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To: general_re
I'll stand by what I said. Where does the doctor retract any of the statements posted by Ready2Go in that letter?

He says in the future he'll try and be more "circumspect" around creationists, but he at least, doesn't call them liars.

941 posted on 10/11/2002 11:31:48 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Pietro
Where does the doctor retract any of the statements posted by Ready2Go in that letter?

The inference that he rejects evolution is false, as Patterson specifically stated in the letter I posted in 912 that his talk was addressed to systematists, and "concerned systematics, nothing else". It is not, and never was intended to be a general rejection of evolution, merely a discussion of the difficulties evolution presented to biological systematists. To infer otherwise in the face of Patterson's own statements about his talk and the motives behind it is unfair - surely Patterson himself knew far better than any of us why he said what he said...

1,045 posted on 10/11/2002 5:43:32 PM PDT by general_re
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