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keiths: phoodoo: Just as Keiths said, you look at it and take a guess. What I actually said: Because...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-2/#comment-61301
phoodoo:
Just as Keiths said, you look at it and take a guess.What I actually said:
Because I’ve thought about it, and the obvious explanation — that the...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-2/#comment-61295
TristanM, Look at it and take a guess, just like materialists?
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Haha, even Lizzie can’t stand it here, why would you think he would want to.Explain. And if you can explain that, there are about 1500 questions (about all, IOW) that ...
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phoodoo, Shouldn't you be jumping all over yourself and your fellow creationist travelers who believe in, worship, and promote the 'Ab...
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Boy, I can't wait for Phoodoo to end his senseless babbling and give us his professional determination on the designedness of the engravings and share the cutting edge ID research that he used to...
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phoodoo: Why don’t we just ask Lizzie then…oops!making stuff up is just more Phoo...
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GlenDavidson: Do you even understand the importance of explaining patterns using observed causes?http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-2/#comment-61278
A whim is the same as a coincidence (we have no idea a coincidence for what) and a coincidence is too unlikely to be an explanation for anything (wtf?). Thanks GlenNo, y...
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So let's summarize, for those at home, what we learned today. The best way to detect design, is to look at it, and consider if it seems designed. Got it. Thanks Keiths. There is no such thing as ...
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Do you understand anything not simplistic, phoodoo? Do you even understand the importance of explaining patterns using observed causes? Glen Dav...
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GlenDavidson, Why would design be a coincidence? If something is a whim its coincidental? And even if your totally bizarre inference m...
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Richardthughes: You have honesty issues, Phoodoo.Why don't we just ask Lizzie then......
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phoodoo: Are you unaware?Some materialists have a theory (ok all materialists) that accidents can ad...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61270
Creodont2, Aurelio's OP was great, but Gordo immediately barged in with his fishing reels and sea-cucumber behaviour. Which is a pity,...
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phoodoo: Haha, even Lizzie can’t stand it here...I suggest that is typical of an "In...
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Richardthughes:Haha, even Lizzie can’t stand it here, why would you think he would w...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61267
phoodoo: I don’t believe deities tell us what to do.Your holy book says otherwise. <...
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OMagain, I don't believe deities tell us what to do. I believe we were given a conscience.
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phoodoo: Do you also agree that gassing an entire race of people because you don’t like them is mo...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61261
phoodoo: Haha, even Lizzie can’t stand it here, why would you think he would want to....
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Creodont2, Do you also agree that gassing an entire race of people because you don't like them is moral, as long as you believe its mo...
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phoodoo, Ah, so you're terrified that gordo will rain fire and brimstone upon you if you press him to come here. That's what I figured...
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Creodont2, Haha, even Lizzie can't stand it here, why would you think he would want to. I only post here to expose the hypocrisy and i...
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Speaking of foolish, gordo (kairosfocus) is accusing Joe Felsenstein of "making yet another strawmamn argument". See comment number 9 in the 'Signal to Noise: A Critical Analysis of Active Inform...
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phoodoo: Are you unaware? Some materialists have a theory (ok all materialists) that accidents can a...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61246
phoodoo: keiths, So the way you detect ...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61244
Neil,
ID proponents describe us as blindly dogmatic and ignoring evidence. He is trying to see if he can get us to exhibit that kind of behavior. It hasn’t been working out for him....http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61243
keiths: Now watch him get stuck following the links back and forth.I don't think phood...
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Poor phoodoo. Flaming out again (on two threads!). Now watch him get stuck following the links back and ...
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Here's one for Phoodoo: How old is the Universe | Earth | Life ?
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keiths, I think you could have saved a lot of time over at UD if you would have just admitted long ago that they way to detect design ...
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keiths, I just wanted to understand how materialists detect design.
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cubist: phoodoo, “your ...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61234
Why is using one's mind such an alien concept to you, phoodoo?
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keiths, So the way you detect design is by using your mind to think about it and come up with the obvious explanation?
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phoodoo,
But WHY don’t you think it was an accident?Because I've thought about it, and the obvious explanation -- that the inscription was carved by the humans who wer...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61230
Why are you all so sure that it wasn’t just ants crawling over the same areas for millions of years? What rules...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61229
keiths, But WHY don't you think it was an accident?
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phoodoo:
Why are you all so sure that it wasn’t just ants crawling over the same areas for millions of years?We thought about it, and we're better at thinking than you...
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Why are you all so sure that it wasn't just ants crawling over the same areas for millions of years? What rules out your accident theory?
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I'd like to note that it is exactly on our "pathetic level of detail" that such human-made (apparent) symbolism is properly concluded to be intelligently manufactured. And that's still without kn...
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Interestingly, the image is much clearer. A head in a Roman-style helmet, and a wolf suckling a pair of twins -- immediately interpretable in the cultural context of post-Roman Europe. The medall...
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Piotr Gasiorowski: or used a system of abbreviations unknown to usIndeed. We speak in ...
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Reading a short message even in a known script and a known language can be tricky if we don't know the author's identity and intentions. Take the Undley Common bracteate, for example (Suffolk, la...
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Piotr Gasiorowski: Alan, do you know anything more specific about that stone?Well, I f...
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Alan, do you know anything more specific about that stone? You say:
The artifact has received little attention and no interest from professional archaeologists. One local amateur has ...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61214
RodW: It seems God writes messages to us.: He writes his name in the clouds fairly often. If you don...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61213
RodW: I don’t think one could ever answer the question with any certainty and without even knowing...http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/intelligence-test-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-61212