stevebee92653 wrote:

ElDiablo wrote:

stevebee92653 wrote:

ElDiablo said:
I'll stick with mine. A car maker may get everything else right but the shell. With my analogy you're wrong from even the most fundamental aspect of alternator repair. If you can't get the basics right, how can you get anything else right?

Well, the discussion is primate coverings and human skin appearing at a 625:1 ratio. You example an internal electromechanical car part, and think that's a good analogy. Then you are able to declare that I'm wrong. So, good for you. Me? I think randomness can't produce a 625:1 ratio. But that's what I learned in very basic math, and what I deduce from total obviousness. You stay with yours, I'll keep mine.

As Tolman correctly points out, my example has to do with credibility. You claim to have a high level of understanding of science but what I've read of yours shows otherwise. You misrepresent science even at the most fundamental level therefore your book lacks credibility.

Oh. Eye of the beholder here, eh? I love the broad generalizations that you and your fellow skeptics pour out on all threads here at ratskep, not just on this one. You are typical. Whatever you do, don't read the book before making big decisions like these.

stevebee92653 wrote:

tolman said:
To me, that doesn't qualify you to be an author of a book I'd care to read even if you paid me.

Well, uh, how much would I have to pay you. Everyone has a price.

CADman2300 wrote:

stevebee92653 wrote:

tolman said:
To me, that doesn't qualify you to be an author of a book I'd care to read even if you paid me.

Well, uh, how much would I have to pay you. Everyone has a price.

I know this is kinda irrelevant but Steve would probably have to pay me at least $1500 to read his book, and even then, I'd likely find the book only useful as a doorstop or paperweight. I need the money for some new computer hardware and he'll have to pay me first before I pick up a copy.

Ah, who am I kidding? I wouldn't read the book even if he threw his entire retirement fund at me, but I'd still be more than happy to take his money.

stevebee92653 wrote:

tolman said:
To me, that doesn't qualify you to be an author of a book I'd care to read even if you paid me.

Well, uh, how much would I have to pay you. Everyone has a price.

stevebee92653 wrote:

lucek said:
(you)...want us to believe that the idea of something not evolving over 3 million years sprung into your head when you read a placard in a museum de novo...

I really couldn't care less what you believe about anything lucek. You think little "wolves" evolved into 300,000 lb. whales, and that theropods evolved into hummingbirds and woodpeckers, so that's enough for me.I fully realize there is no cure for what you believe.

stevebee92653 wrote:

tolman said:
To me, that doesn't qualify you to be an author of a book I'd care to read even if you paid me.

Well, uh, how much would I have to pay you. Everyone has a price.

Can I enter? Here is my application:
Of the phosphomalate pathway, which they had eliminated, they write: “…IT COULD BE ARGUED, however, that the feeder P-malate COULD HAVE PLAYED SOME ROLE in earlier metabolism; and thus it IT COULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. It is, in fact, HIGHLY UNLIKELY that some ancient metabolic pathway involving such a compound has vanished without trace (although the original pathway has been lost, such an intermediate COULD HAVE BEEN to other purposes); however, it CANNOT BE STRICTLY DISCARDED and thus, although UNLIKELY, phosphomalate and the [alternative] Krebs cycle structure…MIGHT BE FOUND IN SOME paleospecies as a case of paleometabolism.
Source at: http://www.evillusion.net. p. 5 I sure hope I win!

Biokid and the dentist ask: “Why did T. rex have small arms?”

Because it wasn’t intelligently designed.

I’ve taken enough college classes to be a book critic. I haven’t actually read this Dentist’s book, but after a couple thought expiriments, I’ve concluded the book is a complete waste of time.

Blume's dad was an author. He wrote The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum, published by Simon & Schuster.

lucek wrote:Just noted something. Steve in his blurb claims

Blume's dad was an author. He wrote The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum, published by Simon & Schuster.

Look up The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and you find that it was written by Carl Blumay, but Steve claims to be Stephen T. Blume (a possiblility. many people change the spelling of their names). So A: Steve's last name is different then his father, B: one of then misspelled their name for their book credit, C; the claim is wrong they are related (possibly counts as fraud and given the text about dear daddy blume libel too). Does bring up the question if the name Stephen T. Blume is just assumed however.

lucek wrote:Just noted something. Steve in his blurb claims

Blume's dad was an author. He wrote The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum, published by Simon & Schuster.

Look up The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and you find that it was written by Carl Blumay, but Steve claims to be Stephen T. Blume (a possiblility. many people change the spelling of their names). So A: Steve's last name is different then his father, B: one of then misspelled their name for their book credit, C; the claim is wrong they are related (possibly counts as fraud and given the text about dear daddy blume libel too). Does bring up the question if the name Stephen T. Blume is just assumed however.

What an amazing super sleuth you are Lucek. Very impressive. See if you can sleuth this one out a little more. There is a little puzzle here to solve, and if you or any other ratskepper can solve it, they will get 10 kudos from me!

tolman wrote:

lucek wrote:Just noted something. Steve in his blurb claims

Blume's dad was an author. He wrote The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum, published by Simon & Schuster.

Look up The Dark Side of Power, the story of Armand Hammer and you find that it was written by Carl Blumay, but Steve claims to be Stephen T. Blume (a possiblility. many people change the spelling of their names). So A: Steve's last name is different then his father, B: one of then misspelled their name for their book credit, C; the claim is wrong they are related (possibly counts as fraud and given the text about dear daddy blume libel too). Does bring up the question if the name Stephen T. Blume is just assumed however.

Out of the tiny number of people likely to ever buy the book, are any actually likely to check his genealogy, or to care much about it?

It doesn't seem that writing is that much of an inherited trade, though I guess a parent having written a book might help inspire a child to do the same, whether or not the child actually has the skill and knowledge and self-awareness to do so successfully.

stevebee92653 wrote:What an amazing super sleuth you are Lucek. Very impressive. See if you can sleuth this one out a little more. There is a little puzzle here to solve, and if you or any other ratskepper can solve it, they will get 10 kudos from me!

Regarding the big deal made out of my vanity publishing, the only way to get a first book published is if vanity publishers are used; unless the writer is famous, which I am not, fortunately. When you people who rag on vanity publishing write a book and get it published by Simon and Schuster, then make a big deal. Otherwise you might want to shut it on that one.