(October 29, 2013 at 5:17 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote:(October 29, 2013 at 5:11 pm)orogenicman Wrote: But since it wasn't you I was quoting, why single me out? Why didn't you simply request it of everyone?
Perhaps I should have done so, and I sincerely apologize if you felt challenged or threatened by my post in any way. I was simply using your post to make a point, and I demonstrated in my post how to do what I was requesting. I seized an opportunity that presented itself without weighing all considerations prior to doing so. In the future, if I find a need to make a clarification, I will do so in more a more proper manner. I'm sorry.
No problems. I understand how to do it. The reason I didn't is because I didn't want to quote all of that rant, just the one sentence I wanted to address. And I did include the person's name with the quote. Interestingly, he has yet to respond to it.
'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
