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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <75972@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:21:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.105721.6061@prime.mdata.fi> <1992Dec27.120409.1687@nmsu.edu> <1992Dec27.135019.7768@prime.mdata.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec27.135019.7768@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec27.120409.1687@nmsu.edu> sdoe@nmsu.edu (Stephen Doe) writes:
- >>Look, all I want is for someone, on EITHER side of the issue, to cite
- >>some support more substantial than the "me and my friends" argument.
- >>That's all I ask. Refer me to a paper published in some reputable
- >>journal, and I'll be happy.
- >Tell me, how many people do you know? 300? 400? 500? Are those insignificant
- >values?
- >
- >8 people out of 1000 means that the sample was 1000. How come you find it so
- >hard to understand anything? Must everything be served to you on a dish?
-
- Stephen Doe's request for journal citations was perfectly reasonable.
- His criticism of your reasoning was completely justified, and he is
- perfectly right to say that, as we are unwilling to accept such
- feeble reasoning from Christians and other theists, we ought to
- insist upon sound reasoning from atheists as well. All your snideness
- in response to Stephen's perfectly justified requests does nothing
- whatever to improve the quality of your reasoning (though you
- could improve it whenever you like by complying with his requests;
-