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I like that word, "effective" in the thread title. Long, lively and red hot threads should be an indication of some effective posting styles, should it not?
Trollish posts - or successful trolls would be "effective" by that measure. Effective argumentation can't be measured in that way. Numbers are rarely a good measure of quality.
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Creationists who draw interest are often the ones who get criticized by members and admins the most.
Probably because they tend to produce trollish posts. Which doubtless appeal to other creationists but do nothing to persuade anybody on the other side.
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What's considered factual is often relative to one's paradigm
I would like you to elaborate on this. Perhaps you can explain why ideas that you have simply made up, without any real knowledge or understanding should be considered "facts" in your paradigm.
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It may not be considered scientific to the satisfaction of the mainstream's science methodology. That, of course has to do with the nature of scientific evidence[ which I've been thinking long and hard on.
Do please tell us why it is unfair to exclude falsehoods as valid evidence.