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| Date: 2008/03/25 22:59:14, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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| Date: 2008/03/26 09:25:15, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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The emphasis the movie makes on the holocaust is a Godsend (literally). Everyone knows about Holocaust revisionists and how to deal with them. That the notorious antisemite Mathis actually paid a Jew to stand up and lie for him makes it all the more ironic. If they had chosen Stalin it would have been more difficult to rebut in a way that the average 'Merkin could comprehend, but Nazis are too easy. Since the Expelled site publicly claims "Evolution leads to atheism leads to eugenics leads to Holocaust and Nazi Germany", that's hate speech in virtually all countries. If that aspect is emphasised the ID folk will be backpedalling from the movie so fast only AiG will be left. |
| Date: 2008/03/26 16:29:55, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
Great idea MidWifeToad. But do you mind if I take the blue ball and run with it a bit |
| Date: 2008/03/26 17:33:33, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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Ben Repaints History |
| Date: 2008/03/26 22:58:40, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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Ben Stein
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| Date: 2008/03/26 23:50:59, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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| Date: 2008/03/27 15:38:54, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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| I think Ben Stein as a Schoolgirl Hooker was enough teasing. :D |
| Date: 2008/03/27 20:38:45, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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 PZ Ben |
| Date: 2008/03/29 13:53:20, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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It seems the eXpelled folk are so worried about theaters not wanting to show their movie and no one showing up if they do, that they are now asking devotees to "Adopt a Theater"  |
| Date: 2008/03/29 16:46:03, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
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| Date: 2008/03/29 19:05:47, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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| Date: 2008/03/29 23:25:09, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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| Date: 2008/03/31 21:10:47, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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| If that video was produced by the expelled team then I have to ask: why, if that talent was available, did they not use it to produce a witty, intelligent and entertaining film, instead of the dull, inane and boring one they did? |
| Date: 2008/04/01 16:44:03, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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At the risk of blowing his cover, Behe actually IS on our side. And he doesn't hide it. Whenever he's pushed, he affirms that evolution is an accurate statement of reality and that he agrees with an ancient earth, common ancestry and evolution. In the meantime he milks the creationists every decade with another book that recycles tired old arguments. When he gets pulled in front of a judge, he make a token effort and either takes a dive or carefully points out the flaws in his own arguments. His faint support is brilliant. He manages to make a career and good money from creationists while subtly castrating them. If he didn't show up someone else might. |
| Date: 2008/04/01 16:48:34, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I had to have a cold shower after shopping that one. It was disturbing on so many levels. I can't pass a High School now without getting some very strange impulses. I hope you appreciate the suffering I'm going through for your entertainment. |
| Date: 2008/04/01 21:06:05, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
I like the eXXXoelled idea, time for a revision |
| Date: 2008/04/01 23:52:45, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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I don't know if Behe is in the fillum but he's on the 'Field trip' part of the site http://www.expelledthemovie.com/bigscie....p_4.php
How shocking. They - gasp - disagreed with him - publicly. Clearly raging, dogmatic persecution. Professors must be given the right to express inane opinions without fear of hearing discouraging words. |
| Date: 2008/04/02 09:40:44, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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W. Dembski: So, what do you get exactly for the $9.50 per minute? You get to explore your fantasy with someone who will agree with anything you say. "Oooh - show me some specified complexity, sweety." "Now that's what I call an Explanatory Filter, big boy!" "I've been naughty, will you expel me again - please, Dr Dr?" "I'll show you my black box if you show me your flagellum" "Yeah baby, eject that atheist, now, now - Oh you missed one" "It's OK Honey, I don't need results. No really it's all right, I'm used to it with cdesign proponentists." "It's Dover now, or would you like another 5 minutes?" |
| Date: 2008/04/02 10:20:06, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
Ben Stein didn't come from no monkey |
| Date: 2008/04/02 10:46:52, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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I have this one, but I think it's a bit wordy. |
| Date: 2008/04/02 15:43:16, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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 Benna the Stein "This evolutionist is my kind of scum..." "You mean carbonate isn't the same as carbonite?" "No sneaking into OUR movie" "You weak-minded fool, he's using an old evolutionist mind trick! " Captions please :) May the 4th be with you. |
| Date: 2008/04/02 15:50:25, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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No Bonaparte, no Waterloo. I don't think Dr Dr could get a Bonaparte, (unless he thinks of DO'L first) |
| Date: 2008/04/02 17:16:09, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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| Date: 2008/04/02 20:46:52, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Fact: Behe is really PZ Myers with Harry Potter glasses and a silly grin |
| Date: 2008/04/02 21:44:31, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Not Nazi enough for you? Ben can do Nazi Slut too, only $11.32/min  |
| Date: 2008/04/07 14:46:45, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||||
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I don't think Hitler ever mentioned Evolution or Darwin in any writings or speeches. Please prove me wrong. Whatever 'Darwinian language' there may be it has to be imagined into his works. Simple assertions that talk of racial purity and weakening bllodlines is not 'Darwinian language', it is Biblical language:
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| Date: 2008/04/08 12:06:44, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
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It's certainly the end of his serious career and likely self respect. But not an end to his livelihood. If you are a mediocre 'scientist', the easiest way to become a 'renowned and brilliant scientist' is to write a book the Fundies like. Were it not for his once a decade ID books, who would have ever heard of, let alone paid attention to Behe? Or how else would a 3rd rate actor and Nixon hack ever get to be described as 'Einsteinian'? So here goes: 'I suspect that random chance cannot fully explain the diversity if life on Earth.' AiG's response: "Dr. Quidam is a true genius, this erudite and highly respected scientist has, with Newtonian brilliance, identified the key problem with Darwinism that Big Science is unable to explain" |
| Date: 2008/04/08 20:34:43, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Ooooh I know, I know It doesn't :) Last count it was 487, but some may have decided to show a money maker instead. It's too close to the release date to get any more now. You'd have to either find an empty theatre or persuade them to drop a real film and show theirs. |
| Date: 2008/04/09 19:49:32, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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They have no time to remove the offending clips. If they postpone the release then they have lost their market. if they release it with the challenged clips then they will have an expensive lawsuit and lose their revenues. My bet is that they will release it anyway and then pose as martyrs oppressed by Big Science (as opposed to ID's Little Science) |
| Date: 2008/04/10 15:42:05, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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Dr. Dr. Beanski  |
| Date: 2008/04/10 16:48:49, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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| Date: 2008/04/11 11:24:22, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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If the legged snake fossil is examined though a Biblical lens it can be clearly seen to support the Genesis account.  |
| Date: 2008/04/11 15:27:08, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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 I need a cold shower |
| Date: 2008/04/13 13:43:12, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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| Date: 2008/04/14 14:52:25, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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It's sunny right now, OH - MY - GOD THERE IS A GAP IN THE CLOUDS If you want me, I'll be hiding under my deak |
| Date: 2008/04/15 22:02:49, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I wonder how the Expelled producers presented the movie concept to the music copyright owners Yoko Ono Sells Out John Lennon To Creationist Manufactroversy. Or maybe they didn't? |
| Date: 2008/04/16 10:51:55, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Mathis seems confused as to what animation is going to be shown in the final cut
I think those promo DVD's are going to be very important to XVIVIO. Since they were what XVIIO's letter was based on, if the final cut has changed once more, the DVD's will show the cdesign proponentist fossil record as it evolved. Somewhere there exists a cut with the unaltered XVIVIO animation just waiting to be found. Premise's retaliatory lawsuit would have to be based on the prerelease DVD not the final cut, since that was the best information XVIVIO had. Also if they violated copyright on the promo DVD - it's still copyright violation for commercial gain. |
| Date: 2008/04/16 11:43:11, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
Possibly |
| Date: 2008/04/16 20:49:26, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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It also seems likely that the music played in the pre-release showings and DVD were not liciensed either http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008....ly.html However given recent events I rather think that the final release will have elevator musak instead of Lennon and the Killers I wonder if the Michael Edmondson witness protection and internet cleansing thing is because they are not using his animation any more. |
| Date: 2008/04/16 20:55:31, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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Bloody colonials... mutter |
| Date: 2008/04/16 22:36:06, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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All we need are for XVIVIO, Harvard, Yoko Ono and The Killers to pool funds and show them why you get expelled for stealing. This is no casual oversight. They have said that they think fair use covers using a 25 second music clip in an advert - I rather think there are some well financed musicians who would disagree. |
| Date: 2008/04/16 23:40:00, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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They are obviously thinking 5 moves ahead. Just think of the free publicity as they get from three Waterloos Make that two - it seems they did license the Killers
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| Date: 2008/04/17 09:17:03, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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I am split over whether I would watch it. I rather feel I should, but I don't need to actually watch "2 girls 1 cup" to know what it contains and that it's nasty and not something I want to watch. I haven't seen 'The Passion' either, because I have seen enough clips to know that 2 hours of the best blood modern cinema can provide splattering a bunch of B movie actors is not the kind of thing I would enjoy - very much like the '2 Girls' movie except that most of the the excrement and vomit is replaced by blood. I'll maybe see it when it comes to a church basement with free cookies. As long as they are home-made cookies. Oatmeal and raisin. Oh and good coffee. And a blow job from the Pastor's daughter. Both of them. |
| Date: 2008/04/17 20:55:24, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
More on the copyright licensing scandal. It seems that scientists weren't the only ones lied to...
