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sparc Posts: 2088 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,10:27    DaveScot posts on global warming again and his comments are displayed with the white background usually reserved to UD authorities. -------------- "[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God." - William Dembski -

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,10:38    Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

J-Dog Posts: 4402 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,11:25    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! If Dr. Dr. Billy doesn't behave himself, he's gonna wind up as a Big Star on another Wiki source... Future Home Of Dembski's Bio -------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10 Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08 UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

midwifetoad Posts: 4003 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,11:29    Quote (J-Dog @ Dec. 30 2008,11:25) Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! If Dr. Dr. Billy doesn't behave himself, he's gonna wind up as a Big Star on another Wiki source... Future Home Of Dembski's Bio Nah. Too much good company. Enough for a bridge foursome, anyway. -------------- Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

Bob O'H Posts: 2564 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,11:30    Quote (sparc @ Dec. 30 2008,10:27) DaveScot posts on global warming again and his comments are displayed with the white background usually reserved to UD authorities. The white background might be because it's his post.  I saw a comment somewhere saying that he had posting privileges, but not access to the bannination button. -------------- 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)

clamboy Posts: 299 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,12:32    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Dembski sez, "Colleagues who try to correct misrepresentations find their edits scrupulously removed." Lesse, "scrupulously," hmmm, what could that mean. What's ol' Merriam Webster's say? <page page page> Ah, here it is! "scrupulous <snip etymology> 1: having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right and proper  2: punctiliously exact : PAINSTAKING ... syn see UPRIGHT, CAREFUL" Le mot juste, Dr Dr!!

Skullboy Posts: 24 Joined: Sep. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,12:44    Quote (bystander @ Dec. 29 2008,14:42)     Quote (dmso74 @ Dec. 30 2008,07:31)     Quote fff POTW FFF

Occam's Aftershave Posts: 5287 Joined: Feb. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,14:11    It was bound to happen - someone leaked a DaveTard sex video!       Watch at your own risk! ETA:  PG rated.  Kinda. -------------- "CO2 can't re-emit any trapped heat unless all the molecules point the right way" "All the evidence supports Creation baraminology" "If it required a mind, planning and design, it isn't materialistic." "Jews and Christians are Muslims." - Joke "Sharon" Gallien, world's dumbest YEC.

midwifetoad Posts: 4003 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,14:18    Doesn't that belong in the bathroon sink? -------------- Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

olegt Posts: 1405 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,15:03    Denyse:   Quote I avoid Wikipedia at all costs, always preferring other sources. ... Please, NOT in publishing, online or otherwise. ... Just don’t ever quote Wikipedia as a source to me, and expect me to take it as some kind of authority. Really, Denyse?  Your book By Design or by Chance contains at least 5 references to Wikipedia.  Did you mean to say that you had been unable to find any other sources to tell you about the Big Bang, Georges Lemaitre and convergent evolution?   For the record, I think Wikipedia is an excellent starting point for learning about a subject, but it is not an authoritative source.  I would not cite in a publication. -------------- If you are not: Galapagos Finch please Logout »

Zachriel Posts: 2723 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,17:13    Quote gpuccio: Please, reflect that improvement in survival implies an extremely high threshold for any function: the function must be present, relevant, and must be, alone, capable of significantly increase the survival of the whole replicator. And the measurement is also extremely slow. I've posted this before, but then again, gpuccio has posted the same misunderstanding before. Quote Niels Bohr and Albert Einsten were taking a walk in the woods, vigorously debating the philosophical underpinnings of quantum theory, when a gigantic bear suddenly burst out of the underbrush and raced toward them. Bohr immediately whipped out his fine running shoes and began lacing them up. Einstein, furrowing his brow at Bohr, said: "Niels, there's no way you can outrun that bear." "That's true, dear Albert," Bohr calmly replied, "but I don't need to outrun the bear. I only need to outrun you." Predator-prey relationships are like that. The measurement is very fast and can distinguish very fine differences in ability. -------------- You never step on the same tard twice—for it's not the same tard and you're not the same person.

