(June 13, 2015 at 5:40 am)nicanica123 Wrote:(May 31, 2015 at 11:57 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Min's premise isn't that the load of crap dates from the 1880s; it's that it is a load of crap that was invented in that period. The TOE doesn't qualify on either count.
Either way, I wouldn't buy a load a crap if it was presented in the 21st century. If posters want to inject with ridicule they should expect it in return when deserved. Would you say that the question was asked in earnest anyway?
That's not for you or I to say; only Min can answer that. That said, Min and I have known each other for more years than either of us would care to admit, over several different fora. Based on that, my gut tells me the question was meant in as much earnestness as he treats the rest of the subject. From our perspective, you already have bought a load of crap, the vintage of which lending an illusion of mystique that it hasn't earned nor can sustain.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'