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Re: everything is for sale. posted on 2007-03-15 00:27:04

stem still available? let me know, photos?

Re: Moncho's winter sale! Big Daddy & Quamen G2 posted on 2006-12-28 16:34:14

Moncho,

hey man I got the forks today, thanks so much, your rep as a good seller has proven you well, happy new year, ride on, peace, todd

Re: Never to Old to Ride posted on 2006-12-16 17:09:13

yeah, I'm 37 and just back into it this past summer. 1988 ohio was my last contest. And hey, I won the design for the sickchild tee, so me hearts still in it. I would love to see an over thirty class...............like wine we get better with age, peace Todd

WTB-3/8 freecoaster hub, wheelset , 36 hole, marmoset front hub? posted on 2006-12-15 15:32:14

I am looking for any combo, I need- a freecoaster hub, front hub both 3/8 and 36 hole. and a set or worthy rims that match, they do not have to be built. let me know what you have. thanks for your time................todd

Re: WTB-Zero Offset fork no mounts posted on 2006-12-01 14:27:29

ok, I go on vacation today thru next week Dec.1oth, so I will get back to you then , thanks, todd

Re: Jesus Hates Us! posted on 2006-11-30 20:11:58

Anyone reading the creationist literature quickly comes to see that deliberate distortion — not just misunderstanding of the facts — is a major characteristic of the genre. Furthermore, unlike real science, which is self-correcting and usually exposes its own hoaxes quickly, creation "science" either corrects its frauds not at all, or only under irresistible pressure from real science. Like cancer, creationist errors and distortions simply metastasize, becoming more widely distributed and more deeply implanted.

A typical example of such metastatic misdirection came to my attention just a short while ago, when a creationist activist criticized me in the letters column of one of the Columbus newspapers. My opinions on fossil men are of low credibility, he wrote, especially my opinions on Peking Man. Making no attempt to obtain up-to-date information concerning recent Chinese studies, and referring to Marcellin Boule (a French paleoanthropologist who died in 1942), he took me to task saying, "Boule, who examined the Peking man site and the fossils, said the fossils were from a monkey that probably was killed for food."

Now I have met this particular critic, and I am of the opinion that he is an honest man who would not himself deliberately fabricate such an absurd claim. Being familiar with the 1957 English edition of Boule's famous paleoanthropology text (FOSSIL MEN, co-authored with Henri Vallois), I knew full well that Boule had never said anything so stupid. Indeed, on page 142 of the text we find the statement:

Morphologically, there is not the slightest doubt. Sinanthropus [Peking Man] confirms and completes the proof that these are creatures with physical characters intermediate between the group of Anthropoid Apes and the group of Hominians [modern man and his closest relatives].

If my critic did not get the idea of monkey-skulls from Boule himself, and if he did not fabricate this preposterosity on his own, where did he get it?

Evolutionists who are experienced in combating the distortions and delusions of creationism have an adage they use when creationist material smells ranker than usual: "cherchez le Gish!" — referring to Duane Gish, the premier performing artist of all creationism.

Predicting that my critic had been led astray by Gish, I reached for Gish's book, EVOLUTION? THE FOSSILS SAY NO! This book, one of the most popular of all books among creationists, is to be found in many high schools for use as an antidote to evolution. The book appears in two versions: the general edition (which contains Gish's actual religious beliefs) and the public school edition (which contains only as much of this as Gish thinks he can get away with). Turning to the section on Peking Man, I found that Gish devotes considerable space to Boule's alleged opinions on this genuine connecting link between ape-like creatures and humans.

On page 123 of EVOLUTION? THE FOSSILS SAY NO! , [Public School Edition, Creation-Life Publishers, San Diego, 1978], Duane Gish says, "In a 1937 publication, Boule referred to the Sinanthropus skulls as "monkey-like'(36)." The reference to this quote reads, "36. M. Boule, L'Anthropologie, 1937, p. 21."

Again on page 129, Gish writes:

In an article published in 1937 in L'Anthropologie (p. 21), Boule wrote: 'To this fantastic hypothesis [of Abbe Breuil and Fr. Teilhard de Chardin], that the owners of the monkey-like skulls were the authors of the large-scale industry, I take the liberty of preferring an opinion more in conformity with the conclusions from my studies, which is that the hunter (who battered the skulls) was a real man and that the cut stones, etc., were his handiwork [the nature of this stone industry will be discussed later].'

