Good detective work!
Here, have a badge. 
Oh, that guy! I vaguely remember him. He’s not the one who posted an aquarium ornament thinking it was a fossil, is he?
I didn’t realize RatSkep was still going. Fond memories.
I must admit I found that thread, with its frequently-broken quote-markup, rather hard to follow.
He’s also active on Reddit, including claiming that graphing positive fitness as ‘up’ on graphs is some kind of “atheist” plot. 
His reception there doesn’t seem to be particularly positive either – which is perhaps why he tried his hand at PS.
It would seem that John, Faizal & myself aren’t the only ones finding him less than coherent.
Then I’m curious as to why he created a new thread just a day before his intended absence, rather than simply making a final post on his previous thread before you closed it. It’s not as though the topics of his threads seem particularly distinguishable.
Was his absence intended?
The Genesis creation story is just that - a story. Human origins as being written daily by evolutionary biology and genetics is science in action. Science is fact based and progresses. The progress in understanding human origins using ancient genomes has been spectacular in the past 10 years.
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Dunno. I never bothered to reply in his threads. Didn’t even read them. The whole thing looked silly from day one imo so I just never took the bait.
Nostalgic even. I haven’t been active over there for years. Dropped in once in a while just to see what was happening but it’s been very low activity for a looong time.
Yeah the forum is actually quite ancient. It started around 2010 or so IIRC. Anyway, the platform has been updated several times and I guess at some point a lot of the old posts broke due to compatibility issues, sadly.
I just can’t be bothered. Someone is giving me even a vaguely Bill Cole/Otangelo-like feeling and I’m out. Life’s too short replying to these nugatory individuals who want to keep arguing for argument’s sake. I’ve become old, disillusioned, and cynical about the whole endeavour.
Ahem. 2010 is not ancient. I was on talk.origins more than twice that long ago.
Talk.origins is better characterized as primordial. An ur-forum.
It was not intended by Jay. There is no better way to annoy a moderator than by wasting their time. 
This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.
This morning I got an emailed message:
This is an automated message from Peaceful Science to let you know that your account is no longer on hold after staff review"
I had been silenced, with this moderator’s explantion: You are suspected of using AI content for the purpose of trolling".
i appreciate being allowed to speak again, but this reply is just intended to forestall the topic being closed 7 days after the last reply.