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008....ng.html I doubt they have any comeback any more than PZ, Dawkins, Scott et al do. But the idea that Premise can use half a minute of a Beatles song under 1st amendment or 'fair use' is bizarre. it all comes down to whether Ono will go after them ... I rather think she will. Then Stein, Mathis and crew will be singing another Lennon song: Christ you know it ain't easy, You know how hard it can be. The way things are going They're going to crucify me. |
| Date: 2008/04/17 21:59:09, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
Your wish is my command |
| Date: 2008/04/17 22:04:17, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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| I'm betting that their One millions dollars will go to further enrich Yoko Ono's retirement. |
| Date: 2008/04/17 22:53:44, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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If you insist   |
| Date: 2008/04/18 09:47:05, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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| Dr. Dr. Evil |
| Date: 2008/04/18 10:17:26, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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You know that image has been bothering me, but it's the spitting image of President Merkin Muffley from Dr Strangelove. I like Dr. Dr. Neinstein Muffley |
| Date: 2008/04/18 13:45:51, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
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You silly twisted boy |
| Date: 2008/04/18 19:59:37, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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 OK Final iteration with pout. He looks a bit less like Peter Sellers now |
| Date: 2008/04/18 20:31:33, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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 "Will you critics stop sending me these" |
| Date: 2008/04/18 21:29:48, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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 "More bad reviews? SEND IN THE FEMBOTS! |
| Date: 2008/04/18 22:28:01, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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1000 Theaters 30 people per showing 6 Showings before they pull it (2 nights) $8 per head = $1,440,000  |
| Date: 2008/04/19 01:34:48, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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I apologize in advance to any and all librarians who might be offended by the following |
| Date: 2008/04/20 10:15:11, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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 Photographed: Pine Marten, Deer, Black bear, dinosaurs. Sighted but not photographed: Elk, moose, cougar, skunk, various raptors, woodpeckers, etc. And an infinite supply of squirrels |
| Date: 2008/04/20 11:48:13, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
| the one million dollars assumes that the film would show for 170 days at two showings perday. The two orders of magnitude reflect a run of 1.7 days which sounds a lot more reasonable |
| Date: 2008/04/21 11:38:58, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
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http://scienceblogs.com/pharyng....iev.php Mike Edmondson has owned up. He made the the "Beware the Believers" movie. And has this sequel. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QUt7nZdUJIk&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QUt7nZdUJIk&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> It seems there has been a falling out with the humorless clods and Mike. Poe's Law in action! |
| Date: 2008/04/21 12:11:45, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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 I ... will ... embed Feel the Farce! |
| Date: 2008/04/21 15:41:35, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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What - who would do that?  |
| Date: 2008/04/21 22:56:02, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Back to the Autin Powers theme |
| Date: 2008/04/22 11:12:37, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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Dr Gonzales HAS BEEN DENIED TENURE AT GROVE CITY COLLEGE. This Christian college has provocatively denied tenure to this superbly qualified scientist of Newtonian calibre. A college spokesman said that many Professors at Grove City are denied tenure and it was in no way because Dr Gonzales holds some materialistic science views. "Grove City has a long history of denying tenure to its professors and refusing to renew contracts. It's simply the best way to manage issues of academic freedom." Someone should make a film. |
| Date: 2008/04/22 14:07:33, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
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| Date: 2008/04/22 14:49:38, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
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Some puppies were designed to be beaten  |
| Date: 2008/04/22 15:16:40, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||||||||
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[quote=Robert O'Brien,April 22 2008,13:51]
Just what qualifies one as a 'Christian' anyway? Many fundamentalists will claim that Catholics aren't Christian either. Catholics of course will disagree. No one knows exactly what went on in Hitler's mind and what he truly believed. He consistently claimed to be doing God's (the Almighty Creator) work and upheld Christ as an Aryan (not a jew). It is of course irrelevent whether Hitler was a Christian or just cynically used Christianity to achieve his ends. Neither reflects well on the German Christians who actually committed the atrocities and the Churches that promoted anti-semitism from the pulpit. The church preached hatred against Jews from pre Augustine times
through to WWII
It was only until the Second Vatican Council in 1965 that the Church publicly stated that jews should not be blamed for the death of Christ.
