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Author Topic:   Unintelligent design (recurrent laryngeal nerve)
Larni
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Message 12 of 480 (535636)
11-17-2009 3:52 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by slevesque
11-16-2009 11:12 PM


There are no takers because first there are very few creationist left on this forum,
I'm not sure you can state this as fact concidering that there are (at this point) 6060 members on this forum.
Some have to be creos.
I think your point would be better made if you state that there are no takers because there are very few creationist who can field this question, left on the forum.

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Larni
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Message 15 of 480 (535652)
11-17-2009 7:17 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by Jumped Up Chimpanzee
11-17-2009 5:56 AM


Re: Clutching at Straws
And why is that better than having the nerve connections at the back of the retina where they can connect straight to the brain without giving us a blind spot?
And why are the V areas at the back of the brain?
Craziness.

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Larni
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Message 27 of 480 (535755)
11-17-2009 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by slevesque
11-17-2009 3:45 PM


Did you really want him/her in your camp?
Really?

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Larni
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Message 202 of 480 (563257)
06-04-2010 6:56 AM
Reply to: Message 201 by Big_Al35
06-04-2010 6:21 AM


Re: vocal chords
Hi Big_Al35, if you provide a citation for your source a lot of the criticisms you are receiving on this site will stop and we can get to debating the evidence.
That is what this site is for; debating evidence. This is the science part of this website so every thing (to repeat EVERYTHING) really needs to be backed up with some (hopefully peer reviewed published research) evidence.
This stops people coming here a asserting that something is true and then challenging everybody else here to refute it.
As have been pointed out, some of us here are working scientists who are doing research in their given fields. It is hard to take anyone seriously when there is no evidence that can be independently verifed. At this stage only one citation would be required.
Working scientist especially, have training when it comes to reading journal articles to recognise 'good' research from 'bad' research: that's part of the reason you keep being asked for citations and the like; so the research can be critically evaluated (that phrase still puts the fear of god into me, lol).
If we can get passed this minor hurdle we can debate a pretty interesting topic, I think.
Take it easy.

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Larni
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Message 218 of 480 (563312)
06-04-2010 10:17 AM
Reply to: Message 207 by Big_Al35
06-04-2010 8:48 AM


Re: vocal chords
I can never be sure that your sources will not always be classed as 'good' research and my sources always be classed as 'bad' research.
But that means that you are pre judging your own evidence as bad.
I'm stunned: if you do not have faith in you own evidence then how can anyone else be expected to?
Look at it this way: if you do provided evidence for your claims you will a) no longer be vulnerable to being acused of making baseless assertions, b) provide a starting point for th discussion and c) be able to assertain if people are actually adopting an unbiased approach to reviewing evidence.
The worst that can happen as a result of you providing your citations is that people can provide counter evidence to rebute (if they can) your position (notice how an assertion with evidence becomes a position that can be argued?).
You've got nothing to loose and everything to gain.
Best wishes.

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