[Replying to this silly ID cartoon called <a href="http://www.kids4truth.com/watchmaker/watch.html " target="_blank">The Watchmaker</a>]
I think they did an awesome job.
[Later in the same thread.]
My background is in mathematics and statistics, I know bs when I see it, and Dick [Richard Dawkins] is a cesspool of it.
32 comments
Should be
"My background is in bs , I know mathematics and statistics when I see it, and Dick [Richard Dawkins] is a cesspool of it."
(well, inasmuch as something can be a cesspool of mathematics and statistics)
Really? You're smarter than the whole scientific community who disagrees with you? Folks, we are in the presence of a genius right now!
Btw, what exactly does mathematics and statistics tell you about evolutionary biology and ethology that you think you know his field better than him?
"I think they did an awesome job."
I think they did a awesome job making a stupid point.
"My background is in mathematics and statistics, I know bs when I see it, and Dick [Richard Dawkins] is a cesspool of it."
You supposed background in math & stats doesn't seem to have honed your bs detector at all.
I notice that you don't provide any reliable source material to discredit Dawkins, just slanderous comments.
Well, I guess the did an awesome job, in that they made it look prettier than I could. Though I'm not artisitcally inclined.
What kind of background in mathmatics and statistics did you have? Passing interest?
"I think they did an awesome job"
Translation: I have an empty head, it fills so easily with this fluffy 'argument'!
"My background is in mathematics and statistics"
Translation: My dad is a high school geometry teacher, and when I go bowling, I know how to keep score!
"I know bs when I see it"
Translation: I sleep in a cow pasture!
"...and Dick [Richard Dawkins] is a cesspool of it."
Translation: He uses facts, evidence and fancy-schmancy "reality" to threaten my Church of Cards. Therefore I don't like that Mr. Poopypants.
Great another idiot sitting at his computer, most likely unshaven & in a bath robe announcing to the world that he is far more intelligent and educated than real scientists. Meanwhile in real life he's either a Wal Mart greeter or spends most of his working day asking "would you like fries with that?"
My background is in mathematics and statistics, I know bs when I see it...
Yeah, right. That's why you're a christian and out on the net bagging people like Dawkins while being comfortably out of range.
"Brennin, if I remember your earlier posts correctly you wouldn't know a mathematically sound argument if it walked up and introduced itself."
Bitch please. You already lost one argument with me (i.e., regarding my use of faux pas) are you a glutton for punishment?
"repeating 3rd grade does not constitute a background in statistical analysis."
You must be speaking from experience here. Say, aren't you the f'ing idiot who insisted that because anthropology is a bachelor of science degree at MIT it has to be a science? (Just like architecture!)
I am ever amazed by the pieces of shit who presume to criticize me here.
Brennin #104559
["repeating 3rd grade does not constitute a background in statistical analysis."]
<< You must be speaking from experience here. Say, aren't you the f'ing idiot who insisted that because anthropology is a bachelor of science degree at MIT it has to be a science? (Just like architecture!)
I am ever amazed by the pieces of shit who presume to criticize me here. >>
------------------------
If you think anthropology isn't a science, what would YOU call it? Fine art?
I'll grant that anthropology isn't a HARD science, like physics or chemistry (i.e., a physical science), but it is considered a SOFT science, like psychology.
~David D.G.
"The Wizard's still holding out on you for that brain isn't he."
You are confused. He is waiting for you to remove the wicked witch's broomstick from your ass so he can trade you some courage for it.
Is that the line he spun you? You've been sucking off an old homeless man in the park for how many years and that's all he's had to feed you with? Even altar boys know they can get a mars bar, how dumb are you?
You already lost one argument with me (i.e., regarding my use of faux pas)
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You actually think you won that argument? When three dictionaries don't list your meaning at all, and the other lists it as a secondary meaning, you're not exactly convincing anyone - especially when you failed to even point out a real blunder in the first place.
"Is that the line he spun you? You've been sucking off an old homeless man in the park for how many years and that's all he's had to feed you with?"
Please leave me out of your homoerotic fantasies.
"Even altar boys know they can get a mars bar, how dumb are you?"
You must be speaking from experience again. (Which accounts for the broomstick up your ass.)
"BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
That would be a horse laugh.
"You actually think you won that argument? When three dictionaries don't list your meaning at all, and the other lists it as a secondary meaning, you're not exactly convincing anyone - especially when you failed to even point out a real blunder in the first place."
Again, making recourse to m-w.com:
Main Entry: faux pas
Pronunciation: 'fO-"pä, fO-'
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural faux pas /-"pä(z), -'pä(z)/
Etymology: French, literally, false step
: BLUNDER; especially : a social blunder
The fact remains that my usage was correct (In fact, it is truer to the underlying French.) Your limited knowledge of the term and language in general is not my problem.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.