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Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,10:23    Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Oct. 17 2011,10:55) StephenB explains why ID is not creationism:   Quote If we accept the findings of physical anthropology and molecular biology, the first “human” species appeared in Africa about 150,000 years ago. According to that scenario, it was the gradual increase in brain size that caused the transition from sub-human species to homo sapiens. As the story goes, the human population was never smaller than 10,000 or some such number. I question this account for several reasons, but I do, nevertheless, think it can be reconciled with Genesis. According to the Bible, though, there was an original pair of humans. Thus, in order to reconcile Scripture with the scientific evidence presented by experts, we would have to assume that God, in some fashion, planted a spiritual soul into a pre-existing species, which was human in every other way except for the critical powers of intellect and will, and that He was, through that act, and in that sense, creating Adam and Eve. Oh, er, wait now. Can you adam and eve it? ALL SCIENCE SO FAR -------------- 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

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,10:25    Quote (Robin @ Oct. 17 2011,11:15) Quote (paragwinn @ Oct. 15 2011,02:32) It is dawning on me how completely futile it is becoming to engage the ID supporters of UD. It is quite the Bizarro World over there. None of them seem to learn anything except how to repeat each other's talking points. Believe first in ID and THEN you will understand it. Obstinacy is seen to be healthy skepticism and honest steadfastness. They throw their arguments around as if they are defense attorneys; they are not burdened with providing a consistent and reasonable explanation of events but serve only to cast doubt on the prosecution's (if i have mis-characterized any defense attorneys here, I stand corrected). Contention can be healthy and productive but that's not what's occurring at UD. I applaud those who continue to engage UD, and am grateful for the enlightenment they provide. I gave up several months ago. The discussions just don't go anywhere except towards name-calling. tards are for kicking.  ID is dead. "ID is dead as a mackerel there’s no point in arguing against it scientifically anymore, and all we have left is making fun of diehard IDiots like [these tards] who still try to walk the stinking corpse around, a la Weekend at Bernie’s." ETA  UD threads 1.5 and 2 are simply postscripts to lenny flank -------------- 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

REC Posts: 638 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,10:57    Anyone know who Brian Cusack is, and when he pissed in Cornelius Hunter's cornflakes? "Brian Cusack’s Latest: Anti Parsimonious, Teleological, Petitio Principii, Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc and Misrepresentations" Hell of a title. And a big screed to go with it-all against the first author of a ok paper. I'd go start something, but it isn't worth it. Hunter really is in his own little world lately- Quote "Nonetheless, the evolutionists break every rule of parsimony to impose their evolutionary framework. ... These are yet more examples of how evolution is a gratuitous explanation, adding nothing but “multiplied entities” as Occam put it." No analysis of how evolution is less parsimonious than whatever alternative Hunter advocates but will never state. God did it isn't a “multiplied entity" ???

Kristine Posts: 3061 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,11:07    Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Oct. 17 2011,10:25) Quote (Robin @ Oct. 17 2011,11:15)   Quote (paragwinn @ Oct. 15 2011,02:32) It is dawning on me how completely futile it is becoming to engage the ID supporters of UD. It is quite the Bizarro World over there. None of them seem to learn anything except how to repeat each other's talking points. Believe first in ID and THEN you will understand it. Obstinacy is seen to be healthy skepticism and honest steadfastness. They throw their arguments around as if they are defense attorneys; they are not burdened with providing a consistent and reasonable explanation of events but serve only to cast doubt on the prosecution's (if i have mis-characterized any defense attorneys here, I stand corrected). Contention can be healthy and productive but that's not what's occurring at UD. I applaud those who continue to engage UD, and am grateful for the enlightenment they provide. I gave up several months ago. The discussions just don't go anywhere except towards name-calling. tards are for kicking.  ID is dead. "ID is dead as a mackerel there’s no point in arguing against it scientifically anymore, and all we have left is making fun of diehard IDiots like [these tards] who still try to walk the stinking corpse around, a la Weekend at Bernie’s." ETA  UD threads 1.5 and 2 are simply postscripts to lenny flank UD is dead, too. Boy, was Lenny right! Any signs of a pulse in "sudden emergence" lately? It seems that the media never latched on to that one. -------------- Which came first: the shimmy, or the hip? AtBC Poet Laureate "I happen to think that this prerequisite criterion of empirical evidence is itself not empirical." - Clive "Damn you. This means a trip to the library. Again." -- fnxtr