It all seems a bit silly too in light of Christian theology. If Jesus hadn't been crucified there would be no blood sacrifice and therefore no salvation |
| Date: 2008/04/22 17:30:11, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
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Speaks volumes about his reputation as an astronomer if all they know of him is that 'he's that ID guy' University departments know the leaders and up and comers in their fields from their recent papers and research programs. |
| Date: 2008/04/22 19:09:09, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Slimy Sal really does earn his nick name. Anne was not particularly sickly for an age without the benefits of modern medicine. Let's hope the anti-science crusaders are not successful and we don't have to go back to pre-enlightenment days First cousin marriages were not and are not uncommon. God commanded many cousins to marry, including Zelophehad's 5 daughters, Eleazar's daughters, Jacob (who married both Rachel and Leah, first cousins), and Isaac and Rebekkah (first cousins once removed). All were ancestors of Jesus Christ, who as we all know was sickly and died young. Albert Einstein married his first cousin. All European countries permit marriage between first cousins. It is also legal throughout Canada and Mexico for cousins to marry. The USA is the only western country with cousin marriage restrictions - and even here 26 states allow first cousin marriages. The risks are minimal. |
| Date: 2008/04/22 20:58:50, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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Until relatviely recently it was, if not the norm, far more common. But yes I agree. Breeders have known of the potential problems for centuries. |
| Date: 2008/04/22 23:33:18, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Wow. just watched it. Ben gives the lie to himself so many times. He assures us that Darwin - if he were alive today wold say that we should follow the evidence. Er we have Ben, what we haven't done is follow scrtipture. And we know that we don't need God to explain the motions of planets (as Ben claims we do). Towards the end he forgets he's only supposed to be anti-darwinist and unleashes his anti-science hatred "the last time a scientist told my people what to do, it was to go to a gas chamber" |
| Date: 2008/04/23 15:27:55, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKN2320158220080423 Yoko sues filmmakers over "Imagine" Yoko Ono, son, Sean Ono Lennon, and Julian Lennon, John Lennon's son from his first marriage, along with privately held publisher EMI Blackwood Music Inc filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to bar the filmmakers and their distributors from continuing to use "Imagine" in the movie. They are also seeking unspecified damages. |
| Date: 2008/04/23 15:29:25, Link 66.46.104.210 |
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Oh whoops - should have refreshed the page before posting. Mea Tard |
| Date: 2008/04/23 23:37:51, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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If they get away with it anyone could simply play whatever music one wanted by providing an intro commentary like "Loving children is bad, MKay, Sting thinks the Russians love their children and look what they did" ... believe me when I say to you ... 0yXgLGix6v4 |
| Date: 2008/04/24 12:09:48, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin] For a giggle read THE EVIL LEGACY OF JOHN LENNON I'm prepared to bet that the Premise team wold rather put their winkies an a mangle than pay money to Yoko Ono. Plus they knew that they would not get permission to use Imagine at any price. So let's get the mangle ready. We might even suggest it to Yoko as an alternative to monetary damages.  |
| Date: 2008/04/24 16:06:34, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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Free speech means that you are FREE to make YOUR OWN SPEECH. Not that you have the right to steal the speech of others. |
| Date: 2008/04/24 16:37:10, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2008....rs.html
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| Date: 2008/04/24 16:45:34, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/article_4101.shtml
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| Date: 2008/04/24 17:51:53, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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| Can't please everyone. I was suggesting it as a choice for them. Not much worse than circumcism. |
| Date: 2008/04/24 19:16:33, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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I conducted several experiments with plasticene and the evidence does confirm that pencil sized nub does indeed get that wide and long when passed through a mangle The colour was an extrapolation. |
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Dembski:
To which the only response can be:
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| Date: 2008/04/25 12:10:39, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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93% of postings at UD - a blog where you must register and supply a valid email address - are spam? A spam message at Pharyngula would reach 10E3 more people than spam on UD, I wonder why these 'spammers' don't flood PZ. A post on Pharyngular goes up immediately and I have seen only one example of comment spam. I have to wonder what qualifies as spam at UD? |
| Date: 2008/04/25 16:41:41, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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<a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8aifay678" target="_blank"> </a>www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8aifay678 |
| Date: 2008/04/27 10:28:27, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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 Young Punks! Too slow on the draw |
| Date: 2008/04/27 18:59:30, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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It's all pretty incestuous. Isn't it great that we have the wedge document to predict their every move. One day they'lll realize it's been made public and work out a new strategy. |
| Date: 2008/04/28 10:23:41, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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 Inspired by Pharyngula today |
| Date: 2008/04/28 10:36:29, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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I wish there was an edit button so that I could correct my spelling of Pharyngula. Oh well, what can I say, I are an enjinear. |
| Date: 2008/04/28 12:50:05, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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 A phoenix arises from the ashes. |
| Date: 2008/04/28 14:57:51, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
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Sure, unfortunately I know very little about ERV's and how to make them webby. I could do Behe on his knees, beaten into submission by a Dominatrix Abbie. |
| Date: 2008/04/28 15:56:19, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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 Not terribly suitable for a banner, but I have the costume so if both parties would like to pose for me? |
| Date: 2008/04/28 18:05:11, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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 This is a quickie. It's liquid crystal DNA http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/dna/dna.html Which comes as a surprise to me, I didn't know it formed liquid crystals. For digital watches that can evolve and really screw up Paley's arguments perhaps? But it's beautiful & colourful If anyone can point to something more appropriate, like Japanese schoolgirls holding DNA sculptures, then I'll have a go. |
| Date: 2008/04/28 22:13:21, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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 This one's made from recycled pop cans & bottles http://www.scienceinschool.org/2006/issue2/dna |
| Date: 2008/04/29 20:43:34, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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Stock? Nothing stock there. I flew down for a custom photo shoot. I told Behe I was shooting for documentary called Crossbones, about how the intersection between the decline in Pirates and the rise in the ID movement and while he was happy to wear the Jack Sparrow hat, when I produced the leather pants and leash he mumbled something about being led and beaten once before and he wasn't going to get caught again. Don't you think Kristine is too cuddly cute to be a dominatrix? |
| Date: 2008/04/30 20:43:33, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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 It's Creationist Harassment Panda, with her Bamboo Shoot of Correction |
| Date: 2008/05/01 14:56:22, Link 68.179.54.113 |
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How much dust is on Lou? If he is 41 we should be able to measure a detectable amount of meteoric dust. According to the best measurements made by Hans Pettersson, 14 million tons of dust settles each year on the Earth - that's 14,000,000,000,000 grams. The population of the Earth is 6,664,907,984 so each person is receiving 2.1 Kg of space dust annually. If Lou is 41 as has been claimed by materialist posters, he should have 86 Kg or 189.81 Lb of space dust on him. This is clearly ridiculous, the only possible conclusion is that Lou is younger than the materialists claim. Given that he only seems to have at most 125 grams, that clearly puts his age at 22 days, well within Bible limits Idiotucus 22:13 And their days in the land shall be long but their years be short and the dust of the Heavens shall not be theirs 22:14 For though they speak as men, their minds are as suckling babies 22:15 Behold they drink of the juice of the vine and of the barley, yet their speech is of unknown tongues 22:16 For the Lord God is a Jealous God and He did not get an invitation, so verily they are accursed. 22;17 Their bodies will stagger and the demons within will batter at their Temples until they cry out to the Lord 22:18 "Oh God, why did I imbibe so recklessly, like a boy mounting his first virgin." 22:19 And the Lord will laugh and say "Serves you right for not recognising Me when I showed up with a case of Bud, for you did scorn my offering calling it swill of the macro. 22:20 So shall your descendants, yeah until the nth generation, call out to the Lord in repentance, as they worship the porcelain. Yet will they remember? 22:21 Nay, for I the Lord hath spoken from my nether regions. |
| Date: 2008/05/01 14:59:47, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
| We will wait to see if the pent up hordes of waiting viewers will make the pilgrimage to the remaining cinemas |
| Date: 2008/05/03 00:53:10, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
something like...  |
| Date: 2008/05/03 13:47:33, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
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The claim is that harrasment of Sternberg led to his divorce. Just how is not explained. Perhaps when his wife discovered that he was not spending his evenings at the Smithsonian, she got suspicious. |
| Date: 2008/05/03 13:49:09, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
| Maybe he was waterbedded at the Smithsonian. No wonder his wife had enough. |
| Date: 2008/05/03 14:15:39, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
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Expelled is at #14 for documentaries http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm But look a few lines below and you find
Now take $3,753,977 in 1988 dollars, adjust for CPI inflation and in 2004 dollars that's $5,995,101 The CPI inflation calculator only goes to 2004, so in 2008 dollars it's closer to $6,500,000. Expelled is losing to Imagine! (And likely not for the last time either.) |
| Date: 2008/05/03 14:50:07, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I found a more current CPI calculator In 2008 dollars, Imagine: John Lennon grossed: $6,841,567 |
| Date: 2008/05/03 17:43:07, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I'd like to officially call for a SteinMine. Rather like the TalkOrigins Quote Mine project - a place where we can place Steinisms for easy reference. The quotes have to be referenced to the primary source. This will be very useful for rebutting The Expelled Dupes in the months to come. |
