March, 2005, Posts of the Month

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Please post your votes for the March, 2005, Post of the Month here. Include author, forum name, thread name, post number, eg:

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Name: Velvet Tongue
Forum: Biological Evolution
Thread: I'm no monkey
Post #: 17

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A link to the message, and perhap a SHORT comment would also be nice. But, this is NOT a place to debate the referenced topic - so be nice.I think that a fairly liberal use of this topic would be a good thing for indexing some nice messages that are otherwise doomed to be lost in the clutter. So, if you encounter a message that seems to say something of special substance, please give it a plug/reference in this topic.New month, same old message and routine,
Adminnemooseus

Name: Holmes
Forum: Coffee House
Thread: Exploitation Different?
Post: 2 & 5Once again, Holmes provides eloquent and stiring defence of the importance of freedom (and, in particular, sexual freedom) and the double standards that we bring to it and our impressions of it in other countries.Holmes On Sex - it should be a book.

His 70s porn-star avatar could be used as the cover!

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"Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
-Isaac Asimov

Name: Percy
Thread: Mike’s Ego Trip
Post: #5Well, I was going to nominate myself, but well you knowactually I thought Percy did a darn good job at describing why it is that very few if any creationists are nominated for POTW.

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"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." ~ Douglas AdamsI wish more people would shave with Occam's Razor. Orson Scott Card

Since you made your reply to my message 1, I'll return the favor.Not at all fatal flaws, but I do note that all March POTM's so far were for February messages. Ideally they should have gone into the February 2005 topic.But good enough - at least messages are getting nominated.One touch that I like doing (in the non-admin mode) is to get the nominees name and some info about the message theme (ie topic name) into the POTM message subtitle. Then this info is available in the various message indexes.Please, no replies to this message.Adminnemooseus{Edited to chage ID}This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 03-01-2005 23:25 AM

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Thank you mr Jack... and maybe to Dan. I tell ya, the movie could be a lot more interesting!

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holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)"...don't believe I'm taken in by stories I have heard, I just read the Daily News and swear by every word.."(Steely Dan)

Name: JonF
Forum: Big Bang and Cosmology
Thread: Whats the Fabric of space made out of?
Post: 53A nice description of the red shift and why we know it is happening. Lots of good info here that I never new.

ya beat me to it. I'll second.

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we are limited in our ability to understand
by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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name: zhimbo
forum: the bible
thread: "if genesis is metaphorical..."
post #: Message 132This message has been edited by Admin, 03-07-2005 11:11 AM

Name: Bill Birkeland
Forum: Geology and the Great Flood
Thread: Soracilla Defends the Flood?
Post: #82 (Message 82)
Bill doesn't just destroy an argument, he reduces it to its individual component atoms, and then turns that into plasma.ChrisThis message has been edited by cmanteuf, 03-07-2005 18:25 AMLink added by AdminSylasThis message has been edited by AdminSylas, 03-07-2005 18:29 AM

Agree - Bill is like our Tactic nuclear strike.

Not to take away from Bill's efforts, but I think we are getting into deja vu territory here. Bill's dropped this (more or less) same bomb before (and got at least one earlier POTM for it also). He has several simular messages upthread, in the same topic.But perhaps I'm violating the intent of this forum, by bringing this up. I guess I'll call it "director priviledge".Minnemooseus/Adminnemooseus - A mixed mode moose message (mmmm).Added by edit:
http://EvC Forum: October, 2004, Posts of the Month -->EvC Forum: October, 2004, Posts of the MonthThis message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 03-08-2005 02:11 AM

Name: Jar
Thread: Atheist Frendly Q&A
Message #9Whilst there is nothing new to me here, it is nice to see a theist surmise their position in such a way that an atheist, like me, can only respect. Indeed, Jar is wise; the lack of Gnosticism is ironically (read the rest of the thread) refreshing!edit: can someone fix the link? I'm too drunk to try myself! This message has been edited by Lindum, 10 March 2005 00:05 AM

I fixed the link to message 9, and then in testing the fix discovered message 9 is not from Jar. So I discarded the fix.You need to get back there, and determine which message you were citing. Jar has several at the topic.Adminnemooseus

Name: Loudmouth
Forum: Intelligent Design
Thread: Does complexity require intelligent design?
Post #: 15A fine 3 sentence argument against ID.Mooseps: As always, remember the POTM forum is not the place to debate the topic. Go to the topic itself.This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 03-14-2005 01:49 PM