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To: Al Simmons; Rokke

[If this quote is representative of your overall ability to understand scientific text, I thank God you’ll never be piloting any plane I’m gonna be in....]

If you find that skepticism involving the science of 68 million year old connective tissue proteins means the skeptic must be a drooling idiot, then you have some pretty unusual standards for measuring intelligence. Maybe you’re just offended by someone insulting your faith?


36 posted on 04/15/2007 12:56:34 AM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: jim35
The very quick leap to anger demonstrated in several posts on this thread (by some posters that normally exhibit more rationality) indicates a desperate lack of faith in anything...that really matters.
46 posted on 04/15/2007 9:28:14 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: jim35; Rokke
"Jim35 wrote: Maybe you’re just offended by someone insulting your faith?"

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there Jim?

I have basically dropped out of these threads because trying to discuss the science of evolution with a 'The-Bible-is-100%-literally-true-young-earth-creationist" is an excercise in futility.

So read my tagline - its my ' message' to you.

Oh, and if you want to learn about my faith, do take the time to read my homepage.

Rokke, I believe you and I had an entirely pleasant exchange of emails some years ago wherein you educated me about the fact that TWA 800 was in fact not shot down, which I respected immensely and which changed my view of the incident. That is something that you clearly had both the background and the logical reasoning in to demonstrate to my satisfaction.

OTOH, your comment earlier lacked that same kind of logical analysis. I will only second the suggestion of another poster that you read the actual Scientific American (see earlier post) article if you'd like to discuss it. This article has had some very interesting commentary on it on the Dinosaur Mailing List to which I belong (though I am there mostly to learn from the paleontologists who discuss the latest developments in the filed). The link to the Archives of the mailing list is below - you can read the posts without having to join the list - but be forewarned if you do join - discussion of 'Creation Science' is off-limits. Its a serious scientific list, not a forum for verbal donnybrooks like FR. ;>).

Here is the link to the archives of the DML (the past week has seen a LOT of discussion of this article.)

http://dml.cmnh.org/

47 posted on 04/15/2007 10:42:39 AM PDT by Al Simmons (Personal Relationship w/God=Mind-Control Technique partly designed to inhibit critical thinking.)
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