| Date: 2008/05/04 10:22:14, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Gambler's Ruin is a problem because the bank has more cash than the gambler and the odds are in the Bank's favour. (more gamblers are broken than banks) Even with this scenario, the Gambler comes out ahead a significant number of times. We all know of species that went broke and can easily imagine how easily mankind could have too. I'm not sure what Sal posits as the Bank, but the ultimate outcome of an unlimited game is that either the gambler of the bank is broken. Looking at the world today, it seems to me you could make the case that if the Bank is the Earth, it's about to go broke. Unfortunately us gamblers can't take our winnings to another Casino and we are going to have nowhere to spend our money. We're eating in the Casino's restaurant and it closes with the casino. |
| Date: 2008/05/06 15:56:31, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
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American macroswill is like making love in scuba gear. English macroswill is like making love in a canal. There are plenty of American microbreweries that produce beer every bit as good or better than the best English beer. If you haven't had a high gravity, strongly hopped American IPA then you're missing out. It makes the swill sold as "IPA" in England seem like - well swill. I for one like Cascade hops and it won't be a bad thing for them to be imported into Europe. They have a nice citrusy aroma rather than the more floral Goldings. Ruddle's County uses Bramley Cross - a cross between a hardy Canadian hop and Goldings. Budweiser won't miss them, if the hop truck drives by the brewery then they'll get all the hop flavor they need. |
| Date: 2008/05/06 16:43:16, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
| AB isn't a brewer. They're a manufacturer. Much like Watney's. |
| Date: 2008/05/06 19:55:04, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Whatever else you might say about Bud, it's not 'sickly sweet'. He must be thinking of Newcastle Brown. Budweiser is largely flavourless with no hop bitterness and no malt body. But Bud isn't 'American beer' any more than Watney's is English beer. Diamondknot IPA is about as close to Bud as a cask conditioned Fuller's London Pride is to a keg Watneys' Red Barrel. |
| Date: 2008/05/07 20:26:33, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
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They can't because a navigation between Earl's Court and Elephant and Castle is prohibited by the Ascot convention, unless a traverse is first achieved though a third order location such as Canada Water or Parson's Green |
| Date: 2008/05/07 20:44:56, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin] Normally you'd be correct and that would be a crafty ripost, but the escalators at South Kensington are closed for repair so for the duration the loo is inaccessible. You'll have to huff or withdraw your Shadwell |
| Date: 2008/05/07 21:15:09, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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[Graffiti moved to Bathroom Wall. -Admin] I wondered what the smell was. That was so sneaky, you could paint it green and call it Gollum. Since it's a Wednesday and the Nothern Line is wild, I'll invoke the loo at the Bull & Bush  |
| Date: 2008/05/08 19:54:35, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
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I'm sure it's on the Picadilly line,  but it's seldom used as an opener as you never want it behind you. |
| Date: 2008/05/09 10:25:30, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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there are three factors that influence the image from a pinhole camera: Hole diameter (Aperture) Thickness of material Distance from Pinhole to screen (analogous to focal length) The material should be as thin as possible, while maintaining opacity and strength. Aluminum foil is excellent. The smaller the hole the sharper the image, but the less light is let through. It's a trade off between resolution and faintness. Focal length is a misnomer. A pin hole doesn't focus. The image is in focus at all distances, it has 'infinite' depth of field and depth of focus. Increasing the distance from the pinhole to the screen increases the size of the image at the expense of brightness. It does not affect the resolution. A pinhole camera that claims to have 'adjustable focus' is lying. It has adjustable aperture. |
| Date: 2008/05/09 10:42:33, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Three controllable factors Sigh |
| Date: 2008/05/09 11:23:04, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
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That isn't actually a pinhole camera - at least it doesn't use a pinhole lens. It's a traditional camera but with a small lens. The trouble is the words we use like focus, don't really apply to a pinhole. A pinhole doesn't focus to a point, it doesn't have a focal length, it works by only allowing a narrow ray through. Imagine a pinhole camera with a single pinhole. light from one part of the source passes through and hits the screen. The larger the pinhole the larger the ray but now more of the source is mixed together so the circle on the screen is bigger and brighter but the detail is lost. It is blurred and we would say 'it's out of focus' whereas it's really got a 'large circle of confusion' or low resolution. Now if you make another pinhole you will get another duplicate image on a different part of the screen - if only you could bend the light ray to overlap the first image it would make a single image twice as bright! If you put a small prism behind the pinhole you could. Now make lots of pinholes, each with its own prism. If you take this to the ultimate conclusion, you have built up a curved lens with more pinholes than material. The lens is taking every ray of light and bending it. That's why it has a focal point. |
| Date: 2008/05/09 12:39:11, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Then perhaps you will return the favour by acknowledging that the NCSE film did not say that the pinhole eye had adjustable focus. It said that with the pinhole eye focusing [of an image] became possible. Which of course it does. A pinhole eye makes possible the production of a sharp (focused) image on a patch of light sensitive cells. You have to be deliberately obtuse to read that as saying "the Nautilus had a variable focal length eye." |
| Date: 2008/05/09 20:14:35, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
It's a bit imprecise, but I'm not sure what the correct technical term for a blurred image from a large pinhole would be called. Soft maybe? I'll bet 99% of the population would call a sharp image 'focused' and a blurred one 'unfocused'
They call them pinhole cameras, but all the ones I've seen have very small lenses. |
| Date: 2008/05/10 11:29:20, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
To be pedantic, it's not a commercial product. I won't dispute that you could make a pinhole CCD camera, but I don't think anyone makes a commercial product. I experimented with a pinhole SLR when I was younger (in the days when an SLR camera was a major expense that you expected to last a lifetime). I used a bellows close-up mount with aluminium foil attached with a rubber band. That way you can make really tiny holes with the tip of a needle, or a bigger one by pushing the whole needle. Without Photoshop the results were either very dark and sharp or just dark and fuzzy.
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| Date: 2008/05/10 11:34:38, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
If the apple was originally attached to a tree or dropped by a person the net effect is zero. The reaction of the tree branch to the release of he apple is equal to the effect of the apple's impact on the earth Your calculation is only correct if the apple originated from outside the Earth's gravity field. |
| Date: 2008/05/11 09:48:34, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Utphray Opsla sounds like Pig latin to me, which would translate to Rutph Lops Anagrams: HOTSPUR SUPPORT [edit] Shouldn't have taken so long writing this post - |
| Date: 2008/05/11 10:12:01, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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DOH CDBC Doh, Charles Darwin Before Christ |
| Date: 2008/05/11 16:41:28, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Daniel 08 3: Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 4: I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. 23: And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. I think that speaks for itself. |
| Date: 2008/05/11 20:24:11, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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The two horns of the RAM are the two parties in dispute, Galapogos has a bigger horn than Ono, so he will come last. The Ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, but yet producing nothing 'that could deliver out of his hand' is clearly Dembski. The 'king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences' can be none other than Judge Jones. Thus D08 3423 is prophesying the End Times of the ID movement. |
| Date: 2008/05/13 10:19:12, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
Fortunately the paparazzi were there to capture the moment |
| Date: 2008/05/13 10:37:44, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I like the headline You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, or Can You? Ben isn't stupid. But he's buoyed by people taking the machinations of his febrile brain seriously and he's pushing the envelope to see how many people he can get to believe what he's making up.  |
| Date: 2008/05/13 20:09:38, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
Ain't decibels wonderful. The Bulldog fishing bat (Noctilio leporinus) can emit 138 dB but fortunately it's at 55kHz so we can't hear it. As distinct from the Noctilio steinoramus, which emits a repetitive monotone whine until his prey collapses from brain atrophy.  |
| Date: 2008/05/13 21:41:55, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I think that ...Next time I will remember to bring a feather to knock myself over with. Sounds better than ...Next time I will remember to bring a feather with which to knock myself over. Sometimes avoiding that trailing preposition simply results in a clumsy sentence As Churchill put it, when an editor dared to modify a sentence of his that ended with a preposition: "This is the kind of impertinence up with which I shall not put." |
| Date: 2008/05/14 09:57:15, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
If it were the tree of knowledge you would be correct. Noctilio steinoramus would have to be pinned, glued and screwed to stay there. That however is the Tree of Ignorance, which provides Noctilio steinoramus with all the sustenance it needs. It lives of the fruits of Ignorance: prejudice, fear, doubt, envy, deceit and revelation. These pass largely unchanged through its digestive system and are subsequently consumed by Caenorhabditis cdesignproponentists. |
| Date: 2008/05/14 10:15:19, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
| Of the things one can legitimately criticize DoL for, that sentence is not one. |
| Date: 2008/05/14 14:39:05, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
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Just for those people who were still not completely sure that the Florida Senate was completely staffed by religious retards, comes this gem: http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps....4180359
"Moving violation", "points"? Surely that would only be justified if the truck tried to mount one in front... But it's interesting to note that Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville is pussy whipped - he "acceded to his wife's request to take them off" Jeez have some balls man! If there is anything that would make me want to put a pair on, that would be it. |
| Date: 2008/05/14 14:39:26, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
| [edit] duplicate post deleted |
| Date: 2008/05/14 14:51:29, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Talking of dangling participles |
| Date: 2008/05/14 15:37:22, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||||
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Thank you - it wasn't easy. |
| Date: 2008/05/14 20:16:44, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Lipstick on a pig? That I can do.  |
| Date: 2008/05/20 14:14:58, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
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About 45 minutes west of Calgary in the foothills, although I grew up about the same distance from London. I laid the Snork Maiden but don't tell Moomintroll  |
| Date: 2008/05/20 14:44:07, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
That wasn't her. More's the pity. Like most repressed chicks, she was a real goer when she was away from home. I dumped her after I caught her with the Hemulen.  |
| Date: 2008/05/27 23:47:10, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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| Date: 2008/05/28 16:25:46, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||||
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Hasn't that already been done? let me see...
