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nwr
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Message 556 of 683 (661350)
05-04-2012 4:25 PM
Reply to: Message 554 by Coyote
05-04-2012 1:24 PM


Re: This site used to be...
Coyote writes:
The Coffee House and Free for All have taken over, and now about 90-95% of the posts are on other topics, particularly politics.
This is mainly due to a decrease in postings in the other areas, rather than an increase in Coffee House posts.
The creationists have gone AWOL, have perhaps started more of their own sites.

Jesus was a liberal hippie

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Message 557 of 683 (661352)
05-04-2012 4:30 PM
Reply to: Message 554 by Coyote
05-04-2012 1:24 PM


Re: This site used to be...
Once we insist on evidentiary-based argument, there's no room for creos to participate. We are a victim of our own success.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung

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Message 558 of 683 (661354)
05-04-2012 4:42 PM
Reply to: Message 557 by subbie
05-04-2012 4:30 PM


Re: This site used to be...
subbie writes:
We are a victim of our own success.
Creationism has been dead for a long time. It's just taken a long time to fall down.

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Message 559 of 683 (661403)
05-05-2012 7:00 AM


The Dearth of Creationists
I think there are several causes for the recent dearth of creationists here at EvC Forum:
  1. Dover. Except for the "Teach the Controversy" efforts, in the wake of Dover creationism and ID greatly reduced their overt efforts, and creationist activity here is proportional to these evangelizing efforts. Creationist participation here has declined every year since Dover.
  2. Increasing use by the online community of portable technology like cell phones and tablets where discussion boards are not as easy to use. We're not getting many new evolutionists, either.
  3. Efforts by board administration at discouraging the participation of those creationist/ID members for whom English was a second language, or whose comprehension skills were so poor the effect was the same. Though they uniformly refused to acknowledge any comprehension issues the problems were obvious, sometimes hilarious, but always frustrating.
  4. Ineffective board moderation at reining in the behavior of some of our more obnoxious evolutionist members, who though few post frequently and, if credit be given, very effectively.
Edited by Admin, : Grammar.

--Percy
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Message 560 of 683 (661407)
05-05-2012 7:56 AM
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05-05-2012 7:00 AM


Re: The Dearth of Creationists
Ineffective board moderation at reining in the more behavior of some of our more obnoxious evolutionist members, who though few post frequently and, if credit be given, very effectively.
These obnoxious vermin must be brought in check and deterred from their shenanigans.
Unless, of course, you mean me.

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Message 561 of 683 (661410)
05-05-2012 8:21 AM
Reply to: Message 554 by Coyote
05-04-2012 1:24 PM


Re: This site used to be...
And those are a dime a dozen (overpriced at that).
As a right-wing shill, you would naturally maintain that they are overpriced, desperate as you are to maintain the elitist hegemony of the right-wing media agenda that imposes on the helpless sheeple the conformist ideology of the dominant neo-fascist corporate state.
Or something like that.

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Message 562 of 683 (661441)
05-05-2012 3:34 PM
Reply to: Message 554 by Coyote
05-04-2012 1:24 PM


Re: This site used to be...
Did you take a look at Foreveryoung's latest posts though? The problem is not that he was particuliarly rude or that he refused to present any evidence, but that none of his fellow creationnists called him out on it. In those conditions, it's hard to have an intelligible debate. I'm not experimented enough to tell whether they were always like that but there's just so much debate you can have when a whole side is reluctant to provide evidence or refuse to admit their "sides" most obvious mistakes

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Message 563 of 683 (661592)
05-08-2012 11:17 AM


monster007 is a rotten spamer
spam Message 1 and Message 1
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Message 564 of 683 (661844)
05-10-2012 5:38 PM


off topic clutter on Novel Traits thread
please close How do "novel" features evolve? to stop off-topic posts.
thanks

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Message 565 of 683 (661922)
05-10-2012 10:31 PM


New member pederson is a lower than whale snot spammer
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Message 566 of 683 (663211)
05-22-2012 11:37 AM


AE shows his true colours again...updated
Message 228
Artie the troll writes:
besides Theodoric, the dark alley is where I meet with your mom, I wouldn't have Dr. Adequate inferring with my time with your lovely mother.
Really? Is this what I have to put up with in order to participate on this forum?
ABE
Artie writes:
this is just a fun flamesite
Admin, is this what you want this site to be? He obviously only wants to start flame wars and gets some sort of perverse satisfaction from it.
Edited by Theodoric, : No reason given.

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Message 567 of 683 (663265)
05-22-2012 6:53 PM


A Self Admitted Troll
Message 228
How does this benefit this debate forum?
Even in the coffee house or free for all these types of attacks are unacceptable. JMO
IMO AE needs to be put on a short leash or better yet kicked to the curb.
Edited by fearandloathing, : No reason given.

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Message 568 of 683 (663311)
05-23-2012 6:41 AM


karlaa88 = sigspammer
EWWWW!
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Message 569 of 683 (663528)
05-25-2012 9:24 AM
Reply to: Message 567 by fearandloathing
05-22-2012 6:53 PM


Re: A Self Admitted Troll
keep up your strawman and character assassination, it is the only way you can defeat me.
Message 228
with regards to the message in question i was merely making an observation on what this site has become.
There a number of people here who cannot engage me without name calling, and i get blamed for "their" lack of ability as posters.
everything i learned about bigotry i learned from this site.

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Message 570 of 683 (663529)
05-25-2012 9:26 AM
Reply to: Message 566 by Theodoric
05-22-2012 11:37 AM


Re: AE shows his true colours again...updated
theo the crier writes:
Admin, is this what you want this site to be? He obviously only wants to start flame wars and gets some sort of perverse satisfaction from it.
care to show evidence of your assertion?
BTW: when you get personally attacked on almost every post you make because it is not of the popular opinion like i do, then what would you think this site is, if not a flame site?
my opinion about this site is based on observations
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