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Author Topic:   August 2005 - Post of the Month
AdminAsgara
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Message 1 of 34 (229647)
08-04-2005 10:03 AM


For August, 2005 (as per previous months):
quote:
Please post your votes for the August, 2005, Posts of the Month here. Include author, forum name, thread name, post number, eg:
Name: Velvet Tongue
Forum: Biological Evolution
Thread: I'm no monkey
Post #: 17
A link to the message, and perhap a SHORT comment would also be nice. But, this is NOT a place to debate the referenced topic - so be nice.
I think that a fairly liberal use of this topic would be a good thing for indexing some nice messages that are otherwise doomed to be lost in the clutter. So, if you encounter a message that seems to say something of special substance, please give it a plug/reference in this topic.
New month, new moderator, same old message and routine,

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crashfrog
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Message 2 of 34 (229818)
08-04-2005 4:53 PM


As good as my word
Name: Omnivorous
Forum: Is it Science?
Thread: All Evolutionary scientists have been Evolutionary Indoctrinated
Post: 297
Omni makes a great point, a point that many of us often try to make and fail, and through his succinctness, succeeds. And is polite, too.
quote:
This is a tough crowd. There is justifiable pride at the rigor of peer-reviewed science, compared to which this thread was a cake-walk.

CK
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Message 3 of 34 (231128)
08-08-2005 5:48 PM


Chris knocks one out of the park
Name: Chris P
Forum: Faith and Belief
Thread: Militant Christianity and Matthew 5
Post: 01
http://EvC Forum: Militant Christianity and Matthew 5 -->EvC Forum: Militant Christianity and Matthew 5
I'm a bit of loss how to describe this, it's a powerful tale of one man's faith and it's place within the modern world and within his own religious community.
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crashfrog
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Message 4 of 34 (231549)
08-09-2005 5:35 PM


Top Quality from a New Face
Name: Annafan
Forum: Intelligent Design
Thread: Crop circles and intelligent design
Post: 16
This new poster, who is apparently a fan of Anna (?), devastates the intelligent design position in a concise, well-worded post.
quote:
Well, this idea is actually harder to express than I thought, lol I hope you get what I mean.
We do, Annfan, we do.

CK
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Message 5 of 34 (231722)
08-10-2005 6:48 AM


holmes and black gold
Name: Holmes
Forum: Social Issues and Creation/Evolution
Thread: http://EvC Forum: Should intellectually honest fundamentalists live like the Amish? -->EvC Forum: Should intellectually honest fundamentalists live like the Amish?
Post: 98
Holmes deconstructs the idea that the conventional OE paradigm do not inform and influence the work of geologists in regards to finding oil.
http://EvC Forum: Should intellectually honest fundamentalists live like the Amish? -->EvC Forum: Should intellectually honest fundamentalists live like the Amish?
tsk,tsk.
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RAZD
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Message 6 of 34 (231727)
08-10-2005 7:14 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by CK
08-10-2005 6:48 AM


Re: holmes and black gold
excellent, except that it was post 98 ...

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paisano
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Message 7 of 34 (231750)
08-10-2005 8:34 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by CK
08-10-2005 6:48 AM


Re: holmes and black gold
I'll third this nomination.

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Silent H
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Message 8 of 34 (231756)
08-10-2005 8:50 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by CK
08-10-2005 6:48 AM


Re: holmes and black gold
Eureka! It's a gusher!!!
(thanks to all for the nominations)

holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)

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bob_gray
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Message 9 of 34 (232255)
08-11-2005 10:53 AM


Rhavin on transitional forms
Name: Rhavin
Forum: Biological Evolution
Thread: Where are all the missing links?
Post #: #11
Not that information about transitionals is particularly new but this particular post presented it in a nice way: combining both the fossil record and existing species. Here is an excerpt:
quote:
The "missing links" to species are literally all around us. Related species can have identical features that have different uses. Organisms often have organs useful to more primitive relatives, but are no longer usefull or needed in the "more advanced" species. Structural similarities over a wide base of related species show common ancestry.
Also, some of the clarifications (s)he made to objections in the same thread are good too.
Edited to fix link.
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AdminNosy
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Message 10 of 34 (233161)
08-14-2005 1:15 PM


Javaman supplies clarity
Message 218
The only flaw here is that the subtitle is some left over junk from a jillion posts ago.
The rest is clear and thoughtful.

Parasomnium
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Message 11 of 34 (234062)
08-17-2005 11:00 AM


deerbreh on atheism
Name: deerbreh
Forum: Faith and Belief
Thread: Atheism isn't a belief?
Post: Message 22
You don't often get to see the atheist position described so well.

Omnivorous
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Message 12 of 34 (234283)
08-17-2005 10:11 PM


Name: berberry
Forum: Coffee House
Thread: Focus on the Family Will Keep your Kid from Being Gay
Post: Message 10
Eloquent, gracious, unyielding.

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berberry
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Message 13 of 34 (234286)
08-17-2005 10:13 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Omnivorous
08-17-2005 10:11 PM


Thanks, Omni!
You're very kind.

"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005

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NosyNed
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Message 14 of 34 (234344)
08-18-2005 1:16 AM


Randman operates well on the science side
Message 257
RM is attempting to package up some of the input facts to the discussion.
He also shows an understanding of the need for quantification.
This is a POTM partly because of it's content but as much because it seems to show a progression and learning on RM's part.

Jazzns
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Message 15 of 34 (234994)
08-20-2005 11:39 AM


Name: Re: The point of the discussion?
Forum: Social and Religious Issues
Thread: Should intellectually honest fundamentalists live like the Amish?
Post #: 215
Faith finally just comes out and says it. Age must not be a factor in looking for oil because the earth is young because the Bible says so. Even though she continues with her bare assertion in ignorance of geology, she has a well written post that finally get to the point.
I felt after that post that there was finally some honesty coming from Faith.

No smoking signs by gas stations. No religion in the public square. The government should keep us from being engulfed in flames on earth, and that is pretty much it. -- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

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