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Posted: April 16 2007,11:41

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Phonon, DaveTard didn't get the memo.

Since DT seems even more clueless than usual, and the banninator was operated by WAD hisself, it seems reasonable to conclude that WAD reads this site, discovered phonon's clever ruse, and took action immediately.
After all, he really doesn't have much else to do these days.

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Posted: April 16 2007,11:56

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 16 2007,19:15)

Phonon, DaveTard didn't get the memo.

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-116837

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DaveScot

04/16/2007

4:00 am
phonon

Directed panspermia implies intelligent design at least for the life on this planet.

WHAT MESSAGE HOMOS? THERE'S A SPAMHERNIA MEMO? ( off stage whispering) ..OH THE MYSTERIOUS HAND OF BAAL THE BOOM LOWERER. WELL THE INTELLIGENT WEASELER GAVE HIM GUIDANCE. I'LL BET IT WAS PASCAL'S WEASEL. ROFL I HERNIA ME SOMETIMES.

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Posted: April 16 2007,12:03

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Quote (Richardthughes @ April 16 2007,11:15)

Phonon, DaveTard didn't get the memo.

Since DT seems even more clueless than usual, and the banninator was operated by WAD hisself, it seems reasonable to conclude that WAD reads this site, discovered phonon's clever ruse, and took action immediately.
After all, he really doesn't have much else to do these days.

Hmmmmm.

To be charitable ......maybe he's secretly basking in Kristines Shimmer....then maybe not.

Oh the pain.....the pain. (in the best camp Dr Smith impersonation)

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Posted: April 16 2007,12:04

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Well there's something we have in common. For me, there's something in some chocolate that tastes like peanuts too... that "you shouldn't be eating this" taste. But I definitely don't actually have the physical reaction to it. Ever had that happen?

No, not to chocolate, which never fails to be yummy. The only other thing that provokes that itchy taste are certain kinds of hard cheese. I don't know what kinds off hand, but a small percentage of them have a real annoying itchiness to the tongue.

growing up, i could never eat hot dogs or sausage without getting a dull head-ache. Unfortunately my son inherited this as well.

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Posted: April 16 2007,12:06

For the fuller story...
Everyone's favourite sociologist has a book out. I'll wait to see if there's any comment on this line from the Amazon.co.uk site:

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IDT�s proponents take literally the Biblical idea that humans have been created in God�s image.

I'm sure Lenny will appreciate it.

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Posted: April 16 2007,12:11

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Hmmmmm.

To be charitable ......maybe he's secretly basking in Kristines Shimmer....then maybe not.

That must be it. He probably is more worried about the shimmy than the "hip" avatar of Newton/Dembski that phonon uses on this site...

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Posted: April 16 2007,16:12

O'Leary �

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I am afraid that I have never heard of an orthodox theology of the cross (an interest of Murphy�s) that denies humans a supernatural component. That is, however, a pillar of orthodox Darwinism. I think that what Murphy, his quotee, and many on the ASA list from which this sample was taken clearly demonstrate is the slow rot of non-materialist understanding of life that any long and close embrace of Darwinism brings about. Mind you, I expect them to want to discuss just about anything else.

George Murphy �

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Whether or not it is valid to infer from such a theology that it is not necessary to postulate a �supernatural� component of the human can, of course, be debated. But the claim that that I have made this suggestion as a result of �the slow rot of non-materialist understanding of life that any long and close embrace of Darwinism brings about� is, if I may be blunt, a lie.

Ouch.

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Posted: April 16 2007,16:33

An oldie:

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I�ve decided to put Uncommon Descent into mothballs indefinitely

How do the moths feel about this? how will you do it, Bill?

I NEED A PATHETICAL LEVEL OF MECHANISTIC DETAIL!

If he succeed though, that moth gism will be propelled by intelligently designed flagella. Another coup for UD/ID. I feel a Waterloo coming on!

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Posted: April 16 2007,16:53

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 16 2007,11:15)

Phonon, DaveTard didn't get the memo.

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-116837

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04/16/2007

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Directed panspermia implies intelligent design at least for the life on this planet.

Would *my* favorite theory for the origin of life on earth, i.e., 'Alien Septic Tank Dump', imply intelligent design?

