Origin of board decision probed [Dover Evolution trial, 03 Nov]

York Daily Record [Penna] ^ | 03 November 2005 | MICHELLE STARR

[b_sharp]

"Oh yes, you are smarter than all the creationists, which is your best argument for evolution to date.

Actually it is the creationists who believe they are 'smarter' than all the scientists that work every day in the fields that contribute to the ToE.

"Some of you have become bitter over the years and have lost everything in your repertoire except the ad hominem attack.

The repertoire of the evos here is not in any way reduced since science adds to the evidence every day. The ad homs are a reaction to the repeated use of the same debunked garbage. It is born of frustration not bitterness.

"Therefore I must ask you to refrain from addressing me unless you are able to maintain control over your emotions and conduct yourself in a civil manner.

May I suggest that you learn the ToE science uses rather than the strawman people like Hovind and Johnson have created. If you were to do that, I suspect you would receive fewer ad homs.

[VadeRetro]

I think it means they worship the Great God Powerball^TM.

[b_sharp]

We have a different God here, it's called the *649*. Last week 17 worshipers in Alberta won 54.7 million dollars. My wife worships it every weekend, but has received very little in return. *649* works in mysterious ways.

[Hacksaw]

BTW- another reason evolution is highly suspect: After 150 years of supposedly compiling evidence, monopolizing public schools and colleges, enjoying the support of liberals and the liberal media, and using the ACLU to suppress their opposition, and spending untold billions on research, we are still unpersuaded. And it's not because 88% of America is stupid. It's because evolutionists couldn't make a persuasive case if they had the entire GNP to spend doing it.

I don't think they like to be reminded that they constantly ally themselves with the ACLU to censor people (not to mention Morris Dees and Barry Lynn). Cultural Marxists are not conservatives.

[VadeRetro]

Just now where I live, the Great God Mega-Millions^TM is supreme. 192 million is out there for somebody. (Powerball^TM had been at 36 million but somebody somewhere just won the pot last night so it's down to a trifling 15 mil.) Living very close to a state border, I have two states's worth of rip-offs to tempt me.

[PatrickHenry]

Placemarker and plug for The List-O-Links.

[furball4paws]

I got a random selector model XLJ6352 right here in my shop. Looks like a cross between a wood stove and a violin bow.

I bow to it every morning and offer it a bowl of panther piss to appease its anger.

[King Prout]

FReepmailed threats placemarker

[dread78645]

I might worship it if I could figure out what the heck it's supposed to mean.

Heaven has a stripper factory and a beer volcano -- not too hard to figure out.
Clearly "Flying Spaghetti Monsterism" is the One True Religion ™.

[VadeRetro]

When the other side pops up in my Freepmail queue I tend to persuade them to put their nonsense out where the lurkers can see it. I don't argue for Luddites and they're very unlikely to persuade me at this stage of my education. They needed to catch me younger or to try again when I'm senile.

And I don't worry about getting nasty in freepmail either. I tell them if they don't like it, get out of my freemail queue.

[highball]

People want simple solutions, especially ones that vindicate their inborn prejudices.

Careful.. If what you say is true, it is true of evolutionists even more.

Nonsense. Show me one evolutionist who refuses to acknowledge physical evidence simply because it doesn't fit with his personal cosmology. One.

That doesn't change the fact of evolution.

Now there we have a perfect example of compound problem involving the use of language and logic. Could it be an illustration of a simple solution vindicating an inborn prejudice?

Evolution is both a fact and a theory. It can be observed. The Theory is how that fact applies to the origin of species. Perhaps you were unaware of that?

[Doctor Stochastic]

..."etc ad nauseum:"...

Perhaps some of this could be cured by sending people ad museum.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Many people seem to worship the Ancient God Coca Cola; as evidenced by them putting money into one his many convient shrines.

[VadeRetro]

When He dispenses His blessings, the recipient becomes so filled with the spirit that the ritual acknowledgment "BRAAAAAAAWWWWPPP!" is almost inevitable.

[balrog666]

I got a random selector model XLJ6352 right here in my shop. Looks like a cross between a wood stove and a violin bow. I bow to it every morning and offer it a bowl of panther piss to appease its anger.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Mystic dogma?

[King Prout]

*chuckling*
I'll dissect that one in detail later - the initial survey of errors is promisingly amusing.

[furball4paws]

Where do you find these things?

[longshadow]

Where do you find these things?

Archival Section of DarwinCentral™ Inventory Room.....