Comments on: Wilkins on Mirecki http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/ An independent blog about intelligent design Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:19:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: macht http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/#comment-5709 macht Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:59:29 +0000 http://telicthoughts.com/?p=417#comment-5709 Wilkins <a href="http://evolvethought.blogspot.com/2005/12/who-bashed-mirecki.html" rel="nofollow">again stereotypes people in Kansas</a>, this time the cops. (He even wonders if they will plant kiddie porn on his computer to frame him.) Of course, he gives himself an "out" for any criticism since all he is doing is "speculating." But the fact that they took his computer isn't very suspicious at all - this whole thing started through email and online activity and chances are he probably got some "hate mail." Those might give the police some good leads. Wilkins again stereotypes people in Kansas, this time the cops. (He even wonders if they will plant kiddie porn on his computer to frame him.) Of course, he gives himself an "out" for any criticism since all he is doing is "speculating." But the fact that they took his computer isn't very suspicious at all - this whole thing started through email and online activity and chances are he probably got some "hate mail." Those might give the police some good leads.

]]> By: MikeGene http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/#comment-5613 MikeGene Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:10:11 +0000 http://telicthoughts.com/?p=417#comment-5613 Exactly. This point is crystal clear. So it makes you wonder why it is that Wilkins either can't see this point or refuses to talk about this point. Exactly. This point is crystal clear. So it makes you wonder why it is that Wilkins either can't see this point or refuses to talk about this point.

]]> By: Krauze http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/#comment-5610 Krauze Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:29:52 +0000 http://telicthoughts.com/?p=417#comment-5610 Also, Wilkins writes as if the problem was that Mirecki's e-mail was mocking Christians. But you can find much worse things over at Panda's Thumb, yet there's no "mole" forwarding those messages. No, the thing that gored people about the e-mail was the duplicity of publically claiming that the course would simply explore ID as mythology in the academic sense of the word, while in a message he thought only his friends could see, Mirecki let on that it was really intended as a slap in the face of a particular group of people. Reading Wilkins, you'd think that Mirecki was being hounded simply for being impolite. Also, Wilkins writes as if the problem was that Mirecki's e-mail was mocking Christians. But you can find much worse things over at Panda's Thumb, yet there's no "mole" forwarding those messages. No, the thing that gored people about the e-mail was the duplicity of publically claiming that the course would simply explore ID as mythology in the academic sense of the word, while in a message he thought only his friends could see, Mirecki let on that it was really intended as a slap in the face of a particular group of people.

Reading Wilkins, you'd think that Mirecki was being hounded simply for being impolite.

]]> By: MikeGene http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/#comment-5609 MikeGene Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:25:22 +0000 http://telicthoughts.com/?p=417#comment-5609 I forgot another piece of Wilkins' "objectivity": <blockquote>One of the conservative politicians of that state threatened to remove funding from the department (no doubt the reason why he stepped down).</blockquote> No doubt? How does Wilkins know this? Is it the same source of insight that allows the Australian to declare you must be very, very brave to be an atheist in Kansas? Perhaps because all the Christians in Kansas (and everywhere in the USA, for that matter) are persecutors who control every aspect of life? The objectivity is so refreshing. I forgot another piece of Wilkins' "objectivity":

One of the conservative politicians of that state threatened to remove funding from the department (no doubt the reason why he stepped down).

No doubt? How does Wilkins know this? Is it the same source of insight that allows the Australian to declare you must be very, very brave to be an atheist in Kansas? Perhaps because all the Christians in Kansas (and everywhere in the USA, for that matter) are persecutors who control every aspect of life? The objectivity is so refreshing.

]]> By: Krauze http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/#comment-5607 Krauze Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:03:57 +0000 http://telicthoughts.com/?p=417#comment-5607 Hi Eric, Yes, that's the same John Wilkins. Hi Eric,

Yes, that's the same John Wilkins.

]]> By: Eric Anderson http://telicthoughts.com/wilkins-on-mirecki/#comment-5601 Eric Anderson Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:54:39 +0000 http://telicthoughts.com/?p=417#comment-5601 Is this one and the same John Wilkins who posted here: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/tautology.html If so, I find it interesting, because a couple of years ago I briefly corresponded with him regarding my critique that is posted here: http://www.evolutiondebate.info/A%20Good%20Tautology%20is%20Hard%20to%20Avoid.htm Small world . . . Is this one and the same John Wilkins who posted here:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faq...

If so, I find it interesting, because a couple of years ago I briefly corresponded with him regarding my critique that is posted here:

http://www.evolutiondebate.inf...

Small world . . .

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