• Why do ID perps still exist?

    From RonO@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 4 09:06:18 2023
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait
    and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims
    that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking
    about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became
    something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six
    were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe
    Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no
    doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been
    all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up
    the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple
    years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand
    nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if
    the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not
    have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the
    ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been
    more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in
    the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from
    the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding
    of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to
    the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did
    not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some
    viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first
    bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young
    earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID
    perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where
    all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would
    have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even
    support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to
    Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the
    ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson
    has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID
    scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing
    to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that
    they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam.
    The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist
    beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since
    reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six: https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From brogers31751@gmail.com@21:1/5 to RonO on Sat Nov 4 07:57:17 2023
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 10:11:29 AM UTC-4, RonO wrote:
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait
    and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims
    that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became
    something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six
    were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe
    Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no
    doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been
    all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up
    the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple
    years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if
    the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not
    have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the
    ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been
    more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in
    the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from
    the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding
    of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to
    the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did
    not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first
    bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young
    earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID
    perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where
    all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would
    have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even
    support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the
    ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson
    has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID
    scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing
    to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that
    they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam.
    The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since
    reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six: https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto

    Pascal might have answered your question thusly "If the ID perps didn't exist, you'd have to invent them."

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to RonO on Sat Nov 4 11:52:08 2023
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait
    and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims
    that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became >something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six
    were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe
    Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been
    all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up
    the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple
    years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if
    the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not
    have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the
    ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been
    more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in
    the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from
    the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding
    of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic >evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to
    the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did
    not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first
    bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID
    perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where
    all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would
    have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even
    support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson
    has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID
    scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing
    to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that
    they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam.
    The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since >reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: >https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six: >https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto


    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is
    a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume
    you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I
    am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction
    between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    --
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  • From Lawyer Daggett@21:1/5 to jillery on Sat Nov 4 09:29:49 2023
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29 AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait >and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims
    that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became >something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six
    were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe
    Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been
    all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up >the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple >years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if
    the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the
    ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in >the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from
    the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding
    of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic >evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to >the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his >statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did
    not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first
    bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where
    all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would
    have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even >support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson
    has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID
    scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing
    to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam.
    The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since >reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: >https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six: >https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is
    a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume
    you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I
    am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    --
    To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking
    the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is
    a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge
    but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to Lawyer Daggett on Sat Nov 4 12:32:32 2023
    On 11/4/2023 11:29 AM, Lawyer Daggett wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29 AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still
    claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait >>> and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims
    that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking
    about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became
    something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six
    were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe
    Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no
    doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >>> started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been
    all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up
    the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple
    years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand
    nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if
    the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not
    have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the
    ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with
    scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been
    more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in
    the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from
    the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely
    understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see
    accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding
    of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to >>> the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did
    not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some
    viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first
    bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young
    earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID
    perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where
    all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would
    have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even
    support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to
    Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the
    ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson
    has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID
    scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing
    to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that
    they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam.
    The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist
    beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic
    creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since
    reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version:
    https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six:
    https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is
    a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume
    you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I
    am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction
    between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    --
    To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is
    a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge
    but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.


    Kalk and Bill are included because they did exactly what I claim, and
    they would be the most likely pair still posting that would be able to
    give their explanation for why things are the way that they are. Both
    of them had no issues figuring out what the Top Six meant to the ID scam
    and the creationist rubes that were still supporting the effort. As I
    indicate, Bill likely figured it out before the Top Six were put out.
    Unlike you with your profound misconception of the events, they
    understood just what the ID perps had done by presenting the Top Six the
    way that they had been presented. My guess is that this is more sour
    grapes about your profound misconception about the events and doesn't
    seem to be any way to deal with it. Who else would be able to provide a relevant explanation? Both of them no longer seem to have any love for
    the ID perps, and there is the chance that we might learn something.
    They haven't given up on their religious beliefs, they have just given
    up on the ID scam.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to Lawyer Daggett on Sun Nov 5 01:08:34 2023
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:31:30 PM UTC-4, Lawyer Daggett wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29 AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist >scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam >that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait >and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims >that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became >something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six >were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe >Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been >all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never >wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up >the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple >years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the >IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that >nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if >the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the >ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in >the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from >the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist >rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding >of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic >evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to >the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his >statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did >not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much >earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first >bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where >all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would >have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even >support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson >has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID >scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing >to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever >attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam. >The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the >public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since >reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: >https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six: >https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is
    a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume
    you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I
    am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is
    a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge
    but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.

    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use different reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters' names usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining.
    But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic
    involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post to such topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.

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  • From Kalkidas@21:1/5 to RonO on Sun Nov 5 08:32:15 2023
    On 11/4/2023 7:06 AM, RonO wrote:
    scam ...scam...
    bait and switch...rubes. ...perps ...
    ...
    .bait...switch scam
    ...

    ...perps...bait
    ...
    ...scam ...
    ...IDiocy...
    ...scam....
    ...scam...
    ...
    ...
    ...junk...
    ...
    IDiots....
    ...
    ...perps...
    ...
    ...perps...denial junk...

    ...rubbed their faces...
    ...perps...
    .scam unit...
    ...
    rubes...
    ...IDiotic.
    ...IDiotic...
    ...
    ...perps...
    ...
    bait and switch...rubes...
    ...perp....
    ...scam...
    perps...rubes...
    ...
    ...IDiots....
    ...
    scam ...
    ...scam,...
    ...
    ...scam.
    ...IDiotic
    ...perps...bait
    and switch...rubes?

    ....IDiotic ...
    ...

    ...perps...

    That's why.

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to jillery on Sun Nov 5 11:59:36 2023
    On 11/5/2023 3:08 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:31:30 PM UTC-4, Lawyer Daggett wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29 AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >>>> to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >>>> claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >>>> they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait >>>> and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims
    that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >>>> about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became
    something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six
    were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe
    Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >>>> doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >>>> started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been >>>> all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up >>>> the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple
    years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >>>> nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if >>>> the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >>>> have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the >>>> ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with
    scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >>>> more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in >>>> the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from
    the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >>>> understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see
    accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding >>>> of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to >>>> the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did
    not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >>>> viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first
    bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >>>> earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined
    up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >>>> perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where
    all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would
    have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even
    support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >>>> Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the
    ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson >>>> has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID
    scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing >>>> to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >>>> they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam. >>>> The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist
    beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic
    creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait
    and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since
    reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version:
    https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six:
    https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ

    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is
    a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume
    you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I
    am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction
    between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious
    behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking >> the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is
    a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a >> professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge
    but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.

    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use different reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters' names usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining.
    But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post to such topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.


    The ID perp debacle with the Top Six was likely the most significant
    event in the history of TO in terms of a single issue changing TO
    dramatically. Most of the existing IDiots quit being IDiots. Kalk and
    Glenn initially tried to run from reality and tried to keep putting up
    the second rate gap denial that wasn't good enough to include as the
    best evidence that the ID perps had, but Kalkidas couldn't keep doing
    that and eventually quit the ID scam. Kalk came out and claimed that he
    had never claimed to be Hindu and he became a normal Biblical
    creationist poster. Eventually Kalkidas claimed that the ID scam junk
    (the Top Six) were no longer of interest to him, and were things that he
    no longer considered. Bill made the claim that he had never supported
    the ID scam, but as I had noted even though he had been an IDiot from
    the time he started posting to TO, it had been some time since Bill had
    tried to defend any of the IDiotic claptrap. Pagano claimed that the
    Top Six were bogus, and were not the best evidence that the ID scam had.
    He tried to put up Dembski's junk instead, but Dembski had "retired"
    from the ID scam several years before as an abject failure and none of
    his junk made it into the Top Six. The Top Six did not support Pagano's geocentric old earth creationists beliefs, and Pagano quit posting.
    Nyikos was MIA and wasn't posting at that time, so he missed the initial
    event, and remained ignorant of what happened for years. He
    demonstrated his ignorance after Glenn had mistakenly posted multiple
    Top Six pertaining threads in a week. Glenn had been running from the
    Top Six for over 4 years by that time, and had tried to avoid ever
    posting the junk. He would screw up and post the subjects from time to
    time and it was obvious that Glenn didn't really care what the subject
    was, he was just wallowing in the denial. I pointed this out as
    something stupid that Glenn had just done. Nyikos was running from the
    last holy water repost that he had inspired with his incessant repeated
    lies about a subject that was over a decade old by that time. Nyikos
    couldn't deal with the holy water repost, so he took up Glenn's stupid behavior. Nyikos claimed that I had not been refuting the Top Six, and
    like Dean I had to tell Nyikos that I had never been refuting the Top
    Six. All I had ever done was present them as the ID perps had presented
    them, and pointed out how even the ID perps could not deal with them in
    an honest and straightforward manner. Nyikos had to start lying about
    the issue, and it was one of the reasons why I asked that Nyikos be
    banned. He also had to start lying about the Ice age stupidity and
    everyone should know by now that when Nyikos starts lying about
    something he has to lie about it forever. He comes back with the same
    lies over and over. It just had to end. The last holy water repost had temporarily ended his repetitive lies about that topic. When I told him
    that if he kept up the stupid harassment that I would ask for him to be
    banned. Nyikos requested to be banned by not harassing me about
    something new, but he started up with the lies that made the last holy
    water repost necessary.

    This is when I found out that most of the TO regulars had missed the Top
    Six event and like Nyikos had the misconception that I was baggering the
    IDiots with some lame refutation. Even Nyikos understands what the Top
    Six did because it destroyed his directed panspermic IDiotic nonsense.
    In order to justify the Top Six he had to envoke multiple space alien designers, and tragically some of them had to be god-like space aliens
    from another universe in order to account for the Big Bang and fine
    tuning. It all just demonstrated how bankrupt directed panspermia had
    been all these years as an IDiotic notion. Nearly all IDiots in
    existence can do no better than the TO IDiots. You can go see how the
    Reason to Believe IDiots (they claim to be intelligent design advocates,
    but they do not support teaching the junk in the public schools) do not
    deal with the Top Six in an honest and straightforward manner. You can
    see them using the same Cambrian explosion god-of-the-gaps denial (#5 of
    the Top Six) that Meyer has been putting up for the last 25 years. They
    even cite the 25 million year period over half a billion years ago, but
    then have to deny that the Cambrian explosion ever happened when it did
    happen because they want land plants to be created before sea creatures.
    They have to deny the 25 million year time period (that makes it
    "impossible" for all the evolution to have occurred) over half a billion
    years ago because land plants do not show up in the fossil record until
    the Ordovician. The angiosperm plants mentioned in the Bible do not
    evolve until after Dinos evolved, less than 200 million years ago. It
    doesn't look like any of their recreation notions fit in with what
    actually happened. All the related species are supposed to be
    recreations of previously created kinds. They need whales to be created
    with the other sea creatures before the ancestral mammals existed, so
    the gaps in the whale fossil record that clearly indicates that there
    were mammalian terrestrial ancestors of whales that existed long before
    whales evolved, has to be denied.

