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Agahnim
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[2004-03-05 09:25:10 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 257; Deviations: 90; Watchers: 116
Watching: 31; Pageviews: 68815; Comments Made: 891; Friends: 31
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: M. C. EscherFavorite movies: The Incredibles
Favorite writers: George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, William Beebe
Favorite games: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Favorite gaming platform: SNES
Tools of the Trade: Pencils, ink, free time, and a computer that's not being hacked.
Other Interests: Art, writing, paleontology, psychometrics
# About me
Current Residence: MarsFavourite genre of music: Classic Rock
Favourite cartoon character: Scrooge McDuck
Personal Quote: "You must learn from your pain. Those who do not will never become what they are truly meant to be." --Shigeru Miyamoto
# Comments
Comments: 116
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A Link to the Past much?
The dark wizard writes and draws
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Agahnim, it seems you faked your death and decided to escape and time-travel between Mesozoic Era and today, safe from that Hyrulean brat. In order to complete that process, avoid a certain future Epona, accept my Llama, and everything will be alright!
Oh and a warning, if your royal wizardness is scared of strong women then make sure to never ever visit my castle in the DA kingdom
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I am so glad I took a look at your gallery and I understand exactly how you felt going through school. Although I was never punched or harassed for my beliefs I always felt alone since there was an artificial conflict between God and evolution and because of my belief in God I was worried that my greatest love (the study of dinosaurs) was going to condemn me because I allowed myself to be swayed out of ignorance. I salute you for having the courage to rise to your feet and hold true to what you knew was true. I hope that we can be friends and that you will perhaps read my paper if you have time.
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Thanks. What do you mean by "read your paper", though? Is there a specific submission in your gallery you'd like me to look at?
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Actually it's a journal of mine intitled "God and evolution". It's also in the group we are both part of about theistic evolution.
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So you're going with a "day = age" reading of Genesis 1? That's pretty similar to what I believed for most of the time that I was a Christian theistic evolutionist. I'm no longer certain that's the best way to resolve the conflict between paleontology and the Bible, but I also think that the details of how one goes about resolving it aren't extremely important.
Even though I think I have a pretty good understanding of Christian theology, now that I'm not a Christian anymore I don't care all that much about how consistent other people's theology is. The only thing that really matters to me nowadays is that people be willing to alter their interpretation of the Bible on the basis of physical evidence, and more specifically to find a way to interpret Genesis that's consistent with what we know about natural history. I can see you've done that, so as long as you're comfortable with this reading of Genesis from a theological perspective, it shouldn't be my place to critique that aspect of it.
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I was never watching you on here? Strange. But I've remedied that now.
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Thanks for adding me back.
By the way, are you intending to register at some point at the Hell Creek forum ? You told Ferahgo a while ago that you were interested in joining that forum, but as far as I can tell you haven’t yet. There’s currently a poll open about whether or not to create an RPG there, so if you’re intending to join and you have an opinion about that, you might want to join before the poll closes.
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Yes, I will. Thank you for the reminder. However, I probably won't have time to actually register and look around until after final exams, which for me end on the 15th. Sorry for the delay, I've also forgotten about it which explains why I didn't register earlier, when I had time...
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Hey, I requested some of your deviations to my group, but I'm afraid I may have deleted the requests. Did you get them?
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I got them, and I've approved them.
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I cannot recall the name of the author or title of the article, but the best work I've read on the evolution of wings in dinosaurs relates to the origin of the flapping motion and the selection pressure to grow flight feathers. The article was in response to criticism that the motion of flapping is distinct from arm movements used for other activities, and that flight feathers are a drain of resources and a physical limitation that serves no purpose outside of flight. The idea that any animal had evolved these two separate but necessary components without any 'reason' to do so, and in the face of a great deal of selection pressure against them, was enough (in the mind of the critics) to squash the whole idea.
The article, and I wish I could find it again, pointed out that flight feathers and flapping motions DON'T lead to the type of gliding/soaring that early flyers actually did.
In fact, even rudimentary flight feathers and imperfect flapping motions have two very simple and useful effects.
First of all, the proto-flyer can add 30% (or more) to it's land speed over short distances by simply flapping it's feather covered arms.
Modern ground based birds can do much better than that, a chicken is actually quite fast for it's size and leg/body ratio and can run at up to 9 MPH... but by flapping it's wings it can hit 30 MPH or better.
Second, if angled right, (and simply reaching the arms in the direction of the turn while flapping does the trick) a pair of flapping feathered arms can give a proto-flyer a tighter turn radius at high speed... much like a long tail does (for different reasons, of course).
