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To: betty boop

such has been done, repeatedly.
do you pledge to pay attention, or shall we simply put out once more in hope that has thus far gone unrequited?


311 posted on 08/18/2006 12:18:36 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: King Prout; hosepipe; VadeRetro; Doctor Stochastic
do you pledge to pay attention, or shall we simply put out once more in hope that has thus far gone unrequited?

FWIW King, I regard Charles Darwin as a first-rate, world-class scientist, and also as a man of scrupulous integrity. For instance, it was he himself who said that his theory was only as good as the fossil record. The funny thing about the fossil record is that it has this uncanny knack of falling silent when we most need it to speak to us (e.g., transitional forms in the pre-Cambrian). There have also been less honest men who, boosters of the theory, perpetrated outright fraud with bogus fossils, or other instances of truly bad science (e.g., Haeckel's recapitulation of phyologeny in the human foetus).

Like I said, FWIW, I am not anti-evolution; I'm just anti-bad science.

If your best argument is an ad hominum attack (see above italics), then you haven't got a leg to stand on, and, if I might kindly suggest, I have better uses for my time.

332 posted on 08/18/2006 1:39:43 PM PDT by betty boop (Character is destiny. -- Heraclitus)
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