    The Reason to Believe IDiots do not seem to have very many followers
    that want to agree with them. They claim to have created a Biblical
    creation model using the ID scam evidence, but their Biblical model
    isn't consistent with reality, and they have had to reinterpret the
    Bible in order to try to make some things fit.

    The Top Six exposed TO IDiots to this reality, and it killed the ID scam
    on TO. About the only thing left to discuss is why it took so long, and
    why is it that the ID scam still exists? The exIDiots are the only ones
    that would be able to give us some relevant answers.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to Kalkidas on Sun Nov 5 12:34:08 2023
    On 11/5/2023 10:32 AM, Kalkidas wrote:
    On 11/4/2023 7:06 AM, RonO wrote:
    scam ...scam...
    bait and switch...rubes. ...perps ...
    ...
    .bait...switch scam ...

    ...perps...bait ... ...scam ...
    ...IDiocy... ...scam....
    ...scam...
    ...
    ...
    ...junk...
    ...
    IDiots....
    ...
    ...perps...
    ...
    ...perps...denial junk...

    ...rubbed their faces...
    ...perps...
    .scam unit... ...
    rubes... ...IDiotic.
    ...IDiotic...
    ...
    ...perps...
    ...
    bait and switch...rubes...
    ...perp....
    ...scam...
    perps...rubes...
    ...
    ...IDiots....
    ...
    scam ...
    ...scam,...
    ...
    ...scam.
    ...IDiotic
    ...perps...bait and switch...rubes?

    ....IDiotic ... ...

    ...perps...

    That's why.


    Why not try to give some type of honest explanation for why it took you
    so long to decide that you never wanted to be an IDiot? It would likely
    apply to the vast majority of Biblical creationists that still want to
    support the bogus scam.

    What made you fall for the scam? What made you continue to be an IDiot
    after the bait and switch scam started to go down on creationist rubes?
    The ID perps do not run the bait and switch on the science side, but the
    scam is run on their own creationist supporters.

    The bait and switch scam should have ended the ID scam, but it continued
    for some unknown reason. It was obvious that the only IDiots left after several years of the bait and switch going down were the ignorant,
    incompetent and or dishonest. The Bait and switch pretty much killed
    the ISCID. It was supposed to be the IDiotic science organization, but
    there were no new papers submitted after 2003. Before the Bait and
    switch went down there might have been a dozen IDEA student
    organizations at various universities, but I could only find evidence
    for 1 existing during the Dover Fiasco, and most of them seemed to have
    died the same year that the Bait and Switch started (2002). University students were not interested in discussing a switch scam that was not
    supposed to have anything to do with IDiocy nor creationism.

    So, why did the scam continue after there wasn't any honest reason to
    keep it going? Why did you continue to be an IDiot even after it was
    obvious that the ID perps were just using ID as bait to run in their
    switch scam? You had to understand what was going on because it
    happened every single time any creationist rubes wanted to teach the
    junk. The IDiots at the Discovery Institute have been perpetrating the
    stupid bait and switch scam for over 2 decades. They are still claiming
    to be able to teach the junk in the public schools, but you know that,
    that has never happened for the entire existence of the ID scam. The
    guys perpetrating the scam have never even put out a public school
    lesson plan demonstrating that they had anything worth teaching, how it
    should be taught, what materials they had for teaching it, and how the
    students would be evaluated on what they were supposed to have learned.
    The Top Six should tell anyone why that never happened. If you aren't
    going to teach the best that you have, why would you teach anything at all?

    Trying to blame the messenger is as sad as anything else you have tried
    to do. You had to have had some reason. It may have just been willful ignorance and denial of what was going on. You might lie to yourself
    about having some lame excuse, but what is the reason that you have to
    lie to yourself about the issue?

    The saddest thing about the ID creationist scam is that all of those
    involved (if it isn't for political power, money or infamy) are involved because they want to support their religious beliefs, and what have you
    had to be in order to do that? Why do you think that the ID scam still
    exists?

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to RonO on Mon Nov 6 01:50:08 2023
    On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 11:59:36 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/5/2023 3:08 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:31:30?PM UTC-4, Lawyer Daggett wrote: >>> On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29?AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist >>>>> scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >>>>> to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >>>>> claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >>>>> they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam >>>>> that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait >>>>> and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims >>>>> that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >>>>> about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became
    something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six >>>>> were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe >>>>> Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >>>>> doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >>>>> started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been >>>>> all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never
    wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up >>>>> the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple >>>>> years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >>>>> nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that
    nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if >>>>> the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >>>>> have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the >>>>> ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >>>>> scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >>>>> more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in >>>>> the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from >>>>> the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >>>>> understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >>>>> accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist
    rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding >>>>> of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to >>>>> the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did >>>>> not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >>>>> viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first >>>>> bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >>>>> earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined >>>>> up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >>>>> perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where >>>>> all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would >>>>> have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even
    support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >>>>> Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >>>>> ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson >>>>> has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID >>>>> scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing >>>>> to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >>>>> they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam. >>>>> The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >>>>> beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >>>>> creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait >>>>> and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the
    public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since
    reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version:
    https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six:
    https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ >>>>>
    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is >>>> a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume >>>> you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I
    am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction >>>> between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious
    behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking >>> the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is
    a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a
    professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge
    but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o. >>
    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use different >> reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters' names >> usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining.
    But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic
    involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post to such >> topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious
    enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.



    OTOH IMO the following spam is obnoxious enough to consider ignoring
    you.


    The ID perp debacle with the Top Six was likely the most significant
    event in the history of TO in terms of a single issue changing TO >dramatically. Most of the existing IDiots quit being IDiots. Kalk and >Glenn initially tried to run from reality and tried to keep putting up
    the second rate gap denial that wasn't good enough to include as the
    best evidence that the ID perps had, but Kalkidas couldn't keep doing
    that and eventually quit the ID scam. Kalk came out and claimed that he
    had never claimed to be Hindu and he became a normal Biblical
    creationist poster. Eventually Kalkidas claimed that the ID scam junk
    (the Top Six) were no longer of interest to him, and were things that he
    no longer considered. Bill made the claim that he had never supported
    the ID scam, but as I had noted even though he had been an IDiot from
    the time he started posting to TO, it had been some time since Bill had >tried to defend any of the IDiotic claptrap. Pagano claimed that the
    Top Six were bogus, and were not the best evidence that the ID scam had.
    He tried to put up Dembski's junk instead, but Dembski had "retired"
    from the ID scam several years before as an abject failure and none of
    his junk made it into the Top Six. The Top Six did not support Pagano's >geocentric old earth creationists beliefs, and Pagano quit posting.
    Nyikos was MIA and wasn't posting at that time, so he missed the initial >event, and remained ignorant of what happened for years. He
    demonstrated his ignorance after Glenn had mistakenly posted multiple
    Top Six pertaining threads in a week. Glenn had been running from the
    Top Six for over 4 years by that time, and had tried to avoid ever
    posting the junk. He would screw up and post the subjects from time to
    time and it was obvious that Glenn didn't really care what the subject
    was, he was just wallowing in the denial. I pointed this out as
    something stupid that Glenn had just done. Nyikos was running from the
    last holy water repost that he had inspired with his incessant repeated
    lies about a subject that was over a decade old by that time. Nyikos >couldn't deal with the holy water repost, so he took up Glenn's stupid >behavior. Nyikos claimed that I had not been refuting the Top Six, and
    like Dean I had to tell Nyikos that I had never been refuting the Top
    Six. All I had ever done was present them as the ID perps had presented >them, and pointed out how even the ID perps could not deal with them in
    an honest and straightforward manner. Nyikos had to start lying about
    the issue, and it was one of the reasons why I asked that Nyikos be
    banned. He also had to start lying about the Ice age stupidity and
    everyone should know by now that when Nyikos starts lying about
    something he has to lie about it forever. He comes back with the same
    lies over and over. It just had to end. The last holy water repost had >temporarily ended his repetitive lies about that topic. When I told him >that if he kept up the stupid harassment that I would ask for him to be >banned. Nyikos requested to be banned by not harassing me about
    something new, but he started up with the lies that made the last holy
    water repost necessary.

    This is when I found out that most of the TO regulars had missed the Top
    Six event and like Nyikos had the misconception that I was baggering the >IDiots with some lame refutation. Even Nyikos understands what the Top
    Six did because it destroyed his directed panspermic IDiotic nonsense.
    In order to justify the Top Six he had to envoke multiple space alien >designers, and tragically some of them had to be god-like space aliens
    from another universe in order to account for the Big Bang and fine
    tuning. It all just demonstrated how bankrupt directed panspermia had
    been all these years as an IDiotic notion. Nearly all IDiots in
    existence can do no better than the TO IDiots. You can go see how the >Reason to Believe IDiots (they claim to be intelligent design advocates,
    but they do not support teaching the junk in the public schools) do not
    deal with the Top Six in an honest and straightforward manner. You can
    see them using the same Cambrian explosion god-of-the-gaps denial (#5 of
    the Top Six) that Meyer has been putting up for the last 25 years. They >even cite the 25 million year period over half a billion years ago, but
    then have to deny that the Cambrian explosion ever happened when it did >happen because they want land plants to be created before sea creatures.
    They have to deny the 25 million year time period (that makes it
    "impossible" for all the evolution to have occurred) over half a billion >years ago because land plants do not show up in the fossil record until
    the Ordovician. The angiosperm plants mentioned in the Bible do not
    evolve until after Dinos evolved, less than 200 million years ago. It >doesn't look like any of their recreation notions fit in with what
    actually happened. All the related species are supposed to be
    recreations of previously created kinds. They need whales to be created >with the other sea creatures before the ancestral mammals existed, so
    the gaps in the whale fossil record that clearly indicates that there
    were mammalian terrestrial ancestors of whales that existed long before >whales evolved, has to be denied.

    The Reason to Believe IDiots do not seem to have very many followers
    that want to agree with them. They claim to have created a Biblical >creation model using the ID scam evidence, but their Biblical model
    isn't consistent with reality, and they have had to reinterpret the
    Bible in order to try to make some things fit.

    The Top Six exposed TO IDiots to this reality, and it killed the ID scam
    on TO. About the only thing left to discuss is why it took so long, and
    why is it that the ID scam still exists? The exIDiots are the only ones >that would be able to give us some relevant answers.

