Keith Law gets Twitter suspension over evolution argument with Curt Schilling

[tmonster]

Keith Law gets Twitter suspension over evolution argument with Curt Schilling
November 21, 2014
by Larry Brown

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  In a headline so improbable it seems like it could only come from a “Seinfeld” episode, ESPN suspended baseball analyst Keith Law from Twitter for getting into an argument with Curt Schilling about evolution.
  
  Last week, Schilling, who is also an analyst for ESPN, went on Twitter to discuss and disprove evolution. Schilling responded to many people arguing with him over Twitter, including Law, who tried to dispute Schilling’s beliefs.
  
  Below are some of the tweets:
  
  @gehrig38 @zoowithroy There are hundreds of transitional fossils on record, Curt. http://t.co/cmTiqzhtC5
  
  — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
  
  @gehrig38 @zoowithroy You can't have fossils "between" two species if one didn't descend from the other – e.g., monkeys and humans.
  
  — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
  
  Seriously, if someone says evolution is wrong because there aren't fossils between monkeys and men, find a monkey and hit him with it.
  
  — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
  
  No, I won't. Science is infinitely more important. “@toddhampton: @keithlaw Getting into science now huh? Stick to baseball.”
  
  — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
  
  @gehrig38 @zoowithroy Yes. It's a strong, well-sourced article. Feel free to send refutations of those transitional fossils.
  
  — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
  
  @mro60 I haven't criticized or questioned anyone's faith. I oppose anti-science, that's all.
  
  — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
  
  What’s interesting is that Law is a prolific tweeter but has been silent on the platform since Wednesday. That is because Deadspin says ESPN asked him to take a little break from Twitter through Monday.
  
  This reported punishment seems awfully bizarre. Law did not seem to be out of line or overly confrontational in his tweets to Schilling. About his only questionable tweet was telling folks to hit someone with a monkey.
  
  Law is highly opinionated and typically confrontational, so this is not really new for him. It’s odd ESPN decided to suspend him.

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

Evolution?


The world was created by MELANIN.

 

[L.S.]

Meanwhile, Schilling was still on Twitter running his mouth about Ferguson today

 

[SAJ!!]

Meanwhile, Schilling was still on Twitter running his mouth about Ferguson today

I would pay to see someone beat Scihlling's ass for saying that garbage.

The racist loudmouths still continue to be beyond reproach.

 

[KingpinOG]

I can't stand Law. I used to follow him for baseball coverage but he always interjects his liberal views in his tweets.

 

[Spidey Man]

Maybe law should have molested an intern, and defrauded tax payers in between tweets so he could avoid his suspension.

 

[CHL]

http://deadspin.com/curt-schilling-has-disproved-evolution-1658184048

What a colossal moron.

 

[tmonster]

http://deadspin.com/curt-schilling-has-disproved-evolution-1658184048

 

[Ghost_In_A_Shell]

and evolution is still not excepted despite the proof..........

 

[KushSkywalker]

No species ever 'turn' into another species.

Like Dawkins said, every living being ever born was the same species as it's parent, but this doesn't disprove natural selection.

These try hard pseudo-intellectual religious believers look and think it's common sense to say "look how can a monkey turn into a human', not realizing the ignorance on display.

What we fail to grasp in our 70-100 year lives is the actual time involved in these very small, minute changes. It takes MILLIONS of years for some of this stuff to happen.

It it proven that DNA will split and replicate. It is proven that when copying itself occasionally it will make mistakes. It is proven that some of the time these mistakes or 'mutations' will actually serve to benefit the species survival, by pure chance. It is proven that if you have a better chance to survive chances are your bloodline will have a better chance to survive. And since you survived you can pass this mutation on to your offspring when the DNA is copied again.

This is all proven. Now extrapolate that over EONS. Each small change manifest into much larger changes over unfathomable spans of time. I think that's the problem, dense people can't remove themselves from our tiny existence enough to contemplate these spans of time, so they just cry impossible.

You can't disprove natural selection as it's been observable even during our life spans. Look at dogs. Dogs are born with the ability to look where you point, they know that it means for them to look there as well. No wolves are born with this ability. No wolves have floppy ears. No wolves are spotted. And most are not easily trained. We did all of this by understanding and manipulating the process of natural selection. This can't be disproven.

I suggest you also watch this video about 'Heike' crabs in Japan Carl Sagan made back in the day.


