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Creationists Given Academic Credit for Trolling
Via LGF ^ | 8/10/09 | Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Posted on 09/24/2009 6:08:52 AM PDT by xcamel

William Dembski, the “intelligent design” creationist who is a professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has some rather interesting requirements for students of his creationism courses — 20% of their final grade comes from having written 10 posts promoting ID on “hostile” websites: Academic Year 2009-2010.

Spring 2009

Intelligent Design (SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY #AP 410, 510, and 810; May 11 – 16, 2009)

NEW! THE DUE DATE FOR ALL WORK IN THIS COURSE IS AUGUST 14, 2009. Here’s what you will need to do to wrap things up:

AP410 — This is the undegrad [sic] course. You have three things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 40% of your grade); (2) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 40% of your grade); (3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 2,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).

AP510 — This is the masters course. You have four things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 30% of your grade); (2) write a 1,500- to 2,000-word critical review of Francis Collins’s The Language of God — for instructions, see below (20% of your grade); (3) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 30% of your grade); (4) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).


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Go figure..
1 posted on 09/24/2009 6:08:53 AM PDT by xcamel
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To: humblegunner; allmendream

ping-a-ling


2 posted on 09/24/2009 6:09:35 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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Via LGF

What a surprise. I see CJ still sees social conservatives as a major problem in this country.

Sorry - although I disagree with the Young Earthers for scientific reasons, I do not see them as a problem. I'm far more concerned about directing fire leftwards, towards the real source of most of the problems in this country.

3 posted on 09/24/2009 6:12:30 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: xcamel

You can make an idol out of an ideology too.


4 posted on 09/24/2009 6:12:42 AM PDT by DManA
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To: xcamel

So what’s your problem?


5 posted on 09/24/2009 6:13:27 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: dirtboy

I don’t see them as a problem in the larger culture either. I view the whole kerfuffle as an internecine fight amongst Christians.


6 posted on 09/24/2009 6:14:09 AM PDT by DManA
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Now if we could get this crowd to go bother Obama’s “truth squad” who monitor (and try to talk back to) our primary sites such as Free Republic, etc., we’d kill two birds with two stones eh!


7 posted on 09/24/2009 6:19:15 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: DManA

They certainly try to make Darwin into the ‘antichrist’...


8 posted on 09/24/2009 6:19:51 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel

Difference of opinion from Darwinism = trolling. LOL!


9 posted on 09/24/2009 6:19:55 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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To: xcamel
Creationists Given Academic Credit for Trolling

So, when will GodGutsGuns finish his PhD and go away?

10 posted on 09/24/2009 6:20:29 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: xcamel

“provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs”

Wow, that would be easy!
You could just paste a bunch of drivel from some weak source an call it a day!

Hey, here’s one that should work.

http://www.icr.org/Evidence/

Tailor made for spamming & trolling if you ask me.


11 posted on 09/24/2009 6:20:46 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: steve-b

That would be my question...


12 posted on 09/24/2009 6:20:59 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: steve-b; GodGunsGuts
So, when will GodGutsGuns finish his PhD and go away?

It figures you would trash another FReeper without pinging them.

13 posted on 09/24/2009 6:21:23 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

oh boo-friggin-hoo.

Grow up.


14 posted on 09/24/2009 6:22:16 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: GodGunsGuts

PhD candidate ping.


15 posted on 09/24/2009 6:22:58 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: xcamel; GodGunsGuts

stupid title....engaging web sites with intellectual debate is not ‘trolling’


16 posted on 09/24/2009 6:23:10 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: steve-b; GodGunsGuts
So, when will GodGutsGuns finish his PhD and go away?

Hmmm ... let me think ... what is more obnoxious to conservatism ... GGG's posts about creationism? Or your non-stop posts from liberal websites that bash Palin?

That's a toughie ... not.

17 posted on 09/24/2009 6:23:22 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: xcamel

We all know manners are not your strong suite, either...


18 posted on 09/24/2009 6:24:18 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
what is more obnoxious to conservatism ... GGG's posts about creationism?

Correct answer -- making conservatives look like morons by posting pseudoscientific flapdoodle is a standard liberal-troll tactic.

19 posted on 09/24/2009 6:25:39 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: steve-b; GodGunsGuts
So, when will GodGutsGuns finish his PhD and go away?

It is proper etiquette to ping a freeper if your are going to mention him in your posts.

20 posted on 09/24/2009 6:25:42 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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