tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post116639455096440896..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: What the other hand is doingZenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1166584509921127082006-12-19T19:15:00.000-08:002006-12-19T19:15:00.000-08:00The former does not follow from the latter.I never...<I>The former does not follow from the latter.</I><BR/><BR/>I never said it did. Josiah gives ample evidence of a budding intellect as he pieces together his arguments. His problem is that he's limited by his blinkered perspective to positions that were long ago refuted; he's immersed in a system that insists on biblical inerrancy and literalism. The poor guy is doomed to be wrong, but all the authority figures around him tell him over and over again that he is right.<BR/><BR/>You don't have to be a dummy to be a creationist (especially a young creationist), although we can all cite cases where it helps (e.g., apparently everyone at the Discovery Institute). Give the boy some credit: He's doing the best he can with what he has and he may yet discover the shoddiness of his materials.Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1166583503359674632006-12-19T18:58:00.000-08:002006-12-19T18:58:00.000-08:00Dude, that pun was painful.Painful would have been...<I>Dude, that pun was painful.</I><BR/><BR/>Painful would have been to get it right: Survival of the fittingest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1166583253055532312006-12-19T18:54:00.000-08:002006-12-19T18:54:00.000-08:00Josiah is a bright teenager with superior writing ...<I>Josiah is a bright teenager with superior writing skills</I><BR/><BR/>The former does not follow from the latter. In fact, he's only an accomplished rationalizer and regurgitator, not a comprehender or problem solver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1166556213437543652006-12-19T11:23:00.000-08:002006-12-19T11:23:00.000-08:00Dude, that pun was painful.Dude, that pun was painful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1166454763283296832006-12-18T07:12:00.000-08:002006-12-18T07:12:00.000-08:00Thanks, mo'n: I suspected that Josiah was off the ...Thanks, mo'n: I suspected that Josiah was off the mark there, too. I'm pleased to have that confirmed by someone who knows the field. It's one more instance of a creationist using the trope "no one can do it" to conclude that "God did it." And one more instance of their being wrong.Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-1166453508513571602006-12-18T06:51:00.000-08:002006-12-18T06:51:00.000-08:00I'd like to call shennanigans on the assertion tha...I'd like to call shennanigans on the assertion that, "Even with all our fabulous modern instruments, there is absolutely no way to make a completely pure solution of left-handed amino acids." Chemists make left or right handed molecules all the time in amazingly high purity, and it's not "fabulous instruments" that do it. Lots of hard work and a good knowledge of chemistry are used to accomplish that task. Although, maybe he thinks those two years of organic chemistry I took are all a pack of lies. Lies that seem to work pretty well when used in the lab.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com