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I'll admit I'm not a scientist. Most of my education comes from sites like FR and others.

>As for PH, you may not be hearing from him at all. Did you notice his tagline? It reads: (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)

So, is it really a bot like they have on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), or is he a live person? I've never seen him/her respond to a post addressed to him/her and wondered why. OK, if he/she doesn't want to respond he/she doesn't have to.

Thanks for responding. I like this thread, you know. There was another one last night in which I made some intelligent posts but was partly ignored.

You sure are NO bot.

So, is it really a bot like they have on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), or is he a live person? I've never seen him/her respond to a post addressed to him/her and wondered why.

PH responded to my post, in #66, above. Again, note the tagline.

I'll admit I'm not a scientist. Most of my education comes from sites like FR and others.

I am a scientist (archaeologist); maybe the fringes of real science, but we do deal in numbers on a good day so its not all opinion.

I mention this because the definitions I posted above are pretty much the way these terms are used by scientists. Creationists are always trying to twist them to 1) include intelligent design as a theory (it isn't), and 2) to state that the theory of evolution is not a fact, but a theory (it is actually both in that evolution has been seen to occur and the theory of evolution attempts to explain how it occurs).

If most of your education comes from FR and similar sites, please check out PatrickHenry's List-O-Links. There really is a lot of good information there. Unless your mind is made up.

Wasn't it Heinlein who wrote:

Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973