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To: oldcats
Jar Jar Binks - Amos 'n Andy - Creationism/Ack thffpt!

via junior...

"Consider someone who believes that Venus is smaller than Mercury-not because he has evidence, but because he read it in a comic book and always believes whatever he reads in comic books-or consider someone who holds that belief on the basis of an outrageously bad argument. Perhaps there is no obligation he has failed to meet; nevertheless his intellectual condition is defective in some way. He displays a sort of deficiency, a flaw, an intellectual dysfunction of some sort. Perhaps he is like someone who has an astigmatism, or is unduly clumsy, or suffers from arthritis. And perhaps the evidentialist objection is to be construed, not as the claim that the theist without evidence has violated some intellectual obligations, but that he suffers from a certain sort of intellectual deficiency. The theist without evidence, we might say, is an... intellectual gimp."

Spammer too!

165 posted on 03/13/2002 1:18:01 PM PST by f.Christian
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To: f.Christian
If you have a problem with Junior, take it up with him olease. I will gladly fight my own battles, but cannot fight anothers.
Oldcats
167 posted on 03/13/2002 1:20:27 PM PST by oldcats
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