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- From: bobb@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert W Bales)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Bales is a liar: evidence - one case
- Message-ID: <7601@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:17:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.134857.13709@linus.mitre.org> <7569@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1992Nov16.141449.16599@linus.mitre.org>
- Sender: news@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
- Lines: 42
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- It's time for some serious reality checking here:
-
- Reality Check #1:
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- In article <1992Nov16.141449.16599@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James
- Meritt) writes:
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- >}> Jim
- >} me
-
- >}>And if we produce the posting, complete with subject, date, and message-id,
- >}>in which you HAVE made this claim, will you acknowledge that you lied in
- >}>this instance and go away for another 6 months or so (which is how long you
- >}>seem to stay away when caught in the web of your own deceipt)?
-
- >}If you can produce a posting which says I have only scientific motives, or
- >}says that I do not have religious motives, I will say that I gave an untrue
- >}impression. What else I say depends on the posting. I do not think there is
- >}one. Let's see it.
-
- Jim implies he has a posting. I respond by challaging him to suppy it. We
- can, in good talk.origins fashion, form two theories:
-
- Jim has the article. This theory predicts he will post it.
- Jim does not have the article. This theory predicts he will not post
- it.
-
- Now, let's check the evidence. Jim responds, but doesn't post. So far, the
- "he doesn't have it" theory looks correct!
-
- >I'm glad that you are admitting once again that you are acting out of religious
- >motives, in spite of your frequent claim to the converse.
-
- *What* frequent claim? I haven't made such a claim. Now if Jim can produce
- one, I deserve to have it posted and to be shown a liar. But if he can't, I
- deserve an apology for the statement that I have made a claim that I haven't.
-
-
- Bob Bales
- Tektronix, Inc.
-
- I help Tektronix make their instruments. They don't help me make my opinions.
-