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Post n° 56711
Bill,
If you want to paint yourself as dim, lazy, and addled by the Jebus Effect, then proceed as you are.
Otherwise, get off your ass and read — actually read — Theobald. Then, if you’re still confused, come to us with questions about the specific parts of his essay you don’t understand.
No, we call you ignorant and obtuse.
What in the world are you doing thinking that there is a “longest trip” to any extant species? Again, I really don’t even get your “reasoning” at all, since I can’t imagine how chickens are the “longest trip” for anything.
The likely reason why there are fewer genes that “got to” the chickens” is simple–chickens have fewer genes than the two mammals do (at least in the diagram).
What are you doing anyway? You’ve run the gamut of idiotic objections based on the “flower,” and now you seem bent on yet another meaningless attack. Any chance you could ever do anything but attack the evidence for evolution, however ignorantly? Like, once?
Glen Davidson
Yes. You’re another of those who do not care about the rules.
TSZ sucks because people like Glen are allowed to continuously violate the rules.
My advice. Put Glen on Ignore.
Mung,
Done
Perfect, for someone who so ably ignores all that he wants not to know. You’ve never answered the crucial questions, just blathered on with Mung-like incompetence.
By the way, why would you obey Mung who clearly has not had me on ignore? I’ve kept him on ignore for a long time, with very rare breaks for the sake of context, as he almost never breaks from his abysmally ignorant and malicious attacks. But he’s not done the same, not with any constancy anyhow. So he’s a hypocrite on this matter, like so many, not that you’d care enough to call him on it. Well, do you ever rise to objectivity?
Anyway, fine, have me on ignore. You don’t learn anything from me, or anyone that I can see, and there’s nothing of value for you to teach.
Glen Davidson
You fail. I’ve had you on Ignore. I took your off Ignore to take a look at one of your posts. That post clearly violated the rules. Suck less.
Not so amazing is yet another time a lying moron YEC ignores the feedback effect of selection in determining the results of evolutionary processes.
Poor phoodoo. All bitterness, no argument.
“So you think Vincent should weight the arguments of scientists based on how ‘evangelical’ they are?”
Obviously not. Schaffner’s anti-Adamism isn’t a secret here. He’s not about to start writing poetic odes to the ‘realism’ of A&E.
“And do you think there’s something wrong with giving up a belief based on scientific evidence?”
Which beliefs do you hold, keiths, that are beyond scientific evidence? Any?
Please do the work and name some.
As a faithless man who’s become a hardcore anti-religious fool, you’ll most likely fail to come up with anything worth consideration. And then parade that failure as pseudo-success for heartless nihilism qua ‘skepticism.’
As for ‘proper Christian,’ the despairing attempt at catnip works no longer. Go back to your cave and wallow in atheist misery. Torley at least has some sense left, if ever he could find a way out of this place.
Well, when the constitution declares that you are only worth 3/5 of a white person, it is no wonder that you are trivialized.
I didn’t read anything past this sentence because this was enough for me to conclude that you are an idiot. Guano here I come.
Gee mung, I thought you were going to stop being a dick all the time. Maybe next life, eh?
The real problem is he’s just a shit-stirring troll, has been for years. You’ll never meet a bigger liar or attention whore.
Of course, why would it. Calling someone a shit-stain is mild for adapa.
Who would ever think that is against the rules at TSZ. Now, if he would have said a lying shit-stain, well, then you might have said for him to watch it next time.
Mung,
Did you understand it now or not you self-despising sad excuse of a human being?
Yeah, Sal displayed ignorance almost comparable to yours. Awesome!
I’m finally a human being!
I wasn’t the one who used lego pieces as an example of things that could be joined but not separated. That was you. I think I’m going to save that post. Because it was really, Really, REALLY, dumb. But if that’s the best you have to offer, so be it. 🙂
The OP refers to wave function, fine tuning and properties of water, which you know nothing about…That’s why YOU can’t see that my comments relate to the theme…
If you continue to embarr-ass yourself, maybe it’s time to disappear again tronco? 😉
After you, dumbass
Unable to understand, hopelessly clueless and proving Joe’s point all along. Great job buddy
We know…You don’t have to keep reminding us about your fundamental, cognitive incompetence…
No reading comprehension, dullard?