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Posted: April 16 2007,20:05

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-116908

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According to jerry, �As a group the theological evolutionist really seem to only discuss one thing and that is theology. They don�t care about evidence or scientific truth.� This is manifestly false. I suggest that he read some books by Christians who accept evolution -e.g.,

Ted Peters & Martinez Hewlett, _Evolution from Creation to New Creation_.

David Wilcox, _God and Evolution_.

Francis Collins, _The Language of God_.

Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin�s God_.

Keith B. Miller (ed.), _Perspectives on an Evolving Creation_. (I wrote Chapter 16 here.)

Others could be cited.

He will see that scientific data and theories are taken into account in all of these. In addition, the degree to which the various authors are committed to �Darwinism� in any strict sense varies considerably. Whether or not one agrees with the various authors� assessments of the science is not the point now. It is simply not true that they are not concerned about science. Could we please stop this kind of misrepresentation?

Denyse will have a mouth like a cats arse.

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Posted: April 16 2007,21:32

Wha-? Steve Fuller's Dissy over Descy

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The theme of descent and dissent, which has been a theme on this blog and in my book UNCOMMON DISSENT: INTELLECTUALS WHO FIND DARWINISM UNCONVINCING, has been picked up by Steve Fuller in his new book DISSENT OVER DESCENT: EVOLUTION�S 500-YEAR WAR ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN.

Evolution's 500-year war on intelligent design?

Darwin's 500th coming up? WAD, I thought you said that evolution started with those ancient Greek gawds killing each other and transforming and crap.

Boy am I confused. How does it go again: there's PI in the sky (celestial spheres) when I die. Okay-doke. *Help me, I need a study break*

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Posted: April 16 2007,21:39

Quote (Kristine @ April 16 2007,21:32)

Wha-? Steve Fuller's Dissy over Descy

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The theme of descent and dissent, which has been a theme on this blog and in my book UNCOMMON DISSENT: INTELLECTUALS WHO FIND DARWINISM UNCONVINCING, has been picked up by Steve Fuller in his new book DISSENT OVER DESCENT: EVOLUTION�S 500-YEAR WAR ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN.

Evolution's 500-year war on intelligent design?

Darwin's 500th coming up? WAD, I thought you said that evolution started with those ancient Greek gawds killing each other and transforming and crap.

Boy am I confused. How does it go again: there's PI in the sky (celestial spheres) when I die. Okay-doke. *Help me, I need a study break* :p

By golly, I thought that ID was, ya know, SCIENCE and all, and that the reason why it, uh, doesn't have any peer-reviewed results is, um, because it's, er, so NEW, and all . . . . . .

(snicker) (giggle)

I wish these morons would at least TRY to keep their #### story straight . . . . .

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Posted: April 16 2007,21:58

jerry � � � �

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Namely, you could make the argument for Darwinism. Why do you accept it as valid science? What evidence convinces you? We have yet to see anyone here who can defend it.

Could it be because they're all banned, Jerry?

And what of the spirit of George Murphy who was summoned against his will?

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So - you haven�t read any of these books but still knew what theistic evolutionists said? What Christians who accept evolution had you read before making your claim?

You discount Collins because of the criticisms of a journalist with no discernible scientific qualifications & Ken Miller because he�s dismantled the claims of some IDers. It�s easy to see how open you are to scientific arguments. I got onto this blog only to correct some misrepresentations & have no interest in fruitless debate with someone who so casually dismisses scientists who actually know what they�re talking about.

I responded to your post to correct your false statement about �Theological Evolutionists� & your reply just shows again that you didn�t know what you were talking about. That will be sufficient.

Ouch, again.

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Posted: April 17 2007,00:13

Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ April 16 2007,20:39)

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Quote (Kristine @ April 16 2007,21:32)

Wha-? Steve Fuller's Dissy over Descy

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The theme of descent and dissent, which has been a theme on this blog and in my book UNCOMMON DISSENT: INTELLECTUALS WHO FIND DARWINISM UNCONVINCING, has been picked up by Steve Fuller in his new book DISSENT OVER DESCENT: EVOLUTION�S 500-YEAR WAR ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN.

Evolution's 500-year war on intelligent design?

Darwin's 500th coming up? WAD, I thought you said that evolution started with those ancient Greek gawds killing each other and transforming and crap.

