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To: Dimensio
...but I've never seen the cowardly cop-out of "It'd take way too long for me to support my claim with evidence!"

You're joking right? I don't think I've seen one of these threads where "your side" didn't tell someone on "our side" to go away and do the research yourself, it would take too long to bring you up to speed, or words to that effect.

Suppose for the sake of argument that you're having a dispute in English and someone comes along who doesn't speak English. He tells you your argument doesn't make sense. You tell him that's because you don't speak the language. Then he tells you, well until you teach me English I'm going to maintain that what you've claimed is nonsense. You'd laugh this guy off as a complete idiot.

Well that's what I'm doing with you. To engage in a conversation there is always some assumption of some minimum level of common knowledge in order to participate. If you have to have everyone "prove" every little claim just because you're the only one in the room who slept through class, as it were, then conversation breaks down.

Anyway, I -- and now others -- have completely repudiated this adolescent line of attack. Everyone here who knows anything about the history of Marxism and Freudianism in the West is just laughing at you. The evidence is in books and books, volumes of journals, articles, writings.

Why don't I ask you to provide evidence that you're not a mentally retarded fool?

If you simple are not up to speed on the topics being brought up, either take the word of experts or fermez votre bouche.

1,030 posted on 12/20/2005 2:12:36 PM PST by jbloedow
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To: jbloedow
You're joking right? I don't think I've seen one of these threads where "your side" didn't tell someone on "our side" to go away and do the research yourself, it would take too long to bring you up to speed, or words to that effect.

I've never seen anyone on the evolution side ever tell a creationist to do their own research without at least providing a starting point for the research. You didn't even offer that much.
1,049 posted on 12/20/2005 2:19:10 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: jbloedow

It is part of the gambit

Wolf


1,135 posted on 12/20/2005 2:49:27 PM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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