Give me an example of my alleged propensity to post a bunch of unspecified other posts.
I don't understand. Are you saying you don't ever do this? Limiting the scope to messages that are about a "debate" topic, as opposed to you defending yourself against attacks, it seems like about 50% of your messages these days are where you claim you already had this debate, and that interested parties should just go back and look at the evidence you've already posted. Although you frequently don't link to any specific post which is why I referred to the posts as "unspecified."
I do not claim to have presented killer/empirical evidence.
Try not to get too hung up on the language, here, but it's not uncommon for you to claim that you've posted something that, to a "reasonable" or "objective" person, would settle the debate. For instance, in
Message 59 you said
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Objective people, having read and assembled all of the evidence Buz has cited for the Biblical record would know why they support Buz.
I would characterize this as both a reference to unspecified posts and a claim of having presented debate-ending evidence. I understand that you might object to both characterizations, but that's how it looks to the rest of us. If that's not the impression you wish to give, then I invite you to work on your communication skills.
But you're not all regular people. For the most part, you are members here because the majority of you are scientifically astute.
Yeah, but our pants go on one leg at a time just like yours. Having scientific knowledge doesn't somehow remove us from the human race, Buz. We're just folks, just like you, only there's something we know that you don't, just like there's stuff that you know that we don't.
We're parents, children, teachers, students, workers, retirees. We're not some alien species, Buz, we're just regular people who know some science, who have a passion and a thirst to be informed about the natural world. Some of us have jobs in these areas. Some of us are purely amateurs. None of us have undergone any sort of brainwashing procedure, or something, that would as dramatically shift our perspective as you seem to think happened. (I'm referring again to
Message 59 where you claim that we've had our "minds programmed.")
He was a very inspirational preacher who sometimes applied alliteration to his messages. It's fun to do, so why not apply it now and then?
I invite you to have as much fun as you please, but you stated that you had, as goals:
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To spark up some interest, move the thread topic forward and to enlighten.
which I think are great goals to have. I'm simply making an effort to explain how, in my opinion, you have habits that are obstacles to these goals. Don't feel that you have to change a thing just to please me. I'm just calling it like
I see it, and you're as free as always to take it or leave it, as you see fit. (It's not going to hurt my feelings either way.)