Comments on: A Comment on Comments

By: VMartin

VMartin — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:53:08 +0000

Anyone who accepts these simple rules is welcome to tell me why I am utterly wrong about the topic at hand, even if you think the world is six thousand years old.

I am not sure you keep your rules. The Loom guys are discussing off topic problem of dogs undisturbed here even quoting John Davison. Probably because they are darwinists there is no problem. Yet John Davison comment of breeds and species of dogs has been intercepted (as he informed on ISCID) – even if the topic itself mentioned John Davison and his Manifesto.

By: Rev. BigDumbChimp

Rev. BigDumbChimp — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:30:18 +0000

He’s a bit of a loon, isn’t he?

He is the internet definition of loon.

By: luca

luca — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:18:52 +0000

Can I comment off-topic here? Reading Stephen Budiansky’s “The truth about dogs” he makes the argument that dogs didn’t actually descend from wolves, but they may have come into being from scavenger dogs like those in african cities today.

As for physiological reason, may be there aren’t but certainly there’s anatomical problems. I wouldn’t want to be the chihuahua bitch fancied by a great dane. :-O

By: Paul Clapham

Paul Clapham — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:02:10 +0000

Indeed, it appears that a lot of people in the canid field are classifying all domestic dogs under Canis lupus now.

By: R.A. Porter

R.A. Porter — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:57:35 +0000

Oh my. I just followed the links to the banned commenter. He’s a bit of a loon, isn’t he? He actually said this:

“I am very confident that there is no physiological barrier to fertility in a cross made between any two breeds of dogs. If the Darwinians were so certain of their silly claim that dog breeds are separate species, they would test their hypothesis just as they would have tested Darwin’s finches. They have done neither. They don’t dare!”

Really? Who believes separate breeds are separate species?!?

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:15:51 +0000

Aaagh! You just made a comment about the classification of a comment on commenting!

Come to think of it, I’m just digging myself deeper into this meta-hole, aren’t I?

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:02:53 +0000

“A Comment on Comments

Category: Meta”

This made me laugh.