Top: Euglena, Hymenopimesis Wasp, Butterfly, Platypus
Bottom: Bat, Fugu, Cambrian species
Posted on 10/06/2002 8:16:21 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
No, they are not fine. It is called abuse of power and it is despicable. He is there to teach not to indoctrinate, big difference but then tyrants do not have the slightest regard for human decency so one should not be surprised that an atheist would pull such a stunt.
Refusing to write a letter of recommendation makes them "tyrannical and despicable"??
Why don't you quit your own tactics of hate-mongering?!
Quit listening to those voices in your head (here's a hint: they are not from God).
The only thing that natural selection does is kill organisms. How can one add to diversity, to the genetic pool by destroying and thining out the population and the genetic pool? This is a totally ridiculous proposition just as silly as saying that 4-2 = 6.
Not exactly. An example of ad hominem would be "The theory of evolution is invalid because Darwin was a racist."
What Vade is engaging in is called "pointing out hypocrisy."
Your story stinks. You're going to spend more time than you like discussing it until you find someone else to baffle with BS.
Grouse all you like, the points I address will either stand or fall on things other than your red herrings.
What if you were at a company and were in charge of hiring a scientist? If one came along with top notch credentials and you found out they didn't believe in evolution, I guess you'd have to think twice about hiring them. You would hesitate to hire Dr. Russell Humphreys, a nuclear physicist at Sandia National Laboratories who has had over 20 articles published in scientific journals, Dr. John Baumgardner, the author of the catastrophic plate tectonics theory mentioned in Nature, Dr. Edward Boudreaux of the University of New Orleans, the author of 26 articles and four books on physical chemistry, multiple Nobel Prize nominee Dr. "Fritz" Schaefer the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia, Dr. Raymond Damadian, the inventor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Dr. Maciej Giertych, Head of the Dept. of Genetics at the Institute of Dendrology at the Polish Academy of Sciences to name a few. In fact, I assume you'd conclude they were incompetent. Any candidate who believes in evolution with mediocre credentials would be a superior candidate, because they must have a "more scientific frame of mind". You people are really too much with your self deception.
Methinks it's too late for that Vade. You were doing just the same thing you were complaining of medved. In fact, I would say you were doing worse than medved because with medved I never saw anyone refute his posts. With you they were refuted and shown to be totally absurd time and time again. In fact, in some of the longer threads you would post the same refuted nonsense more than once. So, it's too late Vade, you have shown your character already.
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Or "pointing out truly bizarre, schizophrenic-level inconsistency." But there's no real question.
What if you were at a pharmaceutical company and were in charge of hiring a medical researcher instead of a physicist? Oh, my! Your whole diatribe goes up in smoke!
Denial!
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Date: 1904
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Top: Euglena, Hymenopimesis Wasp, Butterfly, Platypus
Bottom: Bat, Fugu, Cambrian species
But in the 1980s Richard Hardison of Glendale College wrote a computer program that generated phrases randomly while preserving the positions of individual letters that happened to be correctly placed (in effect, selecting for phrases more like Hamlet's). On average, the program re-created the phrase in just 336 iterations, less than 90 seconds. Even more amazing, it could reconstruct Shakespeare's entire play in just four and a half days.
You bend over backwards to make absurd, lawyerly nitpicks which you only imagine to stand.
This behavior occurs against the evidence which supports what you claim to believe, common descent with modification in an old-earth setting. You have at no time addressed where the unique AndrewC model would produce a different fossil record or extant biota from, say, Gouldian Punk-Eek.
You have become notorious for your tap-dances, your obfuscating blizzards of irrelancies, your cryptic little zen koans designed to make the dummies think your scoring points for the Lord ... Yes, this stands or falls, but not on its own.
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