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gore3000: Now you go back on what you said and there are such things as scientific facts [sic].

Junior wrote that a) there are facts, and b) the theory of evolution is supported by those facts. Junior has also said that "clue" = "evidence."

It's called "Reading for Comprehension." You more more interested in grandstanding than in actual debate. Your position does not gain any extra credibility via the volume of your posts.

702 posted on 10/17/2002 5:53:41 PM PDT by Condorman
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Whenever he encounters scientific evidence that he is unable to rebut, Brass appeals to authorities who, in his mind, are so grand as to be unimpeachable. Yet these 'authorities' and their words often turn out on closer inspection to have no more substance than Brass himself.

For example, the work of zoologist Solly Zuckermann, has long been a thorn in the side of Darwinists because Zuckermann conducted a study which concluded that Australopithecines (like 'Lucy') were predominantly ape-like and not human-like creatures and thus not ancestral to humans. Brass dismisses the work of Zuckermann, one of Britain's most distinguished zoologists, by reference to a quote from Jim Foley. Who is Jim Foley? He is the author of the talk-origins "FAQ" on human origins, which is as badly-researched and bogus as the rest of the talk-origins "FAQs" [more information available here].

In writing this book, Michael Brass has put on his arms and armour, chosen a cause about which he feels passionately, selected a battleground and engaged those he perceives as the enemies of science. Unfortunately, his armour doesn't fit him, his weapons are blunt, his passionate cause is already lost and, worst of all, he has chosen the wrong battle. For instead of attacking the real enemies of science -- the brain-dead pedlars of urban scientific myths -- he is attacking the few people who are making an honest attempt to question a theory that is long past its sell-by date.

This book is designed to bring aid and comfort to the excrement-hurling howler monkeys that infest Internet groups such as talk-origins, by reaffirming once more the oft-told Darwinist tale of human origins. It does not advance the cause of scientific investigation nor, despite its title, does it shed any light on the antiquity of mankind.

Richard Milton is the author of Shattering the Myths of Darwinism and 'Alternative Science'.

reaffirming once more the oft-told Darwinist tale of human origins.

704 posted on 10/17/2002 6:08:16 PM PDT by f.Christian
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Junior is going back and forth saying on one post that science proves nothing and on the next that evolution is fact. If science proves nothing then evolution cannot be a fact. He is talking out of both sides of his mouth and you are dishonestly trying to cover up for him.
714 posted on 10/17/2002 8:13:54 PM PDT by gore3000
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