A quick glance at page 21 of the Boule article shows nothing like this quotation anywhere on the page. Nothing about monkeys is to be found. Moreover, the complete quotation is not to be found anywhere in the entire article, ruling out the possibility that Gish is merely guilty of sloppy scholarship and twice cited the wrong page number.

On the preceding page, p. 20, we do find a fair portion of the text in question:

"To this hypothesis, as fantastic as it is ingenious, I may be permitted to prefer one which seems to me to be just as satisfactory, being simpler and more in conformity with the totality of what we know: the hunter was a true man, whose stone industry has been found and who made Sinanthropus his victim!"

Assuming the material in square brackets is material inserted by Gish — in conformity with accepted scholarly practice — we still must ask whence came the crucial phrase, "that the owners of the monkey-like skulls were the authors of the large-scale industry"?

That Gish (or a friend who could read French) had indeed seen page 20 is evident from his next paragraph, which gives a reasonable translation for a phrase which I have translated above: "more in conformity with our whole body of knowledge." But where — page 20 or anywhere in the article — does Gish find justification for the conclusion of this paragraph: "... Sinanthropus ...must have been a large monkey-like or ape-like creature" [emphasis mine]?

Nowhere does Boule ever suggest that Peking Man was monkey-like. Unlike Gish, Boule actually was an expert in primate anatomy and it is inconceivable that he could have been so stupid as to suggest that the Peking remains belonged to forty monkeys rather than to forty ape-men!

Re: Re: WTB-Zero Offset fork no mounts posted on 2006-11-28 21:09:06

Moncho,

email me pay pal info @todd_wroblewski@excite.com

thanks todd

WTB-Zero Offset fork no mounts posted on 2006-11-28 18:33:32

I am looking for zero offset forks with no brake mounts. I am building up a Sick Child frame. Looking to spend around $90 dollars with shipping. Please pm me.

Re: Support Rider Owned Companies.... posted on 2006-10-20 11:26:34

Ok, I am the guy that won the sickchild tee-shirt design, and over the past few weeks of corresponding with Ed, I feel that these guys are genuine and honest, not to mention nice, so I give props where it is warranted, Todd

Support Rider Owned Companies.... posted on 2006-10-19 20:37:46

shop local, plus Ed is the real deal kids.

Re: Faith: Not wanting to know what is true posted on 2006-10-15 22:32:49

somebody saw "little miss sunshine" and took it too seriously, become the sheeple of the war mongering religious zealots, my god is better than your god, my ideas are better than yours, moooooooooooooo, eat meat be a vegetarian, he who cannot think for themselves is thought of as one of the group, no individuality, no new ideals, no creative flashes, just right left right is wrong! Thank god I'm an atheist! If you can't believe in yourself first, everything else is a skewed version of what someone else wants you to believe and learn.
And learning is power, ammo against those less educated, small minded and backwards.

Re: Any riders here from 87-89 era ?? posted on 2006-10-15 11:56:38

I used to to "the wall" zine 86-90, took a snowboarding ten year break and started riding again last year....wallboy todd

ody elementary stem for sale posted on 2006-10-15 11:45:50

good condition, used for about a month, $40. pm me

ody Modulevers and evolver brakes, front and rear for sale posted on 2006-10-15 11:42:05

front and rear evolver brakes and modulevers for sale, good condition, all extra parts and gyro gtx. make offer or will trade for a bizhouse stem or bars?

Re: The Winning SickChild Shirt Design posted on 2006-10-09 20:25:51

it actually looks better on a shirt than alone...............

Re: haro zero offset fork for sale posted on 2006-10-09 20:10:07

what type of payment, and shipping? I like.

Re: haro zero offset fork for sale posted on 2006-10-09 13:29:55

Do you still have these forks, they would work great on an old haro m6? let me know.....T

Re: FS dragonfly titanium mike's fork posted on 2006-10-08 19:44:47

do you still have this fork? what would you take for them?

Re: Haro m6 f/s with all odsy parts posted on 2006-10-06 13:34:50

more photos will part out

Re: Win A New SickChild Frame Here! WINNER ANNOUNCED! posted on 2006-10-05 20:15:19

thanks to everyone for the props on the sickchild tee design, very supportive peeps, Todd W.
ed will do what he has to with it and show you it when they are ready with hoopla that follows.......thanks again

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