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- From: salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: In case Bales has convinced you of his honesty...
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:38:31 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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- In article <7630@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> bobb@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert W Bales) writes:
- >For instance, the first question is:
- >
- > What observations support creationism?
- >
- >I said that observations of the fossil record support creationism. This is an
- >answer. Similarly, I gave specific answers to the other questions.
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- Bob, you are making it too easy for us! I suggest that you backup
- this bold assertion before moving on. Now, as I have heard you speak to
- this before, let me suggest that gaps in the fossil record are due to,
- well, err... gaps in the fossil record, and not some demonstrated failure
- of evolution as a mechanism. If you do, as you have in the past, and
- assert that the gaps are due to not-evolution, you will be making only
- a negative argument, and no support to what non-evolution is.
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- While I am at it, let ME assert that while you may pick the
- rhetorical position that you favor non-evolution, whatever that is.
- You have said enough that makes your other agenda clear. Non-evolution
- is Supernatural Creation, which you believe in due to religious prejudices
- you refuse to discuss here, and not based on any sound science. Your
- views make no contrbution, useful or otherwise, toward any science. They
- are delusions based on religious belief and prejudices. Prejudice is
- a hidden belief which one is lothe to discuss publically and subject
- to other's criticism. You are full of prejudice.
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- Bruce Salem
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