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To: EBUCK
Yet he continually explains the reason we love to send "fruitcakes" to other people but loathe to receive them.

I think it's an interesting.

These folks believe that species do evolve to adapt to their environments, but will argue that they don't believe in evolution until the day they die.

Very interesting. Not quite sure what to make of it.

260 posted on 07/11/2002 2:42:48 PM PDT by Dominic Harr
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To: Dominic Harr
It's called denial.

Main Entry: de·ni·al
Pronunciation: di-'nI(-&)l, dE-
Function: noun
Date: 1528
1 : refusal to satisfy a request or desire
2 a (1) : refusal to admit the truth or reality (as of a statement or charge) (2) : assertion that an allegation is false b : refusal to acknowledge a person or a thing : DISAVOWAL
3 : the opposing by the defendant of an allegation of the opposite party in a lawsuit
4 : SELF-DENIAL
5 : negation in logic
6 : a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality

I think that pretty much summs it up

263 posted on 07/11/2002 2:48:42 PM PDT by EBUCK
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