Posted on 04/13/2008 5:17:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Preumably you do not, so why do you find his comment "vile" and "offensive"? Let me speculate... you're just tossing around some fake moral-highground outrage, playing for sympathy from the audience. No?
Yes, this is all very amusing. For at the very moment that Coyoteman and his side-kick Gumlegs were letting us know how shocked, offended and outraged they are regarding personal insults, Coyoteman was busy calling someone else an "idiot" in another thread. And Gumlegs, the voice of moral outrage, was nowhere about.
Clueless as ever, I see.
savagesusie: Well, isn't it???? Who could say that it isn't???? HA! Can you admit the TRUTH---that is all that Ben Stein is exposing....the TRUTH. I can not wait to see Expelled!
I was responding to Ethan Clive Osgoode's question in post 92. It seems you and he need to have a discussion.
Presume and speculate all you like. You're wrong. Read the rules about personal attacks.
By the way, I notice that neither you nor your cheering section seem to have noticed that post 90 to this thread exposed you as a blatant liar. Care to comment on that?
Me....I’m sick of hearing what you do in your bed on every political forum. This is truly a wedge issue....or is that a wedgie issue? H@ll I don’t know!....go get a porn flick will ya?
Good...why would it be on any poltical forum might I ask? On second thought, don’t answer that question. I don’t care what you do and I don’t want to know any more about it.
Very wise. Here’s the non-answer you wanted.
Well, isn't it???? Who could say that it isn't????
Well, if both of the bunnies are hot...
Since when is making a factual statement an 'attack?'
No thanks. Scientific American sold it's soul some time ago.
There is just way to much political bias in the articles they publish. Political Correctness and Science just don't mix. Like the LA Times, Scientific American was once a great American institution. That time has passed.
On the other hand I think Stein's thesis is simply wrong and so I'm betting that in this case I'm actually in agreement with the SA reviewer.
Factual statements are not an attack. Since when is the below a "factual" statement?
To: CoyotemanIf I hate them than[sic] you obviously love them (probably physically too).
That's from celmak.
Go ahead. Tell me how that's factual. I defy you. The outrageous lying going on around here is worthy of the lowest depths of the DNC.
Go see it before believing the critics that are so obviously afraid it will expose their racket
The Discovery Institute Has responded to the Scientific American article on Expelled here :
http://www.discovery.org/a/4689
TITLE :
18 April 2008
Michael Shermer’s Fact-Free Attack on Expelled Exposes Intolerance of Darwinists towards Pro-Intelligent Design Scientists
Excellent comments - I saw this film today - and Ben Stein does make the point....which is that the idea of Intelligent Design has been been ruled so “forbidden” by the scientific and academic elite that several scientists feared to be filmed even discussing the issue - and were filmed speaking from the shadows.
It reminded me of those in closed societies who would dare to speak about....freedom.
And that is actually the basic premise of this documentary.
That there is now NO FREEDOM of scientific inquiry if that inquiry in ANY WAY brings one iota of criticism of evolution....
It is equated to the elimination of political freedom such as was seen in the erection of the Berlin Wall and those who were not allowed to go past that wall....to venture into freedom....without risking being arrested, beaten up, or shot.
Today - the bullets used are words, tenure, academic positions, and research grants.
It also very much reminded me of the way the reformers and the protestants were treated by the Catholics ....when the fresh wind of the reformation began to blow through Europe.
It should remind all those high minded “scientists” who rail against how Galileo was treated by the scientific “elite” of that day.....
There is NO SUBSTITUTION for FREEDOM = especially in the world of scientific inquiry! And THAT FREEDOM at this time does NOT exist in this country!
Thank you, Ben Stein, for your courage in doing this documentary - and for the courage of all those whose academic / research lives have been trashed by the scientific “politburos” in our academic and scientific domains.
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