Greetings from a dodgy but almost functional internet connection in Thailand. Mrs Musket is getting ready to go out for the day and I have a few moments of boredom, so Mudcat is usually worth a giggle in such circumstances.

pete. You are right you know. You ARE referring to proper peer reviewed publication, as you note that creationist nonsense is filtered out. If you bother to ask yourself why that is, you might begin to understand the meaning of the word science.

You can be a fully qualified scientist, but if you conclude a solution to a hypothesis without foundation, your qualifications tend to go down in value..... Gaps in knowledge are not an invitation to fill the gaps with Jesus. After all, asserting something to be true without proof or foundation could be seen as lying if the intention is to persuade, and as you said on another thread, Christians don't lie.

Which is a pity, because that means the altar boys and choir boys deserved it, and they should have kept quiet about it after all! All those vulnerable women and young men who went to men of the cloth for protection because they were brought up to trust clergy, it was their fault for inadvertently tempting the holy ones, and to complain means you are branded a liar.

Hey, the mist is raising. I see what liar means now, in the ecclesiastical sense at any rate.

Tea. Do you know... Our hotel here serves Glengetti tea? Ok, with UHT milk and they don't boil the water properly, but it's the thought that counts.

Co Messiah and associated gnome. Of course the rear ending Admiral can serve the teas. Can't be any worse than Betty Swollox and the fiasco co Messiah S. Witnessed.