Gunthernacus Posts: 235 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,17:16    Quote (olegt @ Dec. 30 2008,16:03) Denyse:           Quote I avoid Wikipedia at all costs, always preferring other sources. ... Please, NOT in publishing, online or otherwise. ... Just don’t ever quote Wikipedia as a source to me, and expect me to take it as some kind of authority. Really, Denyse?  Your book By Design or by Chance contains at least 5 references to Wikipedia.  Did you mean to say that you had been unable to find any other sources to tell you about the Big Bang, Georges Lemaitre and convergent evolution?   For the record, I think Wikipedia is an excellent starting point for learning about a subject, but it is not an authoritative source.  I would not cite in a publication. She is on a roll today, even for her.  Back-to-back own goals. Densye's latest First a DO'L patented "buy my books" plug:   Quote If you got money for Christmas, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: and 5 Others That Didn’t Help would be a good use of your dime. Okay, not really - that's the title of the book she is touting, not a description of her literary output.  She brings up the false positive design inference of the "canals" on Mars.  She quotes the book:   Quote The lesson is simple enough. Schiaparelli, Lowell, Wells, and a host of other scientists and popularizers wanted to see life on Mars. The alien enthusiasts just wanted to see what was fuzzy as straight and geometrical because they wanted Mars to be populated with aliens. It is often our desire to have something be true that makes us clearly and distinctly see the false as true, the imagined as real. This is as true in the history of science as it is in our everyday life. In either case, reality is the appropriate test of our everyday beliefs and scientific theories. (pp. 25-26) No parallels to ID there, no sir. -------------- Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve...genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations. - Dr. Hugh Ross

olegt Posts: 1405 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,18:29    Denyse is on a roll today!  Those Martians aren't the designers we're looking for! Quote But, for the record, proposed intelligent beings on other planets have not usually been treated as an argument for design in nature - usually the opposite. The idea seems to be “That just shows how easily intelligent life can arise purely by chance.” Well, I suppose then Mt. Rushmore is not a good example of design, either?  ROFL. -------------- If you are not: Galapagos Finch please Logout »

Dr.GH Posts: 2333 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,21:05    Quote (Zachriel @ Dec. 30 2008,15:13) Quote Niels Bohr and Albert Einsten were taking a walk in the woods, vigorously debating the philosophical underpinnings of quantum theory, when a gigantic bear suddenly burst out of the underbrush and raced toward them. Bohr immediately whipped out his fine running shoes and began lacing them up. Einstein, furrowing his brow at Bohr, said: "Niels, there's no way you can outrun that bear." "That's true, dear Albert," Bohr calmly replied, "but I don't need to outrun the bear. I only need to outrun you." I flipped Bohr and Einstein in the story because I think htat it is a better example of relative speed than quantum. -------------- "Science is the horse that pulls the cart of philosophy." L. Susskind, 2004 "SMOLIN VS. SUSSKIND: THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE"

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 30 2008,22:32    Apparently, someone disagrees with lil Billy D's assessment of the Wikipedia article and its impact on donations. Edited by Lou FCD on Dec. 30 2008,23:32 -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

sparc Posts: 2088 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,00:02    It's always worthwhile to go back to older UD threads where the tard had the chance to mature to ripeness:     Quote 10 Atom 12/28/2008 5:50 pm [...] 2008 was a good year for ID, since ID research was being done. Politics and opinions do not change truth; as long as the ID project is moving forward, then ID is having a good year. The only bad year for ID is when ID research is not being done. -------------- "[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God." - William Dembski -

clamboy Posts: 299 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,00:08    Someone named "Earvin Johnson" noticed the same word choice that I did. He/she asked, at UD, 'If edits are “scrupulously” removed, what’s the problem?'

bystander Posts: 301 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,01:38    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 31 2008,03:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! He should actually give examples of factual errors. I can't see him being able to write any rebuttal, his type are just used to disappearing criticism. Anything he wrote would make him look more like an idjit. "Whine, Whine, they are so mean to me. I am the Isaac Newton of everything" ETA: It is interesting that going through the history, that there is very little vandalism. In fact most of the edits are to do with people putting in things that couldn't be cited.

