Thank you for sharing your frustrations!They are not 'frustrations', I expressed concerns in that post, no matter how you may wish to perceive them now.
'Populism' as a means of reseach is a contradiction in meaning; it amounts to concensus among the uninformed - and we have arrived with the advent of the internet and every Tom Dick and ill-informed Harry able to post as if he were 'a Ghandi' on the subject ...
And you say all of this without even looking at my comments and sources ...You've done some original research somewhere along the lines of biochemistry, genetics or skeletal and tissue comparisons between man and other living creatures?
Did I miss that?
Did I miss that?
Evolution of Carnot's Principle
There was good participation by the scientists and mathematicians on the forum who stand as their own authority in their particular disciplines. The sources were vetted by all.
In the end, the effort was scuttled altogether by the forum's expert on algorithmic information theory raising the fallacy of quantizing the continuum - which makes all abiogenesis theory impossible. IOW, a definition for "life" v "non-life" would be a quantization of the continuum and since abiogenesis is the theory of non-life to life, having both ends a "fallacy" makes it impossible to investigate.
Several of us of course objected, but that particular investigation was halted. A sidebar discussion of that "fallacy" continues on another thread. If it is ever resolved we'll resume the project.
In sum, research being conducted on an open forum at Free Republic is not ipso facto "uninformed".
But please note the difference in decorum between those threads and threads such as this one. Threads such as this one, IMHO, are like a Texas Friday night high school football game with the spectators on either side of the field cheering for their home team and a precious few on the field actually doing the work and/or knowing what is going on.
The research threads, OTOH, are characterized by mutual respect, exhaustive off-thread research, credible sources, open discussion. The threads become a treasure trove of information, making Free Republic unique among the many forums on the web which entertain evolution debate.