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To: DaveLoneRanger; King Prout
You want me to buy your approval?!

No. KingProut, whose opinions I respect, seemed to think you'd changed or at least moderated your hitherto unsavory posting style. You have some material from me on your home page, quoted out of its context to the original discussion. One of my major problems with your posts in the past has been your repeated quote mining. In the case to which I was responding, you had quoted Alan Feduccia, a distinguished biologist and scientific colleague whose work I have followed and greatly admired over a period of over a decade, in such a way as to completely misrepresent him, and in fact to make him look stupid. No doubt it's incomprehensible to you why I would harshly excoriate you for doing this, but that's as may be; honor is something we all have to discover for ourselves. Previously, you had posted that 'you and I', referring to fellow posters, were meant to abuse little children (if evolutionists had their way), a false and malicious misrepresentation of some groundbreaking work in evolutionary psychology, made in order to attack people who disagree with your religious beliefs. You have not in any way apologized for or withdrawn that statement; in fact, all you've done is babbled incoherently about what you meant. Let the record show I have given you the opportunity to show your good faith, and you have declined it.

It is a characteristic of narcissistic personalities that they are incapable of seeing the world through others' eyes. Thus, they act with hostility to others, yet feel profoundly hurt when others reciprocate in kind. I really do feel sorry for such people.

As for the rest; it would be possible to have a good discussion on evolution and atheism. There is a whole spectrum of views, from Provine at one extreme, who thinks evolution requires atheism; to Miller on the other, who thinks evolution is the way his god accomplished the act of creation. I fall in the middle. It would not be possible to have a good discussion with you , however, because your purpose is not to explore the issue, but to grab some sound-bites you can recycle, later, to further the completely antiscientific dogma of your own sect.

I think it's your loss.

As O'Reilly would say, you can have the last word.

890 posted on 03/24/2006 7:14:30 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor; DaveLoneRanger

for the record: humans are only slightly intelligent and slightly deliberate, and that only among the best of us and only some of the time.


891 posted on 03/24/2006 4:03:43 PM PST by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
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