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sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: July 27 2014,23:31   

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post scriptums were less welcome at UD when they didn't come from Gordon E.Mullings  
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3 jinxmchueJune 24, 2008 at 11:24 pm

And I’d draw your attention to Lenski’s usage of “P.P.S.,” “P.P.P.S” and “P.P.P.P.S.” Honestly, who but preteen girls writes like that?


Edited by sparc on July 27 2014,23:32

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Tony M Nyphot



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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,01:30   

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6. A man’s body is designed to be complimentary with a woman’s body and vice versa. All of the confusion about whether same-sex relations are licit would be swept away in an instant if everyone acknowledged this obvious truth.

Write that down.

If you follow that nonsense to its logical conclusion, then anything other than penis-in-vagina is unnatural.

So...if I'm following Barry's logic correctly...since black males are designed on a grander scale in an unmentionable area, while lily-white females are often daintier in the "complimentary" [sic] location...any confusion about whether inter-racial relations are licit would be swept away in an instant if everyone acknowledged the obvious design incompatibility...yes?

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Tony M Nyphot



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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,01:37   

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3 jinxmchueJune 24, 2008 at 11:24 pm

And I’d draw your attention to Lenski’s usage of “P.P.S.,” “P.P.P.S” and “P.P.P.P.S.” Honestly, who but preteen girls writes like that?

I'll pay to see your post in its entirety appear at UD.

Where are all the yarny martyrs when you need them?

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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,07:48   

Those objects on a grander scale are obviously designed for a complementary object, such as Barry's big mouth. The perfect fit could only occur through design.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,09:31   

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6. A man’s body is designed to be complimentary with a woman’s body and vice versa. All of the confusion about whether same-sex relations are licit would be swept away in an instant if everyone acknowledged this obvious truth.

Write that down.

If you follow that nonsense to its logical conclusion, then anything other than penis-in-vagina is unnatural.

So...if I'm following Barry's logic correctly...since black males are designed on a grander scale in an unmentionable area, while lily-white females are often daintier in the "complimentary" [sic] location...any confusion about whether inter-racial relations are licit would be swept away in an instant if everyone acknowledged the obvious design incompatibility...yes?

Once you go incompatible, you never go back to compatible.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,11:06   

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i looked through the most recent 10 threads, couldn't find where he got banned or was extra-offensive.

Here's the link to the thread Glen Davidson posted over at TSZ.

I guess utterly clear jew-bashing and women-hating is what it takes.

I'd be interested in knowing whether he was banned because someone finally decided his words were beyond the pale or if they decided he was making them look bad.  Maybe it's just because I'd like to believe the folks at UD have some redeeming qualities.


p.s. LMAO at "smart stuff" from Byers.

High point of that thread:
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If it is any help, I pretty much just ignore him anymore.

...says Batshit77, Most Ignored Person On Teh Webz.

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Driver



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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,15:56   

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6. A man’s body is designed to be complimentary with a woman’s body and vice versa. All of the confusion about whether same-sex relations are licit would be swept away in an instant if everyone acknowledged this obvious truth.

Write that down.

If you follow that nonsense to its logical conclusion, then anything other than penis-in-vagina is unnatural.

So...if I'm following Barry's logic correctly...since black males are designed on a grander scale in an unmentionable area, while lily-white females are often daintier in the "complimentary" [sic] location...any confusion about whether inter-racial relations are licit would be swept away in an instant if everyone acknowledged the obvious design incompatibility...yes?

Once you go incompatible, you never go back to compatible.

Behold, the atheists' nightmare. Now if you study a well-made penis, you'll find there are ridges on it.  If you get your hand ready to grip a penis, you'll find the penis and the hand are perfectly made, one for the other. You'll find the maker of the penis, Almighty God, has made it with a surface designed to slip into a tight anus. The ridges stimulate the male prostate. Now if you go to the top of the penis, you'll find a peel back wrapper just like a banana. When you pull back the wrapper, the contents don't squirt in your face, not to begin with anyhow. (If you don't find the wrapper, that is because it also makes a perfect ritual contract offering or spoil of war.)

It's just the right shape for the human mouth. It's even subtly curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier. Seriously, Gordon the whole of creation testifies to the genius of God's creation. No, stay on your knees, Gordon.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 28 2014,18:09   

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Behold, the atheists' nightmare. Now if you study a well-made penis, you'll find there are ridges on it.  If you get your hand ready to grip a penis, you'll find the penis and the hand are perfectly made, one for the other. You'll find the maker of the penis, Almighty God, has made it with a surface designed to slip into a tight anus. The ridges stimulate the male prostate. Now if you go to the top of the penis, you'll find a peel back wrapper just like a banana. When you pull back the wrapper, the contents don't squirt in your face, not to begin with anyhow. (If you don't find the wrapper, that is because it also makes a perfect ritual contract offering or spoil of war.)

