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Raevmo Posts: 235 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 18 2012,06:11    Quote (Febble @ Mar. 18 2012,05:00) Actually, it's this one: http://www.amazon.com/Anarchi....9500824 Is that a different one? Is there a way on Amazon.com to tell apart different authors by the same name? -------------- After much reflection I finally realized that the best way to describe the cause of the universe is: the great I AM. --GilDodgen

olegt Posts: 1405 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 18 2012,08:30    He is a New Age type. Quote BTW, I don't know which book you ordered, but they don't equally examine the views I express here. Anarchic Harmony is more of a 100-page anti-authority, anti-convention rant than anything else, but I've always been fond of Robert Anton Wilson's introduction. Unconditional Freedom is a more in-depth explanation of my views. Please keep in mind that I wrote both of those about 20 years ago, so my views have changed and developed over that time. Both of those books are now out of print and are now only available via the second-hand market. For something more current, you might try "Instant Enlightenment", available as a digital download from Lulu.com. Cheap, at $2.50, and brief (as the term "instant" indicates) at 40 pages. But, I don't get into any "explanation" in IE; it's more of just a how-to book. -------------- If you are not: Galapagos Finch please Logout »

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 18 2012,08:57    so are these dicks all the same dick? i am having a bit of trouble connecting the moonbat yammering about rayhsists to the moonbat yammering about his "i choose to believe it so it is true" christian castaneda-ism at TSZ i am fairly sure that the cat who wrote the book on divegrass is neither one of these shitstains but i tell you what that is a shitty toupee on the y00t00b -------------- You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

midwifetoad Posts: 4003 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 18 2012,09:16    At least he warns us against being arrogant. -------------- Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

sledgehammer Posts: 533 Joined: Sep. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 18 2012,19:37    "Anarchic Harmony: The Spirituality of Social Disobedience [Paperback] William J. Murray (Author) 13 used from $0.36" A bit steep, that. I think I'll pass. -------------- The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny is alleviated by their lack of consistency. -A. Einstein  (H/T, JAD) If evolution is true, you could not know that it's true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. ?Think about that. -K. Hovind

NormOlsen Posts: 104 Joined: Nov. 2011 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 19 2012,10:26    Quote (olegt @ Mar. 18 2012,08:30) He is a New Age type. Quote BTW, I don't know which book you ordered, but they don't equally examine the views I express here. Anarchic Harmony is more of a 100-page anti-authority, anti-convention rant than anything else, but I've always been fond of Robert Anton Wilson's introduction. Unconditional Freedom is a more in-depth explanation of my views. Please keep in mind that I wrote both of those about 20 years ago, so my views have changed and developed over that time. Both of those books are now out of print and are now only available via the second-hand market. For something more current, you might try "Instant Enlightenment", available as a digital download from Lulu.com. Cheap, at $2.50, and brief (as the term "instant" indicates) at 40 pages. But, I don't get into any "explanation" in IE; it's more of just a how-to book. I think they prefer the term "New Age Baramin".

oldmanintheskydidntdoit Posts: 4999 Joined: July 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 19 2012,14:10    On TSZ Joe is currently sharing his wisdom. Elizabeth, on a single page Joe has used both barrels of the single gun he has. 1: A "totally different type of biology" 2: It's the origin of CSI that matters! These two points seem to be at the core of his argument, such as it is. He's been using them for years. The first point is a reference to something Dawkins has said. And it seems because Dawkins said it Joe can use it over and over, immune to any counter argument. As can be seen on the thread currently. http://theskepticalzone.com/wp....nt-8740 You've already asked him why it matters, but you won't get an answer. I think it's probably worth pressing Joe on the "origin" issue some more, the quote from Dembski a couple of pages back has it. So Joe fixates on some quote and it becomes part of his routine. You'll never "unlearn" it from him. Or will you.... -------------- I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies". FTK if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand Gordon Mullings

midwifetoad Posts: 4003 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 21 2012,09:43    Quote Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wp/wp-comments-post.php on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I haven't seen any new comments since this started. -------------- Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

keiths Posts: 2195 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 22 2012,20:29    Hi Liz, Could you grant me posting privileges at TSZ? Thanks. -------------- And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G Please stop putting words into my mouth that don't belong there and thoughts into my mind that don't belong there. -- KF

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 22 2012,23:42    Quote (keiths @ Mar. 22 2012,20:29) Hi Liz, Could you grant me posting privileges at TSZ? Thanks. Do it for the bananas and the ravens! -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

Febble Posts: 310 Joined: Jan. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 23 2012,09:52    Quote (keiths @ Mar. 22 2012,20:29) Hi Liz, Could you grant me posting privileges at TSZ? Thanks. Done.

keiths Posts: 2195 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 23 2012,20:05    Thanks, Liz. For the curious, Richard is referring to the one time I defended something that David Coppedge said, a discussion that went on for days and involved bananas, ravens, and Richard's, um, predilections... Quote (keiths @ Oct. 18 2009,11:26) Quote (Raevmo @ Oct. 17 2009,16:32) Of course, if N is large - and it is very large - observing a yellow banana has almost no effect at all on our posterior Speak for yourself.  Richardthughes feels a tingling in his posterior when he sees a yellow banana, particularly if it is large. Edited by keiths on Mar. 23 2012,18:09 -------------- And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G Please stop putting words into my mouth that don't belong there and thoughts into my mind that don't belong there. -- KF

