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08 Jul 2012, 2:58 pm

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Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


He'll be back, don't you worry :P


I actually liked the guy. :(

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08 Jul 2012, 4:09 pm

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Its pretty hard to find creatonists offline now.

I was discussing the whole thing with a extremely active theist(an archeologist doing his thesis on how some things represented on the bible were also described by some other cultures that were what we would describe as pagan now) and when I asked him about the possible conflict between his faith and his work his only reply was that he put his faith aside when it came to work and the part of the bible that describes how the universe started is just a tale to him.


It seems like believers in theistic evolution probably outnumber the creationists. But they are not driven the way creationists are to promote this. I wonder if your colleague will eventually abandon theism

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They are still there according to polls. And they still regularly try to attack science education standards in various red states. But I think they are less likely to expose their views when outnumbered, as they often are on the internet.


Scientific theories go through a rigorous process just to get into textbooks. Why Creationists think they are immune to this scrutiny is beyond me. Its like they want to play life with the Godmode cheat on. Literally

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Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


He'll be back, don't you worry :P


I actually liked the guy. :(

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Well, he made his choices. I didn't expect him to get banned for what he did here but it was apparently the last warning in a long list of warnings


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08 Jul 2012, 5:54 pm

How about, "I assume you are unemployed, and therefore wrong"?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... ensorship/


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09 Jul 2012, 3:25 pm

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Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


He'll be back, don't you worry :P


Is this a prophecy of the second coming of Joker? :lol:



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09 Jul 2012, 5:16 pm

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How about, "I assume you are unemployed, and therefore wrong"?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... ensorship/


Oh lordy. "We can't vandalize Wikipedia with our religious beliefs, therefore censorship!! !"

They have Conservapedia to circle jerk around, I wonder how they would deal with edits to their material


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09 Jul 2012, 5:23 pm

Start over.



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09 Jul 2012, 5:28 pm

On the video...

Counter-argument 4 is actually a fallacy. Basically, it says "the human eye is less complex than that of the horned owl. therefore God can't have created either because humans are his children, and would not have favoured other species". This doesn't adress the issue of complexity itself.



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09 Jul 2012, 5:44 pm

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On the video...

Counter-argument 4 is actually a fallacy. Basically, it says "the human eye is less complex than that of the horned owl. therefore God can't have created either because humans are his children, and would not have favored other species". This doesn't dress the issue of complexity itself.


I would not say that is the center of that counter-argument. They do elaborate quite well on the different types of more primitive sensors that are analogues to the various stages in ocular evolution. That last part about the eyes of octopi and horned owls seem more to have been a jab at the Christian view of the inherent superiority of man to all animals as God's "chosen". Biologically this is obviously not true


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09 Jul 2012, 5:52 pm

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Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


THANK YOU.
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I've been seeing some more mod presence lately. It's good to know PPR is being cleaned up...



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09 Jul 2012, 6:19 pm

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Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


THANK YOU.
+1

I've been seeing some more mod presence lately. It's good to know PPR is being cleaned up...


I sometimes think this subforum could probably use its own dedicated moderator or some lesser, special rank created for the purpose


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10 Jul 2012, 1:22 am

Vigilans wrote:
AceOfSpades wrote:
Lord_Gareth wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


THANK YOU.
+1

I've been seeing some more mod presence lately. It's good to know PPR is being cleaned up...


I sometimes think this subforum could probably use its own dedicated moderator or some lesser, special rank created for the purpose


There was a person that tried to help us on this section a little and Im not sure what happened with him.
It turned out to be quite a good experiment so maybe we should consider doing something similar.

As for my colleague: he seems fairly happy with his relationship with god at the moment but I guess things can change at anytime with the right/wrong circumstances



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10 Jul 2012, 3:13 am

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On the video...

Counter-argument 4 is actually a fallacy. Basically, it says "the human eye is less complex than that of the horned owl. therefore God can't have created either because humans are his children, and would not have favored other species". This doesn't dress the issue of complexity itself.


I would not say that is the center of that counter-argument. They do elaborate quite well on the different types of more primitive sensors that are analogues to the various stages in ocular evolution. That last part about the eyes of octopi and horned owls seem more to have been a jab at the Christian view of the inherent superiority of man to all animals as God's "chosen". Biologically this is obviously not true

I don't know. I didn't feel like it worked well.

Part of the strength of "irreducible complexity" is probably a consequence of how life forms are studied in school. In my biology classes, I was exposed mainly to single cells on the one hand, then fully formed animals or plants on the other. Comparing humans to amoebae makes a bit of a step. Even though I understand or assume that there was something in the middle, my unlearned mind has a more difficult time comprehending the full process.

Of course, in the end, I agree with them, but I don't think this particular rebuttal was very effective. I'm all for jabs on Christians, but I think it gets too much emphasis in this argument.



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10 Jul 2012, 6:47 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
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Joker has been banned from WP because of his persistent trolling and disruptive behaviour.


He'll be back, don't you worry :P


I actually liked the guy. :(

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


So did I :lol:.

But still, he had it coming.


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10 Jul 2012, 4:14 pm

As discussion of banned members and why they were banned is prohibited - even in PPR - it should really be left to rest now.


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10 Jul 2012, 5:33 pm

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Part of the strength of "irreducible complexity" is probably a consequence of how life forms are studied in school. In my biology classes, I was exposed mainly to single cells on the one hand, then fully formed animals or plants on the other. Comparing humans to amoebae makes a bit of a step. Even though I understand or assume that there was something in the middle, my unlearned mind has a more difficult time comprehending the full process.

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I did a quick search and found this experiment to show how the transition from single cell to multi-cellular life can be demonstrated in the lab. Link follows: Link

I just found an even more relevant YouTube clip from the BBC.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71DWYJD-dI[/youtube]

You can skip to about the three minute mark if you want.

And here is a link to the Wikipedia article about archaea: Link

I was just reading the "Timeline of Evolution" on Wikipedia. It includes the following: "Simple multicellular organisms evolve, mostly consisting of cell colonies of limited complexity. First multicellular red algae evolve." This occurred at around 1200Ma. I would guess these colonies formed due to the advantages of symbiotic cooperation.


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10 Jul 2012, 7:08 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1xUiuZvUuw[/youtube]

The way this creationist describes it- that science is a "Biblical mandate" to help take care of the Earth, and that scripture holds precedence, perhaps more accurately, "veto" over any evidence that is contradictory- is very illuminating on the utterly non-scientific nature of creationism.

It is also a typical insinuation made by many types of theists where the creationist questions the motivations of non-theistic scientists. It is virtually the same thought process that leads some theists to use the "if you don't believe in God you have no morals" device


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