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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: LOLOLOL!!! Buz, let me tell you about how "unbiased" Fox News is. Zhimbo and I were in Japan this past summer to attend the wedding of a very close, lifelong friend. He is a professor at a branch of the University of Maryland there and is a subcontracor for the US military. Because of his being employed by the US military, we were able to stay at a military hotel in Tokyo during our week-long visit. Fox News was running 24 hours a day on one of the television channels there, and do you know what their tag line was, being viewed in the context of a US militaryhotel? "Fox News: Part of the Team" Tell me how considering themselves "part of the military team" is unbiased and ovjective, Buz. Please explain that to me.
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Where is your positive evidence that they do exist? Do you believe that mental illness, epilepsy, and a bunch of other diseases are caused by demons? Why or why not?
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Buz, have you heard of an organization called "Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)?
It is a nonpartisan media watchdog group which seeks to expose inaccuracy in all media. the following is a report about the extreme right-wing bias of Fox news. Page not found - FAIR An excerpt: Fox's founder and president, Roger Ailes, was for decades one of the savviest and most pugnacious Republican political operatives in Washington, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan campaigns. Ailes is most famous for his role in crafting the elder Bush's media strategy in the bruising 1988 presidential race. With Ailes' help, Bush turned a double-digit deficit in the polls into a resounding win by targeting the GOP's base of white male voters in the South and West, using red-meat themes like Michael Dukakis' "card-carrying" membership in the ACLU, his laissez-faire attitude toward flag-burning, his alleged indifference to the pledge of allegiance--and, of course, paroled felon Willie Horton. Described by fellow Bush aide Lee Atwater as having "two speeds--attack and destroy," Ailes once jocularly told a Time reporter (8/22/88): "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it." Later, as a producer for Rush Limbaugh's short-lived TV show, he was fond of calling Bill Clinton the "hippie president" and lashing out at "liberal bigots" (Washington Times, 5/11/93). It is these two sensibilities above all--right-wing talk radio and below-the-belt political campaigning--that Ailes brought with him to Fox, and his stamp is evident in all aspects of the network's programming. Fox daytime anchor David Asman is formerly of the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial page and the conservative Manhattan Institute. The host of Fox News Sunday is Tony Snow, a conservative columnist and former chief speechwriter for the first Bush administration. Eric Breindel, previously the editorial-page editor of the right-wing New York Post, was senior vice president of Fox's parent company, News Corporation, until his death in 1998; Fox News Channel's senior vice president is John Moody, a long-time journalist known for his staunch conservative views. Fox's managing editor is Brit Hume, a veteran TV journalist and contributor to the conservative American Spectator and Weekly Standard magazines. Its top-rated talkshow is hosted by Bill O'Reilly, a columnist for the conservative WorldNetDaily.com and a registered Republican (that is, until a week before the Washington Post published an article revealing his party registration--12/13/00). The abundance of conservatives and Republicans at Fox News Channel does not seem to be a coincidence. In 1996, Andrew Kirtzman, a respected New York City cable news reporter, was interviewed for a job with Fox and says that management wanted to know what his political affiliation was. "They were afraid I was a Democrat," he told the Village Voice (10/15/96). When Kirtzman refused to tell Fox his party ID, "all employment discussion ended," according to the Voice.
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Buz, replies to 44 and 45 in this thread, please.
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
You are psychic?
Cool. I hope you don't mind a little test, just so I can be sure of your ability... Hmmm, why don't you tell me if I have a pet and what it looks like?
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: ...and yet, when we ask you for the specifics, the nitty-gritty details of this so-called "evidence" you cannot deliver and must resort to simply denying any counterevidence we present or accusations of bias.
quote: We also have very impassioned testimonies of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens, who claim to have been reincarnated (past life regression), and who say that God told them to kill their wife and children. You are engaging in the logical fallacy of Confirmation Bias again, Buz: confirmation bias - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com "Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs." You see the testimonies which you agree with, yet you ignore all evidence and testimonies which contradict your preferred belief. So, the result for you, Buz, is that you are not a seeker of truth, but a seeker of comfort.
quote: Of course, you engage in Confirmation bias again, because you ignore the centuries of endorsed violent treatment of non-Christians by Christians. You also ignore the terribly violent Old Testament. You ignore the fact that both Christianity and Islam have their roots in Judaism, which the Old Testament shows us was a very, very warlike, "kill-em-if-they-don't-believe" culture. You also ignore other completely non-violent major world religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, both of which take their non-violent philosophy so far as to forbid the killing of animals for food.
