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Intelligent Design

Pixel42 said:
You weren't comparing yourself with drivers who only drove in New York, you were comparing yourself with drivers who did the same long distances you did and got two or three tickets every month whilst you got none. There's no meaningful comparison otherwise, is there? And such drivers would have rendered themselves unemployable very quickly.
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What is it you fail to grasp? The other drivers were mostly senior management whose time was valuable and the company paid their tickets. The cost of travel.

The comparisons are valid and your nit-picking attempts make incorrect assumptions.
 
MikeG said:
You shouldn't be allowed to drive. You are a menace on the road with this "sod the rest of you" "I'm better than you" attitude. Have I missed your response to my question about how you feel about the mini-bus taxi drivers who display the exact same disregard for the road laws as you do?
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They are a menace because they drive irresponsibly. Speeding while using a vice-grip for a steering wheel is such an example. Speeding while have one hundred (yes you read correctly) passengers instead of the maximum of sixteen is stupid.

You have not answered the question? Why are speed limit imposed? Speed is a false justification.
 
acbytesla said:
You are so right. I use to race cars and our natural instincts tend to make people do the wrong thing like using too much brake, steering the wrong way and not actually accelerating when we should. I've spun out many a time on the track. And you haven't lived if you haven't done a 360 at 100 mph and regained control of the car.

One moment it's 'oh oh' and then after cleaning out you shorts...you think 'I'm cool'.
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I have not lost control of a car. I have spun a sport car deliberately on muddy roads to get the feel of controlling a spin.

I have driven in blizzards and black ice when there are no other drivers on the road. Many along the way had crashed or abandoned their cars.

As for speed I drove a "suped-up" car at 135 mph on one long ride. The side mirrors turned inwards with the pressure of the passing air.

Have not had a "whoops" moment at speed, and no-one has had to avoid me or brake hard.

As for reaction times, mine are good enough to catch a glass of wine that fell out of a person's hand when standing opposite me.

I had one close call that was not at speed. I went to change lanes when it seemed a car suddenly occupied the lane I was going to. I had to brake hard to avoid hitting the stopped car in the lane I was in. It seemed that God intervened because I was sure I would hit, but suddenly my car stopped short - too quickly for a natural stop.
 
JoeBentley said:
ParkSkeptic's on call special pleading for all woo is "Well how can you explain all these magical powers I have?"
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Warning - Sarcasm follows.

Either I am intelligently designed with great skills (as are many others), or I am assisted by God, or both. :boggled:

Just for the record, I went on holiday for the last three days in the Game Park as part of a family get-together. Had fantastic weather. I wanted clear skies but cool days rather than the heat or the rain or the high winds. Got my wish.
 
PartSkeptic said:
Either I am intelligently designed with great skills (as are many others), or I am assisted by God, or both.
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Or neither.

Just for the record, I went on holiday for the last three days in the Game Park as part of a family get-together. Had fantastic weather. I wanted clear skies but cool days rather than the heat or the rain or the high winds. Got my wish.
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What an amazingly powerful god you have.
 
PartSkeptic said:
What is it you fail to grasp?
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You made a specific comparison between other drivers who were getting 2 or 3 tickets a month, whilst you got none. When I pointed out that such drivers would quickly have their licences suspended you tried moving the goalposts but it won't wash. If they were doing the same long distances you said you were they would quickly have had their licences suspended in enough states that they would no longer be employable in a job that required them to drive; if they were confining their driving to a single state they (a) would lose their licence in that state even more quickly and (b) would not be comparable to you.

I'm harping on this more than it probably deserves simply because you have laid such great store on how wonderful your memory is, and tried to imply that this somehow made you immune to confirmation bias. Your claim to be luckier than other people when (not) getting speeding tickets rests on you correctly remembering how many tickets every other driver who drove comparable distances got. I suspect you are actually remembering one or two drivers who got more than the average number of tickets, who most probably weren't directly comparable with you anyway, and forgetting all the drivers who got as few, or fewer, tickets than you. Classic confirmation bias, in other words.
 
PartSkeptic said:
......... suddenly my car stopped short - too quickly for a natural stop.
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Your personal god looks after you, and you alone, by stopping your car for you (sod the 4,500 people who die on SA roads, who are clearly undeserving of his assistance).

Do you not understand that the more you say the more ridiculous your case looks?

And you've yet to make any sort of logical link between "I'm special" and the subject of this thread, which, as you've clearly forgotten, is Intelligent Design.
 
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PartSkeptic said:
I have not lost control of a car. I have spun a sport car deliberately on muddy roads to get the feel of controlling a spin.

I have driven in blizzards and black ice when there are no other drivers on the road. Many along the way had crashed or abandoned their cars.

As for speed I drove a "suped-up" car at 135 mph on one long ride. The side mirrors turned inwards with the pressure of the passing air.

Have not had a "whoops" moment at speed, and no-one has had to avoid me or brake hard.

As for reaction times, mine are good enough to catch a glass of wine that fell out of a person's hand when standing opposite me.

I had one close call that was not at speed. I went to change lanes when it seemed a car suddenly occupied the lane I was going to. I had to brake hard to avoid hitting the stopped car in the lane I was in. It seemed that God intervened because I was sure I would hit, but suddenly my car stopped short - too quickly for a natural stop.
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I've had a few whoops moments where I needed to check my shorts. When racing cars, you are constantly on the edge of going out of control so it is inevitable you will if you race long enough. I have slammed into guard rails at over a hundred miles and rolled a couple of cars too. But race cars have roll cages and 5 or 6 point restraints and yes, those events did make my heart race faster. But by far, the two most scary things that has ever happened to me was the loss of control of cars on public highways not racetracks. And I can only blame myself for those events. In both cases I was driving much too fast for the conditions and you simply don't have the same protection. Skill helped me through both of those times because I regained control but I think pure luck was with me both times. I'm sure a fraction of a second made the difference between laughing about it now or dying. I don't care how good you are, it's damn easy to do something stupid behind the wheel.
 
MikeG said:
Your personal god looks after you, and you alone, by stopping your car for you (sod the 4,500 people who die on SA roads, who are clearly undeserving of his assistance).

Do you not understand that the more you say the more ridiculous your case looks?

And you've yet to make any sort of logical link between "I'm special" and the subject of this thread, which, as you've clearly forgotten, is Intelligent Design.
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I'm sure PartSkeptic has no idea how ridiculous it looks or sounds. Clearly his exceptional skills at driving and such, use up too much of god designed brain so he is left wanting in other areas. An unbalanced bit of design methinks.
 
It was actually inevitable. Once the "Intelligent Design" crowd ran out of real life things that God must be invoked to be explained they were bound to just start making them up.
 
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