    Ron Okimoto

    --
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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to jillery on Mon Nov 6 06:03:37 2023
    On 11/6/2023 12:50 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 11:59:36 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/5/2023 3:08 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:31:30?PM UTC-4, Lawyer Daggett wrote: >>>> On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29?AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist >>>>>> scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >>>>>> to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >>>>>> claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >>>>>> they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam >>>>>> that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait >>>>>> and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims >>>>>> that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >>>>>> about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became >>>>>> something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six >>>>>> were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe >>>>>> Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >>>>>> doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he >>>>>> started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been >>>>>> all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never >>>>>> wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up >>>>>> the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple >>>>>> years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the
    IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >>>>>> nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that >>>>>> nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if >>>>>> the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >>>>>> have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the >>>>>> ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >>>>>> scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >>>>>> more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in >>>>>> the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from >>>>>> the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >>>>>> understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >>>>>> accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist >>>>>> rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding >>>>>> of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to >>>>>> the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his
    statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did >>>>>> not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >>>>>> viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much
    earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first >>>>>> bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >>>>>> earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined >>>>>> up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >>>>>> perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where >>>>>> all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would >>>>>> have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even >>>>>> support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >>>>>> Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >>>>>> ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson >>>>>> has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID >>>>>> scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing >>>>>> to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever
    attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >>>>>> they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam. >>>>>> The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >>>>>> beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >>>>>> creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait >>>>>> and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the >>>>>> public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since
    reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: >>>>>> https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six:
    https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ >>>>>>
    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all
    that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a
    naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is >>>>> a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume >>>>> you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I >>>>> am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction >>>>> between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious >>>> behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking >>>> the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is >>>> a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a
    professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge
    but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.

    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use different >>> reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters' names >>> usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining. >>> But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic
    involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post to such
    topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious >>> enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.



    OTOH IMO the following spam is obnoxious enough to consider ignoring
    you.

    Does this mean that you would stoop to calling reality spam because you
    missed out on what actually happened when the Top Six was put out by the
    ID perps? Can you put up any examples that you do not think are true?
    It obviously isn't spam, it is the history and current reality that we
    are dealing with.

    The ID perp's debacle with the Top Six was likely the most significant
    event in the history of TO. Even the ID scam loss in federal court did
    not change things like the Top Six did. Kalk and Bill remained IDiots
    or were IDiots when they started posting. Pagano just claimed that the
    court decision was bogus and kept on as he had always done. Before
    Dover Glenn wasn't an IDiot. Glenn was just a plain anti evolution creationist, but became an IDiot after or during the federal court case
    is what I recall. When Glenn first started posting at the turn of the
    century Glenn was just a plain vanilla anti evolution creationists.
    Glenn would even try to post actual arguments, but Glenn gave up on that
    a couple years before Dover. For some reason the exposure of why the ID
    perps had been running the bait and switch for years was enough to turn
    Glenn into an IDiot in spite of court results indicating that the bait
    and switch had been going down for all those years was due to the fact
    that the ID science had never existed.

    Reality isn't spam when it applies directly to the topic of this thread.

    Ron Okimoto


    The ID perp debacle with the Top Six was likely the most significant
    event in the history of TO in terms of a single issue changing TO
    dramatically. Most of the existing IDiots quit being IDiots. Kalk and
    Glenn initially tried to run from reality and tried to keep putting up
    the second rate gap denial that wasn't good enough to include as the
    best evidence that the ID perps had, but Kalkidas couldn't keep doing
    that and eventually quit the ID scam. Kalk came out and claimed that he
    had never claimed to be Hindu and he became a normal Biblical
    creationist poster. Eventually Kalkidas claimed that the ID scam junk
    (the Top Six) were no longer of interest to him, and were things that he
    no longer considered. Bill made the claim that he had never supported
    the ID scam, but as I had noted even though he had been an IDiot from
    the time he started posting to TO, it had been some time since Bill had
    tried to defend any of the IDiotic claptrap. Pagano claimed that the
    Top Six were bogus, and were not the best evidence that the ID scam had.
    He tried to put up Dembski's junk instead, but Dembski had "retired" >>from the ID scam several years before as an abject failure and none of
    his junk made it into the Top Six. The Top Six did not support Pagano's
    geocentric old earth creationists beliefs, and Pagano quit posting.
    Nyikos was MIA and wasn't posting at that time, so he missed the initial
    event, and remained ignorant of what happened for years. He
    demonstrated his ignorance after Glenn had mistakenly posted multiple
    Top Six pertaining threads in a week. Glenn had been running from the
    Top Six for over 4 years by that time, and had tried to avoid ever
    posting the junk. He would screw up and post the subjects from time to
    time and it was obvious that Glenn didn't really care what the subject
    was, he was just wallowing in the denial. I pointed this out as
    something stupid that Glenn had just done. Nyikos was running from the
    last holy water repost that he had inspired with his incessant repeated
    lies about a subject that was over a decade old by that time. Nyikos
    couldn't deal with the holy water repost, so he took up Glenn's stupid
    behavior. Nyikos claimed that I had not been refuting the Top Six, and
    like Dean I had to tell Nyikos that I had never been refuting the Top
    Six. All I had ever done was present them as the ID perps had presented
    them, and pointed out how even the ID perps could not deal with them in
    an honest and straightforward manner. Nyikos had to start lying about
    the issue, and it was one of the reasons why I asked that Nyikos be
    banned. He also had to start lying about the Ice age stupidity and
    everyone should know by now that when Nyikos starts lying about
    something he has to lie about it forever. He comes back with the same
    lies over and over. It just had to end. The last holy water repost had
    temporarily ended his repetitive lies about that topic. When I told him
    that if he kept up the stupid harassment that I would ask for him to be
    banned. Nyikos requested to be banned by not harassing me about
    something new, but he started up with the lies that made the last holy
    water repost necessary.

    This is when I found out that most of the TO regulars had missed the Top
    Six event and like Nyikos had the misconception that I was baggering the
    IDiots with some lame refutation. Even Nyikos understands what the Top
    Six did because it destroyed his directed panspermic IDiotic nonsense.
    In order to justify the Top Six he had to envoke multiple space alien
    designers, and tragically some of them had to be god-like space aliens >>from another universe in order to account for the Big Bang and fine
    tuning. It all just demonstrated how bankrupt directed panspermia had
    been all these years as an IDiotic notion. Nearly all IDiots in
    existence can do no better than the TO IDiots. You can go see how the
    Reason to Believe IDiots (they claim to be intelligent design advocates,
    but they do not support teaching the junk in the public schools) do not
    deal with the Top Six in an honest and straightforward manner. You can
    see them using the same Cambrian explosion god-of-the-gaps denial (#5 of
    the Top Six) that Meyer has been putting up for the last 25 years. They
    even cite the 25 million year period over half a billion years ago, but
    then have to deny that the Cambrian explosion ever happened when it did
    happen because they want land plants to be created before sea creatures.
    They have to deny the 25 million year time period (that makes it
    "impossible" for all the evolution to have occurred) over half a billion
    years ago because land plants do not show up in the fossil record until
    the Ordovician. The angiosperm plants mentioned in the Bible do not
    evolve until after Dinos evolved, less than 200 million years ago. It
    doesn't look like any of their recreation notions fit in with what
    actually happened. All the related species are supposed to be
    recreations of previously created kinds. They need whales to be created
    with the other sea creatures before the ancestral mammals existed, so
    the gaps in the whale fossil record that clearly indicates that there
    were mammalian terrestrial ancestors of whales that existed long before
    whales evolved, has to be denied.

    The Reason to Believe IDiots do not seem to have very many followers
    that want to agree with them. They claim to have created a Biblical
    creation model using the ID scam evidence, but their Biblical model
    isn't consistent with reality, and they have had to reinterpret the
    Bible in order to try to make some things fit.

    The Top Six exposed TO IDiots to this reality, and it killed the ID scam
    on TO. About the only thing left to discuss is why it took so long, and
    why is it that the ID scam still exists? The exIDiots are the only ones
    that would be able to give us some relevant answers.

    Ron Okimoto

    --
    To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge


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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to RonO on Mon Nov 6 09:59:48 2023
    On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 06:03:37 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/6/2023 12:50 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 11:59:36 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/5/2023 3:08 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:31:30?PM UTC-4, Lawyer Daggett wrote: >>>>> On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29?AM UTC-4, jillery wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote:

    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist >>>>>>> scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >>>>>>> to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >>>>>>> claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >>>>>>> they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam >>>>>>> that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait
    and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims >>>>>>> that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking >>>>>>> about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became >>>>>>> something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six >>>>>>> were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe >>>>>>> Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >>>>>>> doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he
    started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been >>>>>>> all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never >>>>>>> wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up >>>>>>> the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple >>>>>>> years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the >>>>>>> IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >>>>>>> nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that >>>>>>> nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if >>>>>>> the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >>>>>>> have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the >>>>>>> ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >>>>>>> scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >>>>>>> more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in >>>>>>> the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from >>>>>>> the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >>>>>>> understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >>>>>>> accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist >>>>>>> rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding >>>>>>> of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to
    the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his >>>>>>> statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did >>>>>>> not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >>>>>>> viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much >>>>>>> earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first >>>>>>> bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >>>>>>> earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined >>>>>>> up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >>>>>>> perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where >>>>>>> all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would >>>>>>> have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even >>>>>>> support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to >>>>>>> Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >>>>>>> ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson >>>>>>> has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID >>>>>>> scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing >>>>>>> to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever >>>>>>> attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >>>>>>> they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam. >>>>>>> The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >>>>>>> beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >>>>>>> creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait >>>>>>> and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the >>>>>>> public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since >>>>>>> reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: >>>>>>> https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six:
    https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ >>>>>>>
    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all >>>>>> that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a >>>>>> naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is >>>>>> a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume >>>>>> you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I >>>>>> am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction >>>>>> between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious >>>>> behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking
    the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is >>>>> a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a
    professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge >>>>> but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.

    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use different >>>> reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters' names >>>> usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining. >>>> But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic
    involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post to such
    topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious >>>> enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.



    OTOH IMO the following spam is obnoxious enough to consider ignoring
    you.

    Does this mean that you would stoop to calling reality spam because you >missed out on what actually happened when the Top Six was put out by the
    ID perps? Can you put up any examples that you do not think are true?
    It obviously isn't spam, it is the history and current reality that we
    are dealing with.


    Spam is repetitive comments which ignore comments raised in the posts
    to which they are attached, whether or not the spam is true, whether
    or not the spam is relevant to the OP. Spam turns nominal proponents
    into nominal opponents. You would do as well or better to attach your
    spam to your OP, to facilitate talking to yourself.


