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CeilingCat



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,02:20   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 20 2008,15:06)
I hope you said "one for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, please!" when you bought your ticket?

(Jumps)  Are you psychic?

  
didymos



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,04:17   

What the hell has gotten into that guy?  I'm relatively new to these Tardian realms, but even so, I know there's something deeply strange about this sudden fit of rational thought.  All of sudden DaveScot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma shrouded in surprise and liberally basted with "What the fuck?".

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I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moron
Again "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio

  
Goffr



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,04:19   

http://www.uncommondescent.com/philosophy/darwinian-nobility/

 
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21 April 2008
Darwinian Nobility
DaveScot

Please note this is categorized in off-topic philosophy.

Does Darwinian Nobility, capitalized no less, sound like a contradiction in terms? Not really. In the Descent of Man, Darwin talks about the noble nature of man like it was a tangible thing.

“Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature.”

Who’s responsible for eugenics? Simple. People who don’t have the noble nature of man that Darwin mentions like a physical thing.

If you don’t instinctively know that the right thing to do is help rather than harm those less fortunate in life than you are then you lack Darwinian Nobility.

Is Darwinian Nobility due to nature or nurture? Who the hell knows. One or the other or both. All I know is the world would be a better place with more of it.


DaveScot's last post on UD?

WD: DaveScot is no longer with us.

  
carlsonjok



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,06:01   

Galapagos Finch brings us a meta-review of Expelled:
 
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“The average rating was three out of five stars,” says Finch. “But then again, the average American has one breast and one testicle.”

These are the guys that are supposed to revolutionize biology? The average American has two breasts and one testicle.

EDIT: Added linky

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It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it.  We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

  
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,07:32   

Quote (Louis @ April 20 2008,20:21)
Quote (k.e.. @ April 20 2008,14:48)
 
Quote (Louis @ April 20 2008,13:18)
I want to write a song for DaveTard called "Extreme Clown Fear" or something similar. I may have to nip off and work on it. It will be, of course, a work of unadulterated thrash metal goodness.

Louis

Oh wunderbar...... I'm trembling with anticipation.

But....Please, can you keep it short this time?

I hate to see all your scintillating talent wasted on one of your long traversable only by neurotic foxglove chewing Cypriot mountain goat with post coital drip and overbite posts here; do you have an electron recycling plant near your location?

Can I suggest getting a spare DVD-RW and venting your creative spleen to that? ...there should be enough room on it, a 4.5GB DVD will take about 4.5 billion characters of text...you know.

Then if you still consider granting us the indisputable joy of kneeling on crushed glass while getting flogged by the head boys jockstrap at the same time as getting an enema from Miss Trunchbull who has placed a wet empty coal sack over your head at the top of the masters landing while sickly smelling no name soup served to the other boys drifts up the stairs, load it up to ibackup.com and just give the link.

Have you forgotten your excessively large quantity of medication again?

Or are you merely overexicted by the proximity of your latest penis gourd haul?

Either way, just remember that you are a Colonial and thus lesser. Not lesser at anything per se, just lesser.

That's him told, who next?

Louis

P.S. Whilst you're at it, try to make sense. There's a good chap.

Brilliantly sparse!

Not quite 25 words or less but you could almost qualify for a carbon credit.

On a lesser note, if you want to live in god zone where the seagulls don't have to fly upside down because they feel sorry for pommies.....I'll put in a good word for you...maybe.

k.e..

P.S. You are right about my medication though....but I've never heard it called medication before.

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"ID is deader than Lenny Flanks granmaws dildo batteries" Erasmus
"I'm busy studying scientist level science papers" Galloping Gary Gaulin

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:02   

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 21 2008,02:59)
Sorry about your moderation, Bob. But as I mock the Tard, I must praise the good, and so I nominate DaveScot...

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-252266

   
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DaveScot

04/21/2008

12:48 am
So should we blame Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) for suicide bombers? Should we blame Einstein for the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Should we blame Christ for the Spanish Inquisition?

However you answer these questions the same answer applies to blaming Darwin for the holocaust.




...for Post of the Week.

Done.

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“Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas?

Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

   
Bob O'H



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:04   

Poor Dave
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21 April 2008
Adminstrative: Spam Filter Acting Up
DaveScot

The Akisment spam filter is acting up and holding up a lot of comments it shouldn’t be blocking. If your comment doesn’t appear right away where in the past it had then it’s the spam filter. Every single one of my comments are being held up in it. So are about a dozen other members’ here.

Don’t ask why because I don’t know why…

It hiccups like this occasionally and goes away soon. I suspect it gets noticed and fixed at Akismet during normal working hours so it’s more prone to become a bothersome issue on weekends.


