Genetic Paper Topics???

Uhhh, can you guys take this offline please? Either that or limit yourself to three or fewer sentences.

Read the bible asswipe. That's real truth. If you read the good book you'd know God is all about the democracy and the FREEDOM! God strikes down queers and punishes with death the nonbelievers and the other asswipes like yourself who don't go to church and vote against abortion. Wise up bucko or you will know pane when you burn in satans arms.

read the word wrote:

Read the bible asswipe. That's real truth. If you read the good book you'd know God is all about the democracy and the FREEDOM! God strikes down queers and punishes with death the nonbelievers and the other asswipes like yourself who don't go to church and vote against abortion. Wise up bucko or you will know pane when you burn in satans arms.

Don't you mean vote for abortion?

Oh brother. My optimistic view that man would ultimately succeed just dropped a few notches after reading your post. I would like to offer a rebuttal, but I haven't the slightest idea how one goes about teaching a brick.

Yes, I just lost about 20 IQ points after reading that gibberish.

Please, read slowly and attempt to understand what I am about to say to you.

I have made NO CLAIMS regarding the beginning of the universe, evolution, or the scope of science. NONE. Sit back and digest this.

OK, ready?

I have attempted to educate you in regard to your logical fallicies. Specifically - Argument from Ignorance.

Instead of attempting to comprehend this, you totally ignore anything I say and proceed to rant about the human mind's inability to wholly grasp the beginning of the universe, continually reinforcing the fact that you have absolutely no concept of the idea of argument from ignorance.

I can see that any chance I (or others) may have to help you understand even the most basic rule of debate has long since passed. Go back and reread my post without the prejudice that I'm somehow trying to destroy your faith in religion and I think you'll see you've been doing nothing more than arguing with yourself for the last half dozen posts.

Friend, you may have made no claims, but you have made presumptions. For one, you presume that I have a strong faith in some entity by your comment that I'm defensive in thinking that you are trying to "destroy my faith." Secondly, why don't you simply clarify your point about argument from ignorance. Where exactly is the logical fallacy? The reason I continually refer to the limitations of the human mind is because that is the response that you chose to take issue with, as if though I am somehow trying to prove the existence of a "begetter" by saying that science is limited by the constraints of the human mind, when, that is NOT AT ALL what I'm trying to do. In reality, I think we are actually trying to make the same point, but your need to try to accuse me of being ignorant based on my statement about the limitations of rationality lends itself to presumptions as well.

Is the internet something new to you? Have you recently become aware of these message boards where you can engage in debate with other anonymous individuals?

The reason I ask is that your posts bring to mind the term "mental masturbation" because you constantly keep ignoring any of my responses and continue to debate some imagined foe, seemingly deriving enjoyment from your own inane drivel.

I envision you as a twelve year old who has recently discovered that his penis can bring pleasure and is going to keep tugging at it, indifferent to anything going on around him. Continue to wank on, just know people are staring at you.

SC Slim wrote:

I don't have all the facts. I never claimed to have all the facts. No one does. Trying to use this to support your position is known as argument from ignorance. Please look it up.

Ignorance is defined as the lack of knowledge. I have no problem with someone being ignorant. Only when ignorance is used to support some pseudo-scientific claim that the universe was "begat" do issues arise.

I went back and read through all of the dialogue, and the above responses reveal your error. I never tried to utilize the notion that no one has all of the facts to support ANY position. I used it to undermine support for any position. That is the WHOLE point. You are mistaken to presume otherwise. I never used a "lack of knowledge" to support a position that the universe was somehow "begat." I did choose the word begat, which does tend to ruffle feathers of the scientifically bent, and you do seem to have an issue with it. Truth be told, I have no idea whether the universe was begat, or self-created, or always in existence. And neither do you.

SC Slim wrote:

Is the internet something new to you? Have you recently become aware of these message boards where you can engage in debate with other anonymous individuals?

The reason I ask is that your posts bring to mind the term "mental masturbation" because you constantly keep ignoring any of my responses and continue to debate some imagined foe, seemingly deriving enjoyment from your own inane drivel.

I envision you as a twelve year old who has recently discovered that his penis can bring pleasure and is going to keep tugging at it, indifferent to anything going on around him. Continue to wank on, just know people are staring at you.

Wow, taking it to a new level and revealing your true condescending nature at the same time. Couldn't resist eh, just like you couldn't resist the urge to defile someone's initial view (or non-view) which you perceived to have differed from your own? Is envisioning twelve year olds who have recently discovered their penises a new thing for you, or have you been at it for awhile?

Charles Darwin wrote:

Nothing. And neither do you. And that's precisely the point. Scientists and evangelists alike have that in common. NO ONE knows what begat the universe. Magic fairy dust didn't do it and neither did a couple of mathematical constants.

By the way, dumbass, here is the original post which got your panties in a bunch. I never used any lack of knowledge (ignorance) to support a position. I used a lack of knowledge to challenge support for a position. They are not supportable. Magic fairy dust inconspicuously refers to God, and mathematical constants refers to matter, energy, the big bang, relativity, string theory, chaos, etc.

SC Slim wrote:

I envision you as a twelve year old who has recently discovered that his penis can bring pleasure and is going to keep tugging at it, indifferent to anything going on around him. Continue to wank on, just know people are staring at you.

I gotta admit that's a bit of a strange analogy to make your point with....

Yeah, SC Slim, you imagining 12 year old boys tugging on their penises...does this worry anyone else a bit?

it worries me also.

i think sc slim is "physically masturbating" to the thought of charles darwin "mentally masturbating"

I just want to say that too many people take the bible to literally. This happens on both sides, i.e. scary zealots who actually believe the world was created in six days and angry athiests who will use the impossibility of creating the world in six days as the basis of an argument against Christianity and/or the Bible.

talking about this on a message board makes me feel dirty.

You should write about Gregor Mendel, because he had a pretty sweet name AND did some stuff with "genetics."