I posted the following challenge to bugger on October 1, and he didn't have the courage to answer it, no doubt because he is incapable of doing so.

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CaliforniaDreamin responds:

All right bugger! Here's your chance to illustrate what a brilliant scientist you really are.

It's a simple puzzle I just devised yesterday, so you won't find it in any of your pathetic internet searches.

Suppose you place a pound of ice at 0 degrees Celsius into a pound of water at 100 degrees Celsius in an insulated container. What is the equilibrium temperature of the water?

Now place a pound of ice at 0 degrees Celsius into a pressurized insulated container which holds a pound of water vaporized to steam at 100 degrees Celsius. What is the equilibrium temperature and composition?

Go, bugger the "scientist."

Or maybe bugger doesn't answer your posts/questions for the same reason you don't answer mine...which would be lack of courage or inability to do so on your part, I take it.

I responded to you in your previous post 'calling me out'.

To answer directly, I don't know. Nor do I care. Is it a clever puzzle?

My laughter regarding your 'addiction to science' was due to you studiously ignoring the repeated thrashing your 'cut and paste' anti-evolution posts take by the actual scientists on this board. In fact, in the post I mention above, you once again pasted a fallacious attack on Richard Dawkins (one that you had posted at least once - and probably several - times prior) and again, JGC refuted it completely.

Now, now, I hear your objection - what would we do without JGC to defend us? I understand, you desperately want someone dumber to debate, someone who will likely miss the gaping holes in 'your' arguments, and I am that guy. But unfortunately, that's not the way it works. This is a public board and anyone can wander by and swat down 'your' arguments as they see fit or ignore you entirely as I generally choose to do.

So go ahead, write all the pop quizzes you want, I'm not Bill Nye in real life, nor have I claimed to be.

Does that satisfy? I'm not sure what you're shooting for here. If it's to shame me or chase me away, you'll not succeed. If it's to prove I'm not a genius, don't worry, I'll simply cop to that. Is that it, though? I'm not convinced.

You simply can't let go even the mildest challenge to your massive ego. You belittle and attack any person who even dares stick a thorn in your side. It must bother you terribly. Do you sleep poorly in whichever Villa you 'autumn'? For all the fabulous wealth and success you have, you seem rather fragile. Why, since you're incredibly rich, do you spend any time here at all? I'm fairly certain that if I were living a life of luxury instead of having to share our communal laptop with this bunch of smelly hippies, I'd spend no time on this board whatsoever (the laptop battery is our only source of heat). I mean, isn't there some skiing going on in some sufficiently European country?

No, for some reason, you insist on coming back week after week to offer up 'book reports' and quotes to bolster 'your' arguments about our awful heathen baby killin' gay lovin' commie liberal fascist ways.

So, post away! Throw out any schoolyard taunts you can dredge up from your unhappy childhood! Point out my misspellings! Challenge me to duel after duel! Insult me! Abuse me!

It says far more about you than it does me.

Sorry, damnit, I meant "smelly gay hippies". Sorry.

We all pointed out how ridiculous it was.

Well, I just don't know for sure, but I think CD is rather discriminatory in his call out practices.

I am a genius, traveled to Europe, Canada, Mexico and Australia, am comparatively wealthy (now that I've paid off the $20K that I racked up in credit card bills last month), with a creative, stimulating job for which I get paid handsomely, and at 5'9" and 111lbs, I am a size 2...and good looking on top of that, even at age 44! Not to mention courteous and charming.

But I can't even get the silly boy to engage me.

My sympathies for the smelly, gay hippies, btw. If you would like, I can have soap and a fundamentalist minister airlifted in to relieve you of some of your misery...

Well he did call out your fellow geniuses JGC and Archaeopteryx, so it can't just be your brains.

Must be your stunning good looks! It doesn't surprise me that he's a little a'scairt of smart girls, especially the pretty ones.

