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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Ted makes some sense!!!!!
- Message-ID: <97715@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:34:57 GMT
- References: <105@fedfil.UUCP> <1992Nov10.231927.3971@athena.cs.uga.edu> <107@fedfil.UUCP> <101988@bu.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
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- In article <101988@bu.edu>, colby@bu-bio (Chris Colby) writes:
- >Several times during the session we (biologists) were urged to use
- >animals as "low on the evolutionary scale as possible". In addition,
- >the words "higher" and "lower" kept getting bandied about.
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- Surely this is just common talk that won't ever go away? Although I'm
- certain this language colors professional thinking badly, preventing
- people from seeing the obvious all too often.
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- (Actually, you were there, I was not, but from a distance, I can't tell.)
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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