olegt Posts: 1405 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,15:31    Barry Arrington on miracles: Quote Mr. Murray writes: “that’s a complete non-sequitur from the definition.” Well, no. A natural law is called a “law” because it is predictable; a miracle does not conform to natural law, i.e., it is not predictable. An object subject to earth’s gravity will accelerate 9.81 meters per second per second every single time according to natural law. It is predictable. Certainly I do not discount the logical possibility of an object floating in mid-air thus achieving an acceleration rate of zero. That’s certainly not an event that I would predict knowing what I do about the earth’s gravity, i.e. it is unpredictable. Here is a miracle, Barry! -------------- If you are not: Galapagos Finch please Logout »

Texas Teach Posts: 2084 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,16:46    Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Oct. 17 2011,10:25) Quote (Robin @ Oct. 17 2011,11:15)   Quote (paragwinn @ Oct. 15 2011,02:32) It is dawning on me how completely futile it is becoming to engage the ID supporters of UD. It is quite the Bizarro World over there. None of them seem to learn anything except how to repeat each other's talking points. Believe first in ID and THEN you will understand it. Obstinacy is seen to be healthy skepticism and honest steadfastness. They throw their arguments around as if they are defense attorneys; they are not burdened with providing a consistent and reasonable explanation of events but serve only to cast doubt on the prosecution's (if i have mis-characterized any defense attorneys here, I stand corrected). Contention can be healthy and productive but that's not what's occurring at UD. I applaud those who continue to engage UD, and am grateful for the enlightenment they provide. I gave up several months ago. The discussions just don't go anywhere except towards name-calling. tards are for kicking.  ID is dead. "ID is dead as a mackerel there’s no point in arguing against it scientifically anymore, and all we have left is making fun of diehard IDiots like [these tards] who still try to walk the stinking corpse around, a la Weekend at Bernie’s." ETA  UD threads 1.5 and 2 are simply postscripts to lenny flank I prefer to think of these later threads as tributes to the wisdom of Rev Dr Flank.  Blessings be upon him and his pizza boy. Besides, if we can't laugh at the IDiots, who can we laugh at? -------------- "Creationists think everything Genesis says is true. I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer." --J. Carr "I suspect that the English grammar books where you live are outdated" --G. Gaulin

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 17 2011,18:39    Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Oct. 17 2011,11:23) Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Oct. 17 2011,10:55) StephenB explains why ID is not creationism:   Quote If we accept the findings of physical anthropology and molecular biology, the first “human” species appeared in Africa about 150,000 years ago. According to that scenario, it was the gradual increase in brain size that caused the transition from sub-human species to homo sapiens. As the story goes, the human population was never smaller than 10,000 or some such number. I question this account for several reasons, but I do, nevertheless, think it can be reconciled with Genesis. According to the Bible, though, there was an original pair of humans. Thus, in order to reconcile Scripture with the scientific evidence presented by experts, we would have to assume that God, in some fashion, planted a spiritual soul into a pre-existing species, which was human in every other way except for the critical powers of intellect and will, and that He was, through that act, and in that sense, creating Adam and Eve. Oh, er, wait now. Can you adam and eve it? ALL SCIENCE SO FAR He wants to have his snake and eat it too. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

Patrick Posts: 666 Joined: July 2011 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,07:10    kairosfocus is an ass. I try not to flip the bozo bit on people because they occasionally come up with something unexpected*.  I have come to the conclusion that such an event is vanishingly unlikely in kairosfocus' case.  I think it's safe to only read excerpts from his screeds that hardier tardologists than I post here. *". . . and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, 'Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.'"