Can't bring himself to admit in public that he's been put in moderation too.

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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)

   
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:12   

Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,April 20 2008,22:44)
as for you k.e.. having feverish visions sure sucks you should keep that thing washed out.  if the mortar and pestle has creases you can't let it drip dry you know.  some never dry anyway.  


Dang.....so you know that girl Ms. Pestle as well?

How do you like it when she puts one leg over your shoulder while face to face horizontal folk dancing on your side? I'm going to have to have a word with her....she's trying to cut out my rugby scrummaging femme.

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?AND SHUT UP WHILE UR DOIN IT TOO.  IM NOT SCARED OF CLOWNS OR WIZZERDS AND MY WIFE LETS ME DO WHATEVER I WANT TO HER EXCEPT UNLOCK HER BELT BUT I DONT WANT TO GO THERE ANYWAY DADDY SAID THEY HAD TEETHS.  BUT I DONT REALLY CARE LETS JUST SAY I AM A VERILY SATISFIED SELF MADE MESOMILLIONER DIDACK MORPH AND I KNOW A LOT OF IMPORTANT PEOPLES NAMES AND SOME OF THEM BILL HAS PUBLISHED ON THE INTERNET.  MY DOGS ARE ALWAYS DRUNK, MY SHOT GUN IS BEHIND THE DOOR AND YOU HAVE TO GET PAST MY RETARDED NEPHEW WHOSE PARENTS WERE DARWINIST WORSHIPPING CHANCE LIBERALS AND JOINED THE FAMILY AND HE HAS BIG TEETH AND THREE STRONG ARMS ALL OF WHICH ARE BIGGER THAN YOURS BUT SMALLER THAN YOUR WIFES.  HAHAH I KILL ME SOMETIMES YOU KILL GREAT BLUE HERONS WITH HYDROPLATES AND MICHAEL DELL THINKS UR GAY.


ok now you are feeling the force.....

I'll give that an 8.75

Stumbled on the finish, but didn't break anything.

I recommend a straight nip of the worlds best single malt and thinking of Louis* in frilly red lace underwear with suspenders, red stockings and hot pink lipstick, big assed dancing on a hot steamy palm fringed tropical beach at sunset while on some stupid dance drug with a bunch of comely mulatto women wearing only bananas in their hair.

....actually....make that a very large tumbler of whiskey.... any bloody thing and quickly!

* This won't happen because Louis is allergic to red polyester, mulatto women...and ....he's British. They won't do things like that since;
1. The Empire was sold to the Yanks to pay for teeth improvement in the general population...didn't work of course.
2. No one would introduce him .....so he would only sit at the bar by himself then retire to the library.

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"I get a strong breeze from my monitor every time k.e. puts on his clown DaveTard suit" dogdidit
"ID is deader than Lenny Flanks granmaws dildo batteries" Erasmus
"I'm busy studying scientist level science papers" Galloping Gary Gaulin

  
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:23   

Quote (Bob O'H @ April 21 2008,16:04)
Poor Dave
 
Quote
21 April 2008
Adminstrative: Spam Filter Acting Up
DaveScot

The Akisment spam filter is acting up and holding up a lot of comments it shouldn’t be blocking. If your comment doesn’t appear right away where in the past it had then it’s the spam filter. Every single one of my comments are being held up in it. So are about a dozen other members’ here.

Don’t ask why because I don’t know why…

It hiccups like this occasionally and goes away soon. I suspect it gets noticed and fixed at Akismet during normal working hours so it’s more prone to become a bothersome issue on weekends.


Can't bring himself to admit in public that he's been put in moderation too.

Yeah what's he going to have to do to grovel his way back in when "like....we own this space...man" Expelled is blown out of its entire raison d'être by the premier ID blog of the universe.

Bill's jack boot on the neck of reason may just be enough to let Mr Springer get on with that gardening he likes doing....permanently....I can dream.

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"I get a strong breeze from my monitor every time k.e. puts on his clown DaveTard suit" dogdidit
"ID is deader than Lenny Flanks granmaws dildo batteries" Erasmus
"I'm busy studying scientist level science papers" Galloping Gary Gaulin

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:23   

Quote (Bob O'H @ April 21 2008,09:04)
Poor Dave
Quote
21 April 2008
Adminstrative: Spam Filter Acting Up
DaveScot

The Akisment spam filter is acting up and holding up a lot of comments it shouldn’t be blocking. If your comment doesn’t appear right away where in the past it had then it’s the spam filter. Every single one of my comments are being held up in it. So are about a dozen other members’ here.

Don’t ask why because I don’t know why…

It hiccups like this occasionally and goes away soon. I suspect it gets noticed and fixed at Akismet during normal working hours so it’s more prone to become a bothersome issue on weekends.


Can't bring himself to admit in public that he's been put in moderation too.

That may or may not be the case, but the Akismet filter has been acting up lately, and it is an occasional problem across WordPress.

(FYI - Akismet is owned and operated by the same people as WordPress.  Just so y'know.)

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“Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas?

Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

   
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:27   

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That may or may not be the case, but the Akismet filter has been acting up lately, and it is an occasional problem across WordPress.


Should we take bets on how long DS's comments live?

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"I get a strong breeze from my monitor every time k.e. puts on his clown DaveTard suit" dogdidit
"ID is deader than Lenny Flanks granmaws dildo batteries" Erasmus
"I'm busy studying scientist level science papers" Galloping Gary Gaulin

  
J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,08:29   

Quote (Lou FCD @ April 21 2008,08:02)
Quote (Richardthughes @ April 21 2008,02:59)
Sorry about your moderation, Bob. But as I mock the Tard, I must praise the good, and so I nominate DaveScot...

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-252266

   
Quote
28

DaveScot

04/21/2008

12:48 am
So should we blame Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) for suicide bombers? Should we blame Einstein for the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Should we blame Christ for the Spanish Inquisition?

However you answer these questions the same answer applies to blaming Darwin for the holocaust.




...for Post of the Week.

Done.

I tried to go post at UD and congratulate DaveScot on his POTW, but I can't  get through to comment.  I think my puppet has ceased to function.

Anyone else still have posting privileges?  I was really looking forward to hearing his response!

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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

  
Venus Mousetrap



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,09:53   

Quote (J-Dog @ April 21 2008,08:29)
Quote (Lou FCD @ April 21 2008,08:02)
Quote (Richardthughes @ April 21 2008,02:59)
Sorry about your moderation, Bob. But as I mock the Tard, I must praise the good, and so I nominate DaveScot...

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-252266

     
Quote
28

DaveScot

04/21/2008

12:48 am
So should we blame Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) for suicide bombers? Should we blame Einstein for the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Should we blame Christ for the Spanish Inquisition?

However you answer these questions the same answer applies to blaming Darwin for the holocaust.




...for Post of the Week.

Done.

I tried to go post at UD and congratulate DaveScot on his POTW, but I can't  get through to comment.  I think my puppet has ceased to function.

Anyone else still have posting privileges?  I was really looking forward to hearing his response!

I have. Not even making up entirely phoney scientific terms could get me banned. :)

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,10:14   

Poor, naive Larry:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/adminst....-252371

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2

Larry Fafarman

04/21/2008

9:41 am
Have you considered other ways of avoiding spam, like word verification?



It's a reality filter, not a spam filter, Larry.

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"Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield
"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,10:15   

Quote (k.e.. @ April 21 2008,13:32)
Quote (Louis @ April 20 2008,20:21)
Quote (k.e.. @ April 20 2008,14:48)
 
Quote (Louis @ April 20 2008,13:18)
I want to write a song for DaveTard called "Extreme Clown Fear" or something similar. I may have to nip off and work on it. It will be, of course, a work of unadulterated thrash metal goodness.

Louis

Oh wunderbar...... I'm trembling with anticipation.

But....Please, can you keep it short this time?

I hate to see all your scintillating talent wasted on one of your long traversable only by neurotic foxglove chewing Cypriot mountain goat with post coital drip and overbite posts here; do you have an electron recycling plant near your location?

Can I suggest getting a spare DVD-RW and venting your creative spleen to that? ...there should be enough room on it, a 4.5GB DVD will take about 4.5 billion characters of text...you know.

Then if you still consider granting us the indisputable joy of kneeling on crushed glass while getting flogged by the head boys jockstrap at the same time as getting an enema from Miss Trunchbull who has placed a wet empty coal sack over your head at the top of the masters landing while sickly smelling no name soup served to the other boys drifts up the stairs, load it up to ibackup.com and just give the link.

Have you forgotten your excessively large quantity of medication again?

Or are you merely overexicted by the proximity of your latest penis gourd haul?

Either way, just remember that you are a Colonial and thus lesser. Not lesser at anything per se, just lesser.

That's him told, who next?

Louis

P.S. Whilst you're at it, try to make sense. There's a good chap.

Brilliantly sparse!

Not quite 25 words or less but you could almost qualify for a carbon credit.