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| Date: 2008/05/29 15:39:05, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Yeah, my Librarian account wasn't banned but the only posts that made it through the 'spam filter' were ones asking why my posts didn't make it through the spam filter. It seems that posts that were on-topic but critical are 'spam', Tardspeak: SPAM = Specific Pointed Articulate Meaningful |
| Date: 2008/06/01 20:48:42, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Yeah, I had a post pointing out that the programme was not an examination of Sheldrake's claims, which is why his evidence was not of interest. I also mentioned the JREF $1M which is an anathema to the paranormalists. The post was 'waiting for moderation' for about two hours, then just disappeared. I haven't had a post get through moderation for ages except curiously for posts complaining that my other posts didn't get through. The stock excuse is the 'spam filter'. Considering the spork that does get posted you have to wonder. |
| Date: 2008/06/03 09:44:18, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
The film is about firmly conflating Evolution-Darwinsm-Science- Methodological Naturalism-Atheism-State Violence in the viewers mind. That always was the goal and still is. You only have to listen to Stein to realize when he says "Darwinism can't explain "Life, the Universe and everything" he is deliberately conflating those terms. Fair use does not need to consider the quality of a critique or commentary, merely whether that is what it is and whether the copright holder has suffered financially as a result. As for cutting Expelled into 15 second clips - that is uneccessary. The length of the clip is a secondary consideration. You would be perfectly entitled to produce a critique of the film and use clips of almost any length from the film to support your critique. If the object was to show the film in its entirity so that people would not need to pay to see the original film then it would fail the fair use test |
| Date: 2008/06/16 10:06:08, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
| I'm worried he'll come too soon. It would be nice if he were chosen as McCain's running mate before he climaxes. |
| Date: 2008/06/16 15:42:54, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
Understanding Intelligent design It's all assinine |
| Date: 2008/06/16 21:25:38, Link 64.141.99.11 |
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I wish I could hack Amazon.com and substitute the book cover picture :p Oh well an Assinine tag will have to do. You can help by adding the tag on http://www.amazon.com/Underst....edpp_sa |
| Date: 2008/06/16 23:33:00, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
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Yer Paw musta also given you an X chromosome along with the one from yer Maw. Them's girlie Dembski type melons. |
| Date: 2008/06/17 09:50:23, Link 68.179.54.113 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Come on guys, I know this isn't Pharyngula but surely someone can head over to Amazon.com and check/add the "Assinine"* tag. *Note spelling, as Magrat would say. |
| Date: 2008/06/17 14:26:02, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
| That gives me some warm green fuzzy feelings |
| Date: 2008/06/17 15:15:22, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
| If a stretched cardigan is more exiting than young taut feminine buttocks (whatever the colour), then you are too far gone for science or art to help. |
| Date: 2008/06/17 15:21:59, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
How about this stretched cardigan? |
| Date: 2008/06/17 16:01:52, Link 68.179.54.113 |
| Author: Quidam |
If it's gotta be a Dr.Dr. |
| Date: 2008/06/17 22:13:36, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
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She's Thursday, so I'll apologize then |
| Date: 2008/06/17 22:51:54, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
Oh the joy... |
| Date: 2008/06/20 10:54:43, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
Following O'Leary's lead in embracing Amazon Tags as virtues, Dembski creates a new cover for 'Understanding Intelligent Design" |
| Date: 2008/06/28 08:02:35, Link 99.250.161.72 |
| Author: Quidam |
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This is not about Human Rights for apes. No one is proposing that apes should be fully protected by the International Human Rights laws. It's about giving apes more rights than other animals (which also have rights). All of these rights are 'human rights' in that we demand them for ourselves. Apes get a subset, other animals get a subset of that. We classify animals on their cognitive capacity and ability to feel pain, so that it is acceptable to boil a lobster alive but not a dog; catch fish with a hook but not deer. This legislation limits some of the things we can do to apes as a result of the increasing awareness and understanding of their similarity in thought processes to us. |
| Date: 2008/06/30 18:11:49, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Childish? After the age of two and before 14, children aren't much interested in breasts. Anyway I'm assured she's 18 so it's not childish at all. |
| Date: 2008/07/01 11:10:53, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
A history teacher fired for teaching holocaust denial. A physics teacher fired for teaching the earth is 6,500 years old A Social Studies teacher fired for teaching the 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' A Biology teacher fired for teaching creationism All may well strongly believe their delusions, but that does not permit them to teach these delusions. If their delusions prevent them from teaching the curriculum then they need to find another career. |
| Date: 2008/07/01 15:22:56, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
 Ray Comfort teaches the condomtroversy Bananas are frisky things, be safe - always use a condom. |
| Date: 2008/07/04 10:07:14, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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| Date: 2008/07/04 14:33:26, Link 68.179.54.225 |
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The e-coli cultures are the data... |
| Date: 2008/07/10 17:15:43, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Obviously 1646 was the pinnacle of human achievement and knowledge February 16 - First English Civil War - The Battle of Great Torrington, Devon, the last major battle of the conflict, is fought. February 28 - Roger Scott is tried and whipped in Massachusetts for sleeping in church. March 6 - Joseph Jenkes, in Massachusetts, receives the first colonial machine patent for a water wheel for his scythe mill. May 5 - King Charles I surrenders his forces at Scotland. May 30 - Spain and the Netherlands sign a temporary cease fire in the war. June 25 - The New Model Army of Thomas Fairfax occupies Oxford. October 28 - The first Protestant church assembly for natives is held in Massachusetts November 4 - Massachusetts enacts the death penalty for denying that the Saints' Copybook is God's word. Undated - The Westminster Confession of Faith is published. Life expectancy was 43 Infant mortality was 320 per 1000 live births Ahh, the good old days. |
| Date: 2008/07/13 10:24:52, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I'm amazed at how puny and ineffective Chistians believe their God to be. If you truly believe that the cracker is God, then it should be perfectly capable of looking after itself and would need no help from mere mortals. Pity the infidel who ate a genuine Jesus-inhabited cracker  |
| Date: 2008/07/14 14:49:10, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
I am outraged at the continuing attempts, not to overturn science (which is simply evidence based reasoning) but to replace it with superstition, fabrication and mythology. Homeopathy, astrology, mediums, faith healers, fundamentalists, crystal healers, ear-candlers, cerealogists (crop circle nuts) UFO's are all offering the same snide coin. Dembski's story of his pilgrimage to the charlatan Todd Bentley is truly pathetic (in the original sense) and is an example of how an otherwise intelligent person can be held hostage by faith. Unfortunately Dembski is offering the same thing to his follower but he doesn't see the irony. He feels he's being more open minded: "Unlike Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, James Randi, and the skeptical community in general, I don’t throw out all miraculous healings." As a result of his credulity he has financially supported the odious Todd Bentley and profited from other credulous beings. When you throw out the need for evidence (from controlled experiments and observations) then exploitative people profit whether from 'donations' to 'cure' an autistic child or profits from evidence-free books. What does Dembski demand from Bentley? Evidence. What does he fail to provide for ID? Evidence. Science cannot be 'over-turned' - we would need evidence for that which would simply replace science with new science. But it can be discarded for wishful, woolly thinking. I find that profoundly disturbing and I will fight to prevent it. |
| Date: 2008/07/14 17:39:52, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2008/07/14/mass/ |
