Bob
You just don't get it.
It is not possible to have a rational debate with you. You are not rational. And you don't debate, you rant.
You have no ability to do anything but twist and distort.
I told you in my last post that you had said nothing new and that my previous post was still sufficient to cover everything you had said. You twisted that into saying that I was admitting that I have no answer.
I told you that I have tired of beating my head against the wall with you. You lied and said that I was fleeing debate and smugly, and falsely, claimed victory.
I have never fled debate. Ever. I have and will answer every single issue that comes up.
You, on the other hand, have been empirically shown to not even read posts before returning to your scripted rants.
You, on the other hand, will flee from the facts if you can ever be brought near them. Look no further than your "banded iron" debacle on this very thread. You thought you had a fact to present and when it did not work out for you, you spent a few pages trying to muddy the waters and then you just abandoned all hope of ever returning to something you brought up. How many times has this happened before. How many times have you tried to slip in what you thought was a supporting fact and when you were shown to be incorrect, tried to pretend it did not exist. I have spent pages and pages asking you over and over to justify some claim to no avail. Do you remember your claim about some conference "voting" that Archy was "just a bird?" I asked you to support that claim and you just repeated it. I found a large number of papers presented at the conference and showed how the authors were actually treating Archy as a transitional. You completely ignored the data to refute your claim. But that did not stop you from repeating it over and over and over. Or look at your recent strawman on genetic testing of crocodiles, snakes and birds. You happily plagiarized what you thought supported you. But when I showed that the results actually confirmed a prediction of evolution, you never answered.
You posted pages of links to your script in your last round of posts. Never mind that I could provide a list of links where those constructs of yours have been smashed to bits and where you have repeatedly failed to offer a shred of support for your bald assertions. It would be a waste of time, however, to produce such. You will never listen and I really doubt we have too many lurkers left at this point and none who would follow dozens of links to other posts.
But you have continued to make it clear that you are not interested in debate. Well I have said the same things over and over and over that rip gaping holes into your scripted rants.
I am tired of your smoke and mirrors and lies and fallacies and plagiarism and childish taunts. You have nothing new to offer. You repeat the same sad things over and over without regard for how many times they have been shown to be false. You care nothing for the truth.
I hope you enjoy your delusions. And I suspect that you will rant some more about how I have fled debate and how I have no answers. But you know deep down that such boasts are false. You know deep down that you have no facts. You know deep down that you have no answers for the truth. You know deep down that your careful script is a shaky house of cards that has been repeatedly blown over.
And I know that even if you fail to admit your errors, that the case for YEism has been weakened by your posts. It has been so easy to show your errors, even if you fail to admit them. Your claims made through quote mining are so easy to show where you have blatantly and deliberately misrepresented the statements with you Patterson claims being the ultimate example; you arguing with a statement from the author himself that you are wrong. Your strawmen have been thoroughly exposed, even if you keep repeating them.
And I know that it is not just my view. Oh yes, I, too, get PMs. I, too, have heard from the lurkers. I have heard from those who are not brave enough to admit in front of such a hostile crowd that they accept the truth. You may not be able to veer from your script or admit when you have been shown to be wrong, but others can see it. So while you will go about with your schoolboy taunts and your hollow claims of victory, I know that I have been successful in using you as a case study in the dangers and the sandy foundation of YEism.