So; faster, and better cornering... and eventually it'll get you airborne, even if it is just gliding from cycad to fern... if that's not a perfect pair of reasons to grow feathers and flap your arms, I don't know what is!
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Are you anti-Christian because you hate God or because creationists believe that birds are not dinosaurs? Because I'm a young-earth creationist and I believe that birds are entirely archosaurian. So I hope I'm neutral with you. xD
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If you're a Y.E.Creationist, how can ANYTHING be archeosaurian? You believe (wrobnglyt, of course) that everything was created at once independently, and that morphological similarities are arbitrary and do not denote lineage.
Troll!
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Because after creation God told Adam to name the animals. In a way modern taxonomy is continuing what Adam started. We can call animals whatever we want. We can decide what we want them to be because it's our allowance to. Adam went about naming basic kinds of animals. Taxonomy takes it several steps further, assigning all animals relation with each other in the zoological family tree.
So, if the family tree is leaning towards birds being archosaurian then I had better lean with it or I'd be fighting the wind like so many ignorant people do. I'm not trolling, I'm trying to keep an open mind.
That's not what a troll is or how trolls troll, anyway. Trolling is when you provoke others with the intention of getting a desired emotional response out of them or otherwise creating a red herring. You questioning me so harshly and also claiming that I am a troll is triggering an emotional response from me as well as diverting attention from the topic at hand, so therefore you are the troll in this situation not me. Of course, by responding to you I am feeding a troll; thus becoming a troll myself. What I should have done was not even bothered to respond, giving you one less bridge to live under. But I can't help myself, can I? xD
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Pedantic Pablum.
> "Because after creation God told Adam to..."
And you know this HOW, again?
> We can call animals whatever we want.
We can call people whatever we want, too, and I'm about to do that now.
> We can decide what we want them to be
Typical religous asshole. "We can just decide whatever we want things to be, then close our eyes and B'LIEVE real hard that it's really that way"
> because it's our allowance to.
There isn't anybody doing the "allowing", Baruch Spinelessoza. You're FREE, you asshole, and you're wasting it by pretending you're chained and constrained.
...Though that does sound sexy!
> Adam went about naming basic kinds of animals.
Why can you recognize Zeus and Poseidon and winged Mercury as myths, and presumably you know that the hindu elephant god with six arms isn't real, so how come you don't have the insight to recognize your own ridiculous beliefs as just another mythology?
That's a serious question, BTW.
> Taxonomy takes it several steps further, assigning all animals relation with each other in the zoological family tree.
Right. And things lowest on the tree and deepest in the ground, dated millions of years later by several methods, are what the higher levels evolved from.
Here, I made this picture of it for you: [link]
> So if the family tree is leaning towards birds being archosaurian then I had better lean with it or I'd be fighting the wind like so many ignorant people do.
Wow, you're a SMART deluded religious nut! You're so much more "scientific" than all those OTHER deluded religious nuts!
> I'm trying to keep an open mind.
If you're lecturing me about your mythology as being real in the 21st century, then you're not doing a very good job.
> That's not what a troll is or how trolls troll, anyway. Trolling is when you provoke others with the intention of getting a desired emotional response out of them or otherwise creating a red herring. You questioning me so harshly and also claiming that I am a troll is triggering an emotional response from me as well as diverting attention from the topic at hand, so therefore you are the troll in this situation not me. Of course, by responding to you I am feeding a troll; thus becoming a troll myself.
That sort of thing is why girls don't want you to fuck them.
> What I should have done was not even bothered to respond
Logic trap. It's why that crazy chinee kid who shot up virginia tech a few years ago never said anything to anyone, even when asked a question.
"Logic trap" is what I call becoming obsessed with (possibly valid) logic, and ignoring the fact that the premises are either false, not truth-functional, ridiculous, or ad-hoc assertions in a circular argument; and that the whole discussion is actually bullshit that makes people laugh at you.
You know, you ought to get high. I stopped being crazy (seriously crazy in high school, as in borderline psychotic) three seconds after my first hit of dope on my first day in college.
I had been virtually identical to the Heaven's Gate cult, complete with "sex is shameful and animalistic" and "the outer space people are going to come down and take me away from all these mating human creatures." If I had been a guy, I probably would have cut off my balls like that cult leader.
You ought to turn on. It might make you realize what a fucking idiot you are right now.
- faye kane homeless brain
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...It took you nearly two years to develop a response? You're definitely not lying by calling yourself an autistic savant in your profile! Take a chill pill lady.