Bebbo Posts: 161 Joined: Dec. 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,06:42    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Through the Wikipedia page on Dembski I found this: http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28460 I guess we can add "gullible sucker" to the list of Dembski's other shortcomings.

Tracy P. Hamilton Posts: 1239 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,07:23    Quote (clamboy @ Dec. 31 2008,00:08) Someone named "Earvin Johnson" noticed the same word choice that I did. He/she asked, at UD, 'If edits are “scrupulously” removed, what’s the problem?' I predict that Earvin Johnson will disappear like Magic.   -------------- "Following what I just wrote about fitness, you’re taking refuge in what we see in the world."  PaV "The simple equation F = MA leads to the concept of four-dimensional space." GilDodgen "We have no brain, I don't, for thinking." Robert Byers

J-Dog Posts: 4402 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,07:50    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,22:32) Apparently, someone disagrees with lil Billy D's assessment of the Wikipedia article and its impact on donations. A beautiful way to end the year!  More proof that ID is all about hot air and blather, and reality is all about getting things done. Thanks Rich! -------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10 Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08 UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

N.Wells Posts: 1836 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,10:03    Quote (Bebbo @ Dec. 31 2008,06:42) Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Through the Wikipedia page on Dembski I found this: http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28460 I guess we can add "gullible sucker" to the list of Dembski's other shortcomings. If that wasn't so sad, it would be hilarious that he can't see the similarities between himself and "If you've Got Any Spare Christmas Money, Buy My Book" O'Leary on the one hand and Todd Bentley's scummy scamming on the other hand. Quote It seemed that power, prestige and money (in that order) were dominating motives behind the meeting. Minimal time was given to healing, though plenty was devoted to assaulting our senses with blaring insipid music and even to Bentley promoting and selling his own products (books and CDs). Substitute 'science' for 'healing', 'inanity' for 'insipid music', and any of the usual suspects for 'Bentley', and you've got a fine description of the Discovery Institute.

khan Posts: 1554 Joined: May 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,10:33    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,11:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! The TARD is strong with this one: Quote 7 uoflcard 12/31/2008 6:33 am I thought I was the only one that noticed all of the biased crap. I’ve spent hours trying to give the other side of the story, but it is always erased within a day or so. ... wikipedia is a great resource for a lot of things, but the incredible bias towards materialism... -------------- "It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad Frequency is just the plural of wavelength... -JoeG

sparc Posts: 2088 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,10:40    DaveScot is not too happy with the new developments at UD   Quote 76 DaveScot 12/31/2008 9:32 am WJM   Quote what gets authorized here as a legitimate part of the ID discussion has ramifications. Yeah but it’s not like Bill Dembski is doing the authorizing anymore and it’s not like Barry Arrington, who is doing the authorizing, is a fellow of the Discovery Institute. So I wouldn’t worry too much about those ramifications when the sources are so easily impeached. As somebody predicted here there is going to be a tard fight. I would never have thaugt that tribune7 would agreed to a comment of mine:   Quote 77 tribune7 12/31/2008 9:57 am Quote Thus, irrespective of being true or not FSM is fully compatible with ID and should not be expelled from the discussion of possible designer identities. Exactly! And we should remember to point out that the FSM is a far more reasonable hypothesis than whatever flavor of the day the materialist crowd is using to explain what came before the Big Bang. -------------- "[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God." - William Dembski -

