If Life On Mars Is A Big Religious Question, Should Government Fund The Search?

Fred J. McCall wrote:
"Eric Chomko" wrote:

:
:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: Howard Brazee wrote:
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: :On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:07:02 GMT, Fred J. McCall
: wrote:
: :
: :: All right, I don't see anything to disagree with in the above.
: ::The eighteenth-century scientists who formulated the phlogiston theory
: ::seem to have followed the above rules.
: :
: :Yep. And they proved it couldn't work that way. End of theory.
: :
: :The theory that the universe is full of ether wasn't so much disproved
: :- as made irrelevant.
:
: Uh, no. It was, in point of fact, disproved (unless you assume
: 'ether' is 'magic').
:
:Well if your name is Robert Metcalfe, the inventer of ethernet, given
:his wealth, then 'ether' is in fact magic.

You're obviously breathing too much alkylamine diethoxylate.

And you've been inhaling the NO3 yourself...


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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn

"Eric Chomko" wrote:

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:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: David Johnston wrote:
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: :On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:41:03 GMT, Fred J. McCall
: wrote:
: :
: ::I am unaware of any other argument for ID. But even if it's wrong, it
: ::doesn't matter.
: :
: :I see. Given that great support for your contention, I take it as
: :admittedly incorrect.
: :
: :No. It just isn't worth arguing when you already stated that ID
: :includes the mechanisms to explain vestigial organs which was the
: :actual subject.
:
: Not in any part of the thread that I got, it wasn't.
:
: Do you actually have a point?
:
:You mean like the one on the top of your head?
:
Watch Freddy take it to the gutter).

Poor, stupid El Chimpko...

--
"You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of
your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear."
-- Mark Twain

"Eric Chomko" wrote:

:
:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: "Eric Chomko" wrote:
:
: :
: :Fred J. McCall wrote:
: : Howard Brazee wrote:
: :
: : :On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:07:02 GMT, Fred J. McCall
: : wrote:
: : :
: : :: All right, I don't see anything to disagree with in the above.
: : ::The eighteenth-century scientists who formulated the phlogiston theory
: : ::seem to have followed the above rules.
: : :
: : :Yep. And they proved it couldn't work that way. End of theory.
: : :
: : :The theory that the universe is full of ether wasn't so much disproved
: : :- as made irrelevant.
: :
: : Uh, no. It was, in point of fact, disproved (unless you assume
: : 'ether' is 'magic').
: :
: :Well if your name is Robert Metcalfe, the inventer of ethernet, given
: :his wealth, then 'ether' is in fact magic.
:
: You're obviously breathing too much alkylamine diethoxylate.
:
:And you've been inhaling the NO3 yourself...

Poor El Chimpko. He couldn't even manage to stick with the 'ether'
motif...

[Or perhaps he didn't realize that I *did*...]

--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn

Robibnikoff wrote:

You don't know what *plonk* means, do you.

I was testing. You often see net-cranks doing fake plonks.

Paul