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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
John A. Davison Tranquility Base Peter Borger Randman Oh ye of little Faith ... and no Cold Foreign Object.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
We could debate about which topic to debate about ... No we couldn't.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
The current crop of creationists are mostly of this type. We used to get a mix where for every Peter Borger there would be a Tranquility Base, for every Randman a TrueCreation, but not these days. Some of them seem quite reasonable: for example goldrush, Aaron, slevesque, and sac.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
How many EvC members would have ever had an awareness of the Biblical prophecies relative to the latter days, alternative views concerning the emerging New World Order, Middle East current events, acclaimed Exodus evidence and alternative views concerning many topics which would never have been on the table if left up to Tranquil Base and True Creation types? Well, if we'd left it up to you we wouldn't have heard equally nonsensical statements about the great Pyramid and the "pillars of Enoch". For that we needed Cold Foreign Object. Every religious loon has their own brand of crazy, there's nothing special about yours.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
I mean, just look at my own first thread (salt in oceans - where is the thread number, I can't find it to create a link?) here and the very first reply I got from Dr.A. Because those creationist who do want to get rational discussions going won't be encouraged to stay by snarky remarks etc., and so you are left with those who just like to pick a fight on the internet And yet here you are.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Even evolutionists who despise Henry Miller (founder of ICR) ... It's a wonder he also found the time to write Tropic of Cancer.
Even evolutionists who despise Henry Miller (founder of ICR) and Duane Gish (champion creationist debater) have to admire how thoroughly and ingeniously their arguments are constructed ... "Ingeniously" is not the word I'd have chosen. Not when there are approximately a million other words in the English language, many of which, such as "haddock", "runcible", and "xylophone", would seem more apt.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Dr Adequate, you and the pack who've received some ideological butt kicking in threads like the Exodus thread ... Earth to Buzsaw ... I did not participate in that thread. The degree to which you kicked my butt, "ideologically" or otherwise, must therefore have been minimal.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Anyhow, I guess I could give another example: which modern ape is our closest relative ? You'll find a wide range of opinions starting from chimpanzee all the way to bonobo's, going through with orangutans, etc. No you won't. Orangutans aren't remotely in the running; and chimpanzees and bonobos are sister species, and so must be equally closely related to us. Who in the world denies this? Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Thank you.
Like Kipling, I am moved to "return thanks yet once more to Allah for the diversity of His creatures." Yes, there is indeed someone who at least suggests that Homo and the Hylobatidae form a clade, and in a strictly literal sense, he lives on the same planet as I do. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
I thought the name seemed familiar. A Feduccian figure, then, clinging gamely to the wreckage of a sunken theory.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
You are seriously delusional. --Percy Oh, right, but I shouldn't be "snarky".
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
DrA, I'm just curious about something. Did they offer Sarcasm 101 or something at the school you went to? No, but I do sometimes think that the most pertinent form of ridicule is actual ridicule. I really don't do it in order to be mean, I just do it because I think it's the most effective and concise way of making the point. I would not descend to mockery if I knew of a better way. But so often when we see false reasoning it seems that mockery is the best way. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps someone better than me could do it better. It's just the way that I always think about things myself. Given a method of reasoning, the first thing I always ask myself is --- could I use the same method of reasoning to prove that pigs have wings or that I can walk on water? If so, then it's a crappy way of reasoning. So I look for the ridiculous first not because I wish to be mean to people but because I think it's the first test of reasoning. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 303 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
I have to agree with GM.
Over on another thread, your fellow creationist Robert Byers is claiming that the KT boundary is "the flood line". He is also claiming that this is how "the creationist" sees it, apparently unaware of or indifferent to the fact that there is more than one creationist opinion. You have not agreed with him. You have not disagreed with him. You have passed over this in silence. Here's a challenge for you. Either find arguments to back him up, or explain to him why, on creationist principles, he is wrong. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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