EvoWiki talk:Community Portal
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This seems really interesting. I like your layout.
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where to post humor
Where do we post humor like the pictures on page two of this PDF downlaod? [1] -- Link broken!
- Wikipedia has a "bad jokes and other deleted nonsense" page, you might want to create something similar here. Mathmo 02:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
looking for a fallacy
Hi guys, found this place not for looking for stuff to debunk creationism(though I have a friend who's being sucked in by this stuff, it's not as if they care about facts or logic) but looking for logical fallacy. I'm trying to think of the one where someone takes your argument and uses it against you, usually completely out of context. I know it's a form of trolling but I can't think of the actual name of the fallacy; it seems to be the foundation of a lot of neo-con arguments.
~ Rosalie
- Dear Rosalie, I believe the fallacy you are looking for is "Shifting the Burden_of_Proof" --Mr A. 03:20, 26 August 2006 (BST)
- Hm... I think I know what you mean. You use an argument, and the opponent exactly copies you, probably in order to show that the same argument can be applied the other way.
- There are situations where this is justified, namely when you use blank arguments that can be turned around without making them invalid. For example if you name scientists supporting your view, the other side may be able to name scientists supporting their view, showing that this is not a good argument; or if you claim that your opponent must be stupid to hold the view he holds, the opponent can turn it around without losing any justification.
- So this is not a fallacy as such, but it can contain fallacies if the argument, when turned around, does not work anymore. I fear that you will have to look at every argument the opponent turned around, and analyze it to see if it is justified. --tk (t) 11:43, 28 August 2006 (BST)
Translation to Swedish
Hej!
Can I translate EwoWiki "answers to creationist claims" into Swedish and post it on my website. I will give references etc. Is it possible?
Cheers! Johan, Sweden
- I don't see why not? I think it's a good idea. Maybe you could make a mirror site in Swedish, perhaps?--Mr A. 01:31, 2 October 2006 (BST)
- Maybe we should make the site multilingual, Wikipedia style. But unfortunately, Steinsky does not seem to have time for EvoWiki anymore... --tk (t) 08:31, 4 October 2006 (BST)
- Well, somebody needs to fix this glitch, though, unless we want to transfer the whole site to a new server...--Mr A. 16:02, 4 October 2006 (BST)
- Maybe we should make the site multilingual, Wikipedia style. But unfortunately, Steinsky does not seem to have time for EvoWiki anymore... --tk (t) 08:31, 4 October 2006 (BST)
- Hej! I'm rather new to this. What is a mirror site? Johan , Sweden
- A mirror site is, for the most part, a copy of a website on another server and URL. If you remember to keep updating the mirror sites, or if you have software that updates the sites for you, as you update the main site, mirror sites are extremely useful in case the main site goes down for some reason.--Mr A. 02:34, 8 October 2006 (BST)
- Hej! I'm rather new to this. What is a mirror site? Johan , Sweden
Micro- and macroevolution
Hej!
Is the only barrier between micro- and macroevolution = time?
Cheers! Johan Karlsson 09:38, 13 October 2006 (BST)
- Possibly, though, it takes less time for some species to undergo macroevolution than other, ala "fruit flies" versus "tortoises" --Mr A. 16:05, 13 October 2006 (BST)
Dead end Pages
I've noticed that several pages listed on the Deadendpages page are not , in fact, dead ends. Binary fission is no longer a dead end page, as I've just rewritten it. As well, Dollo's law, Maximum likelihood, Randy Berg, and possibly a few others are not dead ends, well, at least not in the literal sense. Most strange of all perhaps, is that the Main Page is listed as a dead end page. --KeithJM 03:31, 23 April 2007 (BST)
