[Thatcherite]

Pinging aamm in because you seem to like this kind of stuff.

You know, this "500 theses about Piltdown" lie a few posts up in the thread has reminded me of an FR crevo classic.

Do you remember the guy who had the same bugbear, that somehow Piltdown was a major plank of evolutionary beliefs. In promotion of his belief he posted a list of about 15 scientific papers that cited Piltdown...

Problem was, that when you examined the papers they came up as follows:

• 2 or 3 of them were the descriptions of the original finds.
• 2 or 3 of them were quite long articles that mentioned Piltdown once as a footnote
• About 10 of them were post-debunk, and mentioned Piltdown as something that had been debunked
• And the crowning glory of the list was "The Lost World", by Conan Doyle

The frantic weaseling by the poster when his error was pointed out was wondrous to behold. In an effort to deflect the subject he then posted another list to demonstrate the mendacity/gullibility of paleontologists. This was papers about "Brontosaurus". Naturally enough google was once again his friend (hurrah!), and he managed to find and include in his list, "Bully for Brontosaurus" by Gould.

[PatrickHenry]

The frantic weaseling by the poster when his error was pointed out was wondrous to behold.

I have a dim memory of that thread. The usual range of responses when a creationist's post is clearly shown to be worthless trash is that the creationist will:

1. Run away.
2. Deny the original post.
3. Dig in a creationist dumpster for similar material, which starts it all over again.
4. Condemn you to hell.
5. Hit the abuse button.
6. Freepmail his insane buddies for backup.
7. Claim victory.

In some cases, the creationist's response will be more than one of the above. Note: one option is missing from the above -- the creationist will never support his claims with verifiable evidence.

[Ichneumon]

Do you remember the guy who had the same bugbear, that somehow Piltdown was a major plank of evolutionary beliefs. In promotion of his belief he posted a list of about 15 scientific papers that cited Piltdown... Problem was, that when you examined the papers they came up as follows: [snip] And the crowning glory of the list was "The Lost World", by Conan Doyle

Yup, that's one of my favorites. Read it in all its glory right here.