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EighteenDelta
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Message 61 of 115 (421191)
09-11-2007 1:15 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by Clark
09-11-2007 8:16 AM


Re: SETI on The Skeptics Guide #69
How can Kent's group get upset and threaten litigation? He specifically made them freely available for distribution, no copyright. He wants this garbage spread out as much as possible, he can't have it both ways.

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

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EighteenDelta
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Message 62 of 115 (421263)
09-11-2007 7:50 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by EighteenDelta
09-11-2007 1:15 PM


Re: SETI on The Skeptics Guide #69
Now all but one of the videos on the first page (the one obviously owned by Ali G) have been removed 'for copyright claims by Creation Science Evangelism. Apparently they were not aware that there were more after the first page... In any case they even pulled videos that they clearly did not have any claim to, such as the music videos made with flash animation to a song written and performed by a youtube member. Fraudulent claims are not limited to the former leader of that group I see.
Edited by EighteenDelta, : spelling

"Debate is an art form. It is about the winning of arguments. It is not about the discovery of truth. There are certain rules and procedures to debate that really have nothing to do with establishing fact ” which creationists have mastered. Some of those rules are: never say anything positive about your own position because it can be attacked, but chip away at what appear to be the weaknesses in your opponent's position. They are good at that. I don't think I could beat the creationists at debate. I can tie them. But in courtrooms they are terrible, because in courtrooms you cannot give speeches. In a courtroom you have to answer direct questions about the positive status of your belief. We destroyed them in Arkansas. On the second day of the two-week trial we had our victory party!"
-Stephen Jay Gould

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EighteenDelta
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Message 69 of 115 (428224)
10-15-2007 2:58 PM


I thought this was an interesting and educational video concerning human and chimp genome analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdQRvSdLAs
I hope this is the best repository for this link.
-x

"Debate is an art form. It is about the winning of arguments. It is not about the discovery of truth. There are certain rules and procedures to debate that really have nothing to do with establishing fact ” which creationists have mastered. Some of those rules are: never say anything positive about your own position because it can be attacked, but chip away at what appear to be the weaknesses in your opponent's position. They are good at that. I don't think I could beat the creationists at debate. I can tie them. But in courtrooms they are terrible, because in courtrooms you cannot give speeches. In a courtroom you have to answer direct questions about the positive status of your belief. We destroyed them in Arkansas. On the second day of the two-week trial we had our victory party!"
-Stephen Jay Gould

  
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