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On Sat, 05 May 2012 08:51:04 -0400, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com>:

>In article <2248q71lpc2jcea60cg2o87be9hlar6...@4ax.com>,
> Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:23:57 -0500, the following appeared
>> in talk.origins, posted by Louann Miller
>> <louan...@yahoo.com>:
>> 
>> >Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off> wrote in 
>> >news:hri5q7d1pn6kksoslebbhb83lbp7ljbmlc@4ax.com:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:55:57 -0700, the following appeared
>> >> in talk.origins, posted by Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off>:
>> >> 
>> >>>On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:02:48 -0700 (PDT), the following
>> >>>appeared in talk.origins, posted by "Mr.Dunsapy"
>> >>><duns...@gmail.com>:
>> >> 
>> >>>>> Still waiting for those observable design criteria...
>> >>>
>> >>>>You have to take the blinders off Bob
>> >>>
>> >>>Still waiting for those observable design criteria...
>> >> 
>> >> Waiting...
>> >
>> >"You have to take the blinders off" is all he's got. He means by it, of 
>> >course, that you have to Have Faith and assume his conclusion is correct. 
>> >Then you will have assumed his conclusion is correct, which to him is 
>> >equivalent to having actual evidence, and he gets to win the argument.
>> 
>> That does seem to be the case.
>> 
>> >I know we're short on Black Knights at the moment, but this one is deeply 
>> >disappointing to me.
>> 
>> Oh, I dunno; we have Tony, Kalkidas and prawnster, and now
>> "Mr. Dunsapy", all of whom are expert at declaring victory
>> and running away. How many Black Knights can we expect at
>> any given time?
>
>One black knight is about 2 too many.

Depends. The movie, for instance, would have been poorer
without him.
-- 

Bob C.

"Evidence confirming an observation is
evidence that the observation is wrong."
                          - McNameless