In article <1992Dec16.053059.26838@bilver.uucp>, dickb@bilver.uucp (Dick
Biow) wrote:
> This whole issue is getting too involved. Obscure, not profound. We are getting like the guy who proved that Hamlet was not written by Shakespeare, but by
> another author of the same name. The general weight of critical scholarship
> is that Jesus was crucified. We can't go beyond that. Shaeffer's approach is
> an interesting minority opinion. Mark Twain said that, in Europe, he saw two
> different skulls of COlumbus in two different museums. One was of Columbus
> as a child, and the other was as an old man. Let's argue about that for a
> while. I will take either side, so long as I can accuse my oponent of sub-
> jectivity, plus mopery with intent to gawk. -- Dick Biow
Apoligies, but my understanding is that it's an either-or situation,
and not a "two-skull" situation. And sometimes minorities have been
right, as in the case of the flat Earth, so the label of minority
does not invalidate an explanation.
Kent
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