I notice if you enter “Cornuke doctorate” into Google, you get one hit which reads as follows:
Note the elision. This appears to be a page listing a number of prominent creationists. The Cathedral Bible College info is about somebody else, not Cornuke. I’m wondering if this is the source of Bricker’s mistake?
Gen 8:4 “And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountians of Ara-rat.”
Vague, sure. But more than “nothing at all”.
What does it tell you? What information does it give you which is any better than nothing. Strong’s lists the Hebrew meaning of Ararat as “the curse reversed: precipitation of curse.”
To me this would indicate that Genesis is using “Ararat” only to indicate that the Ark came a dry on the mountains sticking up after the “curse” (after the waters receded) which tells us nothing about location at all.
It’s certainly still a lie for Cornuke to assert that there is any Biblical reason to locate the site in Iran.
Bet you didn’t think Dr. J was going to post here when you wrote that, did ya?
Not for Medicine. It probably is true for the Peace Prize and may be for others; in particular, you always hear some oddball names mentioned as nominees for the NP in Literature. Nominations for the NP in Medicine, on the other hand, have to come from very specific people within the field. Cite, from the horse’s mouth.
So this was not even technically true. In fact, it was an untruth that five minutes of fact-checking would have made completely obvious, and an untruth that they continued to repeat well after people were aware of it.
I don’t get the uproar of diploma mills. These days it seems, with degrees being handed out in ever-increasing “fields”, that you need some sort of secondary education to get a job flipping burgers. This is why someone that spends a few grand on Microsoft certification usually makes a lot more than someone with a standard 4 year degree. (Hell, see Bill Gates on the importance of a degree to be successful.)
Years ago I had a friend that took a sales job, and when we went to meet the district manager to pick up his company car, the manager gave me a mini-interview on the spot based on past sales experience. Didn’t get the job. Why? No degree at the time. It literally didn’t matter what the degree was in, or where from, you needed a degree. A diploma mill would have been perfect for me back then.
Point is, having a degree is about as useful as being a member of Mensa around here. Everyone has one, and they don’t mean shit unless it’s a medical or JD degree.
What is your point, Duffer, that we shouldn’t draw any distinctions between real degrees and mail order degrees because real degrees aren’t “useful” and lots of people have them? Would you feel that way about a guy who was about to perform surgery on you?
If degrees didn’t mean anything there wouldn’t be diploma mills. Useful or not, a real degree (especially a PhD) means a whole lot more when it’s accredited than when it’s not. Any Bachelor’s Degree from a state university means more and has more legitimate work behind it than any Crackerjack box degree from a mailbox like LBU.
My mistake. I agree that Louisiana Baptist University can fairly be characterized as a diploma mill, based on the combined factors of their lack of accreditation and their refusal to make their graduate student research available for the academic community to review.
Bob Cornuke. Interesting name. Along with the fact that he was once a police officer, it reminds me of something…
*Dear officer Cornuke
you’re clearly insane
I don’t know if you’re a sleazeball or if you just have no brain
do you really believe this, or are you just bored
or maybe you’re just an attention whore
Gee, officer Cornuke
it’s really not fair
why back in my day this stuff would get you the chair
it’s really not nice to give them all that false hope
so kindly knock it off you scummy dope*
Meh, Cornuke doesn’t have the right ring to it.
I’d like to think there’s a big fucking difference between my four-year journalism degree than something Joe Shmoe can get through the mail.
In particular, a PhD indicates to me a certain amount of dedication and independent thought that, once defended, separates one from the crowd by more than sheer volume. Some chirping-head-schmuck with a degree that I could easily attain won’t hold any water with me.
DtC, calm down, who cares, he’s just another talking head.
Do we really give a flying fuck? They are all morons anyway…
Graduate student research? That I’d like to see. That’s probably the stuff that got rejected by the conference those MIT students submitted their computer generated paper to.