    <snip spam>

    --
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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to jillery on Mon Nov 6 17:48:02 2023
    On 11/6/2023 8:59 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 06:03:37 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/6/2023 12:50 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 11:59:36 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/5/2023 3:08 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:31:30?PM UTC-4, Lawyer Daggett wrote: >>>>>> On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11:56:29?AM UTC-4, jillery wrote: >>>>>>> On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 09:06:18 -0500, RonO <roki...@cox.net> wrote: >>>>>>>
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist >>>>>>>> scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >>>>>>>> to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still
    claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam >>>>>>>> that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    Why are the ID perps tolerated, and who would support them when the bait
    and switch has been going down for over 20 years? Kalkidas now claims >>>>>>>> that the ID scam is no longer anything that he thinks is worth thinking
    about. He claims that the Top Six evidences for IDiocy just became >>>>>>>> something that wasn't worth considering any longer. When the Top Six >>>>>>>> were presented in their logical order of occurrence in this universe >>>>>>>> Bill just claimed that he had never supported the ID scam. There is no >>>>>>>> doubt that Bill had been a supporter of the creationist ID scam since he
    started posting. He had just never supported what it had actually been >>>>>>>> all those years. Bill likely began to understand that he had never >>>>>>>> wanted to support the ID creation science because he stopped putting up
    the junk and had started his "reality doesn't exist" routine a couple >>>>>>>> years before the Top Six were presented as a related group to the >>>>>>>> IDiots. Science is just the best means we have developed to understand >>>>>>>> nature, and it turned out that for creationists that believed that >>>>>>>> nature was the Biblical creation, nature just is not Biblical. Even if >>>>>>>> the ID perps had been able to fill their gaps with a god, it would not >>>>>>>> have been the god of the Bible. Kalkidas and Bill had never wanted the >>>>>>>> ID perps to succeed in filling their god-of the-gaps denial junk with >>>>>>>> scientific evidence that some god existed. It all would have just been >>>>>>>> more science for them to deny.

    Bill likely realized this fact before the Top Six rubbed their faces in
    the current scientific reality. Paul Nelson has been an ID perps from >>>>>>>> the start of the Discovery Institute's ID scam unit, and he has likely >>>>>>>> understood that there was never any ID science that he wanted to see >>>>>>>> accomplished. Early on Behe and Denton had informed the creationist >>>>>>>> rubes that they could not expect much to change about our understanding
    of nature with any IDiotic successes. They were both theistic
    evolutionists, and understood that any IDiotic science would just add to
    the science that already existed. Nelson is always quoted for his >>>>>>>> statement around the time of the Dover Fiasco that the ID science did >>>>>>>> not exist, but that the ID perps were trying very hard to produce some >>>>>>>> viable ID science. I recall Nelson making similar statements much >>>>>>>> earlier than that. He had already made similar claims when the first >>>>>>>> bait and switch went down on the Ohio rubes in 2002. Nelson is a young >>>>>>>> earth creationist Biblical ID perp. He likely would have never joined >>>>>>>> up with the ID scam if they had had any real ID science because the ID >>>>>>>> perps have always lied to the rubes about ID being a "Big Tent" where >>>>>>>> all forms of creationism were welcomed. All of the ID "science" would >>>>>>>> have just supported old earth creationism, and likely wouldn't even >>>>>>>> support the old earth Biblical creationists like they have at Reason to
    Believe who claim to be IDiots. Nature just is not Biblical, and the >>>>>>>> ancient "designed" creation events occur out of Biblical order. Nelson >>>>>>>> has likely known this from the beginning, and would have quit the ID >>>>>>>> scam if any ID science had ever been verified. He has just been willing
    to go along with the scam, for as long as no ID science was ever >>>>>>>> attempted and accomplished.

    Pagano understood immediately what the Top Six meant, and claimed that >>>>>>>> they were bogus and not the best evidence for the creationist ID scam. >>>>>>>> The Top Six did not support Pagano's old earth geocentric creationist >>>>>>>> beliefs. Pagano quit posting. Kalkidas and Bill are no longer IDiotic >>>>>>>> creationist. Why do ID perps still exist to continue to run the bait >>>>>>>> and switch on hapless creationist rubes?

    Current IDiotic Propaganda about teaching the science of ID in the >>>>>>>> public schools. They had updated this pdf in 2021, but have since >>>>>>>> reformated the site and seem to have reverted to the 2018 version: >>>>>>>> https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    Even the ID perps can't deal with their own Top Six:
    https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/a2K79skPGXI/m/uDwx0i-_BAAJ >>>>>>>>
    Ron Okimoto
    The following is a point utterly orthogonal to the substance of all >>>>>>> that you say above, yet is important in its own way.

    I assume no regular reader of T.O. would make such a mistake, but a >>>>>>> naive reader might confuse your "Bill" to refer to Bill Rogers, who is >>>>>>> a more prolific poster to T.O. than is the Freon Bill persona I assume >>>>>>> you refer above.

    Just as you would likely distinguish "Ron Okimoto" from "Ron Dean", I >>>>>>> am here recommending that your future posts make a similar distinction >>>>>>> between "Bill Rogers" and "Freon Bill".

    That is all.

    One might, or one might decide to ignore Ron Okimoto for his obnoxious >>>>>> behavior. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that consistently invoking
    the names of other posters into threads they did not personally join is >>>>>> a very rude thing to do. This is true whether one advertises that they are a
    professor or are more demur about it. Ron has some relevant knowledge >>>>>> but his behavior makes me think of him as the least valuable player on t.o.

    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use different
    reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters' names
    usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining. >>>>> But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic >>>>> involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post to such
    topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious >>>>> enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.



    OTOH IMO the following spam is obnoxious enough to consider ignoring
    you.

    Does this mean that you would stoop to calling reality spam because you
    missed out on what actually happened when the Top Six was put out by the
    ID perps? Can you put up any examples that you do not think are true?
    It obviously isn't spam, it is the history and current reality that we
    are dealing with.


    Spam is repetitive comments which ignore comments raised in the posts
    to which they are attached, whether or not the spam is true, whether
    or not the spam is relevant to the OP. Spam turns nominal proponents
    into nominal opponents. You would do as well or better to attach your
    spam to your OP, to facilitate talking to yourself.


    <snip spam>

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    Then it wasn't spam because it was all relevant to the thread, and it
    was supporting what you had just claimed in terms of invoking poster's
    names. It was the history and the basis for putting in the poster's
    names in the first place, so it wasn't spam in terms of the topics
    presented in this thread that you mentioned in your post. Kalk and Bill
    are really the best candidates left to give their explanation for why
    they supported the ID scam. Why has the ID scam gone on for over two
    decades once the ID perps started running the bait and switch? No
    IDiots seem to be interested in the switch scam. Kalk and Bill never
    seemed to be interested in the obfuscation and denial switch scam. The
    last thing that IDiotic type creationist want to do is teach enough
    science so that the students will know what they have to deny. Ohio
    dropped the switch scam after Dover. The only times that Texas and
    Louisiana have tried to implement the switch scam at the state level
    they both screwed up and wanted to teach ID instead, and the ID perps
    had to rerun the bait and switch on them and remind them that the switch
    scam had nothing to do with ID nor creationism. That happened in 2013,
    4 years before the ID perps put out the Top Six.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to RonO on Tue Nov 7 04:09:07 2023
    On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 17:48:02 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/6/2023 8:59 AM, jillery wrote:

    <snip-a-doodle>

    OTOH IMO the following spam is obnoxious enough to consider ignoring
    you.

    Does this mean that you would stoop to calling reality spam because you
    missed out on what actually happened when the Top Six was put out by the >>> ID perps? Can you put up any examples that you do not think are true?
    It obviously isn't spam, it is the history and current reality that we
    are dealing with.


    Spam is repetitive comments which ignore comments raised in the posts
    to which they are attached, whether or not the spam is true, whether
    or not the spam is relevant to the OP. Spam turns nominal proponents
    into nominal opponents. You would do as well or better to attach your
    spam to your OP, to facilitate talking to yourself.


    <snip spam>

    Then it wasn't spam because it was all relevant to the thread, and it
    was supporting what you had just claimed in terms of invoking poster's >names.


    Incorrect. You completely ignored what I wrote and repeatedly
    repeated MOTS from your OP. That makes it spam.



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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to jillery on Tue Nov 7 18:25:22 2023
    On 11/7/2023 3:09 AM, jillery wrote:
    On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 17:48:02 -0600, RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    On 11/6/2023 8:59 AM, jillery wrote:

    <snip-a-doodle>

    OTOH IMO the following spam is obnoxious enough to consider ignoring >>>>> you.

    Does this mean that you would stoop to calling reality spam because you >>>> missed out on what actually happened when the Top Six was put out by the >>>> ID perps? Can you put up any examples that you do not think are true? >>>> It obviously isn't spam, it is the history and current reality that we >>>> are dealing with.


    Spam is repetitive comments which ignore comments raised in the posts
    to which they are attached, whether or not the spam is true, whether
    or not the spam is relevant to the OP. Spam turns nominal proponents
    into nominal opponents. You would do as well or better to attach your
    spam to your OP, to facilitate talking to yourself.


    <snip spam>

    Then it wasn't spam because it was all relevant to the thread, and it
    was supporting what you had just claimed in terms of invoking poster's
    names.


    Incorrect. You completely ignored what I wrote and repeatedly
    repeated MOTS from your OP. That makes it spam.

    It sounds like you should reread what you wrote, and what I wrote. You
    will have to go back up the thread to do it because it is no longer in
    this post.

    Ron Okimoto



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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to RonO on Wed Nov 8 02:28:49 2023
    RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    [snip]

    Then it wasn't spam because it was all relevant to the thread, and it
    was supporting what you had just claimed in terms of invoking poster's
    names. It was the history and the basis for putting in the poster's
    names in the first place, so it wasn't spam in terms of the topics
    presented in this thread that you mentioned in your post. Kalk and Bill
    are really the best candidates left to give their explanation for why
    they supported the ID scam.

    Why would Freon Bill be such a candidate? Does he even post here any more?

    You happen to be one of the more knowledgable posters here and provide informative content from time to time, but these ID perps, scams, rubes
    posts of yours are tedious and come across as obsessive. You could save the reader some time by just shortening it to “ID perps, scams, rubes” instead of a wall of text and wouldn’t lose any novel information.

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to ecphoric@allspamis.invalid on Wed Nov 8 00:49:00 2023
    On Wed, 08 Nov 2023 02:28:49 +0000, *Hemidactylus*
    <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:

    RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    [snip]

    You happen to be one of the more knowledgable posters here and provide >informative content from time to time, but these ID perps, scams, rubes
    posts of yours are tedious and come across as obsessive. You could save the >reader some time by just shortening it to “ID perps, scams, rubes” instead >of a wall of text and wouldn’t lose any novel information.