Boy am I confused. How does it go again: there's PI in the sky (celestial spheres) when I die. Okay-doke. *Help me, I need a study break*

By golly, I thought that ID was, ya know, SCIENCE and all, and that the reason why it, uh, doesn't have any peer-reviewed results is, um, because it's, er, so NEW, and all . . . . . .

(snicker) �(giggle)
I wish these morons would at least TRY to keep their #### story straight . . . . .

Oops! I should get my story straight myself. I owe WmAd an apology, I was wrong. I misquoted wMAD.

It wasn't the Greek gods making war that he mentioned, it was the Babylonian gods making, um, er...

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If you look at the Babylonian account, it's called the Enuma Elish, and what you have [enema elish??] are waters, sweet waters and salt waters, Tiamat and Apsu - they mingle, okay, and the mingle connotes some sort of sexual union, and out of that emerged one set of gods, and then there's another set of gods, and another, and then finally you get Marduk. And it's in this process of generations, the gods are begetting gods...

His point being that evolution is somehow like creation myths like this. Oooh, this kind of stuff can rile a girl up.

My point being, if I am salt water, what is wMAD?

'Cause he says that the naturalist view is "thin on the consumation part." Heh, I have news for him.

*Waits for shocked Marpuke from Arden*

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Posted: April 17 2007,01:27

Quote (stevestory @ April 15 2007,18:12)

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Actually I've got a little extra understanding of this. When I was a little kid I nearly died from being fed peanuts they didn't know I was allergic to. Throat closed up, the whole deal. And my brain did some kind of rewiring trick, and whatever you guys taste in peanut butter, I don't taste it. I have no idea what peanuts and peanut butter taste like to those of you who like it, because my brain reprogrammed the taste. Peanuts taste like nothing except pain and itchyness to me. I can't detect anything else. People tell me they taste great, I know people who love them, but I can't taste it whatsoever. The circuits associated with those flavors have been reconfigured. Once a year or so I accidently bite into something with peanuts and the taste is something like acid and itchiness.

Many years ago, I read an article in the first incarnation of "Psychology Today" called "The Sauce Bernaise Effect". �The author had eaten something with sauce bernaise on it for the first time and got deathly ill a short time later. �Ever since, the taste or even thought of sauce bernaise made him nauseous.

I had a similar experience, which I would label "The Strawberry Soda Effect".

Apparently, developing a revulsion to a new food that makes us ill shortly afterwards is built into our genes as a method of keeping us from eating a poisonous food a second time if we survive the first experience.

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Posted: April 17 2007,06:15

Quote (djmullen @ April 17 2007,01:27)

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Actually I've got a little extra understanding of this. When I was a little kid I nearly died from being fed peanuts they didn't know I was allergic to. Throat closed up, the whole deal. And my brain did some kind of rewiring trick, and whatever you guys taste in peanut butter, I don't taste it. I have no idea what peanuts and peanut butter taste like to those of you who like it, because my brain reprogrammed the taste. Peanuts taste like nothing except pain and itchyness to me. I can't detect anything else. People tell me they taste great, I know people who love them, but I can't taste it whatsoever. The circuits associated with those flavors have been reconfigured. Once a year or so I accidently bite into something with peanuts and the taste is something like acid and itchiness.

Many years ago, I read an article in the first incarnation of "Psychology Today" called "The Sauce Bernaise Effect". �The author had eaten something with sauce bernaise on it for the first time and got deathly ill a short time later. �Ever since, the taste or even thought of sauce bernaise made him nauseous.

I had a similar experience, which I would label "The Strawberry Soda Effect".

Apparently, developing a revulsion to a new food that makes us ill shortly afterwards is built into our genes as a method of keeping us from eating a poisonous food a second time if we survive the first experience.

Becoming abdominally ill tags the food consumed prior to the illness as undesireable. �

What is interesting about the effect is that one doesn't have to be conscious during the illness for the effect to occur. �IIRC, rats were fed a particular chow, then anesthetized. �During the period of anesthesia they were irradiated with sufficient intensity to cause nausea had they been conscious. �They were aroused after such nausea would have passed. �Nevertheless, they avoided the food eaten just prior to the episode. �Interesting stuff.

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Posted: April 17 2007,06:59

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...The people at UD believe in their position and are willing to discuss it. That is the challenge. An open discussion.

Whaaa...? �(rubs eyes) �Did he really say that?