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 23 2012,23:14    Quote (keiths @ Mar. 23 2012,20:05) Thanks, Liz. For the curious, Richard is referring to the one time I defended something that David Coppedge said, a discussion that went on for days and involved bananas, ravens, and Richard's, um, predilections... Quote (keiths @ Oct. 18 2009,11:26) Quote (Raevmo @ Oct. 17 2009,16:32) Of course, if N is large - and it is very large - observing a yellow banana has almost no effect at all on our posterior Speak for yourself.  Richardthughes feels a tingling in his posterior when he sees a yellow banana, particularly if it is large. To be fair, that's the gerbil thinking it's going to be fed. -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

olegt Posts: 1405 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,07:10    Liz, I am experiencing a technical problem with comments. For example, WordPress won't let me post this fairly innocuous reply on the thread about the 2nd law. I preserve the WordPress formatting. Quote I'd like to discuss this excerpt from Sewell's ENV piece: <blockquote>There are some problems, however. While one can certainly define a "poker entropy" as S_p = k_p log (W) and have a nice formula for entropy which increases when probability increases, why should the constant k_p used be equal to the Boltzmann constant k_B? In fact, it is not clear why poker entropy should have units of Joules/degree Kelvin. In the case of thermal entropy, the constant is chosen so that the statistical definition of thermal entropy agrees with the standard macroscopic definition. But there is no standard definition for poker entropy to match, so the constant k_p can be chosen arbitrarily. If we do arbitrarily set k_p = k_B, so that the units match, <strong>it still does not make any sense to add poker entropy and thermal entropy changes to see if the result is positive or not. It is not clear how the fact that thermal entropy is increasing in the rest of the universe makes it easier to get a highly improbable poker hand.</strong> Of course, all these problems also exist with respect to Styer and Bunn's analyses of the entropy associated with evolution; at least with poker entropy we don't have to take wild guesses at the probabilities involved. </blockquote> The confusion over the units, while funny, is a minor problem. It's the highlighted two sentences that are most interesting. On a related note, could you add a thread opening privilege for me as well? -------------- If you are not: Galapagos Finch please Logout »

NormOlsen Posts: 104 Joined: Nov. 2011 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,10:42    Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 23 2012,23:14) Quote (keiths @ Mar. 23 2012,20:05) Thanks, Liz. For the curious, Richard is referring to the one time I defended something that David Coppedge said, a discussion that went on for days and involved bananas, ravens, and Richard's, um, predilections...   Quote (keiths @ Oct. 18 2009,11:26)   Quote (Raevmo @ Oct. 17 2009,16:32) Of course, if N is large - and it is very large - observing a yellow banana has almost no effect at all on our posterior Speak for yourself.  Richardthughes feels a tingling in his posterior when he sees a yellow banana, particularly if it is large. To be fair, that's the gerbil thinking it's going to be fed. You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts.

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,11:03    Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,11:42) Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 23 2012,23:14) Quote (keiths @ Mar. 23 2012,20:05) Thanks, Liz. For the curious, Richard is referring to the one time I defended something that David Coppedge said, a discussion that went on for days and involved bananas, ravens, and Richard's, um, predilections...   Quote (keiths @ Oct. 18 2009,11:26)   Quote (Raevmo @ Oct. 17 2009,16:32) Of course, if N is large - and it is very large - observing a yellow banana has almost no effect at all on our posterior Speak for yourself.  Richardthughes feels a tingling in his posterior when he sees a yellow banana, particularly if it is large. To be fair, that's the gerbil thinking it's going to be fed. You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts. i love those posts they make me lolroftlmaowtfbbq -------------- You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

keiths Posts: 2195 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,12:31    My favorite Richtard comment from that thread: Quote (RichardtHughes @ Oct. 19 2009,07:55) There once was a homo called Keiths Who had strange posterior beliefs Ravens, Bananas, Crammed up his pyjamas to ascertain whether Hempel's paradox expressed as a hypothesis is a true representation of inductive logic for a finite set of entities working under other a priori assumptions such as the uniformity of nature. -------------- And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G Please stop putting words into my mouth that don't belong there and thoughts into my mind that don't belong there. -- KF