    Kalkidas makes the same point you do above, only more graphically.

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to jillery on Wed Nov 8 05:59:52 2023
    On 11/7/2023 11:49 PM, jillery wrote:
    On Wed, 08 Nov 2023 02:28:49 +0000, *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:

    RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    [snip]

    You happen to be one of the more knowledgable posters here and provide
    informative content from time to time, but these ID perps, scams, rubes
    posts of yours are tedious and come across as obsessive. You could save the >> reader some time by just shortening it to “ID perps, scams, rubes” instead
    of a wall of text and wouldn’t lose any novel information.


    Kalkidas makes the same point you do above, only more graphically.

    That is just how Kalk has lied to himself about reality for a long time.
    His reaction to the Top Six demonstrates that he knew that he was
    lying to himself in order to remain willfully ignorant. The truth is
    just the truth. You can't deny the truth just because you want to claim
    that it makes the scam look bad, but not as bad as it actually is. It
    is their religious beliefs and source of their moral values that they
    are lying about. That basis for the ID scam has always been a sick and degenerate aspect of the creationist's ID scam.

    Has the ID scam ever been demonstrated to be more than the bait and
    switch scam that it has been for over 20 years? Who has perpetrated the
    bait and switch on their own creationist support base? The ID perps
    have obviously only used the "ID science" as bait, and all the IDiotic creationist rubes have gotten from them is an obfuscation and denial
    switch scam that the ID perps tell the rubes has nothing to do with ID
    nor creationism. When did it become evident that the IDiots who
    supported the ID scam were worse than just stupid idiots? They were all
    the type of individual that were trying to claim the moral high ground
    by lying about what they were doing. Has TO ever encountered an honest, competent, and informed IDiotic poster in the history of TO? Willful
    ignorance and lying about not trying to support their religious beliefs
    is pretty much over the line in terms of acceptable dishonest behavior.
    Most of TO was OK with accepting that amount of dishonest behavior, but
    I just decided it was time to bluntly state, just how things were. How
    stupid and dishonest did Kalk have to be in order to remain an IDiot
    until he had his faced rubbed in the fact that he never wanted to
    support the ID science? The ID perps killed the ID scam on TO because
    they were stupid enough to tell the rubes too much about what they were
    selling as bait. Kalkidas is the IDiot that pretended to be hindu in
    order to lend credence to the ID scam. Just like Dean claims to never
    talk about his religious beliefs, Kalk just claimed that he had never
    "claimed" to be hindu. He was just a normal Biblical creationists who
    happened to take up the nym Kalkidas and quote from the Vedas.

    You likely know that this is not your statement that I was responding to.

    This is what you wrote, and my response that you called spam.

    QUOTE:
    You illustrate above a good example of how different posters use
    different
    reasons for ignoring other posters. I agree invoking other posters'
    names
    usually is annoying, especially when it's used as a form of quotemining.
    But it would be difficult to not mention other posters when the topic involves the history of T.O., and especially inside an original post
    to such
    topics. For these reasons, IMO this particular instance isn't obnoxious enough to consider ignoring him. Apparently your mileage varies.


    The ID perp debacle with the Top Six was likely the most significant
    event in the history of TO in terms of a single issue changing TO
    dramatically. Most of the existing IDiots quit being IDiots. Kalk and
    Glenn initially tried to run from reality and tried to keep putting up
    the second rate gap denial that wasn't good enough to include as the
    best evidence that the ID perps had, but Kalkidas couldn't keep doing
    that and eventually quit the ID scam. Kalk came out and claimed that he
    had never claimed to be Hindu and he became a normal Biblical
    creationist poster. Eventually Kalkidas claimed that the ID scam junk
    (the Top Six) were no longer of interest to him, and were things that he
    no longer considered. Bill made the claim that he had never supported
    the ID scam, but as I had noted even though he had been an IDiot from
    the time he started posting to TO, it had been some time since Bill had
    tried to defend any of the IDiotic claptrap. Pagano claimed that the
    Top Six were bogus, and were not the best evidence that the ID scam had.
    He tried to put up Dembski's junk instead, but Dembski had "retired"
    from the ID scam several years before as an abject failure and none of
    his junk made it into the Top Six. The Top Six did not support Pagano's geocentric old earth creationists beliefs, and Pagano quit posting.
    Nyikos was MIA and wasn't posting at that time, so he missed the initial
    event, and remained ignorant of what happened for years. He
    demonstrated his ignorance after Glenn had mistakenly posted multiple
    Top Six pertaining threads in a week. Glenn had been running from the
    Top Six for over 4 years by that time, and had tried to avoid ever
    posting the junk. He would screw up and post the subjects from time to
    time and it was obvious that Glenn didn't really care what the subject
    was, he was just wallowing in the denial. I pointed this out as
    something stupid that Glenn had just done. Nyikos was running from the
    last holy water repost that he had inspired with his incessant repeated
    lies about a subject that was over a decade old by that time. Nyikos
    couldn't deal with the holy water repost, so he took up Glenn's stupid behavior. Nyikos claimed that I had not been refuting the Top Six, and
    like Dean I had to tell Nyikos that I had never been refuting the Top
    Six. All I had ever done was present them as the ID perps had presented
    them, and pointed out how even the ID perps could not deal with them in
    an honest and straightforward manner. Nyikos had to start lying about
    the issue, and it was one of the reasons why I asked that Nyikos be
    banned. He also had to start lying about the Ice age stupidity and
    everyone should know by now that when Nyikos starts lying about
    something he has to lie about it forever. He comes back with the same
    lies over and over. It just had to end. The last holy water repost had temporarily ended his repetitive lies about that topic. When I told him
    that if he kept up the stupid harassment that I would ask for him to be
    banned. Nyikos requested to be banned by not harassing me about
    something new, but he started up with the lies that made the last holy
    water repost necessary.

    This is when I found out that most of the TO regulars had missed the Top
    Six event and like Nyikos had the misconception that I was baggering the
    IDiots with some lame refutation. Even Nyikos understands what the Top
    Six did because it destroyed his directed panspermic IDiotic nonsense.
    In order to justify the Top Six he had to envoke multiple space alien designers, and tragically some of them had to be god-like space aliens
    from another universe in order to account for the Big Bang and fine
    tuning. It all just demonstrated how bankrupt directed panspermia had
    been all these years as an IDiotic notion. Nearly all IDiots in
    existence can do no better than the TO IDiots. You can go see how the
    Reason to Believe IDiots (they claim to be intelligent design advocates,
    but they do not support teaching the junk in the public schools) do not
    deal with the Top Six in an honest and straightforward manner. You can
    see them using the same Cambrian explosion god-of-the-gaps denial (#5 of
    the Top Six) that Meyer has been putting up for the last 25 years. They
    even cite the 25 million year period over half a billion years ago, but
    then have to deny that the Cambrian explosion ever happened when it did
    happen because they want land plants to be created before sea creatures.
    They have to deny the 25 million year time period (that makes it
    "impossible" for all the evolution to have occurred) over half a billion
    years ago because land plants do not show up in the fossil record until
    the Ordovician. The angiosperm plants mentioned in the Bible do not
    evolve until after Dinos evolved, less than 200 million years ago. It
    doesn't look like any of their recreation notions fit in with what
    actually happened. All the related species are supposed to be
    recreations of previously created kinds. They need whales to be created
    with the other sea creatures before the ancestral mammals existed, so
    the gaps in the whale fossil record that clearly indicates that there
    were mammalian terrestrial ancestors of whales that existed long before
    whales evolved, has to be denied.

    The Reason to Believe IDiots do not seem to have very many followers
    that want to agree with them. They claim to have created a Biblical
    creation model using the ID scam evidence, but their Biblical model
    isn't consistent with reality, and they have had to reinterpret the
    Bible in order to try to make some things fit.

    The Top Six exposed TO IDiots to this reality, and it killed the ID scam
    on TO. About the only thing left to discuss is why it took so long, and
    why is it that the ID scam still exists? The exIDiots are the only ones
    that would be able to give us some relevant answers.
    END QUOTE:

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 8 19:06:32 2023
    On 11/7/2023 8:28 PM, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
    RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:

    [snip]

    Then it wasn't spam because it was all relevant to the thread, and it
    was supporting what you had just claimed in terms of invoking poster's
    names. It was the history and the basis for putting in the poster's
    names in the first place, so it wasn't spam in terms of the topics
    presented in this thread that you mentioned in your post. Kalk and Bill
    are really the best candidates left to give their explanation for why
    they supported the ID scam.

    Why would Freon Bill be such a candidate? Does he even post here any more?

    Bill has posted since he gave up on the ID scam.


    You happen to be one of the more knowledgable posters here and provide informative content from time to time, but these ID perps, scams, rubes
    posts of yours are tedious and come across as obsessive. You could save the reader some time by just shortening it to “ID perps, scams, rubes” instead
    of a wall of text and wouldn’t lose any novel information.



    The truths seems to be tedious. It would be even more tedious if I had
    to provide a long description of why they are ID perps and all the
    IDiots have been rubes for decades. The ID perps really have been
    running a bait and switch scam on IDiotic creationist rubes for over 2
    decades. The rubes even understood what the ID perps were doing, but
    they still continued to support the scam.

    You should be familiar with the Thomas More lawyer's description of what
    the ID perps were doing when the Discovery Institute Rep tried to lie
    about the situation during the Dover fiasco. The ID perps had produced
    a booklet on teaching ID in the public schools in the 1990's. The ID
    perp's recommendation then was for the rubes to use the book Of Pandas
    and People to teach the junk. The Dover rubes had followed the written instructions and had purchased a couple dozen books to use to teach
    intelligent design, but the ID perps tried to run the bait and switch on
    the Dover rubes. It was the first time in over 3 years that the bait
    and switch scam failed the ID perps, and the Dover rubes decided to
    teach ID in spite of the efforts of the ID perps to run in the switch
    scam.

    When the Discovery Institute rep lied and claimed that the Discovery
    Institute did not support teaching ID in the public schools the Thomas
    More lawyer pulled out a copy of the teach ID scam booklet that the
    Discovery Institute used to give out with their Wedge video. He quoted
    out of the Conclusion of the ID propaganda. The booklet was authored by
    Meyer (the director of the ID scam unit), DeWolfe (the head of legal for
    the Discovery Institute) and DeForrest (claims to have been a fellow at
    the Discovery Institute on his web page). The guide book is still
    available at ARN and the Discovery institute never retracted what was
    written in it.

    http://arn.org/docs/dewolf/guidebook.htm

    They even doubled down after Dover and continued to sell the teach ID
    scam to the rubes with their current propaganda on teaching ID in the
    public schools.

    https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    The bait and switch has kept going down for over 20 years. The ID perps
    have only used ID as the bait, but all the rubes ever get is an
    obfuscation and denial switch scam that the ID perps tell them has
    nothing to do with ID nor creationism.