| Date: 2008/07/15 21:32:52, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||||||
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Clearly FtK is suggesting that it doesn't matter where you dig. This puts her knowledge of geology at pre William Smith (pre 1800) Or as William Smith puts it she understands less than the most illiterate:
You can read Wm. Smith's excellent book online without having to skim it at the book store. Yes FtK, fossils and their localities are ORGANIZED - in ways that Walt Brown's liquefaction speculation simply cannot achieve. The organization and obvious age of the sediments completely rule out the possibility of a young earth or a recent world wide flood, THIS WAS KNOWN AND FULLY DOCUMENTED 200 YEARS AGO - long before modern quantitative dating methods were available and before Darwin produced an explanation for it. So if scientists did dig in 'the wrong places' they would find different fossils or no fossils at all. But don't take my word for it. Try it. If you find a humanoid or tiktaalik fossil in Cretaceous rock then you are assured of worldwide fame. First you'll need to be educated on what a tiktaalik or humanoid fossil look like so that you don't wave a Yanoconodon or Eodelphis around thinking that you've made a discovery. |
| Date: 2008/07/16 20:29:24, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Neil Shubin "Your Inner Fish:
But FtK, from the basis of skimming the book in the bookstore confidently asserts it's a fish. Mind you creationists are blind when it comes to species. Harun Yaha among other numerous mis-identifications thinks there is no difference between frogs and salamanders.  |
| Date: 2008/07/16 22:45:48, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
 This is from Shubin's excellent site on Tiktaalik http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/meetTik.html that provides many photos of the fossil and highlights the fish characteristics and the tetrapod characteristics. |
| Date: 2008/07/17 09:46:54, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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William Smith perhaps should have added 'provided the person actually looks at the fossils in their locales.' Like other books of that vintage e.g. Descent of Man the language is a slight barrier, but William Smith's 'Strata' is a compelling read for anyone interested in geology and evolution. With no religious agenda, he lays out data that creationists have yet to explain. 200 years ago an experienced geologist when shown an assemblage of fossils could identify the position of the strata in the geologic column and provide its relative age. He could also identify the paleoclimate, depositional conditions and landscape. Walt Brown's babbling about hydrological sorting or liquefaction does not explain this, or even come close. ID Creationism (the smaller tent of Old Earth Creationists) would have to postulate a God that continually creates and tweaks organisms - yet stopped when he might be observed. Young Earth Creationists and Flood 'geologists' have no basis for rationality except a version of Last Thursdayism with a deceptive God who is actively trying to hide His actions. |
| Date: 2008/07/17 11:38:54, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Back to topic. Melanie Kroll was not responsible for writing the death threat and she was not fired for that. She was responsible for breaking 1800Flowers policy and for that she lost her job. Everyone seems to be assuming that Melanie, being a woman and all, is a nice person and innocent victim of a violent and abusive husband. This may be the case but it's speculation. It's just as likely that she fully agrees with her husband's sentiments and has been bothering other employees and customer. That is also speculation Quite why people think they should advise 1800flowers on a personnel matter is beyond me. We know very little about Melanie Kroll and 1800flowers and this is (should be) a private matter. I have unfortunately had to fire people for repeated infractions of IT security policy, fortunately none resulted in the publicity that Melanie's negligence had for 1800flowers. I know that I would not take kindly to strangers, who know little of the circumstances and history, giving me unsolicited advice. |
| Date: 2008/07/17 15:16:53, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
Then your appeal for clemency is based on no information and is meaningless. You may presume innocence, but you have no responsibility or jurisdiction in the matter. The people who do, have investigated and made a decision, based on information we are not privy to. 1800Flowers deals with online customers and stores credit card information, addresses and personal information from customers. Their credibility has taken an enormous hit when nutjobs can apparently access their servers at will. From Melanie's post she has to connect via a VPN to send or receive email, either she failed to disconnect when done or her computer is set to autoconnect. That is a significant breach of security with potentially serious consequences. I'm glad I'm not a customer of theirs with my credit card information accessible to the likes of Chuck. So I'm going to let them make their own informed decision on this internal personnel matter and not presume to advise them. |
| Date: 2008/07/18 12:38:51, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Who IS Suzan Mazur anyway. She has been described as a 'science reporter' and she says
Much like the credentials of the DI really. We all know that jounalists and lawyers know more science than scientists. |
| Date: 2008/07/18 12:59:12, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
How about an overnight 12% ($17m) drop in market value?  which recovered after 1800Flowers took prompt and appropriate action. As for equating this to 'tyranny and torture', I don't think this is in any way an apt comparison. I think the actions are reasonable and appropriate. She is not being whipped, waterboarded, deported or even imprisoned. She has lost a job. It happens all the time for considerably less justification than this. If my actions or negligence ever cause my company's stock to drop a 12% overnight, I think I might reasonably expect to lose my job too. |
| Date: 2008/07/18 14:47:44, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
 The Man. He's a Player. |
| Date: 2008/07/18 14:59:49, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
 Dr Dr Beanski, life's a beach |
| Date: 2008/07/18 15:11:17, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
Or just hanging with a few good friends... |
| Date: 2008/07/18 20:32:22, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
A summary of ID Research From Casey |
| Date: 2008/07/19 23:19:04, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
OK I retract that. I wasn't aware of the coincidental downgrading by GS. |
| Date: 2008/07/20 10:28:08, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Garnet! What a lode of fuchsite, that joke was the schist. As my girlfriend said, when I asked if she was cummingtonite: "You mineral the same" |
| Date: 2008/07/20 10:59:47, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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That wasn't very gneiss. I'll graben the bull by the hornblende and hope I don't get horst by my own petard. Igneous is bliss for the UD crowd because they take design for granite. That's sedimentary my dear FtK. BTW I'm a mining engineer, we're on a level below the rest. |
| Date: 2008/07/20 12:16:25, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
| If you fish on the fucking days, when do you fuck? |
| Date: 2008/07/21 16:15:57, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Dave refers to a pile of sand as being unspecified and uses these examples: Complex unspecified sand  Complex specified sand  The question is not whether the pile of sand looks like something we recognize. That certainly is an indicator that the sand was placed by a human intelligence, but it is of no help to recognize anything produced by non-human intelligence. It is also of little help trying to identify historic objects where the original purpose has been forgotten. Complex Unspecified stone or Complex specified stone?  It would also be a mistake to think that the sand dune is devoid of information. Coded into the structure is the medium that produced the dune, the velocity (magnitude and direction) of the wind, the grain size of the sand etc. How do we know that the dune was not the product of an intelligent wind producing writing or a sculpture with some meaning to its kind? The answer is that we don't, but we can show that the assumption of such an intelligent wind is unnecessary; the micro and macro waves (ripples and dunes) can be adequately explained by natural forces. Sorry Hopi, Aeolus, Boreas, Zephyr, Notus, Euru etc. Since there is no other evidence for intelligent winds (other than the Discovery Institute) we can confidently reject that hypothesis. |
| Date: 2008/07/21 23:48:31, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
That's got to be a Poe. She can't be serious.
What were those slackers doing, fancy not sending a rocket to the moon! They were surviving, breeding, fighting, huddling in shelters praying to the Thunder God to spare them and the Hunter God to provide food. Pretty much what every one did until we discovered science.