On a lesser note, if you want to live in god zone where the seagulls don't have to fly upside down because they feel sorry for pommies.....I'll put in a good word for you...maybe.

k.e..

P.S. You are right about my medication though....but I've never heard it called medication before.

Sparser Louis:

Fuck off.

Louis

P.S. Better? If not, why? Be sure to show your working.

P.P.S. Emigrate? To somewhere where it doesn't rain all the time? Are you quite stark raving mad? We got it right you know. Send all those criminals and religious fruitcakes to wide open lands with good surf, beautiful mountains and wonderful sunny weather. We'll stay here on this cramped, rainy island and.......WAIT A MINUTE! Something has gone terribly wrong here. Perhaps that's why Ockers have a special smile just for the English. Even though we beat them at rugby. A lot.

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,10:19   

Quote (Louis @ April 21 2008,08:15)
Emigrate? To somewhere where it doesn't rain all the time? Are you quite stark raving mad? We got it right you know. Send all those criminals and religious fruitcakes to wide open lands with good surf, beautiful mountains and wonderful sunny weather. We'll stay here on this cramped, rainy island and.......

HA HA THIS IS YOU. :angry:

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"Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,10:24   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 21 2008,10:19)
Quote (Louis @ April 21 2008,08:15)
Emigrate? To somewhere where it doesn't rain all the time? Are you quite stark raving mad? We got it right you know. Send all those criminals and religious fruitcakes to wide open lands with good surf, beautiful mountains and wonderful sunny weather. We'll stay here on this cramped, rainy island and.......

HA HA THIS IS YOU. :angry:

By far the greatest team,
the world has ever seen...

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"Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield
"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,10:27   

Quote
I have. Not even making up entirely phoney scientific terms could get me banned. :)


But....but....that site is pee-er reviewed, the last bastion of truth,  beyond reproach, a haven for the science genius, the factitions measure, the bravest explorers of hard cold facts, investigators with steal trap minds!

What a disgusting set of circumstances....I'm flabbergasted, discombobulated, in a pique , outraged, obstreperous, blooming rope able.

.....hold on a minute...they're just twits right?

I'm just pissed I missed it.

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"I get a strong breeze from my monitor every time k.e. puts on his clown DaveTard suit" dogdidit
"ID is deader than Lenny Flanks granmaws dildo batteries" Erasmus
"I'm busy studying scientist level science papers" Galloping Gary Gaulin

  
BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,11:56   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ April 20 2008,18:33)
Now, this is more like it.
 
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The theme is academic freedom of inquiry and the underhanded tactics being used to repress unpopular ideas. It’s a freedom of speech issue. If the shoe were on the other foot and creationists were the majority in academia like they are in the general public, and the creationists were the ones using the dirty tactics, I’d be out defending PZ Myers’ and Richard Dawkins’ right to a fair and open hearing to whoever chose to listen to them. Even though I vehemently disagree with them and consider them intellectual degenerates with IQs hardly greater than a turnip they still deserve the right to make their stupid case on a level playing field.

In reality it's the advocates of ID who are intellectual degenerates with IQs hardly greater than a turnip who deserve the right to make their stupid case on a level playing field. So Dave is defending THEM.

Did your commentary actually add anything to the quoted material?

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Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

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godsilove



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,11:56   

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 21 2008,10:24)
Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 21 2008,10:19)
Quote (Louis @ April 21 2008,08:15)
Emigrate? To somewhere where it doesn't rain all the time? Are you quite stark raving mad? We got it right you know. Send all those criminals and religious fruitcakes to wide open lands with good surf, beautiful mountains and wonderful sunny weather. We'll stay here on this cramped, rainy island and.......

HA HA THIS IS YOU. :angry:

By far the greatest team,
the world has ever seen...

Oh, yeah?  When was the last time you won the league?

   
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,12:02   

Quote (godsilove @ April 21 2008,11:56)
Quote (Richardthughes @ April 21 2008,10:24)
Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 21 2008,10:19)
 
Quote (Louis @ April 21 2008,08:15)
Emigrate? To somewhere where it doesn't rain all the time? Are you quite stark raving mad? We got it right you know. Send all those criminals and religious fruitcakes to wide open lands with good surf, beautiful mountains and wonderful sunny weather. We'll stay here on this cramped, rainy island and.......

HA HA THIS IS YOU. :angry:

By far the greatest team,
the world has ever seen...

Oh, yeah?  When was the last time you won the league?

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/lfc_story/honours/

Derailing over.

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"Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield
"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,12:04   

Quote (BWE @ April 21 2008,12:56)
Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ April 20 2008,18:33)
Now, this is more like it.
   
