[Nathan Zachary]

You know what? Go preach the spelling crap to someone else. I'm not your student, you're not a teacher, and I really don't care if I make spelling mistakes.

Spelling has nothing to do with people taking you seriously, and if it matters to small minded people, it just don't matter to me what they think.

[MineralMan]

"You know what? Go preach the spelling crap to someone else. I'm not your student, you're not a teacher, and I really don't care if I make spelling mistakes. "

OK. It was just a suggestion, anyhow. Of course you're free to take it or not take it. I just find that folks who don't take the time to try to spell correctly on Free Republic get taken less seriously than those who do.

It's entirely up to you, Nathan. I do wish you'd provide links to the sources of your longer screeds, though, so I could visit the web site from which you copied them. It would make life much easier for me. I wouldn't have to use Google to find where you got your information.

[Dimensio]

Spelling has nothing to do with people taking you seriously, and if it matters to small minded people, it just don't matter to me what they think.

The point is that you're making a claim about a specific subject -- fossils -- yet you consistently spell the name of the subject incorrectly. Not being able to spell the very name of your subject suggests very strongly that you haven't actually done any research on the subject, because if you had you would certainly have come across innumerable instances of the word spelled correctly. If there is a strong indication that you haven't actually researched the subject, then it throws into question any claim that you make about the subject.

So, yes, in this case your misspelling affects your credibility in a very real and fundamental way. Whining about spelling flames does not make the implications that you haven't done any actual research go away.

[narby]

Spelling has nothing to do with people taking you seriously

I see that you not only don't understand science, you also don't understand people.