Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:
- Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
- Do not quote yourself
- Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
- No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
"This whole notion of evolution vs creationism tradition in biology boggles my mind and lowers my already low opinion of biology in general even further. If two prominent schools cannot even agree on the basic ideas, those ideas are not worth agreeing on."
I don't agree with the parent of your post, but I don't think your example responsive. He is using the struggle between A and B to argue that both are worthless. Your rephrasing relies on the fact that B is already known to be worthless. In short, the lack of parallelism means your criticism of the structure of his argument is misplaced.
Jack is probably right on the merits.