Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: JTEM Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Drake's equation Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 17:11:13 -0400 Organization: Eek Lines: 35 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <6d7a1acc-61d6-48b1-bbd8-a9284d5e766e@gmail.com> <3108b372-ebd2-4520-b3e5-a13c6184daa5@gmail.com> Reply-To: jtem01@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="18553"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:+F3iBuH81zw2qdJnkMrZaLhguAk= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id D999D229786; Thu, 09 May 2024 17:11:12 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65BB229767 for ; Thu, 09 May 2024 17:11:10 -0400 (EDT) id D8FB17D12E; Thu, 9 May 2024 21:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CEF7D12D for ; Thu, 9 May 2024 21:11:15 +0000 (UTC) id C17DDDC01A9; Thu, 9 May 2024 23:11:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 23:11:13 +0200 (CEST) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <3108b372-ebd2-4520-b3e5-a13c6184daa5@gmail.com> X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18R4NAXTwQkW0RIeI5z76wc+nT4o1oHeL0= Bytes: 3312 erik simpson wrote: > Exactly.  I knew Frank and talked with him about it. The point was to > identify what we knew and didn't know, and suggest where future efforts > ought to be concentrated.  Back then (early 70s) we knew significantly > less than we do now, but what we don't know continues to dominate. "Pure > speculation" isn't the case. What's truly insane is that you DEFEND, rudely, the fraud that was Darwin, the myth of his inventing or discovering (whatever it is you pretend) "Evolution" when in fact the load didn't even believe in evolution. He used a word. But he wrote, which you might of heard of, and he described the same pseudo scientific bullshit that Stalin, Mao and others who REJECTED evolution believed in. You don't even know what this means! It's Greek to you! And you think "Abiogenesis" is (now get this) "Science!" Omg, yet you blow a gasket over the Drake Equation! Can you honestly not grasp the astounding level of hypocrisy the collective displays? The Drake Equation is a powerful tool for showing you how your assumptions impact your perception. Change your variables -- your assumptions -- see big changes in your results. -- https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5