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To: Tribune7
Thank you for your post! I'm not trying to convince him, just provide information for the discussion.

Hundreds of posts ago, various Freepers were talking about getting agreement on our terms. Since then, we've been through observer, evolution, value. It is baffling to me when one word is used in a technical sense yet another in a common sense.

At any rate, failure to agree on the words - or redefining terms in midstream - can't be helpful. Common usage is probably the most important because a lot of Lurkers come by and read a few posts, then leave. Without a parenthetical definition, they could get the wrong impression of what was being said.

3,613 posted on 01/07/2003 8:57:50 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
It is baffling to me when one word is used in a technical sense yet another in a common sense.

The word "set" has many meanings ranging from an action to an Egyptian god to a mathematical concept to an army of chess pieces. Debit and Credit are not quite what one might think in accounting.

3,630 posted on 01/07/2003 9:22:58 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Not to forget x-42's use of "is"!)
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To: Alamo-Girl
It is baffling to me when one word is used in a technical sense yet another in a common sense.

I am willing to keep an open with evolution as a theory of biology albeit it should certainly not be above criticism or questioning or assumed as true.

What concerns me are those who use evolution as an excuse to deny God's existence. What concerns me even more is that there are those who deny that some expand the theory of evolution to cosmology in an attempt to do so.

How this can be denied so vehmenently boggles my mind.

3,638 posted on 01/07/2003 9:40:09 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Alamo-Girl
At any rate, failure to agree on the words - or redefining terms in midstream - can't be helpful.

Yes, and a lot of this is going on here, A-G.

3,694 posted on 01/08/2003 6:33:39 AM PST by Phaedrus
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