Quote
The theme is academic freedom of inquiry and the underhanded tactics being used to repress unpopular ideas. It’s a freedom of speech issue. If the shoe were on the other foot and creationists were the majority in academia like they are in the general public, and the creationists were the ones using the dirty tactics, I’d be out defending PZ Myers’ and Richard Dawkins’ right to a fair and open hearing to whoever chose to listen to them. Even though I vehemently disagree with them and consider them intellectual degenerates with IQs hardly greater than a turnip they still deserve the right to make their stupid case on a level playing field.

In reality it's the advocates of ID who are intellectual degenerates with IQs hardly greater than a turnip who deserve the right to make their stupid case on a level playing field. So Dave is defending THEM.

Did your commentary actually add anything to the quoted material?

That's a straight cut and paste, no editing. Follow the link.

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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

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,12:15   

Dave is on a roll.

 
Quote
Charlie

So we’re back again to Darwin being the inventor of racism with your conclusion:

He indicated as well that the elimination of the men closest to apes would improve man’s evolutionary progress.

So what was the rationale behind the anti-miscegenation laws that predated Darwin by 200 years?

Darwin didn’t invent racism. He talked about it as an academic. I seem to recall we’re supposed to be supportive of academic freedom here.



Edited to clarify that Dave was quoting Charlie with the italicized bit.

Edited by Lou FCD on April 21 2008,13:17

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“Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas?

Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

   
Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,12:19   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 21 2008,08:19)
HA HA THIS IS YOU. :angry:

LOL, I just lost 2 hours.

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"Science is the horse that pulls the cart of philosophy."

L. Susskind, 2004 "SMOLIN VS. SUSSKIND: THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE"

   
BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,12:59   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ April 21 2008,12:04)
Quote (BWE @ April 21 2008,12:56)
 
Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ April 20 2008,18:33)
Now, this is more like it.
     
Quote
The theme is academic freedom of inquiry and the underhanded tactics being used to repress unpopular ideas. It’s a freedom of speech issue. If the shoe were on the other foot and creationists were the majority in academia like they are in the general public, and the creationists were the ones using the dirty tactics, I’d be out defending PZ Myers’ and Richard Dawkins’ right to a fair and open hearing to whoever chose to listen to them. Even though I vehemently disagree with them and consider them intellectual degenerates with IQs hardly greater than a turnip they still deserve the right to make their stupid case on a level playing field.

In reality it's the advocates of ID who are intellectual degenerates with IQs hardly greater than a turnip who deserve the right to make their stupid case on a level playing field. So Dave is defending THEM.

Did your commentary actually add anything to the quoted material?

That's a straight cut and paste, no editing. Follow the link.

:)

I meant the bolded part. Did you offer that as new information.-?

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Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

The Daily Wingnut

   
didymos



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,13:39   

This thread's turning into a rich vein.  To wit, Barb:
Quote

We’re arrogant? For suggesting that Darwinian evolution doesn’t account for the origin of life?


Actually, you're right, but not for lack of trying.

Quote

Seriously, if the best the Darwinian faithful can do is spout ad hominem attacks to defend their theory, then their theory is in a lot of trouble.


Yeah, bitches!  And Darwin was a Nazi Vampire Motherfucker who beat puppies to death for laughs.

Still, I detect a hint of woven acrylic, or maybe cotton.

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I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moron
Again "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio

  
Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,13:46   

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I meant the bolded part. Did you offer that as new information.-?

Yes. I mean no. YES. Um, no. I mean, uh... no. Yes!

That's a very hard question.

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BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,14:03   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ April 21 2008,13:46)
Quote (BWE @ April 21 2008,13:59)
I meant the bolded part. Did you offer that as new information.-?

Yes. I mean no. YES. Um, no. I mean, uh... no. Yes!

That's a very hard question.

Perhaps it's a koan.

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When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,14:09   

Quote (BWE @ April 21 2008,14:03)
Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ April 21 2008,13:46)
Quote (BWE @ April 21 2008,13:59)
I meant the bolded part. Did you offer that as new information.-?

Yes. I mean no. YES. Um, no. I mean, uh... no. Yes!

That's a very hard question.

Perhaps it's a koan.

What is the sound of half a fart? (for Flash animation purposes)

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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2008,14:14   

Call's to mind DaveScot's mind-bending found-koan:
 
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Is there some part of unguided/unplanned that you don’t understand specifically excludes guidance/planning and specifically excluding guidance/planning specifically excludes a guider/planner?

Yes. I mean, no. Yes. OK, alright, yes.  NO. Yes...

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"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace

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- Barry Arrington

  
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