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Message 991 of 995 (920278)
09-17-2024 9:48 AM
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09-16-2024 11:26 PM


Re: Moderator Action
RenaissanceMan writes in Message 989:
I attempted to sign in under my original name but was unable to do so.
There's a "Forgot your password" link on the login page.
I have been around the world many times, speak French, am a licensed pilot, certified diver, expert snow skier, double black diamond, and have many other achievements I need not go into here.
I guess we know how you broke your arm.

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Message 992 of 995 (920279)
09-17-2024 10:35 AM
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09-16-2024 11:26 PM


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I have been around the world many times, speak French, am a licensed pilot, certified diver, expert snow skier, double black diamond, and have many other achievements I need not go into here.
Aren't you special.
Do you really think these are stellar achievements? Do you think these give you some sort of expertise on subjects you obviously know nothing about? Why do you think listing this common things is some sort of flex?
I speak Spanish, not a pilot or diver, a very good skier, yet I have never posited that such things make me an expert in anything. I am sure I have "achievements" on par or more significant but different than these. I would never mention them as they are irrelevant to this forum.
Weird you think this helps you here. Narcissism?
While we are at it I will tell you my proudest achievements.
Eagle Scout (I have since disavowed the organization). Adoptive father of 2. One 42-year-old special needs son, who with assistance is a functioning, contributing member of society. The other my 6'3",15 year old HS freshman son, with a high GPA who is involved in sports all year. Finally, supportive husband to an MD who has dedicated her career to providing healthcare to the marginalized in society.
Do I win? Do we pull out our dicks next and measure?

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?


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Message 993 of 995 (920282)
09-17-2024 11:11 AM
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09-17-2024 10:35 AM


Re: Moderator Action
Theodoric writes in Message 992:
Do I win? Do we pull out our dicks next and measure?
He'd win, he's a total dick!

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Message 994 of 995 (920283)
09-17-2024 11:28 AM
Reply to: Message 989 by RenaissanceMan
09-16-2024 11:26 PM


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RM writes:
But I am persistent and thought i would try to present some new observations, particularly the insuperable statistics of naturalistic polypeptide synthesis.
Your statistics don't apply to the process of how proteins are actually made in cells. You also don't seem to be aware of human genetic variation (15,000+ DNA variations in human titin alone), nor the distribution of homologous proteins and their sequences in other species.

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Message 995 of 995 (920284)
09-17-2024 11:59 AM
Reply to: Message 992 by Theodoric
09-17-2024 10:35 AM


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Do you really think these are stellar achievements? Do you think these give you some sort of expertise on subjects you obviously know nothing about? Why do you think listing this common things is some sort of flex?
What is conspicuously missing is any reference to his academic and professional experience or anything else that could possibly have any bearing at all on his claims of expertise. When we add his unbridled use of quote mining which he effectively tries to justify/defend (Message 870), he has offered no reason at all for us to take his claims seriously but rather the exact opposite.
For his profession and training, our only clue here is his former member name, ChemEngineer. So a chemical engineer? In any applications that have any bearing at all on the subject matter?
If we go to amazon.com's page for his self-published book, we finally find this in his autobiography:
quote:
... California, where I earned degrees in chemical engineering and business administration, MBA.
Four paragraphs, 12 lines, and that's all we get for his education. I assume that that was a BS Chemical Engineering, but there's no indication that he had ever applied it (eg, my son earned his BS Forensics but never practiced it directly having become a police officer and now a lawyer). Instead, the only hint of a profession is "licensed commercial real estate broker, and residential investor/developer" (what better experience to make him an expert in protein evolution?). And he is currently doing a patent search for his tennis racket invention "with the simple modification of perimeter weave stringing". Nothing screams "biology expert!" like that!
Interestingly, he says:
quote:
While I penned the draft of Brilliant Creations over twenty years ago, I put it on the shelf after being discouraged by a dear friend and former professor.
What reasons did they give him for their discouragement? I have no doubt that he will never tell us, but his errors are so obvious to those not in his choir. It's like when in 1975 Drs. Henry Morris and Duane Gish gave a presentation to scientists at the US Geological Survey and got a lot of feedback from those scientists mainly trying to correct those creationists' severe misunderstanding of thermodynamics; it appears that that experience convinced the creationists to not ever talk to scientists again (except in highly controlled situations like creationist "debates").
He is truly a legend in his own mind.

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