Comments on: An Online CAM Poll

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:27:17 +0000

I will give you deism then.

By: cwfong

cwfong — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:54:33 +0000

Except that the magisteria are, of course, both separate and overlapping, and both conditions will be sustainable or unsustainable depending on the particulars of the science or the philosophy involved. There isn’t just one particular science or religion involved in the plural concept of magisteria.

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:16:16 +0000

The statement is straight forward self-explanatory.
Period.

By: cwfong

cwfong — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:58:34 +0000

As expected, you’re unable to defend a statement that you didn’t understand from the outset.

And as predicted, you have responded by dishonestly re-writing your originally quoted statement, adding “non-overlapping” and in the process making it, if possible, even dumber.

And I expect that I can speak for at least one other here that agrees with me. Not that this should be a popularity contest, but I guess that’s the best you can hope for – to have someone come forward to do your thinking for you. But if and when they do, will you understand it?

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:03:51 +0000

I’ll just stick with my original statement:

“My position is that the idea that religion and science are separate (non-overlapping) magisteria is unsustainable”

(And please do not speak for others on this blog and presume that their opinions all align with yours.)

By: cwfong

cwfong — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:53:19 +0000

The only clarification you could make would be to admit your ignorance. Most of the educated and honest among us have learned from our mistakes. You learn only to lie and strenuously deny you’ve made them.
Clarify this again for us, because we must have missed it: How does their overlapping negate the contention that science and religion are separate magisteria?
No-one but you seems to have ever made that claim. Are you some sort of natural born logician, who doesn’t need a scientific education to spot such grievous errors by the otherwise worldly acclaimed practitioners of the art of reason? (The contention that you must be a faultily constructed machine is intriguing, but here’s your chance to put that idea to its rest.)

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:36:56 +0000

“Overlapping doesn’t doesn’t negate separation, does it?”

Hence the clarification a few days ago.
Please catch up.

And…doesn’t doesn’t negate?

By: neilgraham

neilgraham — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:48:52 +0000

Children at St Dominique’s Kindergarten:

I will not comment further until you have a new version up and running. I don’t want to discourage you but I am afraid you are a long way from constructing a machine that will pass the Turing test. Still, from such a low base improvement is inevitable.

By: cwfong

cwfong — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:05:03 +0000

Overlapping doesn’t doesn’t negate separation, does it? If so, we wouldn’t call it overlapping, would we?
And if we had a right to do so, then we wouldn’t call it unsustainable.
So you’ve gotten just about everything wrong and can neither see it, understand it, or admit it. Apparently you just say things because they sound like there’s some meaning there, even if you can’t understood the science or the philosophy. And how could you, if you’ve failed in your studies of the subjects, and now just parrot something incorrectly that you’ve read.
And when you run out of rational and explanatory responses, you resort to your usual crude form of backwoods insults.

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:31:51 +0000

neilgraham,

I see you have become cwfong’s virtual sock puppet.
If the sock fits….ram it in I guess.
Also your sexism is noted.
Good one son.
And you’ve never heard of a neologism?
Hmmm…

cwfong,

Please catch up…
Check out the “overlapping” clarification from a couple of days ago.
Seems you’ve got a short memory to go along with your comprehensive failure at comprehension.
And you look silly with that sock on your fist.
I mean, how will you pick your nose now.
Oh, I see, your pal neil….