Posted on 09/20/2006 9:51:34 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
I wouldn't believe a word of it without corroboration. I don't have my source handy, but I'm pretty sure that the parts of it that tell about Unca Joe's heroic deeds in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War, as well as the part where Lenin made him his successor, are known to be gross exaggerations or flat-out lies; hardly surprising, considering the source.
Whatever he read, it sure didn't "take"; Stalin elevated Lysenko and exiled and/or executed Vavilov and other normal biologists. The effect this had on Soviet agriculture should provide food for thought to those who would teach ID or creatinism as though they were science.
I wonder how much credit for his character and moral development should be given to the seminary where he claimed to have read Darwin. There is corroboration for the fact he studied for the priesthood.
The science as you said is clear, the embryo is a living human being.
Where we disagree is that you think courts have the constitutional power to define when life begins. They don't, they never have and they never will.
That kind of power was never given to unelected judges. "The people" knew better.
No one is "defin[ing] when life begins. "
All they're doing is defining what is legal and illegal wrt abortion.
A verdict of "justifiable homicide" hardly means that the victim wasn't alive; it just means that no penalty attaches to killing him (because he was attacking you, or threatened to kill your neighbor, ...).
I don't like Roe v Wade, criminal statutes should be up to the states unless they're in conflict with the Federal Constitution or Federal statutes.
"Unelected" or not, the Justices who ruled on RvW were duly appointed. I don't think poor decisions constitute "bad behavior" as grounds for removal. I have been in states where judges are elected, and I didn't like it at all; I think the Fed. Const. got that provision right.
Ah well the entire world is wrong and Black Elk is right. Marx did work as correspondent for The Times and he did spend time in the U.S. while Lincoln was president, and every single biographer and historian of the era, except you, managed to miss it. How totally unforgivable of them. </sarcasm>
If the correspondent to whom you refer was surnamed Russell, he was probably the son of Lord Russell and therefore an unlikely press agent for Lincoln as well.
No, the correspondent in question was William Howard Russell, an Irishman as it happens and one of the most respected Times correspondent of the age and who covered the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the War of Southern Rebellion, and the Franco Prussian War. He was of no relationship to the Earl of Russell whom you speak of.
Either Lord Russell or, more likely, Lord Palmerston then owned the London Times.
Neither man owned The Times. During the period of the War of Southern Rebellion, The Times was still owned by the same Walter family who had founded it in 1785.
It took Prince Albert of Coburg, Victoria's hubby, on his death bed to dissuade Palmerston and Russell of recognizing the Confederacy solely on the question of slavery, but not before the British laird Shipyards built and launched the magnificent Confederate rams Alabama and Tennessee.
Prince Albert died in December of 1861, almost a year before the Alabama was commissioned into confederate service. There were three ironclads named Tennessee in confederate service. The first was burned in the stocks before completion, the second was captured at New Orleans in 1862, and the third was captured at Mobile in 1864. None of the there was were built by the British, or ever left U.S. waters.
There was never any chance of the Palmerston government recognizing the confederacy.
What were your credentials as a conservative, if any??????
Considerably better than your credentials as an historian, if this post of your's is any indication.
Just another thing Tribune7 has failed to absorb just today. You really have to ask, "Does he really not remember ANYTHING?"
Other points from the same post: Darwin was not really much of a gradualist, PE is not saltational, etc. You can look at T7's subsequent posts and see that he trolls for suckers with the same points repudiated there (and elsewhere) again and again. Oh, and of course, Ann Coulter's critics have no specifics, just name-calling. (Right!)
Do you think he can admit any error on his part?
Gould did suggest that creationists who misquote him might not be lying. They could just be stupid.
You want the poor guy to choke?
Do you think he has evolved into a troll or has his innate nature simply shown forth for the glory of the lord?
I could answer that. But I might get suspended.
We're seeing an incredible failure to recognize contrary evidence right here on this thread. It's either Morton's Demon on steroids or something we're not allowed to directly and accurately characterize anymore. I don't think stupidity alone really works as an explanation, as no one functioning straightforwardly at this level could operate a PC, even running windows.
How these southron types can manage, time after time, to tell the most outrageous stories with perfect sincerity and a straight face is beyond me. It took me all of 5 minutes on Google to come up with the information that showed him to be wrong. They are truly shameless.
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IOW, there is a "gap" in the fossil record and evolution is not gradual. Why not just concede the point. Maybe it is a religious thing with you.
Only in Vade Retro's world
Why does implying that evolution is a religion with you upset you? I don't mean it as an insult, I'm just making an observation.
Suppose I said your worldview was Nazi-based? Would that be name-calling?
Sure. But the Nazis were very bad people. Why do you think religious people are bad?
The definition of a 'missing link' is a fossil that has been found. Since it is found it is called missing.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Name the gap. Name any place in the fossil record that constitutes an unbridgable gap.
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