Yes that is what you're saying - you just said it again. What is ridiculous is someone proudly vaunting their ignorance as a virtue and dismissing everything she doesn't understand because she doesn't like the answer. If you don't understand gravity then you can't explain the movements of planets and any explanation will sound ridiculous. If you don't know how sediments can determine paleoenvironments then any geological history is going to sound like fiction. |
| Date: 2008/07/22 11:38:26, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
In fairness it's a bit more than that. It's more like saying "I can see why corn is more expensive in winter, but that cannot explain the US economy and the price of oil." Frankly when I'm playing an interactive computer game I find it difficult to believe that I'm playing against a collection of transistors, yet I know it to be true. Creationism is like saying "I can see how you can use a transistor as a switch, but it's ridiculous to suggest that throwing miilions of them in a box will create a virtual reality or send messages around the world. |
| Date: 2008/07/23 10:09:34, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
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What's worse is that he parades his 'open-mind' as a virtue that makes him superior to the likes of "Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, James Randi, and the skeptical community in general." Unlike them he supported the fakir by going to his show and contributing. As spammers know full well, you don't need many responses to make money. Gullibility is not a virtue. |
| Date: 2008/07/23 14:42:10, Link 66.46.104.210 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
You'd think Jesus V2.0.01 would be able to keep a helicopter flying  |
| Date: 2008/07/23 15:05:32, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
| Probably needs to be nailed to a tree to get the bugs out. |
| Date: 2008/07/23 22:27:40, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
A photograph of the "exact *original* fossil parts that [supposedly] match up to that sketch of the "wrist"" I've compared the photograph to the sketch in the book and can affirm there is an excellent match. There is a reason people provide sketches of fossils, rather than photographs - it can be difficult to see the detail in photographs. Bear in mind that the shoulder and wrist bones came from a different specimen than the one shown above. While we talk of Tiktalik and 'the fossil' they have found several specimens. |
| Date: 2008/07/24 10:48:02, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
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'Transitional' is not a term that can be applied to an individual fossil - it only means something in relation to other fossils. In many important respects all fossils, indeed all organisms, are transitional. All 'transitional' fossils are fully formed and functional organisms, with a better reproductive success than their ancestors IN THE ENVIRONMENT they make their home. Sometimes they are sufficiently fit and the environment is sufficiently stable that they stay relatively unchanged for millions of years. Some of their descendants may try to exploit a new environment and be subject to evolutionary pressure again. So sometimes (often) a transitional species exists in the same time as it's ancestor and descendant species. The transitional species can still be extant. So Tiktalik is a fit organism well suited for the estuarine wet/dry environment it is found in. It has fish like features and tetrapod like features. (OK I'm an engineer, so this is a simplified layman's explanation, but I find trying to explain it gets it clear in my own mind. Please corrct me if I've misrepresented anything.) |
| Date: 2008/07/24 17:13:26, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
| Ackademic Freedum means everyone must gets tenyear. |
| Date: 2008/07/25 09:43:27, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
That explains so much...  |
| Date: 2008/07/27 23:41:31, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
That's easy, I've done that for you. the only problem is that the number of cities makes the x-axis labels illegible.  |
| Date: 2008/07/28 10:14:05, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Actually I used the 'Stock Market' chart type with hi, low and close 'prices' I'll save it as a pdf and send it. It would be a lot easier if you had a spreadsheet software. I can recommend Open Office - the price is right and it's excellent |
| Date: 2008/07/28 11:51:55, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Not neccessarily. In the UK & Canada at non-collegiate Universities, the Dean is the head of a faculty or group of departments. So while it is unlikely that a University would have a Dean of English, as English is usually just a department, it's not impossible. |
| Date: 2008/07/28 18:02:20, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
I thought we had already established that she was a plumber...  |
| Date: 2008/07/29 10:45:00, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Tht's not HER bathroom. She's a professional and can be hired by the hour. I can't recommend her services though, she spent a lot of time trying to prove that the "log jam" was designed and didn't 'just happen' |
| Date: 2008/07/30 13:39:12, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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| Date: 2008/07/30 13:47:58, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
Oops, almost forgot the essential tool of the trade |
| Date: 2008/08/02 11:09:30, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
| A mathematical analysis is simply a model. While models are extremely useful, it is important to remember that they are not the real thing and that if there is a discrepancy between the model and reality, it's unlikely that reality is wrong. |
| Date: 2008/08/04 22:22:46, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Unlike a pendant which swings between two boobs or a pederast which swings between two boys |
| Date: 2008/08/29 15:38:02, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle - with tits  |
| Date: 2008/08/31 22:26:15, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
How about a program that in each iteration generates an array of artificial life creatures by mutations in its building rules ('genes') from a parent. The user selects one of the children in each generation to become the parent of the next generation. The user decides subjectively what sorts of traits to select for. This simulates artificial, rather than natural, selection. I know where such an algorithm can be found. |
| Date: 2008/09/01 17:04:31, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Obama's response is appropriate and stands in stark contrast to McCain's attack on Chelsea Clinton in 1998
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| Date: 2008/10/08 15:58:03, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
And when a geologist goes into the field with his hammer it looks a lot like what convicts do breaking rocks. But because something looks 'sciency' doesn't make it so. I have read Brown's tale. Nothing about Brown's geology makes sense to someone with any geological knowledge. Nothing he has said accounts for faunal succession, the existence of changing facies thoughout the column, generations of animals living and dying, layer upon layer in rocks that are claimed to have been laid down and re-excavated in a year or so. Recently consolidated and saturated sediments do not and cannot form cliffs of the scale of the Grand Canyon. |
| Date: 2008/10/08 16:06:53, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
McCain IS Gollum. He was one an honorable creature who doesn't like what the lust for power has done to him. He's now a shrunken shell dominated by forces and creatures out of his control |
| Date: 2009/01/10 12:28:14, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
Why does the 'Academic Freedom Day' logo show people shooting rubber chickens from behind an American flag while Darwin looks on with dismay, armed only with a large, phallic pencil? |
| Date: 2009/01/14 10:35:15, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Many cases of foul, putrid ugliness, such as parasitic worms http://www.stanford.edu/group....leg.jpg and gangrenous faces http://bp1.blogger.com/_GpIqc5....g lack any plausible theological explanation (edited to replace shocking, grotesque image with link to same -stevetard) |
| Date: 2009/01/14 14:50:50, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
| ... |
| Date: 2009/01/14 14:51:32, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I am not going to apologize for showing pictures of real world suffering. Horrific - yes. Preventable - yes. if you are offended then I hope you are also encourageed to do something. Those kinds of things are entirely preventable. I can only do a bit to help. But then I'm not omnipotent or omniscient. If I was and chose to do nothing, I think I would deserve to be reviled - not held up as the epitome of virtue - especially if I had deliberately created those creatures. However the simpler explanation that nature is indifferent to suffering and that nematodes and bacteria are just doing what their genes have tailored them to do for millennia. It's up to us to make this world a bit better by doing something other than just wishing. All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat, All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot. Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings, He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings. All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small, All things foul and dangerous, The Lord God made them all. Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid, Who made the spikey urchin, Who made the sharks, He did. All things scabbed and ulcerous, All pox both great and small, Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all. AMEN. |
| Date: 2009/01/14 14:52:36, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
... plausible ... |
| Date: 2009/01/14 22:21:50, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Isn't another name for that: hemolytic staphylococcus gangrene? I is only an engineer, but I thought that gangrene was a non-specific name for necrosis from one of many bacteria. My first thought was that it was likely oro-facial gangrene from acute gingivitis. |
| Date: 2009/01/14 22:52:45, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
This seems to be the source of the image, where it is tagged with
The Noma (Cancrum Oris), is an infectious disease that maims the soft parts of the face and usually starts during a fever. This lesion, which often goes unnoticed at first, evolves into an ulcerative gingivitis so rapid and widespread, affecting cheeks, chin, lips, etc.. Its devastating result is a cavernous crater devouring bone mass with vicious speed. They are the cursed among the poorest, the most bitter end of poverty. Blessed are the poor? |
| Date: 2009/01/15 12:18:24, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I think you will be more successful if you dissemble a little. Leave MC conveniently undefined and it can stand for anything: Meaningful Complexity or Modern Creosaltationalism. |
| Date: 2009/01/18 11:40:53, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
I've updated Wikipedia.
