Gristle,
YOU have been the one insisting on making personal attacks. Not only that, but you’re being incredibly misleading all for the sake of discrediting my own OPINION. Not only does it add nothing to the thread, it’s completely unwarranted and demonstrates what kind of individual you truly must be. I’m only making this post to defend myself from the idiocy of your claims.
Your dogged belief in various 9/11 conspiracy theories is well established.
Yet I said… (several times mind you) that I don’t subscribe to the 9/11 conspiracy theories, or have been convinced by the official story, I have an open mind towards the matter. The only “crazy conspiracy theories” I mentioned I subscribe to have been well established in the historical record including declassified government documents.
I was trying to make this point (which you obviously skipped over) as unlike you, I try to relate my posts to the actual topic:
This is a silly comparison, but I can at least see where the 9/11 conspiracy theorists draw their suspicions from. In my humble opinion, they're not as crazy as someone who believes in talking snakes and people living inside of whales...
Then you make this completely damming statement:
you don't understand at all what the word "theory" means in the scientific context
I said:
A scientific theory is one that is based on observation, experiment and reasoning that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle to explain and predict natural phenomena.
and…
In science, evolution is a FACT, it's also a theory supported by over 250,000 peer reviewed published, factual studies.
and...
A working theory is the ultimate goal of scientific discovery, evolution is just that, a working theory.
and...
Still a theory? As opposed to what? Has anything in science ever emerged from being a theory?
There are no competing theories with evolution, there is also no denying that it happened. It's a matter of explaining the process which there is clearly still much to learn. Evolution itself happened, it's a fact, and I'll repeat my previous offer, if you can find a scientist from a non-religious background (should be easy since 94% aren't religious) who will state that evolution is not a fact, I will eat my own hand.
Is my understanding of the scientific use of the word theory not “understood at all”??? Please find and post 1 credible source that discredits my own understanding of the word… Remember you said I don’t understand
at all, that’s a pretty big charge to make for someone who never claimed to completely understand it in the first place. This is a good example of how personal and utterly baseless your attacks have become.
Whoops, there’s more to your idiotic quote:
, and you do all this on the basis of your high school-level science expertise.
So I never studied science outside of high school. I also acknowledged that I have read the works of many great scientists who are all extremely well accomplished and have all defined and explained the scientific process in their works. I guess since it didn’t happen in a classroom I can’t say I know anything
at all about what I’m talking about, as I clearly misunderstood what I read about scientific theory as demonstrated by utterly horrible and wrong understanding of it which I quoted earlier in this post… Just because you don’t see eye to eye with someone like Richard Dawkins or even a journalist like Christopher Hitchens doesn’t mean they don’t know how to effectively communicate the meaning of scientific theory (which they both do in their respective works).
You have demonstrated a belligerent approach to your responses, you’re literally putting words in my mouth which I never said in an effort to make your assault against my character to discredit me. I have not resorted to such lowly tactics.
It's just so much easier for you to mischaracterize and despise other people and their practices than it is to understand them.
And you think I'm arrogant?
Wow.
Ironic that
you were the one saying that isn’t it?
I wish that you refrain from such nonsense posts in the future, I’ve never once made a post solely to attack you and your character. I think the above speaks for itself, bullshit really does baffle brains.