I'm pretty pleased with myself. I managed to use the phrase "machiavellian duplicity" in a post on CreationTalk. I've also reposted on my own website, but it doesn't have the back-and-forth.

And I got to thinking. Why do I not use a capital for the word "machiavellian"?

Because it's an adjective. And only proper nouns take capitals.

Wow. My wish has been granted, and there's a few new creationists arguing on CreationTalk. It's going off.

A poster on CreationTalk came up with this wonderfully meaningless tautology:

I would even agree that at a distance, there are many gray areas, but upon closer inspection many of these gray areas can be found to be the blurring of black and white lines.

This is a bit like saying "It is true that most of our imports come from overseas". I love it!

I'm back on my favourite forums, CreationTalk and the JREF. And it's been fun. DarwinTalk is still down (apparently some problem a while ago which brought down both CreationTalk and DarwinTalk, and only the former is back up). The Three Word Story thread in JREF is still going strong, and in fact someone's done a TWS Compilation Thread which makes the whole thing easier to read.

Someone on JREF has come up with an idea that he can send his thoughts to people, and make them see naked men. He's convinced that he can do it, and we're convinced that he can't. He says he's going to contact the JREF and get this tested for the million dollar prize, as soon as Randi is back up and able to assess the request (Randi had a heart attack recently, but he's recovering well).

There hasn't been much to speak of on CreationTalk (nothing like good old Novagaea on DarwinTalk), but it's been fun watching the one or two evolution deniers try to refute the recent finds of transitional fossils. It seems that the true creationists try one or two posts on the forum then scarper once they find out that some of us actually know what we're talking about. I may have to cast my net further.