quote: Yet more mere personal opinion from you, Buz, not evidence.
quote: "Cutters" are mentally-ill people, buz. I cannot actually believe that in this day and age that someone would still believe in demonic posession, but I suppose fear and ignorance and superstition are persistent problems in any age. Tell me, do you agree with the pastor and family who killed an autistic child while trying to rid him of a "demon"? CNN.com - Autistic boy's death at church ruled homicide - Aug. 26, 2003
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: No, they are not "fair nor balanced". Remember what I told you about watching Fox News in the US military hotel when I was in Japan this summer, Buz? Their tag line was "Part of the Team". How "fair and balanced" can they be when they are "part of the (US military) team."? You ignored me the first time I asked you to address this. Please respnd, and explain how a supposed "fair and balanced" news organization can call itself a "part of the military team"?
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Incorrect. The fact that we find similar messages when we do the bible code thing to Moby Dick, War and Peace, etc. means that there is nothing special about the code found in the bible. However, this is not evidence that the Bible is "just another story book" nor is it evidence that the bible isn't inerrant. There's other positive evidence for that.
quote: It all depends upon what you are judging the valitiy of.
quote: Please do not confuse methodological naturalism with ontological naturalism.
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: They are probably not lying, just wrong. Scientists are wrong all the time. I mean, are any of the statisticians/mathematicians who think the bible Codes are real NOT religious? I actually don't know, which is why I'm asking. Tell me, what evidence would you accept which would cast the validity of the Bible code in doubt for you?
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Um, no they can't. The supernatural can't be shown to be anything at all by science. Science copmpletely ignores the supernatural. Science is use of naturalistic explanations for natural phenomena.
quote: Why do you assume that they would be expected to work in this way?
quote: Define "evil" in a scientific way, please. IOW, what is the universal scientific definition of "evil" that is agreed upon worldwide, by all scientists? (I am thinking that you are inappropriately ascribing the power of science to award value jusgements here.)
quote: BING BING BING! Science has just left the building.
quote: That's a nice theology, but is totally your personal opinion.
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Um, yes. That's why I wrote what I wrote in my last message about your unsupported assertions.
quote: Um, it appears to me that this journal is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring fringe science. Why this is relevant, I don't understand.
quote: Really? Since when does science make value judgements? Isn't it true that without the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, the proliferation of mammals, and the eventual emergence of primates including humans, would likely not have happened here on Earth? So, was the extinction of the dinosaurs "evil"? I think you are making this up as you go along.
quote: Oh-kaaaayyyy... All the Biologists over the last 100 years are under demonic influence? The evolution of bacteria we can observe in a petri dish is also demonic? The amazing similarity between fossil relatedness trees and genetic trees is demonic?
quote: Bald religiously-based assumption.
quote: Bald, religiously-based assumption.
quote: LOL!! Do you accuse everyone who disagrees with you of demonic influence, or only those who ask you questions you can't seem to answer? I'm glad we don't live a few centuries ago, and that you don't have the power to send the Inquisitorial posse after me. Or I'm glad we both don't live in Salem back when folks there got a little crazy.
quote: Define "enlightened" in a scientific sense, please.
quote: By that definition, just about everything is, or could be, evil, including God.
quote: Please show me a population genetics study that makes any valued judgements regarding extinction. Now, I notice that you ignored most of my previous post. I'd actually like you to address my rebuttals of your claims. That's why I wrote them. I'll restate here for your convenience:
quote: Schrafinator: Um, no they can't. The supernatural can't be shown to be anything at all by science.Science copmpletely ignores the supernatural. Science is use of naturalistic explanations for natural phenomena.
quote: Schrafinator: Why do you assume that they would be expected to work in this way?
quote: Schrafinator: That's a nice theology, but is totally your personal opinion.
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nator Member (Idle past 2190 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
[quote]Science copmpletely ignores the supernatural.[quote]
quote: No, as many of us have told you over and over and over again, for YEARS, yet you refuse to learn: science ignores the supernatural in the same way that professional baseball players ignore bobsled racing. Professional baseball players, in order to properly play the game of baseball by the rules, ignore bobsledding. You want to call all of the baseball players, the coaches, the managers, the owners, and the comissioner a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the sand because, while they are playing, coaching, managing, and administering the sport of professional baseball, they REFUSE to apply the rules of baseball to bobsled racing! Why should they, Buz? What possible sense does it make? I want to date, and shop, and hang out, and go to school, and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know...girly things." -Buffy
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