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- From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.000629.19403@prime.mdata.fi>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:06:29 GMT
- References: <11026@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <1992Dec29.140219.11488@prime.mdata.fi> <11030@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
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- In article <11030@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.140219.11488@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >>
- >>If you don't like the whole idea of the discussion, why not say so? Are you
- >>a Christian who is offended? Do you think I would get angry or lose my temper
- >>because of this discussion? What would it benefit me if I went about flaming
- >>people? I don't think you'll get anywhere by flaming me, either, as it won't
- >>change the topic.
- >>
- >
- > I rather like the discussion, actually. It doesn't matter a r.r.a
- > to me whether atheists, christians, or astigmatic bisexual pygmies
- > score better on IQ tests than I do. What I'm offended by is
- > someone who blazes into our newsgroup making a rash of potentially
- > true statements, but then shows less regard for the scientific
- > method than does a high school sophomore dissecting his first
- > frog.
-
- Yes, they are potentially true statements, that's they were to be discussed.
- What do you mean by "showing less regard..."?? Show me where I say so.
-
- >
- > Not to mention that you're the second self proclaimed holder of a
- > high IQ who offended posters at a record pace, while generating
- > endless replies and degrading the SNR to near unity. I wonder: Is
- > high IQ correlated with poor socialization skills?
-
- More jokes: offended posters at a record pace? I was talking to Doe and
- nobody else, and his flames were plentiful.
-
- Yes, wonder. And come back when you have statistics with 1e20 people in the
- sample.
-
- >
- > Please don't change the topic on my account. I'll be killing it
- > soon anyway unless you can, as repeatedly requested by Steve, back
- > up some of your claims with impartial empiricism.
-
- Sorry, I came here to get info, not to spread it.
-
- >
- >/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
- >
- >Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
- >
- >"Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was
- >dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I
- >doing something wrong?"
- > James Nicoll
- >
- >Q. How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- >A. If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is!
- >
-
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