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The source you’ve quoted has answered your question as a matter of fact. Are you able to show otherwise? In a court of law the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. In the court of public opinion expressed by critics and enemies of the Prophet Joseph Smith , not so much. “…it is important to n...

A response from Billy to the Rasmussen post I quoted in the OP, and then a response from Bruce Dale to Billy: Billy Shears on October 10, 2021 at 9:39 am [Rasmussen:] “This feels like an odd bet to make. His paper’s been published for all to see. You, as a credentialed expert, have made your views t...

Rasmussen, the Dales, and anyone who admits to being an Interpreter peer reviewer are all clearly playing the Mopologetic version of Calvinball. (Midgley is the designated mascot and cheerleader. It keeps him busy.) 1. Calvinball Rules.... * IMPORTANT -- The following rules are subject to be changed...

You know, those bastards who keep beating me at chess follow the rules too, and they MAKE me do the same! Just WHO do they think they are??? I ought to be able to just checkmate them and win for crying out loud. What is all this nonsense of playing chess by following the rules? I ***AM*** the world...

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:40 pm

I see Mr. Peterson continues to use this board as a sort of de facto editor - he’s corrected his error it seems.

- Doc

Wow. He really does obsess over this board, doesn't he?

I’m curious why the DCP quote of Smith’s first paragraph ends with this… So I found these two passages from Christian Smith of relevant interest… ….When the natural forces of entropy eventually extinguish the human race — if some natural or humanmade disaster does not do so sooner — there will be no...

Oh God groundhog day again!!!! Not another scorned buttercup thread with "tons of documentation" that is never produced. Someone, something please save us. And save her from herself, right? She is on shaky ground with this request, because it’s also been ‘documented’ that she doxxed herself here. C...

This argument is absurd, “It’s important to keep in mind that the View of the Hebrews is only 227 pages long.” Now this is a claim that actually has some substance to it–the idea that longer books that favor certain kinds of correspondences systematically overestimate the probability of producing th...

The most ridiculous thing I think I have ever seen someone who is trying to publish a statistical analysis complain about....

Kyler Rasmussen [to Billy Shears] on October 9, 2021 at 9:08 am

You seem to have a strange penchant for rule following....

Unbelievable.

Eventually I'll probably move this to a discussion about Rasmussen's episode 14, but Billy's argument here about the Dales' analysis and Rasmussen's imitation of it is, in my professional opinion, absolutely accurate. Within the context of the bet, it is unimpeachable evidence that the Dale/Rasmusse...