(January 15, 2018 at 2:11 pm)Khemikal Wrote: You seem to have interpreted my impatience with gish galloping as an issue of my not understanding you, lol. This is not the case. I understand, the trouble is that you've simply been wrong. We get this all the time round hur. Most of my corrections to your assertions about evolutionary biology and science have been stock responses from years of handling the very same objections.See??? More ad homs. Can't you post even one time without redirection of attention onto how stupid I am? Don't you see how that removes credibility from your position?
In effect, I simply beat other posters to the punch. While it;s certainly not your fault that you express these common misapprehensions -before- they've been pointed out to you, it most definitely -is- on you when you persist in them after that fact.
Whether it's me or some other guys, the same rules apply. Once you begin throwing mud, you're wasting your time because you'll win no one over.
Can you imagine reading pubmed and the first line you read is the author taking a shot at another scientist? What would you think of that?
"Khemikal et al made a claim that conflicted with our world view through a clear demonstration of incompetence and we seek to disprove that idiotic result utilizing the follow methods..."
Academia would be reduced to a pissing contest... much like this thread