William Wallace
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<blockquote> <strong>phantomreader42 wrote:</strong>
... Is there anything that will stop this moron from repeating a lie? He's STILL throwing around the "gate crashing" bullshit. ...
Cowardheart is incapable of seeing anything wrong in the actions of his own side, and incapable of telling the truth.
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The only moron is phantomreader42. Regarding gatecrashing, even Nerdiah, over at <a href="http://atheisthousewife.blogspot.com/2008/03/expelled-movie-public-relations.html" rel="nofollow">Atheist Housewife</a>, turned against PZ Myers after discovering <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/i_always_aim_to_misbehave.php" rel="nofollow">PZ also gate crashed a teleconference call</a>.
<blockquote>Updated: 07.50 am, 29 March, local communist time.
Oh, for [f***]'s sake, people.
So, here we have the cdesign proponentsis, spinning like mad, tripping allover themselves with their stories and counter-stories, reduced to slandering Myers as a "gate-crasher" and for "gaming the system" by applying for a ticket on a website that was linked to from allover the web. Given this situation, if you were Myers, what would you do? Or more specifically, what would you not do? Something like this, perhaps?
Yep, that's right. According to his own post on the subject, Myers was invited to listen-in (not speak) on a radio broadcast conference call, and submit questions by email. Then somehow he got a hold of a code that he could use to speak on the radio, one that he knew that he wasn't meant to use, but he used it anyway and effectively gate-crashed their little promo-piece. In other words, he has pretty-much gone and done the very thing that they were falsely accusing him of doing in the first place.
<strong>Myers, you idiot.</strong> At least the theistards have the excuse of being helpless little memebots. What on Earth made you think that that was a good idea? You gave 'em enough rope, and the creationists were doing a bang-up job of hanging themselves with it. You didn't need to do anything, just point and laugh!
Then I have the pleasure of reading rubbish like this, where prominent science bloggers are conveniently side-stepping the issue and injecting a little counter-spin of their own. And of course, they are getting called on it, rightly so, and it's [f***]ing embarrassing.
I mean, what does atheist, scientist, or skeptic, mean to you people? Does it mean unblinking, unwavering striving for the truth? Does it mean to love truth, to really love it, even when it's hard to find, uncomfortable to hold, won't promise you ultimate meaning and eternal life, and everyone hates you for it? Or is it just another ideology to cling to, a tribe to join, so we can all go "Rah rah rah, we're in the Blue Team, you're in the Red Team and you're all a bunch of jerks so everything we do is right"?
[F***] it. You're all the same. I wash my hands of the bloody lot of you. I've got castor oil to find, and a baby to give birth to by Monday if I don't want to be pumped full of chemicals and have him torn out of me. And I sure as hell won't defend stupidity and deception, no matter what 'team' it is coming from, and I say "[f***] you" to anyone who does.</blockquote>
Furthermore, on this thread I have opposed DaveScot's premature gloating and aspirations to have Judge Jones not decide on the facts, but on political favoritism.
Also, see <a href="/archives/2008/02/teach-the-contr-5.html#comment-141823">comment-141823</a> and <a href="/archives/2008/02/teach-the-contr-5.html#comment-141840">comment-141840</a>, where I write:
<blockquote><strong>William Wallace wrote:</strong>
I just finished listening to the debate, and there is absolutely no question that PZ Myers won the debate. Some of the comments (infantile and ignorant) were not necessary and out of place, but PZ still clearly won the debate.</blockquote>
It isn't difficult to prove phantomreader42 wrong. phantomreader42 just makes up lies, and hopes that if they sound good, others in the PT-mafia will believe him.
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