so striking that it seems to demonstrate a philosophical hunger for catastrophist scenarios. Snowfalls are just a thing of the past really was a statement once made, and like every other forecast has proven utterly untrue. Nevertheless, the will to be believe remains and cannot be reversed.

A large proportion of the population resist personal freedom and prefer becoming a subject class tended to by those with political power. Our way of life is disappearing, along with our wealth and our freedom. Some of us preferred it that way, but most of us apparently do not.

Think about this: Understanding the Covid Odds. The author thinks he is going to settle the concerns about the dangers of covid. His opening:

It’s obviously not easy to give up fear of Covid-19, to judge from a recent survey showing that the vaccinated are actually more frightened than the unvaccinated. Another survey found that most Democratic voters are so worried that they want to make it illegal for the unvaccinated to leave home. But before you don another mask or disinfect another surface, before you cheer on politicians and school officials enforcing mandates, consider your odds of a fatal Covid case once you’ve been vaccinated.

So here is the risk based on a study of more than a million Americans undertaken by the NIH and CDC.

The researchers report that none of the healthy people under 65 had a severe case of Covid that required treatment in an intensive-care unit. Not a single one of these nearly 700,000 people died, and the risk was minuscule for most older people, too. Among vaccinated people over 65 without an underlying medical condition, only one person died. In all, there were 36 deaths, mostly among a small minority of older people with a multitude of comorbidities: the 3 percent of the sample that had at least four risk factors. Among everyone else, a group that included elderly people with one or two chronic conditions, there were just eight deaths among more than 1.2 million people, so their risk of dying was about 1 in 150,000.

If these are the kinds of odds that worry you, there is then this at the conclusion.
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If those odds still aren’t enough to assuage your dread of Covid, consider one more statistic, based on Ioannidis’s analysis of data from Covid tests and seroprevalence surveys. He estimates that in the United States, a nation of 331 million people, there have been a total of 250 million to 350 million Covid infections since the pandemic began. While that estimate includes some people who were infected more than once, it seems clear that the vast majority of Americans have already survived an infection and acquired natural immunity, many without being aware of it. Many don’t realize—and a horde of journalists and public officials are working hard to keep them ignorant—that their enemy today is not a virus in the air but the fear in their minds.
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We are dealing with political fools. These are the inheritors of a great political tradition, which will never be passed on to the generation to come.

Socialists have no imagination whatsoever

Picked this up here where they take it for granted that communism is obviously a very bad idea, but I wonder how many people really think that. The market economy was an approach that took millenia to emerge, and already it has more enemies than friends. The notion that we can run an economy centrally and pass along high living standards to everyone is completely false, but how many people understand that?

Woke white women over 50

This is the only time during this entire pandemic that I have come across someone noting that gender differences may have [almost certainly have] made a difference in how the reaction to covid has been dealt with in constituencies where women have the vote.

It has not been lost on me that the truckers in Canada are part of a profession in which 99% of its members are males who take a very different attitude to risk than do most women.

Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government

Let me come back to my articles on conservatism that was published in Quadrant at the end of last year. Here’s the conclusion at the end of the second article, Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid (Part II):

These are the elements of conservatism as it needs to be understood if we are to defend ourselves against the rising socialist beliefs that are its major political alternative.

  1. An individual’s right to be left alone to live one’s own life as one pleases with no interference from government unless to prevent harm to others.
  2. Absolute right to free speech—anyone can say or write anything about anything they like at any time as part of a public discussion.
  3. Market economy—economic outcomes should be almost entirely based on individual personal decisions to produce. The government’s role in the creation of wealth is minimal.
  4. Adherence to a legal and moral tradition with historic roots based on individual rights and freely determined religious beliefs so long as those beliefs are not imposed on others.

The first of these issues gives the government a pass to impose restrictions during a pandemic, since the aim is to prevent harm to others, but the second is the only safety valve – the absolute right to free speech. Lose that, and you have lost the lot. Which brings me to this email I have just received. This is a quote from someone who sends out a number of emails on Covid who tries to suggest that it may not be the greatest catastrophe in medical history.

Bigpond ISP has black listed and banned me. Bigpond are referring to “sender score (dot) org” who initially gave me a low score and now have me blacklisted. Sender score are eves dropping in on all private emails looking for political content and particularly related to the virus and it’s jab. If they don’t like what you are saying they give you a low score. I don’t know what other ISPs are using this mob. I have sent a letter of complaint to the Communications Minister and demanded he do something. As far as I am concerned, what they are doing is illegal. Bigpond are now censoring your private emails.

