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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
First, I can't imagine Rice sponsoring a lecture by Hoyle about his panspermia notions. Second, if an astrophysicist's noodlings about panspermia is the basis for your rejection of the theory of evolution, I'd say you've never spent much actual time with the subject. Rather like rejecting germ theory because your history teacher believes in the four humors.
54 posted on 05/01/2009 1:16:19 PM PDT by atlaw
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To: atlaw

Well, since you’ve now called me a liar twice, there doesn’t seem to be too much else to discuss, does there?

I will only say, in parting, since I do not suffer being called a liar in a forum where I can’t call for satisfaction, that evolution is hardly the sole possession of biologists. Perhaps it seems so because modern biology NEEDS evolution so. Without evolution, biology degrades into mere taxonomy. If your attack on astrophysics is your defense of evolution, then your words speak for themselves.

Your knowledge of my study of evolution will remain at about zero, because I really don’t have time to try to understand people who are so much smarter than I am (or who at least think they are). I find your analogy regarding germ theory and the analysis of humors to be sophomoric and irrelevant at best. You can’t claim that evolutionary aspects of theories in palentology, astrophysics, climatology, and other disciplines as evidence for evolution in one setting and then deride them as the products of, yes, here it comes again, cranks in another setting and expect to retain any credibility.

Now, you are free once again to respond by calling me a liar, should you choose.

But I won’t be listening. I have meaningful work to do.

Enjoy your time in front of the mirror.


57 posted on 05/01/2009 1:33:40 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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