Posted on 05/24/2011 1:06:30 PM PDT by decimon
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive"
"Sir Walter Scott"
You have been weaving an awfully tangled web.
Belief based on nothing is by definition arbitrary and irrational. This is what most question begging arguments involve, an acceptance of a conclusion based on the assumption of that conclusion. e.g. “Naturalism”
It’s interesting to watch people attempt to use arguments that destroy their own position.
I just saw one above:
1) I assume a common evolutionary ancestor
2) I see common genetic “markers” in today’s organisms
which
3) “proves” a common evolutionary ancestor
Yeah, see my post #14 in this thread that started the conversation you commented on.
>> One language borrowing words from another (”loanwords”) is a very old practice <<
Yep, and alone among the Indo-European languages, proto-Germanic seems to have borrowed almost all of its seafaring terms from a Semitic language — suggesting that perhaps the Phoenicians had a major impact on Scandinavia and northern Germany during the “B.C.” era.
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