| Quote (steve_h @ Jan. 16 2009,11:24) |
| Also, does something which is designed have to be almost identical to every other thing that is designed? Cars are designed by intelligent designers; Therefore, ID predicts that life on Mars should resemble cars. |
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| Date: 2009/01/14 14:30:52, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Darn. Here I am, a long time lurker looking for a good occasion for my first post, and I let this one pass by while I was temporarily distracted. Well, better late than never. Latin: Gilbertus Dodgenus morio Middle Egyptian: wxA pw gr dDn Swahili: Bwana Gil ni mjinga. Klingon: cha' ghop lo'chugh tlhuQDaj SamlaHbe' ghIl Do'jen Actually that last is "Gil Dodgen can't find his tail with both hands", Klingon having (disappointingly) no attested word for "ass". We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. |
| Date: 2009/01/14 15:10:06, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Uh oh. It's not a good sign when the first response to my first post goes entirely over my head. "Iks'bmed"? Go ahead, make me feel stupid. (In my original post I was going to suggest that the Klingon for "ass" was DoqDoq. Don't know why I didn't.) |
| Date: 2009/01/14 15:26:14, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
!ho'D Note, at least, that I was on the same page, even if I was executing a different algorithm. (And mixing a metaphor.) |
| Date: 2009/01/15 10:04:28, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Sorry, that was me, posting by accident under an account I created some time ago but never got around to using. I wish I could get the hang of this internet thing. |
| Date: 2009/01/16 11:42:06, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
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| Date: 2009/01/19 08:06:17, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
As I understand it (which is more or less "through a glass, darkly"), Roman women usually didn't have first names per se. They were just called by the feminine form of their family name. A female born of the Julius clan (the one Gaius Julius Caesar belonged to) would be named Julia, to the Tullius clan (Cicero's) Tullia, and so on. If there were several girls born to the same family they might be numbered (Julia Tertia, Tullia Quinta, etc.). Caesar's wife was, as you will no doubt have surmised, of the Calpurnius clan. Her father was Lucius Calpurnius Piso. |
| Date: 2009/01/19 09:47:27, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Your confusion is understandable, but you've fallen prey to what what we in the linguistics trade call "false friends". In fact there's no relation whatsoever between "Piso" and "Pisa"; among other points, classical Latin intervocalic "s" was not voiced. No, in fact old Lucius was in an entirely different line of business.  I believe his friends used to refer to him as "Lou the Plumber". |
| Date: 2009/01/19 11:43:44, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Exhibit B: She claims to be writing a book called Expelled: No Science Allowed, "to be published in 2008", and she describes it thus: [QUOTE]Expelled: No Science Allowed is much like To Sir With Love becoming To Madam With Hate followed by a fairy tale ending of vindication by Hollywood.[I] I was ready to rush right out (to amazon.com) and order a copy, but for some reason amazon knows nothing of Dr. Crocker's opus. |
| Date: 2009/01/19 11:49:11, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
[quote=noncarborundum,Jan. 19 2009,11:43]
O for an "edit" button. |
| Date: 2009/01/19 21:05:06, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
I'm talking about the book described here. Usually if I read about a book "to be published" sometime in the near future (or, in this case, the near past), I expect amazon.com to have some inkling of it (even, at least sometimes, self-publications). Not in this case. Is this the book "about integrity in science", or has she written another book amazon.com doesn't know about? (BTW, just in case it needs stating, I'm really not in a rush to delve into Dr. Crocker's literary output.) |
| Date: 2009/01/19 22:45:36, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Order of the Tinfoil Headgear. |
| Date: 2009/01/20 00:10:29, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Darn. Now what am I supposed to do with my feeling that it all just seems incredibly unplanned? |
| Date: 2009/01/20 11:12:43, Link 148.87.1.169 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
In my own humble way I must take a modicum of credit for this. Back when the selection of Rick Warren for the inaugural invocation was a hot topic, one commenter on scienceblogs (I think it was at Ed Brayton's place) challenged another to name a Christian leader who was not anti-gay. I piped up and mentioned Gene Robinson*. Apparently someone from the Obama team was listening. (That, or the choice of Robinson was just insanely obvious. I can't decide.) And when God smites Washington, D.C., boy will I be chagrined. ----- *Yes, I knew that by "Christian", the commenter I was responding to meant "fundywacko True Christian™", and that by his lights G.R. doesn't qualify. |
| Date: 2009/01/20 12:59:57, Link 148.87.1.169 | ||||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||||
Yes, but I don't think he's earned his doctorate yet. |
| Date: 2009/01/21 10:31:15, Link 148.87.1.169 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Not really, because Dave doesn't appear to distinguish between phenotype and genotype. Outward characteristics appear to blend; the genes remain stubbornly Mendelian. |
| Date: 2009/01/21 23:32:48, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Alternatively, and in a spirit of inclusiveness,  |
| Date: 2009/01/22 07:43:41, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Methinks it is like a Dembski. |
