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To: VadeRetro
BTW, how DO you get paid for being one of the professional evolutionists on something like FR? I might be interested; it definitely sounds easier than working for a living.
1,295 posted on 12/29/2002 9:03:15 AM PST by titanmike
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To: titanmike
BTW, how DO you [VadeRetro] get paid for being one of the professional evolutionists on something like FR? I might be interested; it definitely sounds easier than working for a living.

He's on commission, paid handsomely for each post. We at Darwin CentralTM collect royalties on all DNA, and we therefore have vast resources at our disposal to bribe everyone in sight to keep the Vast Darwinian ConspiracyTM going, notwithstanding the brilliant work of the creation science crowd. But don't tell anyone. If word of this gets out, the game is over.

1,298 posted on 12/29/2002 9:35:38 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: titanmike
BTW, how DO you get paid for being one of the professional evolutionists on something like FR? I might be interested; it definitely sounds easier than working for a living.

I'm not a "wannabee" biologist, geologist, paleontologist, or anything else of such a level of difficulty. I certainly don't think I'm a physicist or a chemist. So what am I doing? I have an antiquated, never-used undergrad degree in psychology and I argue with nutcases like you purely as a hobby.

Recall now that I mentioned the preponderance of evidence for the age of the earth. The Age of the Earth and How We Know. I asked you why you would overthrow the same in favor of two paragraphs of vague mumble whose ultimate source was unknown to you and which in any case only referred to calculations done elsewhere by the unknown author.

This is your supposed answer:

There are several possible reasons why lines of evidence might converge or appear to converge.

The lines of evidence might actually converge.

Or there might be an official paradigm of some sort in place and the lines of evidence might appear to converge because in each individual case, researchers know that they will perish rather than go on publishing if they ever publish anything which does not support the paradigm.

"Maybe the big preponderance of evidence is all an illusion or more likely a world-wide fraud conspiracy and they're all in on it and that's why all the evidence is against me and whoever put the note in that bottle."

It's been an interesting hobby, but it's getting a little old. I've seen you and done you a hundred times over the last four years. You've had a different name most times, but the common signature is that you threw every shred of normal commonsense reasoning away a long time ago to live in a world in which magic is more plausible than cause-and-effect, "It's a miracle" is a great scientific explanation that keeps getting overlooked, and a vast conspiracy keeps all the real evidence hidden from the public.

Bulletproof delusional systems are fun for a while, but the thing is that bulletproof means bulletproof. No matter what is shown you guys, you go out as deluded as you come in. Been here, seen you, done you.

1,313 posted on 12/29/2002 11:39:13 AM PST by VadeRetro
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