I have plenty to keep me busy. And you should watch the name calling. Yor saying that I am "intellectually lazy" would be on the same order of me calling you an "idiot zealot". It is not allowed./ It makes debates go out of control.
Not really. "Idiot zealot" is extreme and defamatory. Someone who cant even waste 0.0002 seconds searching on google is intellectually lazy. (Google even times how long it takes for a search to happen, I am sure you know.) There is no excuse for ignorance; I would entertain an "idiot zealot" long before I entertain someone who cant even google search something
for the purposes of proving someone wrong (or right.)
It seems that you do not know some of the basic rules of debating. It is up to the person making a positive claim to offer evidence for his claim. If you can't you lose. It has nothing to do with whether the opposition is lazy or not.
There are 24 types of debate (I googled it.) To which rules are you referring?
And, this forum is a
by proxy debate forum. It is not an inherent debate forum. So, the rules of debate - formal debate - do not apply here. You are responsible for your own knowledge. And, if someone makes a claim, be an individual and go beyond "demanding the opposition to provide evidence - for reason of
burden of proof." Look it up yourself; then you will have the power of knowledge
and refutation (should the opposition be wrong.) It is lazy when you are in the age of Google
not to spend three seconds typing in keywords just for S####&giggles. You could have looked up the NASA document I continuously alluded to in the time you typed your response, for example. You could have even read the abstract. As I said before, I worked hard for what I know - and I know it. You can play the "this is a debate forum" game, and rob yourself of possible enlightening knowledge because of pride of argument. It doesn't matter to me; I have it.
If you were a real intellectual, you would look up everything I said. Who knows, I may be so wrong: but, I expect independently researched evidence to show me of my folly, not literary claptrap. You could do both of us a favor by simply researching my arguments. I am begging you (and everyone in the world) to do that - for me and "experts." Call us on our B.S. - but make sure it is researched (by you,) and evidenced (by you.) Don't parrot an "expert," or your opinion.
Until you do provide some evidence that supports your claims you are wrong by definition. I actually enjoy it when someone puts up at least a half decent fight. I tend to learn from the results. Your arguments are so weak that no one will gain anything. As the great Hitch proclaimed "Arguments made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence". You are dismissed.
I am wrong by
definition. Interesting. I would say look up the definition of
denotation and
connotation, but you haven't looked up anything I have suggested yet. You can "learn" a lot more if you actually look up the stuff yourself. I have been saying several times to look up the 1985 NASA document, for example. No one has bothered. I even apologized and said, "I had access to it while on Columbia's server; I don't know if you will have access." The other stuff was
basic physics: gravity and E&M. I even directed you to Maxwell's equation on a moving charge producing changes in electric fields - which produce an magnetic field. Did you look up that equation to see if I am telling the truth? I claim it is one of four of his equations: prove me wrong (or right) with your own research. Don't just expect me to give you the info. If I wasn't a "Christian," and I was just some random on the street, what obligation do I have to give you anything. As I said, especially since I know I can just write up my spouting, send it to Nature Magazine, and have you
pay to read it - what obligation do I have to you to give you the info on a forum for
free?
The West is really blind to the expense of knowledge. People go to school for years only to be dismissed by laypersons that have not even dabbled enough in the field of discussion, and
refuse to even research information for themselves (in the age of Google.) That is why the West is falling: too much scoffing, not enough self-researching. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is snatching up what remaining talent the West has, and using them sans politics. And, the West has the audacity to cry about how there are no "scientists or engineers" to fix things. You bet there isn't: no one has time to deal with the attitude when they can be appreciated in other countries -
while having their housing paid for, a stipend, and a locked-in job contract. That is why I became an expatriated educator; the rest of the world got the memo. When the West falls (or the world,) those countries that snatched up all of the Western "talent" will be the first to rebuild and recover. The West will stay in their scoffing confused ways.
And, I am not even an educator for a private company; I am an educator for a
mission program. Imagine how much "talent" head hunters have snatched for private means - people that are learned and not necessarily Christian. Good luck in the coming years; I hear your country is already in shambles with a beefed up, artificially inflated economy.
