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To: Physicist
The three main types are zealots who think that any investigation of nature constitutes a threat to their religious beliefs,

Nice strawman you've built there.

53 posted on 05/29/2004 10:51:28 AM PDT by AndrewC (I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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To: AndrewC
Nice strawman you've built there.

Thanks, but I had a lot of help.

57 posted on 05/29/2004 11:01:21 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: AndrewC
Nice strawman you've built there.

No. He hasn't, in this statement, made a value judgement concerning YECs (I don't wish to waffle, that's who we are discussing). He's simply pointed out that those who hold a very minority and literal view of Genesis (i.e. zealots) flail around horribly in the face of pervasive science that indicates a different set of events. It's 100% accurate. He didn't say you were wrong, so no strawman.

76 posted on 05/29/2004 3:14:30 PM PDT by Shryke (Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
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To: AndrewC
Nice strawman you've built there.

And yet we find evidence of such people here on FR on a daily basis. Go figure.

116 posted on 05/30/2004 7:03:14 AM PDT by Junior (Sodomy non sapiens)
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