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I’m not pro-Christian or anti-Christian. I was a Christian for around 19 years, and I still believe in God. I can explain the reason why I deconverted if you like, but it didn’t have to do with evolution.
The only Christians I seriously have a problem with are those who let their religion interfere with science, or impose it on the rest of the world in any other way. And I also have a lot of respect for Christians such as Benjamin Warfield who worked hard to make Christianity have less of this problem. If you want to know more about what I think of religion in general and Christianity in particular, I recommend you read this entry from Ferahgo’s and my DA community. (It says at the top of the page that it’s from her, but if you look down at the bottom of it you can see that it’s actually written by me.)
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Oh, I understand. I myself am annoyed with Christians who let their religion interfere with their scientific knowledge. I believe that while the Bible is true, it is a history book and not intended to be used for scientific research. God gave us science as a means of understanding His universe, and people who look up Bible texts to try and discourage scientific fact in my opinion are airheads.
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I like your work mate. Dinosaurs are very much still alive, and you do a good job of explaining that to naive people.
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Thanks.
Lately I’ve been feeling a little like what’s represented by this comic: [link] . But that’s probably pretty common for anyone who’s older than 21 or so.
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Psh, 21 year olds are babies.
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Hey, what kind of paper did you use for your Captain Occam comics? I have an idea for a single panel cartoon and I want to get some good quality paper. The stuff I usually use is pretty cheap.
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I think it’s called illustration board. It’s not actually paper; in terms of how thick it is it’s more like cardboard. I had to use a craft knife in order to cut it.
The reason I used that is because when I use ink on normal paper, the ink has a tendency to soak into it and bleed outwards from whatever areas I apply it to. But illustration board is thick enough that it doesn’t have this problem. The difference is pretty subtle, though, so I’m not sure using illustration board would be worth the trouble in your case if you aren’t drawing something really detailed.
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Yeah, I have a similar problem but it also causes the paper to wrinkle up (just like the watercolor cougar painting) and that'd definitely not look cool for a cartoon. And it would be fairly detailed so I'll probably end up using the board.
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I like the comics but I really don't get what you have against Christianity as a whole. The only major Christian sect that believes in creationism is Protestantism.
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My comics aren’t intended to make fun of Christians in general; just the ones who are creationists. I mentioned that in the description for this one: [link]
The only one of my submissions here that relates to how I feel about Christianity as a whole is “Masters of our Fate”. We can discuss that if you like, but it isn’t something that has anything to do with my comics.
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Oops, sorry for that misunderstanding. I was complaining about number 3 because I read it on the website and didn't read the comment (assuming there was one).
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Did you know that if you look closely you can see a human skull inside of the pupil of your avatar?
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Of course. It’s a well-known mezzotint by M. C. Escher.
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Hey how come you never comment on my art anymore
Seriously though, your critiques were the most useful of anyone I know!
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As I described to you on AIM a little while ago, I don’t have as much time nowadays as I used to. It’s the same reason why I’ve uploaded so little here since last fall, and why I haven’t started posting at LightningStorm’s new forum. If someone asks me a question I’ll answer it, since it would be rude for me not to, but other than that I’m not doing much online in general.
I’m hoping this will start to improve whenever I move this summer, although it might take another few months before the change becomes noticeable.
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Yeah, but even before you started having problems you didn't comment on my art anymore. Second banana me will you..
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Heya... just wanted to say thanks for the 
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You have brilliantly constructed artwork and poetry...I wonder why I didn't watch you earlier!
Keep at it!
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Have you been on PaleoLit lately? Seems as if I've been ditched! DX
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I haven’t had much time for that forum lately. Part of why it’s so inactive nowadays is probably because its host (SpreeBB) has become pretty unreliable recently, but it also doesn’t seem like it would be worth the effort for me to move it when so few people use it.
Is that forum still important to you? If it is, I guess could try helping create a new version of it somewhere else, although most of the administration duties will need to be handled by someone other than myself.
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Hmm...perhaps at some point I could take it on...or perhaps someone more experienced with that than me. But I find it one of the few forums on paleo around; most of them are through organizations and it's tough to get into many. How has SpreeBB become unreliable? Viruses, spam...? Hm. Seems fine to me. Then again, I'm not hosting the place itself...=/
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It’s mostly just really slow. The problem is probably that people have created more forums there than the host is able to handle, but the people running it don’t have enough money to upgrade their servers.
If you’re looking for paleo forums, though, two others you might want to try are Gondolend/Tyrant King , and the Dinodata forum . I’m a member of both forums, although I don’t post at the second one very often.
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I'll look into it; thanks. Bummer about the forum chaos. I didn't realize they were so popular. =/
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