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Posted: April 17 2007,07:03

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Namely, you could make the argument for Darwinism. Why do you accept it as valid science? What evidence convinces you? We have yet to see anyone here who can defend it.

Could it be because they're all banned, Jerry?

More jerry �

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I have yet to see a coherent defense of Darwinism. No one has presented one here and you certainly haven�t tried nor has anyone else who has a theistic evolution view point which is why I made my comments.

And yet God has not said a word!
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Posted: April 17 2007,07:52

Kristine
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His point being that evolution is somehow like creation myths like this. Oooh, this kind of stuff can rile a girl up.

I'm riled too, but we blokes only take 5 minutes.

Kristine again

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My point being, if I am salt water, what is wMAD? �'Cause he says that the naturalist view is "thin on the consumation part." Heh, I have news for him.

Oh ......post moses...of course, genesis makes no mention of the creation of water, the mythologists were all men. They edited out the feminine water, misogynists. In ancient Egypt the sky was feminine and the earth masculine (women on top). Its a topsy turvy world we live in.

Kristine again �....again.
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*Waits for shocked Marpuke from Arden* �

Socked Morepork? , well he is a bird lover.

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Posted: April 17 2007,07:54

The phrase for further study is taste aversion, IIRC, and there is some literature on the topic. It's an interesting case of single-trial learning that is very resistant to extinction or habituation.

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Posted: April 17 2007,08:02

Quote (djmullen @ April 17 2007,01:27)

Quote (stevestory @ April 15 2007,18:12)

Actually I've got a little extra understanding of this. When I was a little kid I nearly died from being fed peanuts they didn't know I was allergic to. Throat closed up, the whole deal. And my brain did some kind of rewiring trick, and whatever you guys taste in peanut butter, I don't taste it. I have no idea what peanuts and peanut butter taste like to those of you who like it, because my brain reprogrammed the taste. Peanuts taste like nothing except pain and itchyness to me. I can't detect anything else. People tell me they taste great, I know people who love them, but I can't taste it whatsoever. The circuits associated with those flavors have been reconfigured. Once a year or so I accidently bite into something with peanuts and the taste is something like acid and itchiness.

Many years ago, I read an article in the first incarnation of "Psychology Today" called "The Sauce Bernaise Effect". The author had eaten something with sauce bernaise on it for the first time and got deathly ill a short time later. Ever since, the taste or even thought of sauce bernaise made him nauseous.

I had a similar experience, which I would label "The Strawberry Soda Effect".

Apparently, developing a revulsion to a new food that makes us ill shortly afterwards is built into our genes as a method of keeping us from eating a poisonous food a second time if we survive the first experience.

I had a similar effect from getting pissed and subsequently sick from drinking too much Southern Comfort. For a long time afterwards just the smell of it made me nauseous.

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Posted: April 17 2007,08:08

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Actually I've got a little extra understanding of this. When I was a little kid I nearly died from being fed peanuts they didn't know I was allergic to. Throat closed up, the whole deal. And my brain did some kind of rewiring trick, and whatever you guys taste in peanut butter, I don't taste it. I have no idea what peanuts and peanut butter taste like to those of you who like it, because my brain reprogrammed the taste. Peanuts taste like nothing except pain and itchyness to me. I can't detect anything else. People tell me they taste great, I know people who love them, but I can't taste it whatsoever. The circuits associated with those flavors have been reconfigured. Once a year or so I accidently bite into something with peanuts and the taste is something like acid and itchiness.

Many years ago, I read an article in the first incarnation of "Psychology Today" called "The Sauce Bernaise Effect". �The author had eaten something with sauce bernaise on it for the first time and got deathly ill a short time later. �Ever since, the taste or even thought of sauce bernaise made him nauseous.

I had a similar experience, which I would label "The Strawberry Soda Effect".

Apparently, developing a revulsion to a new food that makes us ill shortly afterwards is built into our genes as a method of keeping us from eating a poisonous food a second time if we survive the first experience.

I had a similar effect from getting pissed and subsequently sick from drinking too much Southern Comfort. For a long time afterwards just the smell of it made me nauseous.

Don't worry .....the people who drink that stuff aren't normal. Your aversion indicates you are normal and those who drink it have an aversion to normalcy...it's in my book 'How to be Normal' -an guide for the odd.

