[Coyoteman]

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

[TheBrotherhood]

Again, thanks for responding and for being so persuasive. I hope to remember you this way. People do change, you know.

>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.

I'm afraid if I do check PH's link I'll turn into a bitter and empty automaton, which is conducive to a life of alienation and dehumanization. No, thanks.

[TheBrotherhood]

>Wasn't it Heinlein who wrote:
Belief gets in the way of learning.

I don't know and don't care what someone else has said.