Well...it had to be on the web...

[cthulhu77]

Hey, you callin' cryptozoology a psuedoscience????

 

[OB]

Yeah, Big Man, Bernard Heuvelmans might be a lurker on this very site!

 

[cthulhu77]

Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Oh...bother.

Joined the crypts (and boy, did I love saying that for a while) in Tucson last year for a meeting. What a bunch of odd ducks, but fun !

 

[OB]

I'm a crypto-cryptozoologist myself, sehkrit handshake and all.... Ah, for my own coelacanth equivalent to wash up on the Dutch shores...

 

[CapnNemo]

Yeah, Big Man, Bernard Heuvelmans might be a lurker on this very site!

I doubt it, he passed on a few years back.

 

[OB]

I doubt it, he passed on a few years back.

Or so he made you believe... All part of the great crypto-lurker conspiracy, I'm sure

 

[Feelers]

Another article on that case, but written before the result was given.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/06/DESIGN.TMP

I particularly liked this.........

When, on the final day of the trial, one lawyer pointed out that, "this is the 40th day of the trial, and tonight will be the 40th night,"

Judge Jones replied:

"That's an interesting coincidence. But it was not by design."

 

[cthulhu77]

And was it raining?

 

[Feelers]

They just talked about the results from a survey on the news here in NZ,

When asked what was most important in peoples lives - friends family and leisure was a clear winner (70%), followed by politics (20%), and then, comming in last place - religion (10%).

I'm still quite surprised that many people are that into politics - or religion for that matter

 

[bigGdelta]

here in the states you are expected to put work first. Never much cared for that myself - had my benefit package "improved" too many times by companies. It always seemed the improved version took away something.

 

[erich orser]

Well, on top of our attitude about work in the U.S. - where we have less paid-vacation time than any other industrialized country - how about the Japanese attitude regarding work? There they have mandatory vacation time, but Japanese workers still tend to come into work on that time. Not because their companies coerce them, but because they JUST CAN'T STAY AWAY (boy I wish I could figure out how to do italics on Tonmo - hate making it look like I'm flaming people)!

When I lived in West Germany as a rather disturbed teenager, I learned the expression "Others work to live. Germans live to work". I guess this makes the Japan-German part of the Axis make a little more sense, but how the heck do the Italians possibly fit into that equation? Not that I hold that against them. Out of every place I've ever visited in the World, I don't think I've ever felt more automatically at-home with a culture. Ever. True sense of priorities.

Back on the thread, Bravo to the judge in this ruling! Makes it even sweeter that he's a Bush-appointed conservative church-going Christian. It'll be harder for ID proponents to argue this one.

 

[bigGdelta]

just found this bit of craziness
http://www.earnedmedia.org/cpr1220.htm

Of course there are no details and their theory is presented in a book and not a scientic publication. get ready for SON of ID coming soon to a fundamentalist school board near you.

 

[OB]

"And forgive them their trespasses, as we may be forgiven for ignoring their trespasses against formal logic"

Sigh...

 

[bigGdelta]

went to the reasons to believe site and from what I could tell, the major flaw they found in id before the trial was that ID didn't specify the Christian god as the designer.

http://www.reasons.org/resources/fff/2002issue10/index.shtml#more_than_id

 

[cthulhu77]

Well, we all KNOW that great Cthulhu spawned all life. And death. And little rubbery bits. And lemmings. And ourang-utans. And breakfast cereals. And...