midwifetoad Posts: 4003 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,07:26    Quote Any signs of a pulse in "sudden emergence" lately? gpuccio asserts that protein domains suddenly emerged. I've asked several time for evidence. Apparently the fossil record has gaps. -------------- Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

Robin Posts: 1431 Joined: Sep. 2009 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,07:57    Quote (Patrick @ Oct. 18 2011,07:10) kairosfocus [URL=http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/have-we-profoundly-misunderstood-harvard-evolutionary-biologist-richard-lewontin-in-his-ja n-1997-nyrb-article-billions-and-billions-of-demons/comment-page-1/#comment-404162]is an ass[/URL]. I try not to flip the bozo bit on people because they occasionally come up with something unexpected*.  I have come to the conclusion that such an event is vanishingly unlikely in kairosfocus' case.  I think it's safe to only read excerpts from his screeds that hardier tardologists than I post here. *". . . and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, 'Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.'" Error 404: page not found The page you are looking for is not here Here are some ways to find what you are looking for -------------- we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

midwifetoad Posts: 4003 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,08:41    When you get the 404 message, find the <br> tag embedded in the URL and edit it out, then press return. -------------- Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

Patrick Posts: 666 Joined: July 2011 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,08:56    Quote (midwifetoad @ Oct. 18 2011,09:41) When you get the 404 message, find the <br> tag embedded in the URL and edit it out, then press return. I'll make a point of using bit.ly or similar in the future.

Robin Posts: 1431 Joined: Sep. 2009 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,09:32    Quote (midwifetoad @ Oct. 18 2011,08:41) When you get the 404 message, find the <br> tag embedded in the URL and edit it out, then press return. D'oh! My bad! I didn't see it in the URL when I looked last time. Carry on... ETA: After all that, I read KF's scribblings and just got annoyed. Note to self: KF is an idiot. Do not read is tripe. -------------- we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,11:27    unless you are a tard addict, gordon e mullings has nothing to say.  in fucking spades.  reams and reams and reams of the shit.  it's like this fool has set out to be Captain Question Begger on the good ship Nonsequitor, the only wind in his sails are the occasional puff of smoke from the flaming red herrings or the periodical spaz fit prompted by the mention of Dick Lewontin, upon whom Gordon Mullings apparently has a serious man crush.  Gordon, if Dick Lewontin sent you an email and a dozen new testaments do you think you would run away with him and spread your cheeks Good News? -------------- 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

Tracy P. Hamilton Posts: 1239 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,12:56    Robert Sheldon likes some Lubos Motl: Quote But physicist blogger, Lubos Motl, questions why a 2-sigma result (1:20 chance of being accidental) of climate warming (a highly contested result, not supported by data contends Roy Spencer) should cause the American Physical Society to claim “incontrovertible proof” when a 6-sigma result  (1:Million chance of being accidental) from a neutrino detector is doubted by all concerned. Because there are two kinds of error: systematic error, and random error. IDiot! -------------- "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

Tracy P. Hamilton Posts: 1239 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,13:00    More Robert Sheldon, climate expert: Quote There are a great many blogs dedicated to tracking how that miserable field is regressing, so I have felt no need to beat an obviously dead and cooling horse. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot....nd -------------- "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

oldmanintheskydidntdoit Posts: 4999 Joined: July 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,13:03    jerry is bacccckkkk... -------------- 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

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,13:49    how.... conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient -------------- 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

Tracy P. Hamilton Posts: 1239 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,15:33    Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Oct. 18 2011,13:49) how.... conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient Jerry, fess up!  You're driving 'Ras crazy, who is driving us crazy.   -------------- "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

keiths Posts: 2195 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,15:41    Hmmm.  'Ras writes this on Oct. 11: Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,Oct. 11 2011,09:32) for fucks sake will one of you please tell me which one of you was jerry? And exactly one week later, jerry pops up at UD again.  Chance and necessity, or design? -------------- 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

