by missy wrote:Yeah well I'm done here. Wow, you guys are mean. what a bunch of rude condescending people. You do not give people a chance. Obviously we speak a different language and you did not understand anything I said. The responses were just so weird, like you were responding to a totally different post. I'm also surprised at the lack of knowledge. Do you people live in a cave?
Allow me to educate you here.
There's a maxim that operates on these forums, which consists, quite simply, of the statement:
BAD IDEAS EXIST TO BE DESTROYED.
If people bring bad ideas here, we feed those bad ideas into the shredder. That's the modus operandi that applies here. You can either accept this, or find somewhere a little less demanding. The choice is yours. We've been dealing with creationist duplicity, including a form of duplicity known as concern trolling (where they pretend that they're not creationists, only to resurrect the usual tiresome and previously debunked canards shortly after their arrival), for some time, and as a consequence of having dealt with said duplicity, we tend to operate on a hair trigger. Furthermore, since quite a few of the people posting here are also professional scientists, who know a damn sight more than the Hovinds, Hams and other charlatans of this world with respect to the relevant subject matter, the culture here is very much geared to the proper scientific practice of testing assertions to destruction. Anyone who wants their assertions to be treated as established fact, had better provide something that meets relevant evidential standards. Understood?
Oh, and by the way, there is no "missing link" between humans and apes. Humans ARE apes. We share a large degree of anatomical commonality, which reflects the fact that, for example, humans and chimpanzees share 98% commonality with respect to the contents of their genomes, a fact that has been established in relevant peer reviewed scientific papers covering the sequencing of both genomes. Indeed, I've presented detailed results from one apposite paper here in the past. The "missing link" is a term that originally found its way into journalism, courtesy of the scientific ignorance of the journalists in question, and which has since been misappropriated by creationists, in a desperate attempt to preserve the assertions of their doctrine, with respect to humans being purportedly "special". If necessary, I can bring the relevant scientific papers here, and in quantity. It's not as if I haven't done this before.
So, before you start hurling accusations around, I suggest you learn something about the environment you are now in, and its occupants. Would you go walking the streets of Mecca in a bikini halter top and hot pants? Or turn up at a full dress parade of Marines wearing a ballerina tutu and diving flippers? Precisely. Likewise, you don't turn up here expecting everyone to genuflect before whatever previously recycled notions you happen to think constitutes startlingly original wisdom, especially when the regulars know very well that what you think constitutes startlingly original wisdom is anything but. There are people here who hold tenure, or are on the verge of doing so, with a range of academic institutions, said institutions in some cases boasting an impressive track record of hosting landmark research. At least one of the posters here is a geneticist and molecular biologist, embarking upon a long programme of research into the fine details of cancer cell development, with the specific aim of finding therapeutic techniques and agents that can target a multiplicity of cancers without affecting surrounding healthy cells, and as a result of the fact that he's spent two decades reaching the point where he is now a tenured researcher, I think he's likely to have rather a lot of substance to offer, don't you?