    The Thomas More Lawyer knew this had been going on for years but he
    called it a "strategy" instead of the scam that it was.

    https://ncse.ngo/discovery-institute-and-thomas-more-law-center-squabble-aei-forum

    It had participants laughing, and you can read the NCSE article to get
    the whole story, but the Thomas More Lawyer not only demonstrated that
    the ID perps had been selling the teach ID scam, he described what they
    had been doing since Ohio in 2002.

    QUOTE:
    RICHARD THOMPSON (TMLC): They wrote a book, titled "Intelligent Design
    in Public School Science Curricula." The conclusion of that book was
    that, um:

    "Moreover, as the previous discussion demonstrates, school boards have
    the authority to permit, and even encourage, teaching about design
    theory as an alternative to Darwinian evolution -- and this includes the
    use of textbooks such as Of Pandas and People that present evidence for
    the theory of intelligent design." ...and I could go further. But, you
    had Discovery Institute people actually encouraging the teaching of
    intelligent design in public school systems. Now, whether they wanted
    the school boards to teach intelligent design or mention it, certainly
    when you start putting it in writing, that writing does have consequences.

    In fact, several of the members, including Steve Meyer, agreed to be
    expert witnesses, also prepared expert witness reports, then all at once decided that they weren't going to become expert witnesses, at a time
    after the closure of the time we could add new expert witnesses. So it
    did have a strategic impact on the way we could present the case, cause
    they backed out, when the court no longer allowed us to add new expert witnesses, which we could have done.

    Now, Stephen Meyer, you know, wanted his attorney there, we said because
    he was an officer of the Discovery Institute, he certainly could have
    his attorney there. But the other experts wanted to have attorneys, that
    they were going to consult with, as objections were made, and not with
    us. And no other expert that was in the Dover case, and I'm talking
    about the plaintiffs, had any attorney representing them.

    So that caused us some concern about exactly where was the heart of the Discovery Institute. Was it really something of a tactical decision, was
    it this strategy that they've been using, in I guess Ohio and other
    places, where they've pushed school boards to go in with intelligent
    design, and as soon as there's a controversy, they back off with a
    compromise. And I think what was victimized by this strategy was the
    Dover school board, because we could not present the expert testimony we thought we could present
    END QUOTE:

    "Was it really something of a tactical decision, was it this strategy
    that they've been using, in I guess Ohio and other places, where they've
    pushed school boards to go in with intelligent design, and as soon as
    there's a controversy, they back off with a compromise."

    The More lawyer was fully aware that the ID perps had been running the
    bait and switch because it had gone down every single time that any
    rubes had wanted to teach the junk. No one has ever gotten any ID
    science to teach from the ID perps.

    The ID perps knew what they were doing. Wells wrote up a report on the
    first bait and switch scam on Ohio and claimed in the report that it was decided before they gave their dog and pony show supporting ID that they
    would not propose teaching the junk, and instead offer the rubes the
    switch scam. Phillip Johnson had made teaching ID in the public schools
    part of his Wedge strategy, but when it came time to put up or shut up
    they started running the bait and switch.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20110814145400/http:/www.creationists.org/archived-obsolete-pages/2002-03-11-OSBE-wells.html

    QUOTE:
    Steve Meyer and I (in consultation with others) had decided ahead of
    time that we would not push for including intelligent design (ID) in the
    state science standards, but would propose instead that the standards
    include language protecting teachers who choose to teach the controversy.
    END QUOTE:

    The only creationist supporting the teach ID scam to quit was Phillip
    Johnson who retired from his Blog at ARN a month after the bait and
    switch went down on the Ohio creationist rubes. All the others didn't
    do anything to stop the scam and became ID perps. The sad thing is that
    they likely ran the bait and switch on Phillip Johnson too. When the
    bait and switch failed in Dover Phillip Johnson came out of retirement
    and supported teaching ID in the public schools. He sat in the federal
    court room every day and understood why the bait and switch had been
    necessary. He quit supporting teaching ID and admitted that the ID
    science had never existed.

    So the ID perps have been ID perps for over 20 years, and they have
    never quit running the bait and switch on the hapless creationist rubes
    that still believe their teach ID scam propaganda.

    It may be tedious to you, but trying to be nicer and having to politely
    explain why the ID perps are worse than perps and the creationist rubes
    are worse than IDiots, just isn't an option. By the time I started
    using that terminology Dover was hitting the fan and the bait and switch
    had been going down for around 3 years. Dover demonstrated that the descriptions were apt and appropriate.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?w5bDtiBUaWli?=@21:1/5 to RonO on Sat Nov 11 04:30:45 2023
    On Saturday, 4 November 2023 at 16:11:29 UTC+2, RonO wrote:
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    For me it has stopped to be scam and they are not perps and rubes
    quite some time ago.

    Majority of people who bother to study it a bit agree that properties and abilities of living organisms can be altered through several of ways.
    1) wild evolution (wast majority of species clearly evolved wildly from ancestors),
    2) breeding (wast majority of agricultural crops and domestic animals
    clearly were breed from wild species),
    3) design (global market of genetic engineering was USD 3 billions in 2021), ... medicine, diet, crafting, surgeries, symbiotes, parasites, training, etc. Do you disagree? It is done and happening so it exists.

    The whole issue with ID is that there are no theory who, when, where,
    how, why designed something. They hoped that they will have such
    theory but were mistaken. That does not mean that such theory is
    impossible. ID clearly isn't when global market of it will perhaps reach
    10 billions this decade. Just that the theory of someone but humans
    doing it here does not exist. And I suspect it won't ever. But I am
    mistaken several times per day. Aren't you? So all that perp-rube-scam
    stuff is too excessive.

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 11 08:12:18 2023
    On 11/11/2023 6:30 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
    On Saturday, 4 November 2023 at 16:11:29 UTC+2, RonO wrote:
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still
    claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all
    they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    For me it has stopped to be scam and they are not perps and rubes
    quite some time ago.

    The ID perps have never stopped running the bait and switch scam on the creationist rubes. They keep selling the teach ID creationist scam
    using ID as only the bait in order to run in the obfuscation and denial
    switch scam. It is the ID perps that tell the creationist rubes that
    the switch scam has nothing to do with ID nor creationism.

    They have not stopped using ID as only the bait since they started
    running the bait and switch scam over 2 decades ago. Even the Dover
    court decision demonstrating that no ID science had ever existed stopped
    the bait and switch. It turned out that none of the IDiots wanted there
    to be any ID science. It all would have just been more science for
    creationist to deny.


    Majority of people who bother to study it a bit agree that properties and abilities of living organisms can be altered through several of ways.
    1) wild evolution (wast majority of species clearly evolved wildly from ancestors),
    2) breeding (wast majority of agricultural crops and domestic animals
    clearly were breed from wild species),
    3) design (global market of genetic engineering was USD 3 billions in 2021), ... medicine, diet, crafting, surgeries, symbiotes, parasites, training, etc. Do you disagree? It is done and happening so it exists.

    The whole issue with ID is that there are no theory who, when, where,
    how, why designed something. They hoped that they will have such
    theory but were mistaken. That does not mean that such theory is
    impossible. ID clearly isn't when global market of it will perhaps reach
    10 billions this decade. Just that the theory of someone but humans
    doing it here does not exist. And I suspect it won't ever. But I am
    mistaken several times per day. Aren't you? So all that perp-rube-scam
    stuff is too excessive.


    It turned out that the ID perps never wanted to produce any scientific
    theory, nor do any intelligent design science. Any valid scientific
    theory of intelligent design science would have just been more science
    for the IDiotic creationist rubes to deny. The TO IDiotic reaction to
    the ID perp's Top Six should tell any sane and competent person that,
    that has been the case forever. The ID perps had to run the bait and
    switch as the only means they could think of to keep the creationist
    political efforts going. They all understood that ID was just a name
    change, and that all they ever had was the same junk that had failed the scientific creationists that had tried to teach the junk before them.

    The obfuscation and denial switch scam was all that they could think of
    to keep doing to keep the political ploy running.

    Just imagine if Meyer had ever been able to demonstrate scientifically,
    that his designer had been responsible for the Cambrian explosion diversification of bilateria during a 25 million year time period over
    half a billion years ago. Most of the IDiotic support still comes from
    young earth creationists, and all Meyer would be giving to them would be
    more science that they had to deny. Even the old earth creationists at
    Reason To Believe wouldn't be able to deal with any Cambrian explosion
    creation science because they still claim that land plants were created
    before the sea creatures created during the Cambrian explosion. The
    designer of the Cambrian explosion is not the designer of the Bible
    because land plants do not show up until the Ordovician, and the
    angiosperms mentioned in the Bible do not show up until after dinos had
    evolved among the terrestrial vertebrates.

    This is why that when the Top Six evidences for intelligent design were
    given to the IDiots on TO, in their order in which they must have
    occurred, the TO IDiots quit being IDiots. It was obvious that none of
    them wanted to support any ID science that the ID perps claimed was
    possible.

    Even other ID perps can't stand the Top Six as given to the creationist
    rubes. Sewell dropped out IC (#4) and the Cambrian explosion (#5) and
    put the rest out of chronological order in order to deal with them, and
    Brian Miller dropped out the Big Bang (#1). The removal of the Big Bang
    was expected because the IDiotic type creationist rubes have already
    dropped the Big Bang from the state's science standards along with
    biological evolution in Kansas as science topics that they do not want
    their kids to have to understand. There was always little chance that
    the Big Bang IDiotic gap denial would have ever been taught in the
    public schools.

    It looks like there should be a review of history in order for TO
    regulars to come to grips with the current reality, a reality that had
    always existed.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?w5bDtiBUaWli?=@21:1/5 to RonO on Sat Nov 11 09:10:21 2023
    On Saturday, 11 November 2023 at 16:16:37 UTC+2, RonO wrote:
    On 11/11/2023 6:30 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
    On Saturday, 4 November 2023 at 16:11:29 UTC+2, RonO wrote:
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing
    to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >> claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >> they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    For me it has stopped to be scam and they are not perps and rubes
    quite some time ago.
    The ID perps have never stopped running the bait and switch scam on the creationist rubes. They keep selling the teach ID creationist scam
    using ID as only the bait in order to run in the obfuscation and denial switch scam. It is the ID perps that tell the creationist rubes that
    the switch scam has nothing to do with ID nor creationism.

    They have not stopped using ID as only the bait since they started
    running the bait and switch scam over 2 decades ago. Even the Dover
    court decision demonstrating that no ID science had ever existed stopped
    the bait and switch. It turned out that none of the IDiots wanted there
    to be any ID science. It all would have just been more science for creationist to deny.