J-Dog Posts: 4402 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,10:57    Quote (sparc @ Dec. 31 2008,10:40) DaveScot is not too happy with the new developments at UD   Quote 76 DaveScot 12/31/2008 9:32 am WJM     Quote what gets authorized here as a legitimate part of the ID discussion has ramifications. Yeah but it’s not like Bill Dembski is doing the authorizing anymore and it’s not like Barry Arrington, who is doing the authorizing, is a fellow of the Discovery Institute. So I wouldn’t worry too much about those ramifications when the sources are so easily impeached. As somebody predicted here there is going to be a tard fight. I would never have thaugt that tribune7 would agreed to a comment of mine:   Quote 77 tribune7 12/31/2008 9:57 am   Quote Thus, irrespective of being true or not FSM is fully compatible with ID and should not be expelled from the discussion of possible designer identities. Exactly! And we should remember to point out that the FSM is a far more reasonable hypothesis than whatever flavor of the day the materialist crowd is using to explain what came before the Big Bang. Well, I'm not convinced, so I will wait until noted God-Lover BA^77 chimes in with chapter and verse.... and I mean that both literally and figuratively.  He's the only poster over there that can compete with Gordon aka KF for volume and references to Bible-Stuff.   Now if only he can shake that nanny filter, and post his inner demons - then indeed, we would see a veritable tTsunami O' Tard ™. Come on BA!  There are N00bs there -and here - that can not comprehend the tard-storm you can bring.  Come on - Do it for The Kidz... -------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10 Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08 UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,16:50    Quote (Bebbo @ Dec. 31 2008,07:42) Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Through the Wikipedia page on Dembski I found this: http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28460 I guess we can add "gullible sucker" to the list of Dembski's other shortcomings. I just read that. Jesus christ. That's sad. What a poor dupe. That's a shame. Too bad he goes on being Todd Bentley to other people.

Bebbo Posts: 161 Joined: Dec. 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,17:37    Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 31 2008,16:50) Quote (Bebbo @ Dec. 31 2008,07:42) Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Through the Wikipedia page on Dembski I found this: http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28460 I guess we can add "gullible sucker" to the list of Dembski's other shortcomings. I just read that. Jesus christ. That's sad. What a poor dupe. That's a shame. Too bad he goes on being Todd Bentley to other people. It's sad that anyone as intelligent and well educated as Dembski should fall for something that anyone with a modicum of commonsense would know isn't going to cure his son.

Skullboy Posts: 24 Joined: Sep. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,18:23    TheYellowShark:   Quote ...Evolution is accepted beyond all reasonable doubt within the scientific community. tribune7:       Quote Geocentricsm was accepted beyond all reasonable doubt the scientific community circa 1610. Yes. And so was intelligent design. Link

bystander Posts: 301 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,18:28    Quote (stevestory @ Jan. 01 2009,09:50) Quote (Bebbo @ Dec. 31 2008,07:42) Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 30 2008,10:38) Lil Billy D whines about Wikipedia: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Through the Wikipedia page on Dembski I found this: http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=28460 I guess we can add "gullible sucker" to the list of Dembski's other shortcomings. I just read that. Jesus christ. That's sad. What a poor dupe. That's a shame. Too bad he goes on being Todd Bentley to other people. The sad thing is that it wont really make WAD think.  A skeptic's next question would be to research to see if they are all fake and would expand the search to all miracles. WAD on the other hand will just jump onboard the next great thing and try that. Notice that he mentions prayer and fasting. I wonder how much he has tried that without success.

Skullboy Posts: 24 Joined: Sep. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2008,18:29    Quote (Skullboy @ Dec. 31 2008,18:23) TheYellowShark:       Quote ...Evolution is accepted beyond all reasonable doubt within the scientific community. tribune7:           Quote Geocentricsm was accepted beyond all reasonable doubt the scientific community circa 1610. Yes. And so was intelligent design. Link Oops. TheYellowShark nicely makes the same point himself a bit later in that thread. I should go back to lurking. Link

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