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Re: Responding on top

rmacf...@alphalink.com.au (rmacfarl) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:51:47 UT

Not to mention it's accuracy...

Re: Pagano's Truthlikeness

hershe...@yahoo.com (hersheyh) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:47:28 UT

But don't forget that if you throw out enough vague predictions, a few
will be easily interpreted as correct. And if all you do is remember
and repeat these few 'correct' prophecies....
I predict that there will be a disastrous earthquake that will smite a
sinful land in the next 100 years as part of God's revenge against

Re: Why the bullshit? Re: Birds aren't dinosaurs, dinosaurs were

jte...@gmail.com (JTEM) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:29:38 UT

__Arboreal__
That's all that really matters here. The whole "Glider"
thing is only secondary.
No. They do not. They identify only one single way
it *Could* fly, and that way required it's hind legs to
assume a position which no Theropod Dinosaur was
capable of, as far as we know, and no bird either.

Re: OT ISRAEL

ssyke...@mindspring.com (aganunitsi) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:32:07 UT

I think the Suez Crisis showed that it isn't so much about using
Israel to get the oil, but using Israel (and Egypt) to ensure that the
oil, and other shipped goods, get to the west as cheaply as possible.
Israel and Egypt (or at least, groups within those countries) are both
paid to ensure that the Suez Canal is never nationalized again. We

Re: Pat Buchanan: Hoax of the century

chris.linthomp...@gmail.com (chris thompson) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:30:31 UT

Climate is the _pattern_ of weather over long periods. Climate is
_why_ things happen. Climate is the interaction between the
environment HERE, and the environment in neighboring regions- and why
far-away regions influence the weather where you are standing.
Chris

Re: OT ISRAEL

heathe...@lit.co.uk (Heather L.) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:32:23 UT

Vend wrote:
It will eventually dawn on you, dear heart, that here too you are arguing
against what is essentially a religious position: to a first approximation,
all Americans are brought up to have unthinking and reflexive faith in
creationism and Israel -- with the supporting evidence being about equally

Re: Why is the Universe so darn big?

69jpi...@gmail.com (jillery) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:27:29 UT

Yes it's the same machinery, but it's also different events and
different environments, so any similarity to us is a consequence of
the requirements of intelligent life.

Re: Dinosaurs were almost the ruling species

j...@wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:23 UT

In article <0001HW.C7BEB9FA00584EA5B01AD. ..@news.sonic.net>, Dan Drake
Is anyone good at cartoons? I'd love to do a blog series on classical
Simpson's characters...

Re: Pagano's Truthlikeness

alwh...@optusnet.com.au (Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:20:10 UT

Yeah. These people are conflating Idea and Theory. When discussing
anything science related it pays not to use common use words that have
special meanings within science, like "Theory".
For any given chunk of data, there's possibly an infinite number of
Ideas, a smaller subset of Hypotheses, possibly a few Laws, and none

Re: Why is the Universe so darn big?

69jpi...@gmail.com (jillery) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:18:55 UT

I'll give you odds on RC, but only even money on LDS.

Re: An Open Challenge

dogb...@earthlink.net (josephus) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:12:38 UT

the basis of your challenge is are LOBSTERS similar to other unprovable
science. the answer is NO, you can capture anyone of several species
of lobsters/scorpians/crabs. you can even go to "RED LOBSTER
RESTAURANT" which it is the specialty of the house. Aside from that.
you can even find them live in various other restaurants. Since finding

Re: OT ISRAEL

69jpi...@gmail.com (jillery) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:07:58 UT

<snip>
Yet another OT question. I'm sure you already know the answer.

Re: OT?: Pigeons beat humans at solving the "Monty Hall Problem".

d...@dandrake.com (Dan Drake) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:01 UT

(in article <80e0d$4b969592$4a53bf9f$21... @FUSE.NET>):
Surely most people's experience is quite the reverse.

Re: 2012

dogb...@earthlink.net (josephus) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:53 UT

actually 27.321662 sidereal days from the astronomical journal
the orbit of the sun has progressed some 22 times around the galaxy. and
that orbit is centered at the center of mass for the galaxy. there is
NOTHING that our orbit has encountered in the last 7000 years. no
strange objects that disrupt things like Egyptian Record keeping. no

Re: Applicable Quote From Economist

f...@verizon.net (Frank J) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:08 UT

If you're trying to draw an analogy to anti-evolution activists
(debating them tacitly admits that they have a potentially competing
theory), note that these days they are not so much pretending to be
Napoleon as pretending that Obama is not the president (analogy to
evolution as a "theory in crisis"). So it might be better to avoid the