As for my fellow travellers, they may be smelly, and they may be gay, and they may be hippies, but they're my smelly gay hippies and I wouldn't want them any other way. Damn, sorry, brother Moonflower needs to check facebook... gotta run!

I hope you're having a glorious day, you deserve it, you fabulous person, you!

Well, it's about time I got a little appreciation...a girl can't get a break these days!

Well, buggey, since you presume to know so much more about science than I do, I thought a challenge would be appropriate.
Clearly you know nothing. You're a gasbag like so many other pretenders here. You see, in your leftist circles, you and your pals blab away as if you REALLY KNEW something.

You have Christophobic talking points, and you cut off anyone who doesn't genuflect to Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin.

But when challenged with facts and reality, you fall flat on your faces. I've seen it time and again. I've reported it time and again.
You just keep lying through your coffee-stained teeth and whistling into the wind.

For years I have confronted leftist bullies like you. Since you congregate together and play smashface, few people have the stomach to face you and confront your malicious lies.

Why bother, when you obviously never learn, and clearly you don't intend to start learning now, much less giving people with a different point of view a fair hearing.

No, you and Horus the profane lout, and Wrenn, the 219 pound stalker, and JGC, the intellectual pretender who never ever calls out idiocy/profanity/maliciousness on YOUR side of the fence are just a few of the gaggle of Christophobes who troll around Faith Based only because you DESPISE people of Christian faith.

Your hypocrisy begins with logging into the message board that you loathe and want to hammer, and it never ends.

I also confront bullies in real life just about every week. I'd elaborate, but you're really too stupid to respond like a thoughtful adult.

that most of the posts here involve the writers' efforts to express their own good points as well as others' bad points.

Seems natural.

But little has been proven about those pros and cons, nor about any faith-matters.

So then I figure this thing is fun.

It's like tots poking each other.

At 5'9", I'd ask about boobs on that 111-pound gal. But I won't. I'd guess kind of A-B.

I will ask about the equilibrium ice-water mixture. And any faith impact.

the heat of fusion, to change ice from solid to liquid -- and steam from vapor to liquid?

Just short of A. (Although, that's not got a whole lot to do with the weight. Even at 35lbs heavier, they never really got past a B.)

I consider it more an effort at understanding the hard to comprehend, myself. It's not a whole lot of fun, but it may be worth it if something enlightening were to come from it. Unfortunately you really don't know that until the bitter end...if the end actually turns out bitter.

Jut curious, does one have to be Christian to have a faith based opinion to post about on this board? I kind of agree with Sovereign8 that much of the stuff here is of the "poking" variety. However, once in awhile a good dialogue on one issue or another gets going and I find that interesting. I've said often that I don't understand the constant back and forth on creation/evolution between people who will clearly never even truly listen to an other viewpoint, let alone change their own. I'm more interested in how our religious beliefs affect our current behavior and less in whether my religion is more valid than yours or whether or not religion is valid at all (although I've read Dawkins, Hitchens etc. because I'm fascinated by the leaps they make).

Why should people respond to your challenges, when you don't respond to theirs?

Think only one is important, much??

Hell, your stupid enough to believe that view count on a thread you start means YOU are popular. Because, like my dog, you think that nobody comes to the door (reads posts in a thread) except to read your top post (except to play with him).

Hell,, happy... He seems to want to date me, how often he has the hots for me. Sick as that sounds.

I, on the other hand, am a 5 foot 5, 165 lb, size 12-14. 36DD.. with waist length (albeit fuzzy) auburn hair (beginning to show some silver) at 41. Genius (according to IQ tests) I even aced the SATs. was near the top of my class in high school and in college.

I have a career and enjoy my job, Have fun at it, see entirely to many concerts, do SCA (sometimes) and help run sci fi conventions for fun.

I have to let him down though. I only date ubergeeks with at least a hard science masters and a patent or two (or more) to their names. (Brains are sexy**)

I seem to prefer sarcasm to courtesy. <shrug>

[** or as I have said many times... there is only so much one can do horizontal, even with my overly active imagination. I often prefer good conversation]