National Geographic Ignores The Flaws in Darwin's Theory

Discovery Institute News ^ | 11/8/04 | Jonathan Wells

[balrog666]

Sorry all, that was indeed in bad taste.

[PatrickHenry]

I hope you yourself requested the deletion.

[Ichneumon]

PLEASE NO LINKS TO CRAZY UNSUPPORTED WebPages!!!! [...] No meaning every guy with 10 bucks a month and a little HTML dose not a scientist make.

Oh... So from which web page did you take your list of "quotes"?

Oh, right, this one, or this one (they're cut-and-pastes of each other). The quotes in your post appear in the same order, with the same typos, and same exact punctuation as the ones on those two web pages.

The first, www.wealth4freedom.com, is by "Krim and Jim", whoever the heck they are.

The second is a public forum post by someone named "David Sutherland", who could be anyone at all, with or without any relevant background or credibility.

So... Who exactly has been posting stuff from "CRAZY UNSUPPORTED WebPages" again? Oh, right, you have.

I also note that those pages INCLUDE relevant details like DATES and PAGE NUMBERS. Is there any particular reason you took the trouble to REMOVE those when doing copy-paste on that list of quotes? Trying to cover your tracks? Trying to make it hard for someone to doublecheck them? Trying to hide just how outdated many of them are? Or some combination thereof?

[PatrickHenry]

You are being insensitive to the special needs of the epistemologically challenged.

[Ichneumon]

I'll get a list of my points / questions together that I think disproves evolution (might take a little while)

Thanks. New points will be welcome, but you implied that I (we?) had ignored points you had already made on this thread -- could you please list them? In a bit I'll make a quick list of the points I've made that I feel you haven't addressed.

and I would honestly - without insults or ignoring the ones that are harder for your side to answer, like to know your responses.

I'll do my best. In return, I ask that you do the same.

Hopefully instead of insults and anger we can debate this.

I hope so too.

[Elsie]

Well said.

I can be a bit short in my answers and responses at times.

I think way more stuff than I write, and somehow I feel that the fellow on the other side of the terminal must be able to read my mind.

Sorry, I'll try to do better.

[Elsie]

400? (in base what?)

[Ichneumon]

I can be a bit short in my answers and responses at times. I think way more stuff than I write, and somehow I feel that the fellow on the other side of the terminal must be able to read my mind.

Thanks for saying that, Elsie. Sometimes I have trouble telling whether you're poking fun just to add some humor, or because you're being snide. I'd rather be able to tell which it was. :-)

But for the record, this recent post of yours was clearly good-spirited, and *hilarious*:

[The damned things keep springing back after I think I've eliminated most of them.)]

This happened to me, too! (But with me, it was KIDS!!! ;^)

[Ichneumon]

You are being insensitive to the special needs of the epistemologically challenged.

Are you saying I pist 'em 'ol off?

[Elsie]

I'd rather be able to tell which it was. :-)

Even when I re-read something I wrote from more than 24 hours ago, I have no clue what I was talking about!

[Ichneumon]

[400. Prime number placemarker]

400? (in base what?)

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In any base (N/4), where N is a prime integer, of course.

[Elsie]

4*10*10=400

Not prime...........

2*2*5*2*5*2=400

[Ichneumon]

4*10*10=400 Not prime........... 2*2*5*2*5*2=400

Right, but that's in base 10. Try "400" in base square-root-of(1/2), for example.

[PatrickHenry]

But Ichie ... I always use a base-one numbering system. Everything is prime!

[Ichneumon]

But Ichie ... I always use a base-one numbering system. Everything is prime!

Please explain how 1111 is prime in a base-one numbering system, when it is factorable by 11 (11x11=1111). :-)

Personally, I'm lobbying for a base 0 numbering system.

[PatrickHenry]

In my one-based system:
1+1=1
1-1=1
1*1=1 (no surprise there)
etc.

When I said everything is prime, I wasn't kidding.

[longshadow]

In my one-based system:....

Base 2 consists of numbers represented by TWO digits: 0, and 1.

Hence, a Base 1 system would consist of numbers represented by a SINGLE digit, such as 0.

0₁₀= 0₁

1₁₀=00₁

2₁₀=000₁

3₁₀=0000₁

And so on...

[PatrickHenry]

Hence, a Base 1 system would consist of numbers represented by a SINGLE digit, such as 0.

In my system, the single digit is "1" because it's easier to write than a zero. I'm a simple man, and I like to keep things simple.

[Virginia-American]

I quit renewing my subscription to National Geographic a few decades ago. It lost its objectivity – along with Smithsonian Magazine.

I used to love Scientific American, back in the '50's thru oh, say the '70's. Then it just got too PC for me

[R. Scott]

I let my subscription to Scientific American lapse back in the late ‘80’s – I forget what bandwagon they had jumped on, but it was way too PC.