http://www.ideacenter.org/about/history.php That has to be the ultimate bungee appointment. Even allowing for the vagueness of 'early 2008' and 'summer of 2008' that's at most four months. What did she do/not-do to be expelled/drop out like that? Does anyone know? The Idea site is very coy. "To pursue other interests" is usually a euphemism for "we fired her sorry ass for being a total Dembski" |
| Date: 2009/01/19 10:54:51, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||||
And if someone is reading a script in a propaganda movie it's ... ? May I suggest: Slimebel |
| Date: 2009/02/23 12:48:10, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Dave Scott says:
Hmm the NSIDC reports and They don’t tell you that seem to be a contradiction. They DID tell you that Dave, you even linked to the article and chart where they told you. It's not as if ID, Creationists and global warming deniers actually have do research to find these things out. This is rather like "Scientists won't allow questioning of Darwinism - and here's a collection of quotes where famous scientists question Darwinism." |
| Date: 2009/02/24 10:46:26, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
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As an engineer I rather like the works of Kipling, especially The Sons of Martha, which comments on the one of the first attempts to denigrate useful work in favour of mindless adoration. The sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest, Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest. It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock. It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain, Tally, transport, and deliver duly the Sons of Mary by land and main. They say to mountains, "Be ye removed." They say to the lesser floods, "Be dry." Under their rods are the rocks reproved-they are not afraid of that which is high. Then do the hill-tops shake to the summit-then is the bed of the deep laid bare, That the Sons of Mary may overcome it, pleasantly sleeping and unaware. They finger death at their gloves' end where they piece and repiece the living wires. He rears against the gates they tend: they feed him hungry behind their fires. Early at dawn, ere men see clear, they stumble into his terrible stall, And hale him forth a haltered steer, and goad and turn him till evenfall. To these from birth is Belief forbidden; from these till death is Relief afar. They are concerned with matters hidden - under the earthline their altars are- The secret fountains to follow up, waters withdrawn to restore to the mouth, And gather the floods as in a cup, and pour them again at a city's drouth. They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose. They do not teach that His Pity allows them to drop their job when they dam'-well choose. As in the thronged and the lighted ways, so in the dark and the desert they stand, Wary and watchful all their days that their brethren's day may be long in the land. Raise ye the stone or cleave the wood to make a path more fair or flat - Lo, it is black already with blood some Son of Martha spilled for that! Not as a ladder from earth to Heaven, not as a witness to any creed, But simple service simply given to his own kind in their common need. And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed - they know the Angels are on their side. They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the Mercies multiplied. They sit at the Feet - they hear the Word - they see how truly the Promise runs. They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and - the Lord He lays it on Martha's Sons! Yup, while Dembski basks in the knowledge that he has his imaginary angels on his side, the Sons (and daughters) of Martha keep the house warm, put food on the table and heal the sick. i.e. the useful work that is judged by results. It doesn't happen by praying and it's for the good of their fellow man. Unfortunately engineering and dentistry do seem to be the homes for educated creationists where their beliefs will not be challenged too much by their profession. Please remember they are not typical of either profession. |
| Date: 2009/02/24 11:35:31, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Yes, it's very rewarding when it's your own and it's a good design. What annoys me about the 'Intelligent design' creationist movement is that detecting design (or agency) is an important field of study and is science. Is this curiously shaped rock a fossil, human artifact or a result of concretion? It could be moulded by mischievous pixies as part of a mysterious ceremony but that hypothesis is sensibly discarded since attributing design to them begs the question of whether they exist in the first place. Unfortunately the ID creationist movement is only concerned with attributing life to pixies. |
| Date: 2009/03/04 21:06:15, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
Egnor Erupts  |
| Date: 2009/03/23 11:09:27, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
What is the CSI of this snowflake?  The BOM is easy: 1mg water Now to make it all you need is a precise log of the path it took through the cloud, the temperature of the cloud at each point in the path and the electrical potential. Of course to properly count the bits, we also have to define a gram, temperature and voltage. Not to mention a control system to accurately steer the snowflake to the right place at the right time. Clearly considerably more than 500 bits of information is required to define the manufacture of a snowflake. Therefore a snowflake clearly possesses CSI and each is therefore intelligently designed. |
| Date: 2009/03/23 16:38:06, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
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I think they have worked out that for certain values of mutation and population size, 'latching' is emergent behaviour - i.e. a less fit best child is improbable. They're still struggling with the purpose of the program. They are torn between "If we can prove the program is wrong we haz destroyed the evilutionists" and "I don't get the point of the program" |
| Date: 2009/03/24 17:16:51, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
| He has now corrected the reign/rain/rein error. Indeed it never existed and was just another ploy by immoral Darwinists to make him look illiterate |
| Date: 2009/03/30 14:56:49, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
| Well thanks all. 55 down and it's all uphill from here! |
| Date: 2009/03/30 16:44:38, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
 The Cheerleader Unholy Trinity There's no dissent here |
| Date: 2009/03/31 12:13:20, Link 66.46.104.210 |
| Author: Quidam |
I was more of a Meccano engineer. But in those days you could do real chemistry in school. Making chloroform and nitrogen tri-iodide - mmm now that's fun. If anyone had told me in the '60s or '70s that in 40 years time people would be claiming that the world was only six and a half thousand years old and that people would be claiming that humans are not evolved animals. I would not have believed them. Maybe we need to get high school science fun again. Making explosives would weed out the incompetents. Evolution in Action |
| Date: 2009/04/01 10:20:19, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
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My account is still active at UD, I can log in and post comments, but they simply disappear - no moderation warning or anything, they just go straight into the bit bucket. Must be a hold-over from the old moderation policy. I'm going to have to create a new one now. But that thread is stale now. I my post referred to this quote:
This is as good a description of 'Front Loading' and that 'Homology is evidence of common design' as I've seen. Owen was a particularly unpleasant person, as Iconfid has pointed out. No reflection on his ID viewpoint of course. |
| Date: 2009/04/04 13:59:57, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Let's see what we can do to kill the sexy librarian fantasy for you with a little hypnotism You are feeling sleepy ... sleepy... Whenever you think "Sexy librarian" this image will dominate your thoughts ...  Snap. You are now awake. Far more effective than a crowbar. |
| Date: 2009/04/04 18:48:01, Link 64.141.99.11 |
| Author: Quidam |
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Well if you're looking for a youg sexy librarian then say no more. Suzie Worblehat for your viewing pleasure  Horace grounded her for month when he saw the spread in LSpace Review |
| Date: 2009/04/06 15:21:34, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
That'll do it. At least in Fortan IV |
| Date: 2009/04/15 12:17:43, Link 68.179.54.225 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
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| Date: 2009/04/18 23:34:39, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Off the topic of evolution, but if you agree that the perpetrators of torture, a criminal act, should be held accountable, the ACLU is hosting a petition
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| Date: 2009/04/20 15:11:19, Link 68.179.54.225 |
| Author: Quidam |
You don't have to be a US citizen to send a message to the president.  |
| Date: 2009/06/06 11:23:04, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||
| Author: Quidam | ||
Since Obama's election I have been taking a bit of a sabbatical from the ID Tard and marvelling at the Beck/Hannity/O'Reilly tard. This really doesn't give me too much to work with, but I suppose that IS the point. Dembski is reduced to traditional insipid apologetics. The once mighty Explanatory Filter failed to rise to the occasion, leaving O'Leary unsatisifed, ForTheKids without meat on the table and is seldom seen or even mentioned now. So on that theme:  |
| Date: 2009/06/13 11:21:27, Link 64.141.99.11 | ||||
| Author: Quidam | ||||
I'm not even going to think about that. Dammit, elephants, elephants, elephants, elephants. Now I'm thinking of elderly cow elephants with braided pubes. Aaaaaaaaagh |
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