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Percy
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Message 117 of 143 (694601)
03-26-2013 7:51 AM
Reply to: Message 114 by designtheorist
03-25-2013 11:50 PM


Re: The Major Tests
designtheorist writes:
Stultification is evident when there is fear of repercussions for questioning the consensus. Science is about being skeptical and questioning the status quo. If scientists do not feel free to do that, it is a very unhealthy situation. You cannot have free and open enquiry in that type of environment.
Beyond the sheer irrelevancy to the validity of theory, wouldn't allowing consideration of such criteria give free rein to people such as yourself willing to level unsubstantiated or baseless accusations?
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 118 of 143 (694602)
03-26-2013 8:01 AM
Reply to: Message 108 by designtheorist
03-25-2013 9:27 PM


Re: Clarification
designtheorist writes:
If there are outstanding issues that any member feels I have neglected...
It might be a shorter list to only consider issues you haven't dropped.
For me you can start by responding about Caroline Crocker and Dawkins.
To find messages you haven't responded to just click on the "designtheorist Posts Only" link. Messages you haven't responded to have "designtheorist has not yet responded" next to them. There are 29 messages you haven't responded to, out of a total of only 117 messages in the entire thread, which is really incredible. One quarter of all the posts to this thread are responses to you that you have ignored. Even providing a generous allowance since you're one against many, that's a stunning achievement.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 124 of 143 (694685)
03-27-2013 7:13 AM


In the beginning...
In the beginning there was a single Christian mythology, and God looked upon it and saw it was good. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Then man looked about him and saw that some men believed differently, and so he created different Christian sects with different interpretations of Christian mythology. And God looked upon it and was concerned. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Then evangelical and other conservative Christians looked upon science and saw that it contradicted their Christian mythology, and so they invented Creation Science, and God looked upon it and was sad. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Then these Christians saw that it wasn't enough to just invent Creation Science, and so they began making up stories about science itself and the people within science, and God looked upon it and was perplexed. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
So God gave these Christians the right to keep and bear arms, but they took to their guns with great enthusiasm, using them often and with great success, and God looked upon it and was dumbfounded. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Then these Christians saw that they had become the most powerful nation in the world and decided to impose their will on the rest of the world, and God looked upon it and knew not what to think. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
On the seventh day God left.
--Percy

  
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Message 130 of 143 (694694)
03-27-2013 10:57 AM
Reply to: Message 126 by Blue Jay
03-27-2013 10:02 AM


Re: Same stuff different day
I agree with all the nice things you say about DT and so find it incongruous that someone so apparently even-keeled and clearheaded can't see that things that are true don't require all the fancy footwork.
--Percy

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