Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant (Religion bashing alert)

Times Online UK ^ | May 21, 2005 | Richard Dawkins

[Ichneumon]

Is it just me, or is Fester showing recent signs of being a leg-puller instead of the slow-to-catch-on fellow he first appears to be? When he's on light side topics his coherence and cleverness seem to take a big jump upwards, and he's exhibiting a lot more humor today than he usually has. He has also lost his customary belligerence. Hmmm...

Or maybe the brews are just wearing off and he'll return to normal as soon as he makes a run to the store. ;-) Heck, I could use a drink myself, come to think of it.

[furball4paws]

There are two FOG indices.

FOG1 is the number of syllables divided by the number of words. Scientists have high FOG1 indices. Your average schmuck like me loves Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. What could be more clear than: "He died. His throat was cut." Real brutal and real clear? It is possible to converse using only monosyllables. Gets tricky at times, but....

FOG2 is the number or words divided by the number of significant things said. Scientists have very low FOG2 indices. Deans are much higher and politicians' FOG2 indices approach infinity.

[Ichneumon]

Too many words, too many sylables per word. Try and get them down to 1 and 1, respectively.

Okay.

(...damn!)

[Liberal Classic]

I have a problem with guys like you who exhibit faux concern for conservatism on the evo threads and never show their face on the threads concerning conservatism having to do with conservtaism and the constitution.

Who made you thread monitor?

[Fester Chugabrew]

You've been using your ignorance as a debating point.

So does Dawkins in quoting his friend:

“Most scientists are bored by what they have already discovered. It is ignorance that drives them on.”

You too proud and too chicken to admit your own ignorance. Stay away from the schools for which I pay taxes. I hope you don't get paid to teach.

[Ichneumon]

I did. When it comes to the fossil record, evolutionists don't even bother "calculating the probability of things that have already happened." They just forge ahead and make conclusions based on the similar or dissimilar appearances of the critters on display.

This is incorrect. For example, almost all phylogenic reconstructions based on molecular analysis (usually of DNA) involve probability calculations.

[Ichneumon]

[I have a problem with guys like you who exhibit faux concern for conservatism on the evo threads and never show their face on the threads concerning conservatism having to do with conservtaism and the constitution.]

Who made you thread monitor?

And by what arrogance (or delusions of mindreading ability) does he divine that such concerns are "faux"?

[AndrewC]

That last would appear to have some very unintelligent and very French design elements added later.

Yeah, well my car had some unintelligent design elements added later, but the insurance company reimbursed me for the efforts of the budding neo-Darwinist's "random" mutations. The mutations did not survive to be passed on.

[Gumlegs]

Thank you for posting that. I've seen references to FOG indexes and grasped the main point, but I've never seen them explained.

[Fester Chugabrew]

You too proud and too chicken . . .

Man, I should have been Mark Twain. Instead I'm Rufus Hergemeyer.

[PatrickHenry]

adults should be free to have sex with whatever adult will have them!

[Fester Chugabrew]

The briefer they are, the more invalid, as a rule.

Does that mean the longer they are, the more valid, as a rule? If so, I don't like the rule.

[Gumlegs]

Sounds more like "neo-lysenkoist" to me.

[AndrewC]

Nope. I think the horizontal striations are a result of sedimentary processes; and the front is largely a result of erosion.

I hope you don't teach chemistry at a famous Ivy league university... You don't! Whew! ;^)

[PatrickHenry]

Gone for the evening. Nobody touch my primes!

[furball4paws]

Montana: Where the Men are Men and the Sheep are Worried.

[AndrewC]

Sounds more like "neo-lysenkoist" to me.

[AndrewC]

Warning! Not to be stated on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Montana: Where the Men are Men and the Sheep are Worried.

[furball4paws]

Actually I picked on Montana because they raise sheep there, I've never been there and I don't know any Montana freepers. But you can put any state in it. I've seen Utah and Wyoming.

Now there's a more ribald joke that goes with it.....

[Gumlegs]

1100? As if that matters ...