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Posted: April 17 2007,08:48

Over at FtK's blog, DaveScot almost accepts an evolutionary explanation:

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Taking it off has never been my problem. Keeping it off is the problem. I read it's genetic in many cases (particularly those of northern european descent) and only gets worse as you get older. Your body is "programmed" to store an increasing amount of body fat as you age. For longevity in hunter/gatherer times this was a good strategy for as your ability to hunt/gather decreased with age and injuries that keep you out of the hunt become more frequent and recovery times longer you had more stored fat to get you through those rough spots.

but then remembers who he is talking to

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You need to eat a well balanced diet and count calories. That works every time as long as you make your calorie goals and for many people is neither unnatural or unhealthy. It's just the way we are designed.

Clearly we were designed for different times. Since that design doesn't seem so intelligent in these times, it must be a sign of the impending Apocalypse!

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Posted: April 17 2007,09:00

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Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ April 16 2007,20:39)

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Wha-? Steve Fuller's Dissy over Descy �

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The theme of descent and dissent, which has been a theme on this blog and in my book UNCOMMON DISSENT: INTELLECTUALS WHO FIND DARWINISM UNCONVINCING, has been picked up by Steve Fuller in his new book DISSENT OVER DESCENT: EVOLUTION�S 500-YEAR WAR ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN.

Evolution's 500-year war on intelligent design?

Darwin's 500th coming up? WAD, I thought you said that evolution started with those ancient Greek gawds killing each other and transforming and crap.

Boy am I confused. How does it go again: there's PI in the sky (celestial spheres) when I die. Okay-doke. *Help me, I need a study break*

By golly, I thought that ID was, ya know, SCIENCE and all, and that the reason why it, uh, doesn't have any peer-reviewed results is, um, because it's, er, so NEW, and all . . . . . .

(snicker) �(giggle)
I wish these morons would at least TRY to keep their #### story straight . . . . .

Oops! I should get my story straight myself. I owe WmAd an apology, I was wrong. I misquoted wMAD.

It wasn't the Greek gods making war that he mentioned, it was the Babylonian gods making, um, er...

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If you look at the Babylonian account, it's called the Enuma Elish, and what you have [enema elish??] are waters, sweet waters and salt waters, Tiamat and Apsu - they mingle, okay, and the mingle connotes some sort of sexual union, and out of that emerged one set of gods, and then there's another set of gods, and another, and then finally you get Marduk. And it's in this process of generations, the gods are begetting gods...

His point being that evolution is somehow like creation myths like this. Oooh, this kind of stuff can rile a girl up.

My point being, if I am salt water, what is wMAD?

'Cause he says that the naturalist view is "thin on the consumation part." Heh, I have news for him.

*Waits for shocked Marpuke from Arden*

'Marpuke'? ? ?

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Namely, you could make the argument for Darwinism. Why do you accept it as valid science? What evidence convinces you? We have yet to see anyone here who can defend it.

Jerry is the perfect ID consumer. Bill and Dave ban all dissent or contradictory statements from UD to create the illusion that there is complete unanimity on ID, and that scientists are afraid to challenge them. Jerry seems to believe this completely. Bill could tell him to roll over and beg and he'd oblige.

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Posted: April 17 2007,09:21

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 17 2007,07:54)

The phrase for further study is taste aversion, IIRC, and there is some literature on the topic. It's an interesting case of single-trial learning that is very resistant to extinction or habituation.

There is an interesting variant in which the aversion attaches not to a taste, but rather to a new idea being learned at the time of the illness, e.g.:

A young DaveTard, learning Darwinian evolution for the first time, engulfs a bad batch of Cheesy Poofs and falls ill. �The result: �A permanent, irrational aversion to the idea of Darwinian evolution. �Cheesy Poofs, having been established by prior experience as the summum bonum, escape blame altogether.

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Posted: April 17 2007,10:50

OE: No posts this week so far.

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Posted: April 17 2007,10:59

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 17 2007,10:50)

OE: No posts this week so far.

You seem to have forgotten that OE is the zany site for the young hipster crowd. �They wouldn't have any interest in some dusty old battle. �The correct graphic is:

Much more better.

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Posted: April 17 2007,11:50

ID Predicts this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007....=slogin

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Posted: April 17 2007,12:04

Via the most excellent Red State Rabble:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faVIpVg_FLc

Watch the creobot dance around the issue!

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"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

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