N.Wells
Posts: 1836
Joined: Oct. 2005
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[quote=oldmanintheskydidntdoit,July 25 2012,14:36][/quote]
| Quote | | [From Gordon E. Mullings] I have a mission- critical issue to help a client address and have already taken more time than I should from it. KF |
Somewhere in Montserrat a golf ball is stuck in a hose......
| Quote | | [From Salvador] Thanks for putting Coyne in his place, Barry. Coyne’s life achievements relates to the breeding of Fruit Flies. That hardly places him in a position to make more authoritative statements about science in general than some of the highly qualified scientists, medical doctors, and engineers at UD. |
Good god, that's a repellent and slimy comment. Quite apart from a very readable book for the public and a boat-load of scientific papers, Coyne wrote a really, really nice technical book (Coyne and Orr, Speciation) that, unlike the total book output of the ID world, is actually a positive contribution to human knowledge, whereas ID books are worth less than the paper they are printed on. Coyne's work demonstrates more scholarship and scientific acumen than Salvador could appreciate if he repeated his entire education and actually learned something for once, as opposed to just looking for nuggets that he can misrepresent, twist, quote-mine or misunderstand as somehow supporting his religious beliefs. What specifically qualifies Coyne to offer pronouncements on science more than all of the highly UNqualified loons at UD put together is that Coyne doesn't lie through his teeth about science, which puts him light years ahead of Sal and his compatriots.
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