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To: 2nsdammit
I think it is because evidence, facts, scientific studies, etc have been placed in evidence many, many, many times, in this and similar threads, only to see the same debunked arguments be brought up again and again, whack-a-mole-like. It's simple frustration, really.

You know, that sounds real nice and all, but you and everyone who's ever read these threads knows full well that 99% of the arguments from the evo consist of slander, insults, ad hominem attacks, unfounded accusations, and statements like "it's true because I said so".

It usually takes several hundred posts to get one of you to make any sort of factual or scientific claim, and then another several hundred to back it up. When you do post a link to something substantial, I usually read it, rebut it, and eventually you guys give up. (Go back and look at the archaeopteryx thread or the whale thread... don't remember all the details now.)

So spare me the "frustration" nonsense.

2,293 posted on 12/22/2005 3:09:37 PM PST by jbloedow
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To: jbloedow

Read those posts relevant to one small part of the discussion: that part of the thread relating to conservative blond's premise that Darwin recanted on his deathbed. It goes something like this:

CB: "He recanted it on his deathbed!"

not-CB: "Wrong. This has been debunked here before"

CB: "Has not. I know he recanted!"

not-CB: "Here's the evidence of a biographer that studied him extensively, which shows that not to be true"

CB: "He's wrong, I know he recanted"

not-CB: "Here is another source, which states that his family said he did no such thing"

CB: "Yes he did, I know it."

not-CB: "Do you have any evidence that he did so, beyond the bebunked source you presented??"

CB: "I just know. I have always known"

[etc,etc,etc]

not-CB: "You have been proven wrong, yet you persist in saying this. Provide evidence, or apologize"

CB: "I'll never apologize - I know he did....."

That's what I'm talkin' about, when I say frustration.


2,300 posted on 12/22/2005 3:28:03 PM PST by 2nsdammit (By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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To: jbloedow
...99% of the arguments from the evo consist of slander, insults, ad hominem attacks, unfounded accusations, and statements like "it's true because I said so". ..

Plus a few megabytes worth of transitional fossil pictures, chemical pathways, trees of ERVs and other genetic markers, the occasional differential inequality, lots of links to primary and secondary sources. Just a few things like that.

2,304 posted on 12/22/2005 3:54:31 PM PST by Virginia-American
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