(July 3, 2021 at 10:28 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(July 2, 2021 at 5:03 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sorry I missed your full offer. Even sorrier that I now have to decline (I’m more than a little tetchy about giving out my email address).
But all those sundry documents wouldn’t be necessary. The patent number would allow me to look up your patent, which would have your name on it - according to US patent law, an inventor cannot opt out of being named in the patent.
Boru
Well, I pointed that out. I posted a patent of mine. Drich just will not do it. Drich wants someone to PM him an email.
Great, I did. We shall see if he is even vaguely honest. Or a flood of religious spam which is what I expect.
Back when I first got online to seek out other atheists there would have been a time I would have fallen for a "one on one" e-mail debate. If you remember "Dinesh D'Souza", a famous right winger. He pulled that shit with me back in the early 2000s. I fell for it at first. But when I got stumped, I simply brought his arguments back to the forum I was on at the time, and let the community hit his arguments with sunlight.
I never do one on one private debates now. I figure if you have a valid argument you should have no problem debating it in public where everyone can see it.
When a theist offers you the private debate, you can look at it just like a lion stalking prey trying to peel one off of the herd. Ever see that famous video of the African buffalo initially running from a croc trying to pull a calf into the river while a lion was trying to compete for the same calf? Some alfa member of the buffalo heard must have thought "fuck this shit, I am tired of it", and the heard came back and kicked the lion's ass.
I never do one on one private debates now. I see them as pointless. Just like I shut the door on phone marketers and Multi Level Marketing scams.
If they have something valid, then they should not be afraid of debating it in public.