Glen Davidson
GlenDavidson,
I have always known you had that problem but it’s never too late to admit it…
On the other hand some people are never wrong…comprehension is just a marginal issue in delusional states…
Since Rumraket can’t tell from the following list which pair are the most similar, maybe the know-it-all Glen Davidson can respond.
In terms of skeletal structure, which pair is the most similar. No phylogenetic phantasies and mumbo jumbo please. Stick to geometry.
1. Lungfish and Tuna
2. Lungfish and Pigeon
3. Tuna and Pigeon
Yeah, but that’s what I said, and since the liar Sal can’t counter this or ever engage honestly with anybody, he just called me a “know-it-all” and demanded an answer that follows his endlessly dishonest cant.
There’s simply no way to respond to lying shits like Sal who will never really engage, but try to game the simple-minded and highly biased (for some reason, excused by their being in the minority, evil swine like Mung and Sal get away with nearly ever bit of hateful slime they spew, which really just fucks up everything rather than facilitating discussion) system here. It works well enough for him, anyway, since being a hateful piece of shit is his main goal (he really does hate people for disagreeing with him).
Glen Davidson
No you idiot, your claims are the absurdity. What an ass. At least you could make an attempt to think, instead of presenting that twisted bullshit.
Sure you pretentious imbecile.
Alan,
Bugger off. You’re the one who brought up the subject.
Alan,
You’re fucking up again. Bad move.
Alan:
Alan,
Moving that comment served no constructive purpose, and did not make TSZ a better place. Please restrain yourself.
John:
fifth:
Yes, that is exactly the kind of dumb question you would ask. Low intelligence, plus a profound lack of scientific curiosity and a cultivated laziness, have left you unaware of what your brighter opponents know: The Goodyear blimps carry helium for buoyancy, not hydrogen.
If you actually wanted to learn about science, you would not waste time on the musings of a dim and undereducated spouter of bible verses: yourself. You would instead focus on the people who had something worthwhile to say and who understood the topic at hand.
But of course learning is not your intent here. You are here to prop up your ego. It feels good to pretend that you are a bright guy who is capable of condescending to John. It gets you off.
To face the truth — that you are a dim guy who is here to learn from those who are brighter and better educated than you — doesn’t get you off. Worse yet, learning requires effort, and you are profoundly lazy and undisciplined.
So you indulge in a disgusting display of public mental masturbation, learn nothing, and everyone’s time gets wasted.
It’s a new year, fifth. Why not set your ego aside and try to learn something in 2018? Save the mental masturbation for private moments when only God has to witness and be disgusted by it.
Neil,
And accomplished nothing useful thereby. You simply disrupted the continuity of the thread.
You’re repeating your habitual pattern: making poor moderation decisions without even considering whether they will make TSZ better or worse.
It’s a new year, Neil. Why not resolve to moderate thoughtfully instead of reflexively and with prejudice?
Alan,
The advice I gave to Neil applies to you as well.
Please heed it.
Alan:
Alan,
You’re interfering with discussion. Please stop doing that.
As a moderator, you are supposed to be acting for TSZ’s benefit, not against it.
Alan,
If you’d like to make TSZ a better place, please focus on changing yourself. Notice that TSZ operates most smoothly when you and Neil are absent. Your poor moderation decisions are a burden to us. Take the lesson to heart.
Also, as the regulars know, your personal behavior is appalling, and you’ve demonstrated in many ways — through dishonesty, abuse of moderator privileges, refusal to admit mistakes, poor judgment — that you are unfit to be a moderator. It’s one of the many reasons that you don’t get the respect that you crave.
Again, take that to heart. Try to become someone who is worthy of respect. Your energies should be directed toward addressing your own rather severe flaws, but instead you are interfering with discussion and indulging in personal grudges.
It’s a waste of time, and a burden that TSZ should not have to bear. Please get your shit together.
