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To: gobucks
Is it just me, or do these two comments of yours placed together create a kind of dissonance?

No. I referred to "dishonest creationists". If I thought that creationists were by definition dishonest, I would have simply said "creationists", because "dishonest creationists" would have been redundant. I wished to make a distinction between the group of all creationists and a subset of that group who happen to be dishonest.

That you are trying to turn my distinction into a generalization only further demonstrates your own fundamental dishonesty.
135 posted on 02/05/2005 2:15:20 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio

No. I referred to "dishonest creationists"

You referred to an 'incurable dishonesty'.

As if folks who believe that Christ rose from the dead are diseased. Maybe I misunderstood your metaphor?


174 posted on 02/05/2005 3:09:33 PM PST by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon.htm)
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To: Dimensio
No. I referred to "dishonest creationists". If I thought that creationists were by definition dishonest, I would have simply said "creationists", because "dishonest creationists" would have been redundant. I wished to make a distinction between the group of all creationists and a subset of that group who happen to be dishonest.

That you are trying to turn my distinction into a generalization only further demonstrates your own fundamental dishonesty.

Well said.

Of course, it begs the question of why the anti-science posters on the crevo threads fall into the latter category. My guess is that your ordinary run-of-the-mill creationist couldn't care less about defeating that imaginary evil-science bugaboo.

225 posted on 02/05/2005 5:04:21 PM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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