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To: Junior
Interesting tactic -- it's called an ad hominem attack, and is logically worthless.

Remember that when you, Vade, Patrick Henry, JediGirl, etc etc etc. use another of those arrows from your limited quiver against medved, gore3000, Behe, ICR or any other of your targets. Argue the point not the person or institution. I do not post any examples because one cannot help but stumble over such an attack from those I have listed. In fairness to you, you have never done that to me. Further fairness requires me to mention that ad hominem in response to ad hominem is not unexpected.

76 posted on 03/11/2002 10:11:27 AM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
You've been around long enough to understand our frustration at medved and gore3000. Neither of them does any research and simply either ignores what's presented or spams the threads with discredited ideas.

Not all creationists are like this. You, for instance, come back with well-researched responses (which is good because it keeps me on my toes). I only revert to my frustratiin lexicon with medved (for his spamming and his inability to double check his "theories"), gore3000 for his inability to see anything posted to him and then claiming that no one answers his questions, and f.christian because his posts are incoherent. My "ad hominem" attacks against those three are usually liberally sprinkled with references to research or attempts to "run the numbers" to see if what they are claiming is feasible.

85 posted on 03/11/2002 10:43:43 AM PST by Junior
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