@ThirdIdiot Skeptics IS for doubting supposedly scientific things in this world. The reason your questions on evolution have not been well received is very simple: The "Theory of Evolution" is not supposedly scientific it is, in fact, incredibly scientific. All of your questions on evolution are based on ideas put forward by non-scientists and have all been debunked without question.
No true Scotsman is an intentional logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it.
Origins
The term was advanced by philosopher Antony Flew in his 1975 book Thinking About Thinking: Do I sincerely want to be right?.
A simpler rendition would be:
:Teacher: All Scotsmen enjoy haggis.
:Student: My uncle is a Scotsman, and he doesn'...
@Robusto That's the worst part about it. @Kosmonaut only ever comes here to start this religio-political jawboning, but is nowhere to be seen when us brave Communist Priests try to stop it.
> It’s much easier to be a do-gooder about Tibet if you’re totally ignorant of Central Asian history, like the days when Tibetan conquerors filled up whole carts with the ears of guys they’d killed. Even this idea that Tibet is the homeland of Buddhism, the most Buddhist place on the planet, is crap; Tibet got Buddhism very late, trying it on a couple of times before it took.
> The Tibetans in their conquering days—which means roughly in Charlemagne’s time—were followers of something called Bon, or Bun, which sounds either like the department store in Seattle or part of a hamburger, but apparently was some sort of mix of Taoist magic and Mongol shamanism. Sounds pretty fun.
> And it worked as a military religion, almost as good as Mithras or Anglicanism. The Tibetans had a fearsome reputation as warriors who were honored to die in battle, thought they were headed for their version of Valhalla, which would probably involve big vats of tea with yak-butter and maybe central heating if they were especially worthy.
Ich hatte immer gedacht, dass man nur „er“, „sie“ und „es“ als Personalpronomen verwendete:
Der Stuhl war nicht so billig. Er ist sehr alt.
Allerdings habe ich den folgenden Satz in meinem Deutschkursbuch gefunden:
Wo sind denn meine Ohrringe? Die lagen doch früher noch auf dem Tisch.
...
Should "the Service / the" or "he / she / it" to use as a personal pronoun? I had always thought that only "he", "them" and "it" as a personal pronoun used:
The chair was not so cheap. He is very old.
However, I have found the following sentence in my German course book:
Where are my earrings? The sooner were still on the table.
But I would say "they were." What is the difference? Are both correct?
sounds like a perfectly cromulent EL&U question to me
(btw, @Kit, I nearly spewed tea all over my laptop at reading your comment about The (Little) Prince)
@RegDwight any [tag:language-intelligent-design] questions are automatically off-topic and should be moved to the Constructed Languages proposal (when it opens)
There's a storm brewing in my neck of the woods, and a real thunder-bumper at that. I'm shutting down per company protocol, and running to my car to roll up the windows per personal protocol. TTFN.
Keeping in mind that today is Saturday 05/28/2011, a German says
Gut. Treffen wir uns also am nächsten
Dienstag um acht Uhr.
What should you do, so as not to miss the appointment?
Wenn heute Samstag, der 28.05.2001 ist
und ein Deutscher fragt
Gut. Treffen wir uns also am nächsten
...
At what point does next Tuesday mean
the next Tuesday that will come to pass
and no longer
the Tuesday after the Tuesday that will come to pass`?
And, when does the meaning switch back?
I want to practice my listening comprehension and build up my grammar and vocabulary.
I find movies to be a good way to do this as it is full of dialogue by native German speakers talking at normal real-life speed, and if I get really stuck I can turn on subtitles.
Things I'm looking for:
Dia...
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@JSBangs I am asking you (as someone who RegDwight holds as a tag expert) why you decided not to replace those.1 with those.2 in that question, but just added dating-advice.
dating-advice is a bit of a joke wherever it appears. joke tags like this are theoretically frowned upon, but we've gotten away with this one because it's very seldom used, and we hi-rep users need some way to amuse ourselves
What is the origin of the word boner? Trying to find the roots for its prevalent usage, especially in North America.
According to a dictionary it means an erect penis.
Fact: when someone begins a sentence with "I think it should be sufficiently obvious that", that sentence will probably contain not a single provable fact.
Ich hatte immer gedacht, dass man nur „er“, „sie“ und „es“ als Personalpronomen verwendete:
Der Stuhl war nicht so billig. Er ist sehr alt.
Allerdings habe ich den folgenden Satz in meinem Deutschkursbuch gefunden:
Wo sind denn meine Ohrringe? Die lagen doch früher noch auf dem Tisch.
...
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What is a word or phrase that describes "a person who is having difficulty speaking with girls?"
What is the origin of the word boner? Trying to find the roots for its prevalent usage, especially in North America.
According to a dictionary it means an erect penis.
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