I must confess that I have almost never heard the word "uncivil" before starting on Terry's board and I must confess that, after constant repetition, I am heartily sick of it.
I was amused (or is that dumbstruck?) to see that a discussion on the issue of whether creationism demonstrated the characteristics of pseudoscience was "uncivil".
Did you note the amazing double standard of "proof"?
One error resulting from xenoliths, 2 cases of small errors due to retained argon (published by Dalrymple) completely invalidate the K-Ar method, but choose to ignore the 18 datings from the same paper which agreed with the historic record!
One dubious analysis of the speed of light and postulation from Setterfield (sp?) which has never been published in a peer reviewed publication is sufficient evidence to invalidate all radiometric dating, including isochron methods and explain why the dates correlate! How do they then explain the anomolous dates if creationists have a young earth explanation for the standard radiometric dates?
And after all the discussion on radiometric dating, Terry blandly states that it has been proven unreliable, as if nothing had happened. And he complains that points are not accepted by the opposition when it takes 3 postings of similar material to elucidate that two statements on moon rocks which he purports as being contradictory are, in fact, not contradictory because they are referring to different rocks, followed by silence on the point from Terry.
And the preoccupation with personalities and motivations reminds one of a knitting circle.
I think it ironic that Terry is leaving Joe's "offending" message on the board so that lurkers can see the evidence. lol. It could not be more damning, for Terry. And he avoided responding to me on whether he had taken a unilateral decision in banning Joe or done it in consultation with other managers.
Maybe it was also ironic that the banning happened on a thread initiated by Joe which referred to the problems with a YE model of Pangea and their version of continental drift but the creationists chose not to address because they didn't feel qualified to discuss the detail. Amazing how their expertise seems to cover every other aspect of cosmology, geology and biology.
Anyway, that's me rant.
IDEA: Maybe Terry should take Truecreation on as an apprentice.
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