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To: PatrickHenry
I didn't like the guy's argument. Not because of his conclusions, but because his work is laden with fallacies. I found that buried deep in his complex verbiage were errors that snuck in all kinds of conclusions that he later pulled out of his hat. Each time he announced one of his interim "conclusions," I found myself asking: "Where that that come from?" As I read through his prose, I found several such issues. But it's a great deal of work, and it takes time, to dig into a swamp like that and to describe his problems with clarity. I don't have the time.

Well, if you were a lawyer, Patrick, you could probably have a field day with this guy in court! That would be interesting to see. :^)

960 posted on 07/12/2004 9:25:56 AM PDT by betty boop
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl
Well, if you were a lawyer, Patrick, you could probably have a field day with this guy in court! That would be interesting to see.

The problem wouldn't be with my presentation, it would be in convincing the judge, who would probably have an intelligence not much greater the chair in which he sits. By the way, from my swift reading of Overman's argument, he appears to be operating in the so-called Scholastic school of philosophy. It was heavily abstract, and very little involved in dealing with data. It's been criticized over the last few centuries as having been an impediment to scientific progress. It was, however, quite Aristotlean, but way too "ivory tower." It was Scholastic arguments that confronted Galileo. The moons of Jupiter were dismissed as "unnecessary" to God's perfect creation. That kind of thing. In matters of pure theology, Scholasticism is fine. But it's inadequate as a substitute for the scientific method.

962 posted on 07/12/2004 10:35:13 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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