tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post1972124672662678964..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: For PZ MyersBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-48800323783164044492010-02-25T00:00:35.170+00:002010-02-25T00:00:35.170+00:00The truth about myers is that his atheist crusade ...The truth about myers is that his atheist crusade serves to mask a scientific worthlessnessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-67881540319728650452009-11-17T10:44:02.792+00:002009-11-17T10:44:02.792+00:00"Sub-verbal" is a solecism; "sack o..."Sub-verbal" is a solecism; "sack of shit" is a cliche. Jolly well done, Brian old chap!davidmwwhttp://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-74533599368455692652009-11-17T04:24:03.876+00:002009-11-17T04:24:03.876+00:00No, "Sub-verbal sack of shit" is unfortu...No, "Sub-verbal sack of shit" is unfortunately not better; it stoops to profanity.<br /><br />Also, you may call PZ's writing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophasia" rel="nofollow">schizophasic</a>, but he produces enough of it that he's clearly literate, and speaks in public enough that he's clearly verbal.<br /><br />It's regrettably necessary to actually Dan Coopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-21780407371507880182009-11-17T04:06:07.296+00:002009-11-17T04:06:07.296+00:00Good job dude. Now the millions of readers on the ...Good job dude. Now the millions of readers on the most popular science and atheism blog on the net know that you can only respond to criticism with childish invective. I'm sure your readership will benefit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91433031489441128162009-11-17T00:51:18.263+00:002009-11-17T00:51:18.263+00:00You and the early responses to this post do a wond...You and the early responses to this post do a wonderful job of appealing to that oh-so-English sense of intellectual superiority. What a shame it's so unwarranted in this case. (Critiquing a blogger's use of hyphens. Really, people!)<br /><br />I must have missed the part where you showed us how Myers was, um, mistaken about anything he wrote regarding the sheer factual wrongness of your Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91055255137616411812009-11-16T22:59:46.276+00:002009-11-16T22:59:46.276+00:00I just noticed the absurdity of your use of Napole...I just noticed the absurdity of your use of Napoleon in the following quote:<br /><br /><i>I'm with Napoleon on the subject of PZ - 'Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.'</i><br /><br />Except he's clearly not making a mistake. PZ is vastly more popular than you are and seems to get more popular every day. I don't understand how his posts regarding you Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00862658538533082022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-65515424936955616172009-11-16T21:42:21.503+00:002009-11-16T21:42:21.503+00:00Peter Burnett, aren't you a little embarassed ...Peter Burnett, aren't you a little embarassed that your complaints against Myers basically boiled down to "when you debate science with him, he has too much evidence"? <br /><br />Just a WEE little bit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-64301583324361479422009-11-16T21:14:54.973+00:002009-11-16T21:14:54.973+00:00"Coming from this sub-verbal sack of shit tha..."Coming from this sub-verbal sack of shit that's a bit rich. I mean just scan his stuff."<br /><br />That kind of comment indicates PZ Myers really struck a nerve. And how hypocritical, you are guilty of the very things you criticize him for. Intellectually, you've met more than your match. Your "perfect" writing skills are really useless against truth aren't they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-26640009288178142412009-11-16T20:32:47.461+00:002009-11-16T20:32:47.461+00:00"It is sweet that PZ Myers left out the hyphe..."It is sweet that PZ Myers left out the hyphen in 'badly written'"<br /><br />No hyphen is called for, as always with a "-ly" adverb. Dumbass.Sven DIMilonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-64117027872814516512009-11-16T19:32:23.378+00:002009-11-16T19:32:23.378+00:00I read PZ Myers because he knows what he is writin...I read PZ Myers because he knows what he is writing about and he is to the point. And his take-down of you was spot-on. <br /><br />You will never be able to counter his criticisms of the rubbish you wrote about Darwin in January, will you? If you want to compare abilities, he is a better writer than you are a writer on the topic of science.<br /><br />But the important thing is that on the severnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-65074824585663090912009-11-16T19:13:10.900+00:002009-11-16T19:13:10.900+00:00"From where do we get the right to believe, t..."From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today? Looking at Nature tells us that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen. But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump, as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today."<br /><brkikinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78691097707431887452009-11-16T18:35:13.830+00:002009-11-16T18:35:13.830+00:00As Graham Greene said of Ford Madox Ford, he had t...As Graham Greene said of Ford Madox Ford, he had the kind of enemies a man ought to have.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5975262476049341932009-11-16T17:33:15.249+00:002009-11-16T17:33:15.249+00:00What a waste of space this blog is - I thought the...What a waste of space this blog is - I thought there might be some useful information or proof that PZ was wrong but all I see is a slanging match.