Out of superstition the Japanese would throw crabs back into the water that looked like Samurai faces, because they thought it a bad omen.

Because of this the crabs who's genes most accurately reflected what a Samurai face looked like (by chance btw) were able to survive because they were thrown back in the water. Eventually it became to where almost all of them looked like Samurai faces because the bloodlines of the other crabs were evaporated. So now to this day these crabs have shells that look like Samurai faces. This is just another small example for the brain dead.

I'm done rambling, just hate the lack of logic. This isn't an argument anymore.

 

[CHL]

"Hey clown, why don't apes still evolve into humans if that was the path?" - Curt Shilling

This moron thinks it's theorised like Pokemon, once they reach a certain level other apes magically evolve into humans.

 

[blackzeus]

Evolution?


The world was created by MELANIN.

The GOAT troll back at it

 

[blackzeus]

No species ever 'turn' into another species.

Like Dawkins said, every living being ever born was the same species as it's parent, but this doesn't disprove natural selection.

These try hard pseudo-intellectual religious believers look and think it's common sense to say "look how can a monkey turn into a human', not realizing the ignorance on display.

What we fail to grasp in our 70-100 year lives is the actual time involved in these very small, minute changes. It takes MILLIONS of years for some of this stuff to happen.

It it proven that DNA will split and replicate. It is proven that when copying itself occasionally it will make mistakes. It is proven that some of the time these mistakes or 'mutations' will actually serve to benefit the species survival, by pure chance. It is proven that if you have a better chance to survive chances are your bloodline will have a better chance to survive. And since you survived you can pass this mutation on to your offspring when the DNA is copied again.

This is all proven. Now extrapolate that over EONS. Each small change manifest into much larger changes over unfathomable spans of time. I think that's the problem, dense people can't remove themselves from our tiny existence enough to contemplate these spans of time, so they just cry impossible.

You can't disprove natural selection as it's been observable even during our life spans. Look at dogs. Dogs are born with the ability to look where you point, they know that it means for them to look there as well. No wolves are born with this ability. No wolves have floppy ears. No wolves are spotted. And most are not easily trained. We did all of this by understanding and manipulating the process of natural selection. This can't be disproven.

I suggest you also watch this video about 'Heike' crabs in Japan Carl Sagan made back in the day.


Out of superstition the Japanese would throw crabs back into the water that looked like Samurai faces, because they thought it a bad omen.

Because of this the crabs who's genes most accurately reflected what a Samurai face looked like (by chance btw) were able to survive because they were thrown back in the water. Eventually it became to where almost all of them looked like Samurai faces because the bloodlines of the other crabs were evaporated. So now to this day these crabs have shells that look like Samurai faces. This is just another small example for the brain dead.

I'm done rambling, just hate the lack of logic. This isn't an argument anymore.

While I agree with everything you said, logically speaking, if something is ALWAYS in transition, there should be some hard evidence among us. We humans are one of the frailest creatures on the planet. I find it hard to believe that we survived and homo erectus didn't, that makes no sense. Labelling skulls of dead monkeys/chimps/gorillas doesn't prove evolution breh. Your theory is that everything is in transition, well, show me something one example of one animal in transition, a lizard that is transitioning into a bird, or a bird into a mammal, etc etc. You can't, you can only collect bones of dead animals and make your claim based on that.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Meanwhile, Schilling was still on Twitter running his mouth about Ferguson today

what'd that cac say?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

While I agree with everything you said, logically speaking, if something is ALWAYS in transition, there should be some hard evidence among us. We humans are one of the frailest creatures on the planet. I find it hard to believe that we survived and homo erectus didn't, that makes no sense. Labelling skulls of dead monkeys/chimps/gorillas doesn't prove evolution breh. Your theory is that everything is in transition, well, show me something one example of one animal in transition, a lizard that is transitioning into a bird, or a bird into a mammal, etc etc. You can't, you can only collect bones of dead animals and make your claim based on that.

It doesn't work this way

1. Theres no evidence among competing species. Things diverged and some died. Theres little evidence of interaction among various hominids outside of neaderthals and its unknown how much interaction they had with modern homo sapiens

2. its hard to make fossils. Be happy you have some

3. physiologically, yes you can see transitions between species

4. we've known about evolution for about 150 years. And theres more evidence than just looking at animals. The genetic evidence is far more conclusive and should be more persuasive to you if you think you're going to find a cat-elephant or something fukking stupid.