Came with this example:

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Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government. 

This was Part 1: Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid.

PICKED UP LAST NIGHT: We have little idea what is being done behind the scenes to manipulate the information flow. We might get only the occasional glimpse but here is another look at the possibilities in place: The Gateway Pundit Files Official Complaint Against T-Mobile with Missouri Attorney General – Requests Investigation of Mobile Carrier for Blocking and Erasing Text Messages with GP Articles and Links.

In early January we learned the tech giants are using a frightening new method to censor and control what you are able to see, read and discuss online. T-Mobile was disappearing our links. You could not send our links through T-mobile. They would disappear them. Your friends would not even know that you sent them a Gateway Pundit article.

Dozens of our readers sent us proof that this was happening.

The terror tactics being used by almost every government across the world to make fighting off Covid the most important issue which has led to astonishing restrictions in our freedoms and a massive loss of personal wealth, especially amongst the lower ranks of the community can only be resisted if there is access to information flows that contradict the official versions of events. 

Freedom of speech, so that anyone – including Whoopi Goldberg – can say what they believe in public is our only form of protection at this stage.

Re: Caryn Elaine Johnson aka Whoopi Goldberg

This business with Whoopi Goldberg commenting on the holocaust as just one set of white people killing another set of white people really is a moment of great insight into both her mind and no doubt the minds of many others.

She is utterly indifferent to the murder of Jews during the lifetime of many who are still alive right now. Slavery was historically the mode of harnessing labour as it had been till the arrival of the market economy, but the murder of Jews because they were not part of the Aryan race was an absolutely unique experience during the whole of history. Massacres had occurred in the past over conquest and domination, but this was the first, hopefully the last time individuals were killed in the millions because of their racial identity. Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865.

The events are discussed here: Whoopi Goldberg Says the Holocaust Wasn’t About Targeting Jews. Not sure the title captures the point, but the description will do.

Discussing an obscure Tennessee school board deciding to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” from a Holocaust unit for eighth-graders, Goldberg launched into an explanation of the Holocaust dazzling in both its ignorance and its malignity.

Joy Behar, the usual top contender for the Crown of Idiocy, led off by explaining that the Tennessee school board members “don’t like history that makes white people look bad.” Then Goldberg got going: “Maybe. This is white people doing it to white people. Y’all go fight amongst yourselves.”

This comment would have been insanely insulting, in and of itself: Here was Goldberg, referring to Nazis and Jews as “white people doing it to white people.” But Goldberg was just getting started. “If we’re going to do this,” Goldberg said, “let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race.” Behar correctly said, “They considered Jews a different race.” But Goldberg would not tolerate the dissent: “It’s not about race. It’s not about race … It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.” …

“But it’s about white supremacy,” Navarro said. “It’s about going after Jews and gypsies.” No, said Goldberg. “These are two white groups of people … You’re missing the point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats [hates?] each other.”

There are apparently some things only people with high intelligence can understand

This was a recent question at Quora – What are some concepts only people with high IQ’s can understand? – and this was the answer provided by Bruno Campello de SouzaProfessor at Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. I don’t necessarily agree with any of these myself, but it is a very interesting list.

It is hard or perhaps even impossible to state something that “only” the very intelligent will understand, but there are certainly things which most people struggle with that those with high IQs are more likely to grasp.

In my own personal and anecdotal experience, the following ideas and notions are unknown, misunderstood and/or rejected by the vast majority of those with normal IQs (90–110) and even by most of those with above-average IQs (111–125), but are far more likely to be known, correctly understood and/or embraced by those with a gifted-level IQ (126+). In no particular order:

