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In the midst of attempting to resolve the issue of the lost plugins, I’ve had a couple of brief exchanges with Lizzie (Dr Liddle, owner of this website) and Vincent (Torley, fellow admin, curre...

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And warmly encouraged… This site is a little quiet these days. I know it is the middle of the Summer holiday season and the impact of Covid has been devastating to normal life. But I wonder why...

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Share your experience, tips, advice, questions… As it seems most communities world-wide are going into voluntary or enforced quarantine that involves staying at home and avoiding physical conta...

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To all TSZ Members and Readers! The end of the year and the imminent arrival of the new decade made me wonder when exactly Dr Liddle set this blog up. I see it was in (or at least prior to) … C...

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Not that I believe Jesus was actually born on December 25th. But still … Merry Christimas to all and God bless.

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Joe Felsenstein, who posts and comments in The Skeptical Zone, presented the 37th Fisher Memorial Lecture on January 4, 2018. The video recording of his lecture is now available. I’d say that t...

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Congratulations to our resident theoretical biologist of high renown, Joe Felsenstein, on his presentation, yesterday, of the 37th Fisher Memorial Lecture. Following are the details provided by ...

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As some on you have probably realized, the time comes for everyone to move on… This time came for me…I believe it is in the best interests of everyone…without getting into any details. I ha...

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Topics I am considering for 2017 along with recommended reading. Note there is nothing in the category of Christian apologetics or how atheism is irrational, but that could change. 🙂 Thoughts?...

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I thought some of you might be interested in an online conference April 16, Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism.  The goal of the conference is to have a discussion among interested resea...

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Are there any plans to publish the new rules for OP titles and OP contents? If there are no rules restricting OP titles or OP content, why was my OP closed for comment? What existing rule or rule...

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This is essentially the heart of the complaints by Sal, and Lizzie and co. I say no, it is not.  We have a situation here where Lizzie and Patrick can chose to remove any post they don’t like,...

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Just thought I’d start a thread about my reappearance to save derailing this one! Thanks to all who have been keeping the place busy in my absence!  Things are still sticky for me, but I can s...

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I see that Denyse has taken time away from misinterpreting / misrepresenting decade old articles she found on google to visit our little home. Come on in Denyse! Would you like a cuppa? Don’t w...

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Couldn’t resist the tribute to Denyse? The new open policy at Uncommon Descent appears to have stalled somewhat. In trying to post a comment this morning I find it disappears. I tried on a coup...

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I’ve removed the last level of nesting for comments, as it was causing problems when I moved nested comments, not to mention being confusing!

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The game rules of this site are “assume other posters are posting in good faith”.  This applies whether or the assumption is valid.  The reason for this rule is that I set up this site to b...

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Some folk might be having problems trying to login to the site.  I don’t know much about this, but here’s what I do know: When I tried to login today, I received a response “WordPress admi...

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Best wishes for the season. Consider this a thread for general discussion, particularly season based.  I will probably close comments early in the new year.

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I’ve added a menu item called “Old but Active” where you can find threads that are still creating discussion but which have dropped off the front page. I’ve also added two new categories,...

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I’m off to Barcelona for a few days – be good 🙂

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Yesterday, I upgraded some plug-ins, and one of them contained an error.  As a result, yesterday member contact details were visible on the members page.  I have temporarily deleted everything ...

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I have added another rule to the site rules: Don’t post porn, or links to porn, or any material liable to risk the integrity of another poster’s computer. This rule applies to all areas of th...

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I’ve made a couple of changes as this site is getting so lively…. I’ve made it so that you have to register and log in to comment.  I’ve also set every registered user to “unmoderated�...

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Abject apologies to all those who lost comments yesterday! The only upside is that now Guano is a little lighter too!  Will see what I can do to resurrect some of what was lost.

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