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Starman
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Sweden
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 Posted - 08/10/2005 : 06:17:30
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Kent Hovind has published a reply to Scientific Americans Okay, We Give Up, fom April 1st, 2005.
See this thread.
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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 Posted - 08/10/2005 : 06:51:25 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
Kent Hovind has published a reply to Scientific Americans Okay, We Give Up, fom April 1st, 2005.
See this thread.
Bwahahahahahaha..... Ha? Ha? ....... He's...... serious?
Someone should tell him there are many decaffinated coffees out there that taste just like the real stuff.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Plyss
Skeptic Friend
Netherlands
231 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 06:56:52 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
Kent Hovind has published a reply to Scientific Americans Okay, We Give Up, fom April 1st, 2005.
See this thread.
I'm having a hard time deciding what's funnier: The original SA article, the fact that Hovind felt it necessary to respond to an April Fools joke, or the mind-boggling inadequacy of his response.
Oh Kent, never change! 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2005 : 07:07:20 [Permalink]
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It warms my heart and restores my faith in the myriad varitions of Murphy's Law to see that Dr? Dino has not lost his touch.
The undisputed King of the Straw Man is still at the top of his game!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 10:06:23 [Permalink]
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What I learned from his reply:
- I should watch videos 3, 4, & 7.
- I should visit Dino land.
- I shouldn't have purchased another copy of (Un)Scientific (Un)American at lunch.
- I should have my sense of humor removed.
- That winning debates leads to good science.
That's enough knowledge for today, time to close my mind again... |
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/10/2005 : 10:21:43 [Permalink]
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Ten years ago if a professor in the Soviet Union tried to submit an article to any Soviet magazine claiming that communism didn't work, and capitalism is a better system, he would be shipped off to Siberia if he survived.
Did he cut and paste one of his old arguements from 1997 or is he just really good at being dumb? Probably both. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 08/10/2005 : 13:46:53 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
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Ten years ago if a professor in the Soviet Union tried to submit an article to any Soviet magazine claiming that communism didn't work, and capitalism is a better system, he would be shipped off to Siberia if he survived.
Did he cut and paste one of his old arguements from 1997 or is he just really good at being dumb? Probably both.
Yeah, "ten years" caught my eye immediately. |
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 16:39:29 [Permalink]
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Ah, sarcasm.
But it only seems to remotely have impact if you've got a sense of humor.
Now science is at my level. |
"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."
Bob Dylan
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2005 : 17:45:59 [Permalink]
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Tell the editors, or any other evolutionist for that matter, I'd be honored to debate them in front of any university with half of my brain tied behind my back.
Well, now we know where to find the worlds smallest rope. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 18:14:37 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, and I bet he's only using half his wit's as well. |
"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."
Bob Dylan
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 08/10/2005 : 18:41:16 [Permalink]
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Well, now we know where to find the worlds smallest rope.
Would a strand of DNA do? Or, for a rope of even smaller diameter, maybe a long chain of carbons with nothing but hydrogen for side groups (essentially a saturated fatty acid - which is good when you want to tie up a thick brain). |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Plyss
Skeptic Friend
Netherlands
231 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2005 : 12:59:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
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Radiocarbon dating was invented a hundred and twenty years after they began teaching the earth was millions of years old.
So he is saying that radiocarbon dating independently verifies a theory that was already in existence. Good to know, but I don't see how it helps his point.
Although technically carbon-dating proves no such thing considering it's limited to about 35.000 years or so. The multi-million year thing comes from other isotopes. |
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Ricky
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