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To: VadeRetro
Yes.

Proud of being an internet hero who uses foul language and makes stupid assertions behind the anonymity of the keyboard?

So what aside from who wrote it do you understand about Dawkins's article?

I understand what I read Retro. I also understand that you're a punk.

And there you have it.

519 posted on 05/25/2005 7:01:22 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
Maybe you'd like to comment on this section here. It's about the creationist love of ignorance.

The creationists’ fondness for “gaps” in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don’t know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don’t go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don’t work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching it away. Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas.
I'll throw in my two cents. What he does not address is how creationists literally bludgeon with their own abismal ignorance (usually of science and/or logic but in some cases even history). Militant ignorance. The most relentlessly and militantly misinformed arguments around come from the creation/ID camp.
522 posted on 05/25/2005 7:04:49 PM PDT by VadeRetro ( Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: jwalsh07
Proud of being an internet hero who uses foul language and makes stupid assertions behind the anonymity of the keyboard?

BTW, you're projecting here. You're anonymous. I'm not. You're the coward.

525 posted on 05/25/2005 7:07:03 PM PDT by VadeRetro ( Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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Trapped rat placemarker.


552 posted on 05/25/2005 7:29:54 PM PDT by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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