Allan Miller,
This subject is one of my favourite hobbies ( top 10) that used to pay and still pays some of my bills… Just because Tom Müller happens to be a moron and has no problem making a fool of himself publicly is not my problem.. He did once with photosynthesis; he ignored the quantum coherence piece that my buddy has written 6 papers on… Now this? I’m not going to let this slide because you are passionate about it…
J-Mac:
Whereas in J-Mac’s view, dumbness comes directly from God. It’s a gift. J-Mac is particularly blessed in this regard.
So, you have decided you are going to stick to your faith no matter what… and quote-mine instead to feel good while lying to yourself… fair enough…
Nah. You expose your ignorance and lack of both character and self-awareness. You despise yourself and project that hatred towards others by trying to make them look like you: an imbecilic religious nut.
Your kids. Maybe you despise yourself, and maybe you could not care less how stupid you appear, how much ignorance you display, and how little character and decency you hold. But your kids deserve better.
Alan:
You forgot to mention the role of moderator abuses and incompetence in diminishing the “signal to noise ratio”, via seemingly endless moderation screwups and kerfuffles.
A prime concern in any new moderation scheme should be to limit the damage that can be done by moderator misconduct. You’ve recently disgraced yourself by your handling of the ALurker affair, and you just did it again by closing the Moderation Issues (4) thread for no valid reason.
Stop pretending that you’re all about promoting Lizzie’s aims. She didn’t want moderators interfering with the free expression of complaints and criticisms in the Moderation Issues threads. You have now done so for at least the third time.
It’s shameful behavior. We are very fortunate that you are now on your way out. I hope we can limit the damage you do in your time remaining.
Neil,
That comment directly addressed the topic, which is how to improve TSZ going forward. Moderator misconduct, and how to prevent it or lessen its impact, is an important part of that.
Please restore the comment.
keiths,
You are not capable of posting without insulting keiths, I agree with Neil on this one. The solution isn’t less guanoing, its more.
But not all threads here about creationism, but about science topics such as:
And Keiths could help but go ballistic about what I said in discussion about entropy!
And Keiths goes ballistic in another discussion about entropy here:
And the irony was I was actually criticizing creationists.
And then there were these discussion about epigenetics, one started by walto:
And then my thread on embryogenesis which was highly contentious:
And then my thread on Alu’s which was highly contentious:
But I should add, my discussion about Alu’s helped me collect material which I circulated in the ID community. A pro-ID book was just released that reflected some of the quotations in that thread.
Or philosophy threads:
Or threads critical of ID (by me):
Neil,
First, that isn’t the standard you’re applying. You guanoed this comment:
There is no mention of any specific instance of moderation there. You guanoed it anyway.
It’s yet another instance of a moderator abusing his powers for his own benefit. Neil didn’t like my comments; Neil wanted to get them out of the thread; Neil needed an excuse for doing that; so Neil guanoed them and rationalized it with an excuse that anyone can see is bogus.
You interfered with yet another discussion, against Lizzie’s wishes and against TSZ’s best interests. It’s all about Neil and Neil’s self-interest.
Moderator misconduct is a major problem at TSZ, as you just demonstrated. Alan’s recent disgraceful performance also proves the point. Discussions of TSZ’s future direction need to include thoughts on how to curb it, and it’s ridiculous to suggest that we should not refer to particular instances of moderator abuse in such discussions.
In that specific case you may have a point, however in discussing it…
That’s interesting. It’s as if Alan would like us to ignore the topic of moderator abuses.
Odd how that actually makes my case for me.
And you made his.How are the propositions coming?
Moderator meltdowns are not exactly the best argument for retaining moderator powers.
Butt out, Alan.
As I said earlier:
Alan,
You’re abusing your moderator privileges again. Knock it off.
The evidence just keeps accumulating. TSZ needs a future in which moderator powers are sharply reduced or eliminated.
We need admins, not moderators.
Alan,
You are demonstrating my point perfectly. TSZ’s future depends on sharply limiting or eliminating moderator powers.