Posted on 05/21/2009 10:38:06 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
So-called “missing link” Ida hit the media in a major way on Monday of this week, with even search engine Google falling prey to the hype and modifying its search page banner to show Ida. We quickly responded with a full article, Ida: the Missing Link at Last?
Yet within a few hours of the unveiling of the fossil—coordinated to coincide with the publication of the scientific paper on Ida—some better media outlets began to report some worrying things about the research. It seems as though the scientific process had been rushed and the claims exaggerated in a bid to promote a new documentary and book on the fossil. Sadly, media pressures sometimes trump full research integrity (something we’ve seen before), and careless media sources reprint explosive (and unjustified) quotations without consulting as many scientists as they should. Thankfully, though, many in the scientific community are questioning the research and beginning to become more vocal about their concerns regarding how good science and media aren’t the best mix.
But don’t just take our word for it—read these amazing excerpts that reveal the Ida hype for what it truly is...
(Excerpt) Read more at answersingenesis.org ...
Enjoy your poison.
Not the same belief. Not at all.
And some unhinged people think Hitler was a Christian merely because he quoted scripture at Nurmenberg too.
Thanks for the ping!
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No thakns I’m full- just ate- but thanks for the offer
Thanks. Within 10 minutes of writing that, I wished for a way to delete or at least reword it. I don't usually talk to people that way.
You're right, you did. So some fraction of a tiny percent of those surveyed are more superstitious than Bible believers, at least as the survey defines "superstitious." I guess you're not talking about anybody here, and you've acknowledged that you're not talking about "evos" in general, so I won't take it personally.
Oh please, please, take it personally, please!
PS Are there atheists these days who are not Evos?
Time for you to fish or cut bait!
Why would I, since it doesn't apply to me?
PS Are there atheists these days who are not Evos?
I have no idea. It would be interesting to hear from some young-earth atheists, wouldn't it?
==Why would I, since it doesn’t apply to me?
I was just kidding, as in “Ha Ha Evolution Is Very Logical” d:op
==I have no idea. It would be interesting to hear from some young-earth atheists, wouldn’t it?
That would require that atheists stop being irrational :o)
I am not begging for anything. Never mind feeling compelled to beg for anything. You are beginning to sound like Keith Olbermann.
Got it. I misread you--tone doesn't always come through in plain text.
So your interpretation of the survey seems to be that those who say they believe those other things don’t belong to atheism because they don’t adhere to it’s religious tenets.
[[Got it. I misread you—tone doesn’t always come through in plain text.]]
I don’t like your tone young man
I'm saving this one, GG.
==I’m saving this one, GG.
I’m GGG, not GG. You don’t want to mess with GG!
I think GGG sounds like Jim Jones.
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