[Mamzelle]

Hey, Mr. Cool Objective Scientist--you post on this subject often and regularly in FR. When challenged, is this squeaking the way to respond? Barely a week goes buy that you do not offer another pro-evolution thread for the Benighted Ones.

It is not unreasonable to assume that you are an advocate, an evangelist, if you will.

If one reads your fruit-fly thread, you attempt an early demonization of anyone who questions(ed) that the flies were not yet extant (and they were not extant, and are still not extant after many more generations), and would not be produced through any natural understanding of what evolution is, anyway. The scientist is a very prominent one at a very important research institution. If we can't trust him, who can we trust?

I don't happen to be a believer in ID--it's as silly as the whole Magical Evolving process that the scientists here believe in so passionately.

Evolution is highly useful as a descriptive mechanism--but has given rise to its own dogmatists.

[PatrickHenry]

Here's the long-ago thread that has the lady in a snit: Changing One Gene Launches New Fly Species. Observe the last few posts, a few months apart. They're her periodic pings to hold me accountable for the guy's research, and to demand updates from me. It's obsessive, but at this stage it's little more than low-grade stalking. No big deal.

[Ichneumon]

If one reads your fruit-fly thread, you attempt an early demonization of anyone who questions(ed) that the flies were not yet extant (and they were not extant, and are still not extant after many more generations),

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya

ex·tant    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kstnt, k-stnt)
adj.

1. Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts.
2. Archaic. Standing out; projecting.

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[Latin exstns, exstant- present participle of exstre, to stand out  : ex-, ex- + stre, to stand; see st- in Indo-European Roots.]

[balrog666]

It is not unreasonable to assume that you are an advocate, an evangelist, if you will.

Did you ever just think it might be "news"? Interesting news at that.