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To: Liberal Classic
"..I find your use of this Darwin quote to be dubious."

You need to take your dubiousness up with Michael T Ghiselin LOL

94 posted on 09/28/2005 1:11:50 PM PDT by Matchett-PI ( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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To: Matchett-PI

No, I'm taking it up with you. Sadly, there are no retraction or admission of previous errors on your part. Dare you address your prior misconstruals?

I looked up Ghiselin's book, and it seems at first glance to be a philosophical work, not a biology text. The quote by Darwin in question was written down in a pocket notebook. I found a cite for it here:

Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, and Sydney Smith, editors, Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries (Cornell University Press, 1987), p. 539.


101 posted on 09/28/2005 1:33:34 PM PDT by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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