Ptaylor Posts: 1180 Joined: Aug. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,18:14    Heh, a current DeNews headline: Quote Sophisticated tool production system discovered, from 200,000-400,000 million years ago Spotted by Bilbo I -------------- We no longer say: “Another day; another bad day for Darwinism.” We now say: “Another day since the time Darwinism was disproved.” -PaV, Uncommon Descent, 19 June 2016

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 18 2011,21:42    Denise has gone ISKCON? I didn't see that coming. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,06:15    DeNews:   Quote When science becomes a frontal assault on reason and evidence: Multiple personality syndrome. And who is "science" in this case?   Quote According to the author, Debbie Nathan, the memoir was cooked up by three individuals hungry for fame and fortune: Mason, her therapist Cornelia (Connie) Wilbur and journalist Flora Schreiber. A psychiatric patient, her therapist, and a journalist. Strangely reminiscent of the motley collection holding forth on all topics "science" at UD. Stands to reason that DeNews takes them as representing science proper. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

Robin Posts: 1431 Joined: Sep. 2009 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,08:07    Quote (Ptaylor @ Oct. 18 2011,18:14) Heh, a current DeNews headline:   Quote Sophisticated tool production system discovered, from 200,000-400,000 million years ago Spotted by Bilbo I Maybe she meant to put million in parentheses. You know...like she meant to round the range up... -------------- we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

Robin Posts: 1431 Joined: Sep. 2009 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,08:15    Quote (keiths @ Oct. 18 2011,15:41) Hmmm.  'Ras writes this on Oct. 11: Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,Oct. 11 2011,09:32) for fucks sake will one of you please tell me which one of you was jerry? And exactly one week later, jerry pops up at UD again.  Chance and necessity, or design? Didn't Jerry already come out of the closet (so to speak) here? I seem to recall a specific person indicating he'd or she'd (why give it away again) have Jerry say something and viola...some 3 minutes later Jerry did in fact say those words. I'll give a hint...the poster's name has has some wealth associated with it, though others see nix on it. -------------- we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

Patrick Posts: 666 Joined: July 2011 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,16:15    I can't tell whether, in this thread, Joseph is desperately trying to avoid learning anything that might contradict his religious views or if he's just that stupid.

Doc Bill Posts: 1039 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,16:44    Quote (Patrick @ Oct. 19 2011,16:15) I can't tell whether, in this thread, Joseph is desperately trying to avoid learning anything that might contradict his religious views or if he's just that stupid. You can always tell when Joseph knows the jig is up.  He abruptly changes his style and becomes, dare I say it, irrational. I know, poor choice of words, but his style changes and he either changes the subject, claims victory or claims that he proved his point "earlier in the discussion" but never points to the entry number because, of course, he's done no such thing. He's what we used to call in grad school "a little shit."  They never lasted very long.

Tracy P. Hamilton Posts: 1239 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,17:40    BullyA is unknowingly correct: Quote The Book is not the Ink and Hardware is not the Software But it is in biochemistry, so analogies of DNA to human information are just that - analogies with limited application.  Unfortunately dullards of limited intelligence won't see it. -------------- "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

Ptaylor Posts: 1180 Joined: Aug. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,17:55    They really don't like OOL studies/research, do they? Really gets them going. Sample comments from the Jack Szostak on origin of life post: Quote The least offensive way I can describe this is that it is irrational. Szostak is drawing conclusions based on nothing, and people are believing him. - ScottAndrews Quote Wasted money. Wasted time. Wasted science. - UppyBipey -------------- We no longer say: “Another day; another bad day for Darwinism.” We now say: “Another day since the time Darwinism was disproved.” -PaV, Uncommon Descent, 19 June 2016

Kristine Posts: 3061 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 19 2011,20:57    Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Oct. 18 2011,21:42) Denise has gone ISKCON? I didn't see that coming. She'll look like Jerry Lewis! </WoodyAllen>   -------------- Which came first: the shimmy, or the hip? AtBC Poet Laureate "I happen to think that this prerequisite criterion of empirical evidence is itself not empirical." - Clive "Damn you. This means a trip to the library. Again." -- fnxtr

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