    Bait of what? How can ID science be bait if no "IDiot" wanted there be
    any ID science? That is what it is ... creationists want the evolution not taught as it contradicts with what they believe. But ID is that lot of it indeed did evolve from (some undefined set of) common (designed)
    decent for at least half billion of years and someone tinkered with
    it at unclear times and to unclear extent. That is what Meyer and
    Behe seem to say. Am I wrong? So they do not say what creationists
    want to hear.


    Majority of people who bother to study it a bit agree that properties and abilities of living organisms can be altered through several of ways.
    1) wild evolution (wast majority of species clearly evolved wildly from ancestors),
    2) breeding (wast majority of agricultural crops and domestic animals clearly were breed from wild species),
    3) design (global market of genetic engineering was USD 3 billions in 2021),
    ... medicine, diet, crafting, surgeries, symbiotes, parasites, training, etc.
    Do you disagree? It is done and happening so it exists.

    The whole issue with ID is that there are no theory who, when, where,
    how, why designed something. They hoped that they will have such
    theory but were mistaken. That does not mean that such theory is impossible. ID clearly isn't when global market of it will perhaps reach 10 billions this decade. Just that the theory of someone but humans
    doing it here does not exist. And I suspect it won't ever. But I am mistaken several times per day. Aren't you? So all that perp-rube-scam stuff is too excessive.

    It turned out that the ID perps never wanted to produce any scientific theory, nor do any intelligent design science. Any valid scientific
    theory of intelligent design science would have just been more science
    for the IDiotic creationist rubes to deny. The TO IDiotic reaction to
    the ID perp's Top Six should tell any sane and competent person that,
    that has been the case forever. The ID perps had to run the bait and
    switch as the only means they could think of to keep the creationist political efforts going. They all understood that ID was just a name
    change, and that all they ever had was the same junk that had failed the scientific creationists that had tried to teach the junk before them.

    It is not same, creation science is YEC stuff, flood geology, catastrophism, relatively recent de novo creation of universe and species. It is bad theory
    as it contradict with all evidence hopelessly. Basically last thursdayism, everything was made very recently only to look like it had formed and
    evolved billions of years. Too hard to talk that seriously, or form any plausible claims there and so the ID split out of it.

    The obfuscation and denial switch scam was all that they could think of
    to keep doing to keep the political ploy running.

    Just imagine if Meyer had ever been able to demonstrate scientifically,
    that his designer had been responsible for the Cambrian explosion diversification of bilateria during a 25 million year time period over
    half a billion years ago. Most of the IDiotic support still comes from
    young earth creationists, and all Meyer would be giving to them would be more science that they had to deny. Even the old earth creationists at Reason To Believe wouldn't be able to deal with any Cambrian explosion creation science because they still claim that land plants were created before the sea creatures created during the Cambrian explosion. The
    designer of the Cambrian explosion is not the designer of the Bible
    because land plants do not show up until the Ordovician, and the
    angiosperms mentioned in the Bible do not show up until after dinos had evolved among the terrestrial vertebrates.

    I agree that all YEC would disagree with that Cambrian creation/altering as well. Old earth creationist from RTB would probably also disagree with lot
    of it. So what? That difference is why ID split from creation science. That
    is not scam but difference of views.

    This is why that when the Top Six evidences for intelligent design were given to the IDiots on TO, in their order in which they must have
    occurred, the TO IDiots quit being IDiots. It was obvious that none of
    them wanted to support any ID science that the ID perps claimed was possible.

    Even other ID perps can't stand the Top Six as given to the creationist rubes. Sewell dropped out IC (#4) and the Cambrian explosion (#5) and
    put the rest out of chronological order in order to deal with them, and Brian Miller dropped out the Big Bang (#1). The removal of the Big Bang
    was expected because the IDiotic type creationist rubes have already
    dropped the Big Bang from the state's science standards along with biological evolution in Kansas as science topics that they do not want
    their kids to have to understand. There was always little chance that
    the Big Bang IDiotic gap denial would have ever been taught in the
    public schools.

    It looks like there should be a review of history in order for TO
    regulars to come to grips with the current reality, a reality that had always existed.

    Yes ... they disagree among themselves what they want the "ID
    theory" to be. That is normal after these failing and fruitless
    decades. Kids became adults, young people became old but they
    still have nothing. Must feel frustrating. But I still don't see them as scammers, just unsuccessful and/or mistaken.

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  • From RonO@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 11 14:17:23 2023
    On 11/11/2023 11:10 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
    On Saturday, 11 November 2023 at 16:16:37 UTC+2, RonO wrote:
    On 11/11/2023 6:30 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
    On Saturday, 4 November 2023 at 16:11:29 UTC+2, RonO wrote:
    Kalk and Bill should provide their opinion on why the ID creationist
    scam still has a group of creationists pushing the scam and continuing >>>> to run the bait and switch on creationist rubes. The ID perps are still >>>> claiming to have the ID science to teach in the public schools, but all >>>> they have used ID for is as the bait in order to run in a switch scam
    that they claim has nothing to do with the ID science.

    For me it has stopped to be scam and they are not perps and rubes
    quite some time ago.
    The ID perps have never stopped running the bait and switch scam on the
    creationist rubes. They keep selling the teach ID creationist scam
    using ID as only the bait in order to run in the obfuscation and denial
    switch scam. It is the ID perps that tell the creationist rubes that
    the switch scam has nothing to do with ID nor creationism.

    They have not stopped using ID as only the bait since they started
    running the bait and switch scam over 2 decades ago. Even the Dover
    court decision demonstrating that no ID science had ever existed stopped
    the bait and switch. It turned out that none of the IDiots wanted there
    to be any ID science. It all would have just been more science for
    creationist to deny.

    Bait of what? How can ID science be bait if no "IDiot" wanted there be
    any ID science? That is what it is ... creationists want the evolution not taught as it contradicts with what they believe. But ID is that lot of it indeed did evolve from (some undefined set of) common (designed)
    decent for at least half billion of years and someone tinkered with
    it at unclear times and to unclear extent. That is what Meyer and
    Behe seem to say. Am I wrong? So they do not say what creationists
    want to hear.

    When the ID scam first started in the mid 1990's the main group of ID
    perps had been involved with the publication of "Of Pandas and People".
    The book "Of Pandas and People" was initiated after the scientific
    creationist loss in Federal Court in Arkansas. In the judges decision
    it was noted that even though the state had wanted to teach scientific creationism there was the issue that there were no suitable sources that
    could be used to teach the junk in the public schools. All the
    scientific creationist literature was laced with Bible verses and
    biblical mythology and were not suitable for use in the public schools.
    Of Pandas and people was first advertised as a remedy to this lack of
    having a creationist text book. It was supposed to be scientific
    creationism without the Biblical references.

    Before the book was published the Supreme court ruled on the Louisiana
    creation science law, and determined that creation science wasn't any
    science worth teaching in the public schools. As documented in the
    Dover federal court case "Of Pandas and People" was transformed into an intelligent design creationist text, by changing creationism to
    intelligent design throughout the book. "cdesign proponentsists" was
    one of the most laughable incomplete edits. Kenyon was one of the main authors, Thaxton was the editor, Meyer wrote the teachers notes, and
    Behe admitted in court that he had written parts of the book, but had
    not gotten credit for his efforts. The sad thing about the birth of the intelligent design creationist scam is that those involved knew that
    they did not have to change the name of what they were supporting if
    they actually had any real creation science worth calling science.
    Kenyon had written some of the legal briefs and his science had already
    been determined to be deficient by the Supreme court. The court did
    throw the creationists a bone, by stating that if there was any
    legitimate creation science produced that it could be taught in the
    public schools. Planetary mobiles cannot be removed from public school classrooms just because they support the heliocentric Christian heretics
    (that include many of the YEC Christian denominations). Legitimate
    creation science could be taught in the public schools, but those
    involved with "Of Pandas and People" realized that they didn't have any legitimate science in that book.

    Phillip Johnson became acquainted with the group involved with
    publishing "Of Pandas and People" and was supposedly instrumental in
    hooking them up with the Discovery Institute and getting them funding
    for their effort to continue to get creationism taught in the public
    schools. The ID perps consider Phillip Johnson to be the "godfather" of
    the ID scam. Johnson is also credited with developing the Wedge
    strategy, and Johnson has claimed that getting ID taught in the public
    schools was part of the Wedge strategy.

    My guess is that the ID perps understood that just changing the name of
    what they were pushing wouldn't be enough to fool anyone, but Johnson
    may have been fooled. I am pretty sure that Johnson would not have
    joined the effort if he did not understand that they were trying to get creationism taught in the public schools. It was the main reason it was included in the Wedge strategy. The Wedge was supposed to split open
    the existing political structure and make an opening for their desired theocracy to take it's rightful place in our society. I've put up the
    original mission statement of the ID scam unit at the Discovery
    Institute, and it was essentially what they had in the Wedge Document
    that got leaked in 1998. I remember looking up the mission statement on
    their web site because the ID scam program director (it may have been
    Jay Richards) claimed that the Wedge document wasn't controversial
    because it was just the same as their mission statement. At the time
    the Discovery Institute web site still had the original mission
    statement up and it was accompanied by their logo of a depiction of God
    and Adam.

    http://web.archive.org/web/19980114111554/http://discovery.org/crsc/aboutcrsc.html

    It looked like the entire organization knew that they were pushing
    creationism at that time.

    If you look at the Top Six you should recognize them as the same god-of-the-gaps denial that the scientific creationists had to resort to
    when their creation science efforts failed to amount to anything. Their
    age of the earth and flood geology science were dismal failures. It
    turned out that they didn't want to do any science and scientific
    creationism became a misnomer. Gish routinely had the Big Bang (#1 of
    the Top Six) in his Gish gallop. He tried to cram as much denial as he
    could into his "debate" speel. He had his origin of life denial (#3), flagellum is a designed machine (#4), multiple gaps in the fossil record
    denial bits (#6), and the Cambrian explosion (#5) that he would
    routinely trot out. I do not recall a fine tuning argument (#2) likely
    because it takes too long to describe as a sensible argument. Gish
    would never try to build anything positive out of the denial. Each
    topic was supposed to be taken independently and forgotten once he moved
    onto the next denial topic.

    The ID perps adopted the same god-of-the-gaps arguments, and kept
    feeding them to the rubes as independent bits of denial. They had to do
    this because their major support base was the same one that supported
    the scientific creationists, and the young earth creationist support
    base could not deal with the gap denial as anything but gap denial.
    Nothing positive was ever supposed to come out of the denial. It is
    just a plain and simple fact that most Biblical creationists do not want
    to believe in the designer that fills the Top Six gaps. The Answers In
    Genesis young earth creationists may still use the Big Bang in their
    creation museum, but they never wanted to believe in the god responsible
    for creating the Big Bang over 13 billion years ago. The Big Bang has
    been one of the science topics that has been dropped out of the public
    school science standards by IDiotic type creationists in Kansas, and I
    recall Texas and Oklahoma proposing to do the same thing. This just
    means that the ID perps never wanted to accomplish any creation science.