It's just the right shape for the human mouth. It's even subtly curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier. Seriously, Gordon the whole of creation testifies to the genius of God's creation. No, stay on your knees, Gordon.

Ray Comfort with the visual:

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,10:02   

Ray Comfort on gravity:

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If the Bible isn’t God-inspired, explain why how the writer of the Book of Job knew 3,000 years ago that “The earth hangs upon nothing” (Job 26:7).

It wasn’t until thousands of years later that science discovered that gravity doesn’t exist in space (as it does on earth), and that this massive earth does indeed hang upon nothing.


http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-com....y-gaffe

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,12:04   

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Ray Comfort on gravity:

 
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If the Bible isn’t God-inspired, explain why how the writer of the Book of Job knew 3,000 years ago that “The earth hangs upon nothing” (Job 26:7).

It wasn’t until thousands of years later that science discovered that gravity doesn’t exist in space (as it does on earth), and that this massive earth does indeed hang upon nothing.


http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-com....y-gaffe

for you the link works
for me it will not open
I am disappoint

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Driver



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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,14:11   

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Ray Comfort on gravity:

 
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If the Bible isn’t God-inspired, explain why how the writer of the Book of Job knew 3,000 years ago that “The earth hangs upon nothing” (Job 26:7).

It wasn’t until thousands of years later that science discovered that gravity doesn’t exist in space (as it does on earth), and that this massive earth does indeed hang upon nothing.


http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-com....y-gaffe

for you the link works
for me it will not open
I am disappoint

Ray

Who will Barry channel next? Timecube guy?

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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,15:15   

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Ray Comfort on gravity:

     
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If the Bible isn’t God-inspired, explain why how the writer of the Book of Job knew 3,000 years ago that “The earth hangs upon nothing” (Job 26:7).

It wasn’t until thousands of years later that science discovered that gravity doesn’t exist in space (as it does on earth), and that this massive earth does indeed hang upon nothing.


http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-com....y-gaffe

for you the link works
for me it will not open
I am disappoint

<a href="goo.gl/ZlrhlQ" target="_blank">Ray</a>

Who will Barry channel next? Timecube guy?

Interwebz hates me today:  
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The requested URL /cgi-bin/ikonboard/goo.gl/ZlrhlQ was not found on this server.


eta never mind. start at goo.gl and it works.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,15:21   

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If the Bible isn’t God-inspired, explain why how the writer of the Book of Job knew 3,000 years ago that “The earth hangs upon nothing” (Job 26:7).

It wasn’t until thousands of years later that science discovered that gravity doesn’t exist in space (as it does on earth), and that this massive earth does indeed hang upon nothing.


http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ray-com....y-gaffe

for you the link works
for me it will not open
I am disappoint

<a href="goo.gl/ZlrhlQ" target="_blank">Ray</a>

Who will Barry channel next? Timecube guy?

Interwebz hates me today:    
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The requested URL /cgi-bin/ikonboard/goo.gl/ZlrhlQ was not found on this server.

I couldn't get to the link, or the SGU home page.  They're being sued by a quack practitioner with unorthodox ideas about science and medicine - I wonder if there's a connection?

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REC



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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,17:51   

Huh. Site is down.

http://aattp.org/evangel....enshots

  
Driver



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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2014,23:31   

I should have put http:// in front of the url.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2014,03:24   

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Bornagain:Thanks for your well said and reasoned, information-rich posts.


Oh, they're rich all right.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2014,21:14   

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Oh, they're rich all right.

Surely you don't mean in fertilizer!

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2014,14:08   

Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2014,14:20   

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Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

vjt is tl;dr, of course, but the subject is at least an interesting one, the "Made by Yahweh" proof in principle of ID.

if anyone out there is stuck in a coyote trap with nothing else to read, and actually reads VJT's essay, be a dear and summarize it for those of us who value our time.

   
Driver



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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2014,14:35   

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Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

vjt is tl;dr, of course, but the subject is at least an interesting one, the "Made by Yahweh" proof in principle of ID.

if anyone out there is stuck in a coyote trap with nothing else to read, and actually reads VJT's essay, be a dear and summarize it for those of us who value our time.

No chance. I think he is a fustian buffoon.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2014,15:34   

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Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

vjt is tl;dr, of course, but the subject is at least an interesting one, the "Made by Yahweh" proof in principle of ID.

if anyone out there is stuck in a coyote trap with nothing else to read, and actually reads VJT's essay, be a dear and summarize it for those of us who value our time.

I think there'd be more value chewing your foot off.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2014,15:43   

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Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

vjt is tl;dr, of course, but the subject is at least an interesting one, the "Made by Yahweh" proof in principle of ID.

if anyone out there is stuck in a coyote trap with nothing else to read, and actually reads VJT's essay, be a dear and summarize it for those of us who value our time.

