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Bob O'H



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 01 2008,08:38   

Test Your Irony Meters Here

Gil finds a report of a study where the victimsparticipants were given the same wine, but told it had a different price, and were then asked to rate it.  Of course, they rated the more expensive wine as better.  Gil says...
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In the ID versus Darwinism/materialism debate, who are the most likely victims of this expectations phenomenon? I vote for the Darwinists, because as evidence for design continues to mount at an ever-quickening pace, they seem most determined to prop up their expectations with ever-more desperate storytelling, conjecture, and appeals to the statistically impossible, to denounce their challengers with ever-more vitriol, and to attempt to silence them with ever-more coercive tactics.


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It is fun to dip into the various threads to watch cluelessness at work in the hands of the confident exponent. - Soapy Sam (so say we all)

   
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