Uncommon (Commenting) Dissent
A warning to people posting comments at the pro-ID blog Uncommon Descent – you’ll probably get your comments deleted if you say anything slightly humourous or provoking. Now, I know they have the right to delete whatever comments they want to on their own blog, but isn’t this pushing it a little far?
On Denyse O’Leary’s most recent UD post, the one where she talks about evolution being false because kittens grow into cats (I’m not making this stuff up), I posted a comment about O’Leary metaphorically blowtorching people’s heads through the brain-melting stupidity of her last two posts (the other one being this monstrosity). I wrote it in jest, without any sort of violent wording. It was merely to poke fun at her – she’s fun to poke.
But apparently, I was too raucous, because it got deleted. “But ah,” you say, “how do we know you posted the comment at all?” Well, Denyse replied to the comment before she (or someone else) chucked it out. Clearly, at the time, she didn’t think it was too bad – why respond to a trolling comment in this fashion:
nanontiotami [note the spelling] at 1: Much thanks. It wasn’t my purpose to blowtorch anyone, but simply to address obvious failures.
Lenski simply failed to show that Darwinism explains evolution.
If we could just accept that, we could get on with science.
Whoopsy-daisy!
