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Do you accept the rules as I have proposed them, or would you like to propose some changes/additions before we get fully into the debate? You now have 48 hours to respond.

From a recent post to you in another thread, which explains why your contest will fail:

... a classic creationist technique -- moving the goal posts. First they come out with some ignorant claim like "X is absolutely impossible, no way X could have happened." Then our side patiently points out some way that X could have happened. Then the fun starts. "Well," they say, "I meant X with extra conditions Y and Z." Our side points out that X is X, so their point is rebutted, and we may even go on to deal with extra conditions Y and Z.
Then it starts -- the creationist version of the Sioux ghost dance -- the topic-switching, the nit-picking, the name-calling, the tap-dancing, accusations of fraud, of atheism, of Satanism, of liberalism, of being in it for the money, of inspiring Hitler and Stalin, etc. Lance the boil of creationism just a little bit, and out gushes all the filth in the con-man's bag of tricks.
89 posted on 01/22/2003 7:21 AM EST by PatrickHenry

To: Havoc

Just calling evolution a theory is an overstatement . . . only an idea // mood // feeling - - - an ideology // perverse oddity ! ! !

70 posted on 01/21/2003 10:12 AM PST by f.Christian (Orcs of the world: Take note and beware.)

To: f.Christian

Conjecture masquarading as science might be more appropos - I agree.

71 posted on 01/21/2003 12:04 PM PST by Havoc ((Evolution is a theory, Creationism is God's word, ID is science, Sanka is coffee))

Main Entry: 1con·jec·ture
Pronunciation: k&n-'jek-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conjectura, from conjectus, past participle of conicere, literally, to throw together, from com- + jacere to throw -- more at JET
Date: 14th century
1 obsolete a : interpretation of omens b : SUPPOSITION
2 a : inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved