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To: AnnoyedOne
And I suppose the Ancient Greeks should have retracted their hypothesis about Atoms, and burned all their scrolls which made reference to such notions.

Let me tell you how discussion works: When someone makes a claim, they should be ready to support it or retract it. In this case, you made an absurd claim about knowing certain relative probabilities, a claim which was not true, and were asked to support or retract it.

Now, an adult who knows how discussion works would retract their unsupportable claim, even though they might really want it to be true. A child would whine that the burden is on the rest of the world to prove them wrong, and that disbelieving the child's asinine claims is tantamount to burning ancient scrolls of scientific conjecture.
125 posted on 03/23/2006 12:01:05 AM PST by aNYCguy
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To: aNYCguy
Now, an adult who knows how discussion works would retract their unsupportable claim, even though they might really want it to be true. A child would whine that the burden is on the rest of the world to prove them wrong, and that disbelieving the child's asinine claims is tantamount to burning ancient scrolls of scientific conjecture.

Look, simple as this, I am not gonna spend years writing a friggin book for you. Go to the library and educate youtself. Other than that.. a few hundred musical notes.. versus millions of millions of coded pieces of information in a dna strand. If your mind is incapable of grasping the enormity of the difference.. then that is a limitation of your mind, and if your mind IS that limited.. you would be incapable of understanding any evidence that was given to you anyway. I have little doubt that, given your apparent intellect, your lips are probably moving as you read this. As for it being tantamount to burning such scrolls, the parallel between you and I is that if I were one of those guys who proposed an Atom, 2400 yrs ago or so... you would have been saying "Don't write that down!" "We cannot prove it is true so it should therefore never be studied!" "We do not want our children learning this!" "Here drink this poison!". A real visionary you are... the sort that time tends to make a complete ass out of.

129 posted on 03/23/2006 12:23:58 AM PST by AnnoyedOne
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To: aNYCguy
Let me tell you how discussion works: When someone makes a claim, they should be ready to support it or retract it.

The anti-evos don't have to. They always say, "You doubt my assertions? You prove I'm wrong." And they are unapologetic in their stance. I can only assume they have an exemption.

314 posted on 03/23/2006 3:35:03 PM PST by stands2reason
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