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- From: simon@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Simon Clippingdale)
- Subject: Re: "Bales is lying" thread
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.213138.28280@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <7694@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:31:38 GMT
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- In article <7694@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> bobb@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert W Bales) writes:
- >
- > [...]
- >
- > But the issue is NOT the probability of the feather's being the way it is,
- > but rather the probability that that state was caused by evolution.
-
- Yowza! You do indeed understand the difference between prior and posterior
- statistics, and its relevance to the Creation/evolution debate.
-
- Sadly, however, this only makes your misleading use of such statistics in
- article <6110@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, pointed out in a followup by me, look
- intentionally dishonest rather than the fruits of mere confusion.
-
- I *yet* *again* extend my offer to repost said followup (article <1992Jul16.
- 174939.21002@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>) so that you may defend what, given your
- quote above, I am hereby changing into an in-yer-face charge of intentional
- dishonesty, in keeping with the thread title.
-
- > [...]
- >
- > It seems that, contrary to what is often said in this group, it's not the
- > creationists who are not interested in discussing the evidence (at least
- > in some cases.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I claim that your quote above, in conjunction with your earlier article,
- is clear evidence of the dishonesty of which I accuse you, and invite you
- once more to discuss the evidence.
-
- > Bob Bales
- > Tektronix, Inc.
-
- Cheers
-
- Simon
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