<br /><br />Snore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-46200993228088720562009-11-16T17:22:21.822+00:002009-11-16T17:22:21.822+00:00"Okay, I'm prepared to accept that I may ...<i>"Okay, I'm prepared to accept that I may be wrong about everything - I wake up every morning thinking just that - and PZ may be right, but 'BADLY WRITTEN'! Coming from this sub-verbal sack of shit that's a bit rich."</i><br /><br /><br />This is where your counter-argument begins. Let's check it out a little bit at a time.<br /><br /><i>Okay, I'm prepared to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-40300711127694156722009-11-16T17:12:25.687+00:002009-11-16T17:12:25.687+00:00For what it's worth, I think you're a pret...For what it's worth, I think you're a pretty good writer. You still shouldn't have brought this up because PZ was at least right about your characterizations of biology. You couldn't be bothered to respond to his criticism, so you attacked his writing.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00862658538533082022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-66799046927642025872009-11-16T16:59:16.425+00:002009-11-16T16:59:16.425+00:00If you're going to try to join in with the big...If you're going to try to join in with the big kids and have a go at flinging insults, you should probably try to be less of a fatuous shit.<br /><br />You might find it personally gratifying to screech, piss and moan at being called a bad writer, but that doesn't stop it being true.<br /><br />If you can't acknowledge this, you'll never get better, will you Brian?Frank S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23566274788385302702009-11-16T15:57:19.585+00:002009-11-16T15:57:19.585+00:00PZ's insult seems better crafted than yours. ...PZ's insult seems better crafted than yours. His was punctuated correctly, and you were reduced to using foul language. (You should have put a comma after 'shit'.)kerfufflerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850291446564241031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-22529472391080534532009-11-16T14:21:17.231+00:002009-11-16T14:21:17.231+00:00PZ is an intellectual giant in comparison to the t...PZ is an intellectual giant in comparison to the tripe I see you trying to peddle in your column.<br /><br />Enjoy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11512796958262494856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-37653924650012923182009-11-16T13:29:20.784+00:002009-11-16T13:29:20.784+00:00Your "shitty" article on Darwin that ins...Your "shitty" article on Darwin that inspired PZ's post makes you look like an ignorant blowhard:<br /><br />"It's all very well to talk of small mutations changing an organism, but how do such changes make, for example, an eye? Without all its bits and pieces, an eye does not work. It is, in the terms used by the biochemist Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, &Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-6650104218902925662009-11-16T09:00:07.899+00:002009-11-16T09:00:07.899+00:00Sluggish literalism I thought, ArniSluggish literalism I thought, ArniBryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-12459139218838706882009-11-16T08:55:18.841+00:002009-11-16T08:55:18.841+00:00But Appleyard, you must admit that cleek got you w...But Appleyard, you must admit that cleek got you with "Dawkins is not a "meme"; he is a person." :)Arni Zachariassenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13121173674036665609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-45824072018806240362009-11-16T08:54:04.079+00:002009-11-16T08:54:04.079+00:00Fascinating how the tone of the comments changed w...Fascinating how the tone of the comments changed when the PZ-fans arrived.Arni Zachariassenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13121173674036665609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-86181039860987012152009-11-16T06:37:05.045+00:002009-11-16T06:37:05.045+00:00PZ Myers' prose is difficult in the same way t...<i>PZ Myers' prose is difficult in the same way that National Geographic magazine text is difficult: you know pretty much what they are trying to say but your brain keeps disengaging because, although the words are reconisable, they don't hang together properly.</i><br /><br />You have just captured Dan Brown perfectly.Mike Schillinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757322677259634481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-66241441640270978642009-11-16T02:57:25.176+00:002009-11-16T02:57:25.176+00:00I must say, It takes balls to attack someone's...I must say, It takes balls to attack someone's writing in a post that's full of clunky sentences, odd metaphors, grammatical errors and logical pratfalls. <br /><br />For example:<br /><br />"Intellectually, of course, he's beneath consideration, but I won't go there."<br /><br />Your first six words make liars out of your final five. Plus, that's a hackneyed cleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12546259017245183448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-58898724377941468562009-11-16T02:37:26.714+00:002009-11-16T02:37:26.714+00:00"sub-verbal sack of shit" ?
"Sub-v..."sub-verbal sack of shit" ?<br /><br />"Sub-verbal" doesn't mean what you think it means. Or, if you do know what it means, you've used it in a way that makes little sense.<br /><br />"Intellectually, of course, he's beneath consideration, but I won't go there."<br /><br />Since the first half of the sentence, in fact, went there, you are either a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com