Febble Posts: 310 Joined: Jan. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,15:15    Quote (olegt @ Mar. 24 2012,07:10) Liz, I am experiencing a technical problem with comments. For example, WordPress won't let me post this fairly innocuous reply on the thread about the 2nd law. I preserve the WordPress formatting.     Quote I'd like to discuss this excerpt from Sewell's ENV piece: <blockquote>There are some problems, however. While one can certainly define a "poker entropy" as S_p = k_p log (W) and have a nice formula for entropy which increases when probability increases, why should the constant k_p used be equal to the Boltzmann constant k_B? In fact, it is not clear why poker entropy should have units of Joules/degree Kelvin. In the case of thermal entropy, the constant is chosen so that the statistical definition of thermal entropy agrees with the standard macroscopic definition. But there is no standard definition for poker entropy to match, so the constant k_p can be chosen arbitrarily. If we do arbitrarily set k_p = k_B, so that the units match, <strong>it still does not make any sense to add poker entropy and thermal entropy changes to see if the result is positive or not. It is not clear how the fact that thermal entropy is increasing in the rest of the universe makes it easier to get a highly improbable poker hand.</strong> Of course, all these problems also exist with respect to Styer and Bunn's analyses of the entropy associated with evolution; at least with poker entropy we don't have to take wild guesses at the probabilities involved. </blockquote> The confusion over the units, while funny, is a minor problem. It's the highlighted two sentences that are most interesting. On a related note, could you add a thread opening privilege for me as well? Done. I still haven't got to the bottom of WordPress logic regarding holding posts for moderation. But I do check in pretty regularly, and release the hostages asap. The system does allow control over the flow of Joe G posts, so I'm inclined to put up with it for now. ETA: I inserted the text of your post above into your "test" post: http://theskepticalzone.com/wp....nt-8988 which neatly allowed me to preserve your authorship :) Edited by Febble on Mar. 24 2012,15:17

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,16:57    Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,10:42) *snip* You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts. Siri, take NormOlson off my Christmas card list and mail him a dog turd. -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,17:00    Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,10:42) *snip* You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts. Siri, take NormOlsen off my Christmas card list and mail him a dog turd. Edited to spell name right. Edited by Richardthughes on Mar. 24 2012,17:01 -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

rhmc Posts: 340 Joined: Dec. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,17:19    Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 24 2012,18:00) Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,10:42) *snip* You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts. Siri, take NormOlsen off my Christmas card list and mail him a dog turd. Edited to spell name right. lol?

NormOlsen Posts: 104 Joined: Nov. 2011 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,18:21    Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 24 2012,17:00) Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,10:42) *snip* You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts. Siri, take NormOlsen off my Christmas card list and mail him a dog turd. Edited to spell name right. From now on I will call you "rock god", OK?

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 24 2012,19:05    Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,18:21) Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 24 2012,17:00) Quote (NormOlsen @ Mar. 24 2012,10:42) *snip* You know those pointless forum posts, where somebody, apparently with nothing better to do and having nothing of any real substance to say, simply comments about the hilarity of somebody else's witticism, saying something like "LOL" or even "ROTFL" or possibly even something about cleaning off the spray from their computer monitor? This is one of those posts. Siri, take NormOlsen off my Christmas card list and mail him a dog turd. Edited to spell name right. From now on I will call you "rock god", OK? Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet. -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

olegt Posts: 1405 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 28 2012,07:07    Joe's sandbox seems to have disappeared from the list of threads. -------------- If you are not: Galapagos Finch please Logout »

Kattarina98 Posts: 1267 Joined: Sep. 2009 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 28 2012,07:54    Quote (olegt @ Mar. 28 2012,07:07) Joe's sandbox seems to have disappeared from the list of threads. It's been turned into a permanent page and got its own link on top of the homepage. Edited for slightly better grammar. Edited by Kattarina98 on Mar. 28 2012,07:55 -------------- Barry Arrington is a bitch.

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: April 14 2012,17:33    A little dissapointed with Lizzie. Reproduced here: Quote Rich on April 14, 2012 at 11:27 pm said: I see my post asking Sal about Darwin’s puppy beating has been moved to “Guano” and I take great exception to this. Sal has the audacity to to post about “Rotteness (sic) in Creationism” and yet for many he exemplifies this. Whilst this may be regarded ad ad hominem, we are talking about character and integrity. Please review: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatc....ies.php and http://scienceblogs.com/dispatc....sty.php So I’d like an answer, what are Sal’s current views on Darwin beating puppies? If you’re going to post on rottenness in creationism, your record is fair game. -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

utidjian Posts: 185 Joined: Oct. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: April 15 2012,13:27    Is there some sort of internationally (or even AtBC_ally) recognized award for public display of herculean patience? If so... Leviathan gets it for the Airfoil Myth replies to Sal Cordova. -DU- -------------- Being laughed at doesn't mean you're progressing along some line. It probably just means you're saying some stupid shit -stevestory

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: April 15 2012,15:45    This is why it is folly to give odious douche-bag Sal Cordova a forum: http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin....y205132 -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

paragwinn Posts: 539 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: April 15 2012,20:43    Where Sal slithers in, Robert Byers cant be far behind:   Quote Modern Creationism has become very effective and famous and progressively taking down the old strongholds of evolutionary error or anything denying the fingerprints of God in nature. Now if that aint evidence for a multiverse, i dont know what is. Could Byers' presence on Earth be ambassadorial in nature? -------------- All women build up a resistance [to male condescension]. Apparently, ID did not predict that. -Kristine 4-19-11 F/Ns to F/Ns to F/Ns etc. The whole thing is F/N ridiculous -Seversky on KF footnote fetish 8-20-11 Sigh. Really Bill? - Barry Arrington

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: April 20 2012,09:42    William J Murray and Sal Cordova are certainly adding a certain flavour to TsZ. -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

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