[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Picker, anytime you want to talk about the space program and the unfortunate direction it took--start a thread on-topic and ping me and I'll participate. Those are the threads that I talked about it, and it won't bother me to do it again. In that context."

I brought it up in the context of a story. You said stories could never be wrong. Was mine wrong? Or was your claim wrong?

" But if you did that it'd spoil a record of months and months where you join in no discussion but an evo-discussion!"

Except... that's not true at all. You have no clue, do you? :)

"Yet you claim to be interested enough in Republicanism to vote that way...?"

I don't give a rat's ass about *Republicanism*. There is no such thing. I do care about ideas like limited government, low taxes, strong defense, immigration, education (science literacy). I don't care who is promoting them. I vote Republican because they have had the best overall program. That doesn't mean I have to agree with everything every Republican says.

[Mamzelle]

LIke I said, if you want to "talk story" as the Hawaiians used to say, start a thread on the story topic of your choice. That would make the irrelevant relevant.

As for comparing the solar system's structure's testability to speciation-evolution, that's quite a stretch. We can flick comets millions of miles away due to knowing exactly where we are. We can "do" it, and it was tested in a lab before the awful, expensive real test. That's not quite the same as looking back millions of years and insisting on a progression that cannot be replicated in a laboratory.