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To: Ahban
And I notice you did not even attempt to address the evidence I presented showing that there are many cases of "multiple evolution events"- any one of which would be "troubling" and improbable.

I dealt with that when I told you what my problems are with data anomaly soup. Here's an even higher level summary.

The Earth is wide and it's got a 4.5 billion year history. Something improbable figures to be happening somewhere all the time. You can make lists of improbable things till the cows come home and nobody's going to admit your list as proof of the alternative theory you didn't present because it was too flipping goofy.

I pity the kids who had to learn science from you. You are openly hostile to the spirit of inquiry. A you-can't-make-me-see-ist, nothing-I-don't-like-proves-anything-ist dumb-bleep teaching science! Sometimes the foxes get hired to guard the henhouse. It happens.

409 posted on 02/17/2005 5:22:37 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro

"If it don't fit; you MUST acquit...."


410 posted on 02/17/2005 5:25:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: VadeRetro

I was the best science teacher most of them ever had, and I'll get a couple who are adults now to tell you that if you don't believe it- but then I suppose it would not alter your opinions in the slightest.

As for me being "hostile to inquiry", for the love of reason, can't you see the rank hypocrisy in your post? It is you that expresses the most virulent hostility to me for making some inconvienient inquiries such as "gee, isn't X another possible answer for the observed facts?". You are precisley what you accuse me of. The blindness of an otherwise intelligent man sends a literal chill down my spine.

As for your arguement that a lot of improbalble things can happen in 4.5 billion years I reply 1) your numbers are wrong as all of the improbable things we are talking about occured in the last 543 million years since the Cambrian explosion and 2) Even 4.5 billion years is not enough time to make a huge series of extremely improbable events occuring by natural means a reasonable position. We must compare the number and likely hood of the events to the time allowed.


435 posted on 02/17/2005 7:14:59 PM PST by Ahban
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