| Date: 2009/01/22 15:19:48, Link 148.87.1.171 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
So he thinks IC demonstrates that there was a designer, but he doesn't believe said designer is/was a deity? What is he, a Raëlian? |
| Date: 2009/01/23 09:06:44, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
*Note to self: Invest in new set of sarcasm tags and deploy as needed.* |
| Date: 2009/01/23 10:22:31, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
That last line's kind of clunky. How about:
:D |
| Date: 2009/01/23 15:32:59, Link 148.87.1.170 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
From their "diagnostic quiz":
Oooh! I know! Pick me! Pick me!!!!!111! |
| Date: 2009/01/23 16:17:10, Link 148.87.1.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
The phrase was Jefferson's description of purpose and effect of the religion clauses of the First Amendment:
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| Date: 2009/01/23 22:09:03, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
No, it was the Easter Bunny that was Expelled - a major coup in the War on Easter begun last year by militant atheists, emboldened by their early successes in the War on Christmas, as a second front in their Global War On Jesus. |
| Date: 2009/01/24 09:54:15, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Not to mention: nobody asks "How many individuals and reproductive events would be required for the trait to be selected and preserved in the population?"? Really? Then what is it that population geneticists do all day? |
| Date: 2009/01/24 20:31:45, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||||||
 :( |
| Date: 2009/01/25 20:17:08, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
But she actually performed the experiment. Doesn' that put her one up on the UDenizens? |
| Date: 2009/01/26 11:18:29, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Kristol's contract is up. They signed him up for one year in January 2008. Maybe cooler heads at the NYT have have prevailed this time around. |
| Date: 2009/01/26 11:37:10, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Plus ça change . . . .  |
| Date: 2009/01/28 08:45:05, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
It worked for me with a bit of tweaking. Try this. |
| Date: 2009/01/29 21:52:35, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Or put a pair of glasses on Jack Jeebs (Tony Shalhoub in Men in Black):   |
| Date: 2009/01/31 10:07:18, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Methinks he is trying to count the words in his snappy answers. This would work if they were each two words long. Except they aren't:
Maybe if he changed that last one to "We're ignorant." BTW I didn't realize we hate special-needs children. Bummer, since I have one. |
| Date: 2009/01/31 10:30:50, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
I don't think .NET had anything to do with it. I saw the problem earlier this morning and then it just went away without my doing anything. I think this means that somebody at Google fixed it. |
| Date: 2009/01/31 20:02:48, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Racist: check. Offensive: check. Also just plain stupid. And not funny. |
| Date: 2009/02/01 15:33:44, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Then you may be interested in the correct spelling of "Pittsburgh" (necessary should you be interested in performing any numerology with it). |
| Date: 2009/02/02 00:28:14, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
If you wanted to make that sound all official 'n' stuff, you could go with the actual Latin name for mulberry, morus, which would give you argumentum ad morum, or perhaps argumentum circum morum, ("around"). Problem is, it would lose most of its effect because you'd have to explain it. Still, with the right audience (of botanists and/or Latinists) . . . |
| Date: 2009/02/02 16:13:56, Link 148.87.1.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Now I have to revise my mental picture of a knuckle-dragger. I never imagined one leaning backwards as it walked. This is a posture I normally associate with beings of a more advanced type.  |
| Date: 2009/02/04 09:00:08, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Ben Stein == scholar? When did that happen? |
| Date: 2009/02/07 21:37:23, Link 148.87.1.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
"Cthulhu fhtagn" is a prediction unsubstantiated or verified until the stars once again come into proper alignment. Only then does the verse take on meaning and relevance because, for one, it proves you have spoken the truth, and two... you're in deep shit. |
| Date: 2009/02/08 11:45:52, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
But, but, but, but . . . Isn't the "broad ordering" of the fossils supposed by YEC to have happenened not "over 6000 years" but over just a year or so? Or are there versions of YEC in which brontotheres were still being fossilized in the 17th century AD? |
| Date: 2009/02/09 12:48:14, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
I'm not sure what this anecdote was supposed to prove in the first place, even if RJFE was in fact right about the impossibility of old wet wood. That there are people who will mindlessly parrot what they've been taught regardless of plain evidence to the contrary all about them? But he's got to know that already. After all, he comes from a faith tradition. |
| Date: 2009/02/09 14:08:12, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Methinks it is like a weasel. |
| Date: 2009/02/09 16:10:53, Link 148.87.1.170 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Optimist. |
| Date: 2009/02/10 10:30:47, Link 148.87.1.171 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Ah, but you misconstrue his point. His area of expertise is not the practice of humility, it's the regurgitation of aphorisms about humility.