  • If you agree to the premises, then you have, wittingly or not, agreed to their consequences or implications, and the only way to revert this is to go back to the premises and disagree with at least one of them;
  • It is possible to predict and, yet, not control, i.e., there is a difference between correlation and causation, i.e., knowing “how” does not tell you “why”;
  • There are statements that are always true no matter what, and they are utterly useless precisely for that reason (tautologies);
  • One cannot “prove” a scientific hypothesis empirically no matter how many confirmations are observed, but only “disprove” it through counterexamples (which may be just a single trustworthy case), proofs only existing in Logic and Mathematics (Modus Tollens);
  • By definition, conspiracy theories cannot be falsified, for it can always be said that any evidence that would contradict them was secretly fabricated by the hidden powers that be in order to hide the truth, therefore, they are logical fallacies;
  • In random independent events, no matter how unlikely a given series of observations is, this has no bearing on the likelyhood of the next element in the series, even if the next element makes the increased series much less unlikely (ex: in a fair coin toss, obtaining a series of 100 “heads” in a row does not change the chance that the next toss will come up “heads” as well);
  • Natural selection does not work through environmental challenges leading to the an increased rate of offspring born with the capacity to overcome such challenges, but rather through an increased chance of procreational success (intergenerational genetic transmission) of specific random mutations that happen to coincide with a higher ability to overcome said challenges;
  • Predictability has no bearing whatsoever on free will, for the existence of a pattern for one’s behavior, even at the level of preferences and decisions, does not imply that such behavior was not a choice, for the possibility of choosing according to one’s preferences is the very definition of free will;
  • Any and all things are quantifiable, even love, justice, and beauty, among all other things, for different instances of the same phenomenon vary in amount and/or intensity, which is not to say that such quantification is always easy;
  • “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be” – Lord Kelvin;
  • Mathematics is not science, but there is NO science without Mathematics, with human and social sciences being no exception (there are no exceptions);
  • The fundamental rules of the scientific method do not change according to the subject or phenomena under study, be it Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Sociology or any other field, and straying from that method is always bad science, regardless of the field;
  • Electron, force, mass, gravity, space-time and any other concepts from Physics or any other natural science have the same nature as those of motivation, emotion, unconscious, intelligence or any other concept from Psychology, i.e., they have no objective existence, being purely made-up abstract ideas put forth to explain observable phenomena;
  • It has always and will always be impossible to tell fact from perception, i.e., whatever is considered to be known about any empirical phenomenon can always be false, no matter what the evidence, i.e., one cannot separate Metaphysics from Epistemology;
  • The inevitable fallibility of all empirical knowledge, along with the psychological and sociocultural nature of knowledge, are no justification for a “free-for-all” or “anything goes” epistemic nihilism;
  • It is impossible to truthfully state that someone is making a misleading argument based on sophisms and/or fallacies unless one clearly points out said sophisms and/or fallacies, in other words, one cannot say that they are losing an argument solely because of rhetorical “cheats” or “tricks” from their opponent unless such “cheats” or “tricks” are explicitly identified (otherwise, the statement becomes unfalsifiable and, therefore, tautological and useless).

Due to their logical-mathematical nature, which is not subject to empirical validation, none of the above statements is an “opinion”.

Even among those with a very high IQ it is not uncommon to find someone with difficulties regarding one or more of the aforementioned statements . This is a particularly annoying case, for not only one expects such individuals to be more able to deal with the concepts involved, but also they tend to be very good at rationalizing their viewpoints through convoluted arguments which, of course, are wrong, but often require considerable time and effort to debunk.

“If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it…”

I came across this quote from Will Durant which stopped me in my tracks:

“If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.”

I then went searching and found an entire storehouse of quotes from him that are just as profound: The Lessons of History Quotes, taken from:

The Lessons of History

A few more from the link:

“Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.”

“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man’s follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing. The historian will not mourn because he can see no meaning in human existence except that which man puts into it; let it be our pride that we ourselves may put meaning into our lives, and sometimes a significance that transcends death. If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children. And to his final breath he will be grateful for this inexhaustible legacy, knowing that it is our nourishing mother and our lasting life.”

“The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts.”

“[…] violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it. There may be a redivision of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as in the old. The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.”

Covidiocy may be about to end


Are we beginning to see the beginning of the end of Covidiocy? First this: England Ends All COVID Passports, Mask Mandates, Work Restrictions. Undoubtedly pushed along by the fact that no one in authority takes Covid seriously, only the media and the population. That is why all over the political class there are so few who wear masks in public unless they are being knowingly photographed. So in the UK:

Restrictions including COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home guidance will be removed in England, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday.

And now this as well: Europe considers new COVID-19 strategy: Accepting the virus.

With one of Europe’s highest vaccination rates and most pandemic-battered economies, the [Spanish] government is laying the groundwork to treat the next infection surge not as an emergency but an illness that is here to stay. Similar steps are under consideration in neighboring Portugal and in Britain.

A few examples.

PICTURED: Maskless AOC raises a cocktail at dinner in Miami Beach | Daily  Mail Online
Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews fined $400 for mask breaches after he  admitted it was an 'oversight' | 7NEWS

Do you think that if they thought there was any serious danger they would behave like this?