When I was in college back in the seventies, we had a huge winter storm shut down campus for a week. We had 27" of snow on the ground, and even the campus police couldn't get out to patrol. So classes were cancelled, and everyone was out building snowmen and tubing. A friend of mine and I decided to walk accross campus to the grocery store before all the shelves were empty. When we reached the student center, there was a preacher in the square spouting fire and brimstone, surrouded by a lot of students, most of whom were apparently from the football team. As we passed by, we realised that these guys all had snowballs in their hands held behind their backs. I looked at my friend and said "maybe we should get out of here". So we started running. I decided to stop and look back, and the sky was full of snowballs. I never saw that preacher there again. lol True story.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
