lth.
Best example of all
Convective thought. No matter where you look in life, you find that "random" mutation couldn't possibly lead to the results we actually have. There are millions of EASY examples of "can't have A without B, can't have B without A" and billions of subtle examples.
The most blatant example of all is the DNA-correcting machines that constantly run up and down the chromosomes in every living cell, checking both sides of the helix against each other and correcting errors.
If mutations drive "evolution", and "evolution" constantly works toward improving fitness, why would "evolution" evolve a machine that halts "evolution"?
How did those machines get developed and perfected through mutations? The whole point of the machine is to eliminate mutations. After the machine started running, mutations were prevented from acting on the cell, INCLUDING the machine.
If natural selection is the editing mechanism of "evolution", why did natural selection select a machine that takes the place of natural selection?
Two gains for God's side in one day. Unlike Armenia, this is DEFINITE AND BIG. Mahathir is an old anti-Satan warrior, one of the few truly wise and sane men in this fucked-up world. He kicked out the Sorosian money-changers once before, then later lost an election.
I'm giving Malaysia a beacon on the Soros vs God map. (Yeah, it looks more like a scorpion, but you get the idea.)
Partial transcription, with some editing of unclear phrases:
Host: Why do you think Asia has managed to weather the financial storm so much better than its Western rivals?
MM: In Asia we are still doing real business. In the West you are not doing real business, in the sense of providing goods and services. You are dealing mostly in the financial market which is not doing anything productive. It is just a kind of gambling.
Host: So can the West learn anything from how Asia built up its economy?
MM: Asia was a poor part of the world in the past and we used to live as poor people. Slowly we are building up our wealth and now we are much better off. In Europe now, as a result of these bursting bubbles, you have lost a lot of wealth, and now you must be poorer relative to the past. In Asia we live within our means. When we are poor we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson you can learn from Asia.
Host: So what should Europe do?
MM: You should go back to doing real business. Producing goods, providing services, trading, not just moving figures in bankbooks.
Host: Well, people who work in the financial sector would argue that they are providing a valuable service to business.
MM: I don't think so. They are just abusing the system in order to make money for themselves. They do not generate jobs or businesses. For instance, currency trading moves 4 trillion dollars a day. This is about the same as Germany's GDP for a year. Currency trading does not generate any jobs, so it is not productive.
Host: Currency trading has been a big issue for you. You famously pegged the Malaysian currency to stop the speculators.
MM: Currency is not a commodity. When you deal in coffee, coffee is something you can drink. You can grind it up and turn it into a useful drink. Currency, you cannot grind it and make it into anything. It is just figures in the books, and you can't trade with figures. There must be something solid [bangs his fist on the table for solidity!] to trade. Then you can legitimately make money.
Host: Should we stop having floating exchange rates?
MM: Well, floating is fine but it is not just floating by itself. Some people are manipulating it, by shortselling for example. If you keep on selling a currency that will depress the price, and if you keep on buying that will raise the price. So you can take a profit at any time just by moving up or down.
Host: So how do we stop this speculation?
MM:The idea that the market can regulate itself is quite wrong, because the market is about making profits for themselves. They don't care what happens to other people. They impoverish whole countries [as Soros did to Malaysia] and lots of people s