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To: eleni121
"...yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science."

So what do you think that Darwin is trying to say here? Or are you just throwing out anything that you can find and hoping that something will be damning?
1,597 posted on 12/20/2005 7:46:12 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio

I know what he is saying because I have actually analyzed it...and many letters written in this style...BTW there's nothing special or unique about it but it takes someone who is not hero worhipping to do it objectively.

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1,608 posted on 12/20/2005 7:52:51 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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