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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.050904.14207@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
- References: <1ej27pINN35a@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov21.032439.15438@netcom.com> <1eqlk5INNkrr@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:09:04 GMT
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- frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes ...
- > ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>Well gee. Lets see. A woman can actually say whether she wants to be
- >>pregnant and can even say why. A 12 week fetus not only cannot do the
- >>same, but can't even survive outside of the mother. A 5 week embryo
- >>doesn't even have the needed equipment to talk.
- >>
- >Sentience != survival (I can't survive outside a city)
- >Sentience != speech (People don't always talk during their sleep)
- >
- >Plus, There are lots of things which _I_ am aware of and think about for which
- >_you_ have no evidence whatsoever. As Ms. Bartley says, absence of evidence
- >is not evidence of absence.
-
- Neither is absence of evidence evidence for presence.
-
- Regardless, there _is_ evidence for a lack of sentience in embryos.
- Hardly conclusive, but evidence nonetheless. Some of it I stated
- up there.
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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