Re: Test

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:34:49 -0700, erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/24/24 12:17 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:

On 2024-06-24 06:28:28 +0000, Bob Casanova said:
 

On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:46:13 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com>:
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On 6/23/24 5:04 PM, *Hemidactylus* wrote:

William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Bob Casanova wrote:

Anybody there? Bueller? Bueller?
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Yes.
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Haven't been seeing any posts lately, myself.
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It has slowed down a bit since Google Groups went away and Nyikos
(pbuh)
left us.
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Nyikos (pbuh, indeed) generated a lot of heat, if not so much light.
We've also apparently lost most if not all creationists, and ID
proponents are down to Ron D, if he hasn't left already.  Alas.
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"Alas" for "if he hasn't left", right?

 
It may be that it was Ron Dean who was keeping this group alive. In the
1990s I participated in a dicussion group at which someone kept sending
idiotic posts, and a lot of the contributions from the sane participants
were stimulated by these. Eventually he left, but, as no one expected,
the group died shortly afterwards. There is a similar story at sci.lang,
much more recently, which is surviving now almost entirely due to the
efforts of one (sane) contributor, but was much more lively a few years
ago, due to the idiotic contributions of one person.
 

Useful idiots..

Nothing terribly new there, Galileo employed that approach near enough
400 years ago, using an idiot to show up foolish ideas. Unfortunately,
it didn't work out too well for him and I don't think it is working
well either for those on the side of science nowadays. You don't win
many hearts or minds by telling someone that they are an idiot or
getting their ideas from an idiot.