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Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ^ | 1006 | Chris Mooney

[js1138]

Actually, I blame Hollywood for presenting a creationist paradoy of evolution every time mutations get mentioned or used as a plot device. Saltation is the norm for Hollywood.

[Mamzelle]

Oh, good grief. Now you're pretending to be offended by "look-ism?" How many more pretenses and impostures did they give you for your rhetorical handbook? Do you fret over the frequent insults given to poor poor Helen Thomas here on FR? Try again. Turn the page in you "Talking Points for Seminar Callers--Try Anything to Throw Your Opponent on the Defensive."

[cdgent]

Atheists will never be able to protect themselves. I doubt they would fight and die for each other.

I'm an atheist, and a USAF fighter pilot who has seen combat in two countries. How about you?

[Mamzelle]

Are you working to unseat him? Are your buddies? I have, as a matter of fact, donated to him. I do not expect any pol to please me even most of the time--I just hope for some of the time.

[Windsong]

With a last name like that, he must have gone through hell in grade school..

[narby]

As for sides, I am definitely on the right.

Then why are you helping the left? It should be patently obvious to anyone on these threads that there are many genuine conservatives that will not tolerate religious anti-science agendas? So then why are you continuing to push such a thing, unless it's you who are working for Soros?

And I am happy to have the votes of the Christian right for my party, and hope to keep them--and I think we will.

Well, they're certainly not going to vote for Democrats. Duh.

we'll be keeping an eye on Santorum, since the evos have indicated that they'd like to replace him with a Dem.

If Santorum had continued his creationist views, he would have lost the Republicans far more than one Senate seat.

You don't get it, but people will not have religion shoved down their necks. ID is religion, pure and simple. The Republicans require support from non-religious and non-creationist Christians and Jews in order to remain viable. Why are you attempting to alienate them, unless you're working for Soros?

[stands2reason]

You're full of it. Conservatives of any stripe do not want Santorum replaced by a dem.

[js1138]

Einstein dismissed quantum mechanics as junk science. For that reason it was never studied for almost three decades, now it is one of the hottest research areas of physics.

Interesting that Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to quantum theory (1905 paper on the photoelectric effect) and 23 years later, the backbone of quantum theory was finished.

What decades are you referring to?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Thanks. I'm not suprised

I quit reading Sci Am several years ago because their editorials took a significant left turn. And because some of the articles look like stuff I wrote when I had to pull an all-nighter in college because I was too lazy to do the work.

I often site Sci Am when in friendly debates about science. Except for math because I usually only find articles about calculus, not really a topic for all if you know what I mean.

I do concede that their articles on Global Warming and Climate Science are decidedly left, but I can't really think of anything else that leans that way. But that's OK cause I ain't no Kool-Aid drinker either.

[Junior]

Your the one denigrating your opponents' physical features. I was just wondering how what they looked like had anything to do with the validity of their arguments. That you've described your opponents as "pencil necks" and "frail" indicates you are insecure in your looks and/or prowess, which, coupled with your extreme paranoia about evolution, indicates a possible failed romantic liaison with an evolutionist.

Note, I am not a psychologist. I'm just married to one.

[stands2reason]

I think you're right. She's the one trying to put a wedge in, so to speak.

She doesn't want any atheists, agnostics, secularists or Buddhists voting Republican.

[b_sharp]

"Oh, puh-Leeeeze. I've been an atheist since I was fourteen, and never got drunk or drugged, never got laid, and am still very close to my family, including my very Catholic and very liberal mother. Come to think about it, I'm still not getting drunk or drugged, or....

You poor sap. I've been an atheist since I was 14 (1969) and did get drunk frequently from 17 to 20, and did my share of Acid and smoke dope. Also had a few girlfriends. *You* could have had all of this if you were a proper atheist.

Just as an aside, I haven't touched drugs (other than as prescribed by my doctor) since my daughter was born in 1977 and I drink maybe 3 oz of alcohol a year. I've been married for 29 years. See? Families mean nothing to me.

I really am just a no good nasty atheist aren't I?

[Mamzelle]

You're trying this pretense of being offended by look-ism again--?

[js1138]

These cell fossils all look the same to me. I know I'm too dumb to figure out which one was the first.

So true.

[Junior]

Your reply is not making any sense in light of your earlier posts and my replies to them. I'm not offended; I'm a skeptic -- and I'm a 230 lbs. Navy Chief Petty Officer with nearly 19 years of service under my belt; a far cry from your denigrating remarks about "frail" "pencil necks."

[Mamzelle]

re: Conservatives of any stripe do not want Santorum replaced by a dem.)))

Quite right. It's the progressives who'd seize upon any promising tool to overturn the Senate majority. ID/evo is as good a tool as any--and it's helpful that there are so many poseurs from the Temple of Science, and resentful libertarians, who'll carry their water.

[stands2reason]

You posted ad hominems, and now you have the nerve to be surprised to be called on it? Gimme a break.

[Mamzelle]

I'll be gauging your "anti lookism" sincerity next time there's a Helen Thomas thread.

[b_sharp]

"I think it takes some time before posters here get a good enough grasp of the scientific background of some of the regulars around here to start being careful about posting on such matters. Some never learn. Some of us learn to step carefully and try not to exceed our educational limits too often.

You mean there are people here who know something about science? That's a little hard to accept, I think we need to see some 'cites' for this.

[Junior]

Where did this "lookism" stuff come from? Oh, I forgot -- your fevered, paranoid imagination. You were the one that brought up the physical appearance of your (mental) enemies, as if that had any bearing on their arguments. It was the equivalent of the "wel, well, you're ugly!" method of argumentation.