biblethumping

I'm still a fan of Daves narrow view of creation but just to clear the record, I did not vote in favor of afdave. I am a babelist at heart and Dave's notion of 'the truth of written record' is completely wrong under that assumption. His aggruments were very pursuasive but CM was able to counter all of them. This what you would expect if God had and STILL IS confusing the tongues of mankind (and thier so called scientific papers) in order that we not 'know' the truth of heaven.

deadman_932

wow. just fuckin' wow.

GenesisNemesis

This is what I expect from unreasonable people who believe every single word of the Bible.

ericmurphy

So if you try to find the "truth of heaven," then you're defying the will of God.

Best alert the pope, so he can shut down his little operation before God smites him nigh unto coffee grounds.

Faid

So I voted, but honestly I don't think a poll was necessary this time (other to make poor dave cringe ). Dave deliberately avoided answering CM's question about consillience; and, by doing so, admitted defeat. I'd love to see him argue otherwise.

Constant Mews

Exactly. I remain interested in how Dave rationalizes to himself not addressing the question. I see two possibilities: he genuinely doesn't understand the problem; or he cannot address it because he is incapable of constructing his own arguments, and none of his creationist sites has attempted to do so.

His blatant accusation that every scientist alive is a fraud and a liar is, of course, too ridiculous to entertain.

deadman_932

I did see that Dave was on a couple of hours ago, but left no comments.

Could it be that the steady drip, drip, drip of data has made a mark on lithified crania? Can credulous Dave be considering the calamitous concept of Creationist calumny? Tune in tomorrow — same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.

Constant Mews

No. Dave is irretrievably damaged by his upbringing and his neurological condition. He will never be able to admit - or even understand - that he is wrong.

mitschlag

My guess: his emotional commitment to fundamentalism creates a cognitive dissonance will not allow his intellect to understand the problem.

As you well know, CM, emotions rule the intellect.

Those of us whose emotions run to challenging authority and finding things out for ourselves have a leg up on scientific understanding. Incomprehensible to those with contrary (authoritarian) dispositions.

Makes the world go around, apparently.

Silent Dave

Unlikely -- he also posted on his blog a couple hours ago, a cut-and-paste of the English Channel bullshit from his closing statement. So he's around, and he hasn't changed his mind, he's just grown scared of confrontation.

Er, excuse me, not scared -- rather, God has opened his eyes that it's a waste of time to argue with Satan's minions. Or something to that effect.