    Any intelligent design creation science that they would have been able
    to verify would have just been more science for the creationist rubes to
    deny, and the ID perps needed the creationist rube support in order to
    make their desired theocracy a reality. It is why no IDiotic science
    was ever attempted. No testable hypotheses were proposed and tested.

    The effect of the Top Six on the TO IDiots indicates that none of them
    ever wanted the ID perps to be successful in any IDiotic science. The
    god that fills the Top Six gaps is not their Biblical god.

    Over 13 billion years ago some designer created the Big Bang (#1).
    During the Big Bang the designer had to do some fine tuning (#2). It
    took over 8 billion years before the elements that compose our solar
    system were created in dying stars, and another round of fine tuning was
    needed 4.5 billion years ago to make sure that the earth was just the
    right size and composition and had just the right orbit around a star of
    the right size. 3.8 billion years ago this designer created life on our
    planet (#3). Life existed as microbial lifeforms for billions of years,
    and over a billion years ago the flagellum was designed among those
    microbes (#4). Within the last billion years the designer started experimenting with multicellular life forms and designed, and after
    developing the plan for bilateral animals this designer was responsible
    for the diversification of bilateral animals during the Cambrian
    explosion, a 25 million year period over half a billion years ago (#5).
    This means that the designer did this long before land plants were
    designed in the Ordovician, and the same fossil record indicates that angiosperms (the Biblical crop plants) were not designed until after the designer had designed dinosaurs less than 200 million years ago. This
    designer obviously designed a lot of land animals before deciding to
    fill the gaps in the fossil record for the last 10 million years and
    design humans.

    You should be able to figure out why the Top Six killed IDiocy on TO
    once the ID perps gave the rubes the ID scam junk as a related group in
    their logical order in which they must have occurred.

    ID has only been used as bait. The creationist rubes take the bait, but
    once the ID perps have the hook in, they never had any ID science that
    the creationist rubes would have wanted to teach, so they only give the
    rubes their obfuscation and denial switch scam that the ID perps claim
    has nothing to do with the ID science.

    No creationist rubes that have ever wanted to teach the promised ID
    science have ever gotten any ID science to teach. The ID perps have
    never produced an intelligent design public school lesson plan that
    would tell the rubes what they had to teach, how they wanted it taught,
    what materials could be used to teach it, and how the students would be evaluated on what they had learned. The creationist rubes have kept
    taking the bait even though they never knew what they were going to get
    to teach.

    It turned out that the ID perps never had any science that the
    creationist rubes would have wanted to teach.



    Majority of people who bother to study it a bit agree that properties and >>> abilities of living organisms can be altered through several of ways.
    1) wild evolution (wast majority of species clearly evolved wildly from
    ancestors),
    2) breeding (wast majority of agricultural crops and domestic animals
    clearly were breed from wild species),
    3) design (global market of genetic engineering was USD 3 billions in 2021),
    ... medicine, diet, crafting, surgeries, symbiotes, parasites, training, etc.
    Do you disagree? It is done and happening so it exists.

    The whole issue with ID is that there are no theory who, when, where,
    how, why designed something. They hoped that they will have such
    theory but were mistaken. That does not mean that such theory is
    impossible. ID clearly isn't when global market of it will perhaps reach >>> 10 billions this decade. Just that the theory of someone but humans
    doing it here does not exist. And I suspect it won't ever. But I am
    mistaken several times per day. Aren't you? So all that perp-rube-scam
    stuff is too excessive.

    It turned out that the ID perps never wanted to produce any scientific
    theory, nor do any intelligent design science. Any valid scientific
    theory of intelligent design science would have just been more science
    for the IDiotic creationist rubes to deny. The TO IDiotic reaction to
    the ID perp's Top Six should tell any sane and competent person that,
    that has been the case forever. The ID perps had to run the bait and
    switch as the only means they could think of to keep the creationist
    political efforts going. They all understood that ID was just a name
    change, and that all they ever had was the same junk that had failed the
    scientific creationists that had tried to teach the junk before them.

    It is not same, creation science is YEC stuff, flood geology, catastrophism, relatively recent de novo creation of universe and species. It is bad theory as it contradict with all evidence hopelessly. Basically last thursdayism, everything was made very recently only to look like it had formed and
    evolved billions of years. Too hard to talk that seriously, or form any plausible claims there and so the ID split out of it.

    Creation Science was mostly YEC, but so is intelligent design
    creationism. The majority of support for the ID creationist scam has
    been YEC from the very beginning of the acceptance of name change. The
    Top Six god-of-the-gaps best evidence for intelligent design were all
    used by the scientific creationists. Both of the main authors of "Of
    Pandas and People" were YEC, and they were the ones that made the name
    change to intelligent design.

    Most of the Dover creationist rubes were YEC, and had taken up the ID
    scam because it was close enough to what they wanted to teach.


    The obfuscation and denial switch scam was all that they could think of
    to keep doing to keep the political ploy running.

    Just imagine if Meyer had ever been able to demonstrate scientifically,
    that his designer had been responsible for the Cambrian explosion
    diversification of bilateria during a 25 million year time period over
    half a billion years ago. Most of the IDiotic support still comes from
    young earth creationists, and all Meyer would be giving to them would be
    more science that they had to deny. Even the old earth creationists at
    Reason To Believe wouldn't be able to deal with any Cambrian explosion
    creation science because they still claim that land plants were created
    before the sea creatures created during the Cambrian explosion. The
    designer of the Cambrian explosion is not the designer of the Bible
    because land plants do not show up until the Ordovician, and the
    angiosperms mentioned in the Bible do not show up until after dinos had
    evolved among the terrestrial vertebrates.

    I agree that all YEC would disagree with that Cambrian creation/altering as well. Old earth creationist from RTB would probably also disagree with lot
    of it. So what? That difference is why ID split from creation science. That is not scam but difference of views.

    The Reason to Believe old earth creationists claim to be IDiots, but
    they never wanted to teach the junk in the public schools they claim
    that they only wanted to use intelligent design to create their Biblical creation model. Most creationists do not like the model that they came
    up with, and they have to deny the order of creation of the Top Six.
    They need land plants to be created before sea creatures, so even though
    they use the Cambrian explosion gap denial (you can find articles on
    their web page that cite the same 25 million year period over half a
    billion years ago as being too short of a time to evolve all the taxa)
    they have to deny that science because land plants do not show up until
    the Ordovician.

    https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/summary-of-reasons-to-believes-testable-creation-model-1

    They have to reinterpret the Bible and make claims like the sun and moon
    were not created on the 4th day after land plants, but were only made
    visible after land plants were created. They have their recreation
    model where similar species are explained as being recreations of
    previous kinds, but this recreation model fails for thing like whale
    evolution. For some reason the Reason to Believe IDiots need whales to
    be created with the sea creatures before land vertebrates are created. Sternberg has spent his IDiotic life since joining the ID scam, back in
    2007, defining all the gaps in the whale fossil record, but for the
    Reason to Believe IDiots these gaps just can't exist because they show
    whales evolving after land animals.

    Even old earth creationist like Bill couldn't deal with the Top Six in
    their order of occurrence.


    This is why that when the Top Six evidences for intelligent design were
    given to the IDiots on TO, in their order in which they must have
    occurred, the TO IDiots quit being IDiots. It was obvious that none of
    them wanted to support any ID science that the ID perps claimed was
    possible.

    Even other ID perps can't stand the Top Six as given to the creationist
    rubes. Sewell dropped out IC (#4) and the Cambrian explosion (#5) and
    put the rest out of chronological order in order to deal with them, and
    Brian Miller dropped out the Big Bang (#1). The removal of the Big Bang
    was expected because the IDiotic type creationist rubes have already
    dropped the Big Bang from the state's science standards along with
    biological evolution in Kansas as science topics that they do not want
    their kids to have to understand. There was always little chance that
    the Big Bang IDiotic gap denial would have ever been taught in the
    public schools.

    It looks like there should be a review of history in order for TO
    regulars to come to grips with the current reality, a reality that had
    always existed.

    Yes ... they disagree among themselves what they want the "ID
    theory" to be. That is normal after these failing and fruitless
    decades. Kids became adults, young people became old but they
    still have nothing. Must feel frustrating. But I still don't see them as scammers, just unsuccessful and/or mistaken.


    They have been running the bait and switch on creationist rubes for over
    20 years. If that doesn't make someone a scammer, what would? They
    have never delivered the promised ID science. They have never stopped
    claiming to have the ID science to teach, and so they have never stopped running the bait and switch. After Dover they doubled down and produced
    their teach ID scam propaganda claiming that ID could still be taught in
    the public schools, and that the judgement was wrong, and ID was a
    legitimate scientific theory.

    This is still up at the the ID scam web site. They last updated it in
    2021, but they have since reformated the site and it looks like they
    have reverted to the 2018 edition. No matter what they claim they
    always run the bait and switch on the creationist rubes, and all the
    rubes get is an obfuscation and denial switch scam that the ID perps
    tell them has nothing to do with any ID science.

    https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/

    You should note the ID perp claim of not "mandating" ID to be taught.
    After Dover they started claiming that they did not want ID to be
    required to be taught, and they had that claim in the education policy.
    You can find their old education policy on the teach ID scam propaganda.
    This policy was changed in 2013 when both Louisiana and Texas wanted
    to teach intelligent design in their public schools, and both states
    claimed that they were not requiring ID to be taught, they were just
    providing materials that teachers could use to teach the junk. The ID
    perps ran the bait and switch on them anyway and ID perps removed this paragraph from their education policy that was up on the Discovery
    Institute web page at the time.

    QUOTE:
    Although Discovery Institute does not advocate requiring
    the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, it
    does believe there is nothing unconstitutional about
    voluntarily discussing the scientific theory of design in
    the classroom. In addition, the Institute opposes efforts
    to persecute individual teachers who may wish to discuss
    the scientific debate over design in an objective and
    pedagogically appropriate manner.
    END QUOTE:

    It was obvious in Texas and Louisiana that it didn't matter if ID was
    required or not, the ID perps did not want to teach it in any form or
    under any circumstances.

    The ID perps could not give up on the Wedge strategy. They knew that
    they had nothing that the creationists would want to teach, and that
    they had never wanted to accomplish any ID science, so when it came time
    to put up or shut up they started running the bait and switch scam on creationist rubes. ID has only been used as the bait for over 2
    decades. The ID perps have never attempted to use ID for more than that.

    The Top Six presented the way that the ID perps were stupid enough to
    present them were just too foul for the IDiots to be attracted to any
    longer, and they quit being IDiots.

    Ron Okimoto

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