Found not guilty.

The only time a declaration of innocence is made is after you have been convicted, served time, had the conviction overturned, and then go through a separate civil trial seeking a declaration of innocence for the purpose of having the state pay you for wrongfully convicting and incarcerating you.

It's "legal beagle," right?

Welcome to the trashcan with this one. I only trash threads after they get into the several hundred reply range of obnoxiousness. This one is a first for me.

In fact, this scenario was lifted (or paraphrased, at least) from the book, "Defending Evolution." Defending evolution against woo arguments.

Nice broadside, though.

You still don't understand the meaning of woo despite your declaring that you do.

Fair enough?

I never did get in on that lounge thing you did a short while ago with DU member names. It was a very un-woo thing you undertook: Lay into mine, if you care.

A time machine would either place him in the same room, earlier or later...
dependent on whether the rotation of the earth was a factor.

If rotational was a factor, he's be in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Not only that, but his latitude changed to be a couple hundred miles north.

The question is, why didn't he transport into a mountain or the wall of the coffee shop or some other object.

Just safely in a coffee shop at floor level.

But this particular brand of woo doesn't work well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense

But this is the point of my post right here in the link you provided, and thanks for providing it!

This defense often fails, and has been ruled inadmissible in many jurisdictions because of a complete lack of scientific research to support it.

And I am sorry if I offended you, friend. The bone I pick has to do with the melding of science and woo. And I might be particularly prickly about this since I live in Texas where we science teachers are continually battling our state BOE to keep creationism out of science classrooms.

Again, sorry if I offended.

is intended. I do find the underlying tactic at play distasteful in context of what is being addressed and this thing has become a totem to beat like a bad rap and a bullying campaign.

So, I'm not sure when or how it got rolling. Some people on this board have a hair-trigger asshole mechanism, which I was subjected to up-thread. That kind of crap rolls right off of me any more, especially since I have colleagues that I have to suffer who are still stuck in a middle school mentality. So I know what you mean, and can even say that perhaps in this debate the bullying cuts both ways. I wasn't trying to bully, but to point out that society would not put up with a justice system where woo defense could get someone exonnerated.

It's a slippery slope, as Carl Sagan pointed out in one of his last interviews. He was greatly concerned about the rise of magical thinking, and that once it entered the realm of science, "Everything is up for grabs," as he points out.

Have a good day.

the oj cancer thread is still fresh on my mind...

Ridiculous attempt at analogy.