See? |
| Date: 2009/02/13 12:33:39, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
It's quite simple, really: micro- adj., which has been observed macro- adj., which has not been observed This conveniently prevents any observation from ever having to be considered evidence of the macro-evolution. Because, as we all know, the underlying dynamic is really more or less this: micro- adj., Biblical macro- adj., atheistic |
| Date: 2009/02/13 12:38:35, Link 148.87.1.172 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Who was it who suggested that if Jesus had lived in the 20th century, Christians would all be wearing necklaces with little electric chairs hanging from them? |
| Date: 2009/02/13 15:35:11, Link 148.87.1.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
The question was partly rhetorical. I think Bruce may have missed something, though; Catholics wear not just crosses, but crucifixes. That would mean that if Jesus had been executed recently, the little electric chairs sported by Catholic schoolkids would have little fried guys in them. |
| Date: 2009/02/16 10:44:55, Link 148.87.1.171 | ||||||||||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||||||||||
Well, there is this.
It appears that the book can't actually be purchased, though, at least not through the normal outlets. Also this may be a different Arbor Vitae:
Or maybe not. |
| Date: 2009/02/16 14:37:35, Link 148.87.1.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Somebody call John Gibson and Bill O'Reilly. |
| Date: 2009/02/20 21:00:43, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
I believe that's the renowned Devil's Phallus National Landmark. |
| Date: 2009/03/09 21:30:04, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
See, if only Wallace had held off for a few more years, Darwin wouldn't have been forced to publish so soon and the U.S. could have gotten rid of slavery before it became bad. OTOH, if Darwin had never published and therefore slavery never became bad, would we have had to get rid of it at all? Was Darwin in fact the cause of the U.S. Civil War? (... in addition, of course, to WWII, which we already know about.) The inquiring alternative historian wants to know. |
| Date: 2009/03/14 01:45:42, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||||||||
asdfasdf |
| Date: 2009/03/14 01:50:58, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Actually that's a misconception. The original claim was that the Earth was stationery. As proof I offer the fact that Jesus is recorded to have knelt down and written in the dust during the dispute over the woman taken in adultery. Oh, yes, and that for millions of years dinosaurs ruled the Earth. This made the Earth so much easier to write neatly on in nice, straight lines. |
| Date: 2009/03/14 01:54:33, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
Slip of the mouse. I can haz edit buttin? |
| Date: 2009/03/16 01:29:43, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Yes. Chance and necessity are what's left over once you've eliminated design. |
| Date: 2009/03/18 22:43:19, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||
... or "assume a wide stance." |
| Date: 2009/03/28 18:49:47, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
"Ipsa dixit" isn't wrong if what she meant to say was "she herself [has] said" (or "it itself [has] said" with a feminine referent). If you can tell what subject she intended, though, you're one up on me. (If she meant to say "I myself have said", she's wrong in a different way. That would be "Ipsa dixi". Assuming for the sake of argument that she's feminine.) |
| Date: 2009/03/29 00:59:42, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
Daniel, I realize Reciprocating Bill can speak for himself (far better than I can speak for him), but don't you see what you've done here?
Does it need pointing out that this is a complete non sequitur? "Objects similar to those we create (such as those that reflect representation, as in a clear representation of a face)" is not at all the same thing as "an object of sufficient organizational complexity". That is, it's not the "organizational complexity" that's at issue, regardless of how much you want it to be. |
| Date: 2009/03/29 09:18:17, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||
Typically, liberals just want to throw more money at the problem when the obvious solution is to throw more virgins at the problem. Imagine what that would do to the budget deficit, though, at today's prices. |
| Date: 2009/03/29 17:47:30, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||||||
Strange. I was under the impression that sacrificing virginity has been known to be the cause of volcanic eruptions. |
| Date: 2009/03/31 23:06:46, Link 75.69.244.167 | ||||
| Author: noncarborundum | ||||
I just love the fact that their first "Affiliated Sites" link is to this.
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