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Author Topic:   March, 2004, Posts of the Month
Adminnemooseus
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Message 1 of 27 (89369)
02-29-2004 4:37 AM


The "Posts of the Month" forum index page.
These topics listed at the above page are still available for additions.
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Now for March 2004 (as per previous months):
quote:
Please post your votes for the March, 2004, Post of the Month here. Include author, forum name, thread name, post number, eg:
Name: Velvet Tongue
Forum: Evolution
Thread: I'm no monkey
Post #: 17
A link to the message, and perhap a SHORT comment would also be nice. But, this is NOT a place to debate the referenced topic - so be nice.
I think that a fairly liberal use of this topic would be a good thing for indexing some nice messages that are otherwise doomed to be lost in the clutter. So, if you encounter a message that seems to say something of special substance, please give it a plug/reference in this topic.
New month, same old message and routine,
Adminnemooseus

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Message 2 of 27 (90363)
03-04-2004 5:47 PM


TruthLover
Someone actually defending Christianity with a reasonable, not hysterical sounding approach and even recognizing that it can be, in the wrong hands, a source of ill as well as good.
Message 7

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Message 3 of 27 (90728)
03-06-2004 2:06 AM


Two about scientific methodology
I've let at least a few possible POTM quality messages slip by, but here are two that I am going to flag. Both deal with scientific methodology.
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Name: Quetzal
Forum: Faith and Belief
Thread: Quetzal, here's why I believe in God.
Post #: 9
A pretty massive message, with a lot of real content.
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Name: Chiroptera
Forum: Welcome, Visitors!
Thread: was there enough time?
Post #: 14
Perhaps a little flawed, which was discussed later in the thread. But I really liked the closing paragraph:
quote:
Mathematical models and calculations never ever trump real life observations. And the heirarchical classification of life, the fossil record, modern molecular biology, and so forth provide real life observations that show evolution has occurred.
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Moose

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Message 4 of 27 (90861)
03-06-2004 8:35 PM


Mr. Bound
The Bible
Re: Skeptics being wrong about the Bible
Post #37
Mr Bound writes:
But skepticism clearly states that belief or opinion ain't shit, if you'll forgive my profanity.
Skeptics represent!

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Message 5 of 27 (91305)
03-09-2004 3:38 AM


Mr. Hambre
Intelligent Design
Behe's Irreducable Complexity is Refuted
Post #86
I really liked this post. I felt it really hit on a sense of the uselessness of human endeavor that seems to characterize the Intelligent Design movement.
Maybe I'm wrong in taking the reptilian-jawbones-to-ossicles homology to be just the sort of key someone like Behe could use to unlock these closed doors, but unfortunately Behe has decided to make a career out of declaring them to be shut for good.

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Message 6 of 27 (91332)
03-09-2004 8:31 AM


I'm nominating this post not because it is a great post, but because it seems to me condense all the fallacies, misunderstandings and conspiracy theorism that characterises the Creationist movement in one fairly well-written post.
Name: Servant2theCause
Forum: Evolution
Thread: New Questions--moral perspective
Post#: 63

"You're Green, You're Ugly and the Gods Hate You."

MrHambre
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Message 7 of 27 (91359)
03-09-2004 10:22 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by crashfrog
03-09-2004 3:38 AM


Thanks, Crash!
regards,
Esteban "Honk If Behe Loves You" Hambre

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Message 8 of 27 (91362)
03-09-2004 10:27 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by MrHambre
03-09-2004 10:22 AM


you will certainly get a "textbook" response from DNAUnion

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Quetzal
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Message 9 of 27 (91404)
03-09-2004 2:32 PM


Name: Holmes
Forum: Coffee House
Thread: Life on Mars
Post#: 41
An excellent analogy and very nice discussion of why chemical abiogenesis is a better bet than "goddidit" for understanding origins.

truthlover
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Message 10 of 27 (92448)
03-14-2004 4:40 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Adminnemooseus
02-29-2004 4:37 AM


Forum: Faith and Belief
Thread: Has anyone in this forum changed evo/creo sides?
Author: Chiroptera
Message: 40
I just loved it when a bad argument gets turned around on the person who gave it. This made my day! Short, too!

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Minnemooseus
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Message 11 of 27 (92453)
03-14-2004 4:49 PM


Dead Sea Scrolls
Name: Amlodhi
Forum: The Bible: Accuracy and Inerrancy
Thread: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Post #: 3
Impressive.
Moose

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Message 12 of 27 (92473)
03-14-2004 6:43 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Minnemooseus
03-14-2004 4:49 PM


Re: Dead Sea Scrolls
Thanks minnemooseus, you're very kind.
Boston seems to have a hunger, and I have a big soft spot for young people who show an inclination to want to learn.
Amlodhi

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Minnemooseus
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Message 13 of 27 (93069)
03-18-2004 1:40 AM


Geologic Column
Name: Bill Birkeland
Forum: Geology and the Great Flood
Thread: Geologic Column
Post #: 5
Wonderful, even relative to the usual high Bill Birkeland standards.
Moose

Minnemooseus
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Message 14 of 27 (93656)
03-21-2004 12:46 PM


Valuable perspective on Iraq war
Name: Syamsu
Forum: Coffee House
Thread: Was Iraq a Good War?
Post #: 7
Moose

crashfrog
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Message 15 of 27 (93801)
03-22-2004 4:12 AM


Name: Sylas
Forum: Big Bang and Cosmology
Thread: How Big are the Stars?
Post: 224
A fantastic post about early-universe cosmology. Clearly the result of much time and research. Of course it's lost on Arkathon, who is impermeable to science. Moreover I'm certain nobody's paying attention to the thread now. In other words, just what Posts of the Month are for.
Save the link to this one, Sylas, or cut-n-paste it to a file. I'm sure you'll need to use it again because hardly anybody's going to see it this time.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled "How Big are the Stars", where my attempt to play "pin the tail on the definition of kind" with Arkathon is already in progress...

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