I think the purpose for any debate would be to field serious misconceptions and air serious responses. Should opponents be brought in for discussion there would need to be ground rules, not the least of which would be a point system and grading scale that would decide the clear victor (i.e., FOM being an alien artifact with 99% against, 0.01 for, 0.99 undecided).
I seem to recall, in the dark, dusty recesses of my memory, Mary Anne stating her qualifications for debating. Perhaps she could refine some extremely fair (possibly to the point of rational suicide) rules?
For splinx, the above would need to be agreed to (bearing in mind that the score could go either way).
james is nothing but a hoaxter-repeater. Bringing him in for any kind of serious debate is absolutely pointless.
For Bob, his smoking pyramids have already bitten Mars dust (I won't even mention my smoker ;^) ).
Dan
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Re: No Free-For-All here, Please . . .