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SkinWalker

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Posted in: Debate strategies and tactics
  SkinWalker
04-01-2009, 9:15 PM
#36
Wow. You beat me to it. I was planning on linking to that tonight. I just listened to this on Miro and the first thing I thought of was this thread. I second the recommendation for this 5 minute podcast and recommend the rest of the series as well as...  [Read More]
Posted in: Questions for Atheists and Agnostics
  SkinWalker
05-18-2009, 5:39 PM
#43
1. When did you first become/find out/decide you were an atheist/agnostic? I settled on agnostic-atheist at around 1999. But I've always questioned religious doctrine and beliefs. I just never had a need to choose one side of the debate or the other...  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-25-2009, 6:49 PM
#79
Ah. I do not wish to be educated by either side. In that case, further posts by yourself in this thread will be considered off-topic and trolling and, thus, deleted. Please PM me if you have questions or concerns with this....  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-25-2009, 12:31 AM
#75
I don't know how one could be "indoctrinated" into critical thinking. I should think the same way one can be "drowned" in thirst. And I'm not being biased. Just because I don't agree or say I disagree with you or whatever doesn't...  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-23-2009, 1:07 AM
#63
That's fine if they want to put forth another class that teaches creationism. Sure. As long as this sort of superstition doesn't occur in the public schools my tax dollar funds. I'm simply saying regardless of the form both theories should be giv...  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-14-2009, 10:16 AM
#17
Its still the same god. Yahweh didn't step out for "God" in a tag-team style match. They're the same guy. The fact that Judeo-Christian literature and mythology reads like a different god is because the perception of this god evolved with t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-13-2009, 11:03 AM
#14
Wouldn't it be like saying to my daughter "my brother" or "your uncle" when referring to my sibling? They're still the same person.........  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-13-2009, 2:04 AM
#8
QFT/E. That often tends to be the problem with ancient literature/languages and how they are interpreted in modern times. Interestingly enough, the Hebrew word poth literally means "hinged opening." Yet in a verse found in Isaiah we can r...  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-13-2009, 12:48 AM
#5
I beg to differ: Clicky (http://www.discovery.org/) I should have clarified. I was only speaking for myself. :)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  SkinWalker
04-12-2009, 10:55 PM
#2
Nope....  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-02-2009, 12:58 AM
#127
Garfield is bent on resorting to argumentum ad hominem and on creating straw man arguments rather than analyzing the data presenting in Nyborg. Interestingly enough, since he was able to locate a disparaging word or two about Helmuth Nyborg, he wasn'...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 11:11 PM
#124
There is, actually, an interesting point of Nyborg's methodology that I have a question about and I've written him to clarify it. Once that's done, I'll be able to use the independent data he obtained and attempt to duplicate his results. If I can us...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 5:55 PM
#112
Ah-hah! This is the part you told me about, correct? Very enlightening. Could it be that atheists and agnostics are more dogmatic than Episcopalians, Anglicans and Jews? ;) I could be! I've known some very dogmatic atheists in my time :) I think, h...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 5:01 PM
#109
The study itself makes no assertion of why, but seeks only to demonstrate the correlation between cognitive function and what people are willing to accept with regard to beliefs. Pentecostals, for instance, are among the more dogmatic of religious a...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 4:10 PM
#107
So ignoring the fact that Nyborg compiled the data and you fallaciously dismiss it on the grounds that it is easier for you to erect a straw man regarding his past research, how then do you reconcile the fact that, among American adolescents, there i...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 1:36 PM
#105
Methodology is flawed in that it uses a sample size that was not equal. Nearly 100 to 1.* They got a more accurate average for religious than athiest. That means it would trend toward the average of the US, which last I checked was right around 100....  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 1:28 AM
#103
I actually have more optimism for the Republican party, which I tried (ineffectively perhaps) to convey in an earlier post. I think the "alleged base" is starting to become a thing of the past and modern, younger republicans are starting to...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
03-01-2009, 1:02 AM
#101
The plain fact is that Garfield has run up against a wall of rational discourse to which he cannot get around without resorting to red herrings and straw man arguments. He will not attempt to deal with the data as presented since this is empirical,...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
02-27-2009, 10:45 PM
#94
He got in trouble for deliberately using bad data to manipulating and misrepresenting data to skew the results, if he did that for one study, what's to say he didn't do it for another. Not that it's relevant anyway, but what data was his in regards...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
02-27-2009, 2:22 AM
#85
There has been some discussion on Garfield's part regarding the veracity of Nyborg's research, so I'm going to give it the same treatment I did Stankov. Fair use prevents me from simply posting the entire article, but the full paper is available in v...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  SkinWalker
02-27-2009, 12:42 AM
#84
They aren't red herrings, though I'm not sure people realize what the implications of some of what I posted yet. They are. Red herrings and straw man arguments. Rather than deal with the data presented, you choose instead to erect arguments you can...  [Read More]
Posted in: Killer Apps, Tweaks & Important Updates!
  SkinWalker
04-08-2009, 8:38 AM
#85
Naah... the terminal window is dying the same slow death that the dos command window did with MS Win machines. :)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Killer Apps, Tweaks & Important Updates!
  SkinWalker
04-08-2009, 1:30 AM
#82
I just skimmed this thread and noticed that there weren't any Linux Apps listed! Well... some of the apps listed swing both ways. VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) is one. I use it in Linux almost exclusively for my video files (or any other media...  [Read More]
Posted in: Your 'Killer Apps' & Fave Tech Sites ??
  SkinWalker
04-08-2009, 8:38 AM
#62
Naah... the terminal window is dying the same slow death that the dos command window did with MS Win machines. :)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Your 'Killer Apps' & Fave Tech Sites ??
  SkinWalker
04-08-2009, 1:30 AM
#59
I just skimmed this thread and noticed that there weren't any Linux Apps listed! Well... some of the apps listed swing both ways. VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) is one. I use it in Linux almost exclusively for my video files (or any other media...  [Read More]