I think there'd be more value chewing your foot off.

You'd be better off all round if you chewed the Torley post and read the foot.



Edited by stevestory on July 31 2014,19:09

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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2014,16:59   

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Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

vjt is tl;dr, of course, but the subject is at least an interesting one, the "Made by Yahweh" proof in principle of ID.

if anyone out there is stuck in a coyote trap with nothing else to read, and actually reads VJT's essay, be a dear and summarize it for those of us who value our time.

I think there'd be more value chewing your foot off.

You'd be better off all round if you chewed the Torley post and read the foot.

POTW.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2014,03:36   

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Unbelievable. VJ Torley's latest clocks in at 20,515 words.

It's gotten longer!  Edward Feser (pronounced like "phaser" in Star Trek) has replied and Torley has added another page to his original post answering back.

Feser's reply, entitled "Logorrhea in the Cell", is worth quoting at length:        
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In a recent post I commented on a remark made in one of the comboxes by a reader sympathetic to “Intelligent Design” (ID) theory.  At the ID website Uncommon Descent, Vincent Torley has responded, in a post with the title “Hyper-skepticism and ‘My way or the highway’: Feser’s extraordinary post.”  The title, and past experience with Torley, led me to expect that his latest piece would be short on dispassionate and accurate analysis and long on overheated rhetoric and misrepresentation.  Past experience with Torley also led me to expect that it would simply be long, period, indeed of gargantuan length.

Both expectations were confirmed.  Having cut and pasted Torley’s post into MS Word, I find that it comes to 42 pages, single-spaced.  I envy Torley that he has time to write up a 42-page single-spaced commentary on a blog post written in reply to a reader’s combox remark.  Why he thinks I (or other people with jobs, families, hobbies, etc.) would have time to read such a thing, I have no idea.  As to the content, well, since Torley thinks you can infer quite a lot even from brief phrases, he’ll be happy to know that I agree with him to this extent: Having read the first section and quickly scanned a couple of other passages of his opus -- and seen how badly he there distorts what I wrote -- I infer that it would be a waste of time (time I don’t have in any case) to read the rest.
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Note that by “left me speechless” Torley apparently means “led me to churn out 42 single-spaced pages in reply.”
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I find that this modus operandi is evident in many of the responses ID sympathizers make to my criticisms: First, egregiously misrepresent what I have said, at such prodigious length that the resulting cloud of squid ink completely obscures the unwary reader’s view of what I actually wrote or what the dispute is really about; second, evince befuddlement and outrage that I could say the silly and horrible things wrongly attributed to me; third, sanctimoniously express regret that ID sympathizers and Thomists aren’t on more “friendly” terms (as Torley puts it).
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Could such a pattern -- albeit it is a pattern of cluelessness -- itself be a mark of intelligent design?  Indeed it could be, in the sense that you have to be a rational animal in the first place in order to exhibit the kind of irrationality that some ID folks do.  

Apparently never having heard the expression, "When you're in a hole, quit digging", Torley responds to this on Feser's blog and makes things worse.  The whole exchange is worth reading and don't forget to click on Past experience with Torley for Torley's sorry history with Feser.

Feser, by the way, is a Serious Theologian™ and a Thomist - as in Saint Thomas Aquinas, pride of medieval theology.  Torley's a Thomist too and he tries enthusiastically to convince Feser that ID is true.  Feser rejects ID, but for Thomistic reasons that are only of interest to another Thomist.
 
As you can see above, he likes to be rude, but when he's dealing with a non-Torley he often makes a prat of himself.  I fully intend to purchase his book, "The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism" as soon as I finish digesting (and excreting) Mrs. O'Leary's "By Design or by Chance".

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2014,06:08   

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I fully intend to purchase his book, "The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism" as soon as I finish digesting (and excreting) Mrs. O'Leary's "By Design or by Chance".

I just read the preview at Amazon and, all together now....



"Lewontin!"

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2014,13:31   

O'Leary defines epigenetics:

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Here is a simple way of understanding epigenetics: The useless conflict between “environment” and “genes” is based on a simple assumption: Genes are marbles. You got or not. No.


http://www.uncommondescent.com/epigene....r-genes

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2014,13:32   

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Note that by “left me speechless” Torley apparently means “led me to churn out 42 single-spaced pages in reply.”


YA BURNT

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2014,22:45   

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Note that by left me speechless Torley apparently means led me to churn out 42 single-spaced pages in reply.

IOW, those with the least to say are apt to use the most words?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 02 2014,02:51   

Empty barrels...

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 02 2014,09:57   

Quote (Henry J @ Aug. 02 2014,06:45)
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Note that by �left me speechless� Torley apparently means �led me to churn out 42 single-spaced pages in reply.�

IOW, those with the least to say are apt to use the most words?

In a postmodern world words have no  value or true meaning. It's all double plus good drivel.

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