home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3 / NN_1993_3.iso / spool / talk / origins / 16558 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1993-01-21  |  1.9 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!ofa123!ofa123!Dr.Pepper!f241.n103.z1.fidonet.org
  2. From: Dr.Pepper@f241.n103.z1.fidonet.org
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: SWAA Lecture
  5. X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan  3 1993
  6. Message-ID: <332010ca6@ofa123.fidonet.org>
  7. Date: 20 Jan 93  04:02:00
  8. Lines: 33
  9.  
  10. Phillip Johnson:
  11.  
  12.  >      The points in dispute can only be settled by an unbiased
  13.  > examination of the evidence.  Those who have confidence in their
  14.  > evidence and their logic do not appeal to prejudice, nor do they
  15.  > insist upon imposing rules of discourse that allow only one
  16.  > position to receive serious consideration, nor do they use vague
  17.  > and shifting terminology to distract attention from genuine
  18.  > points of difficulty.  Still less do they heap abuse and
  19.  > ridicule
  20.  > upon persons who want to raise questions about the evidence and
  21.  > the philosophical assumptions that underly a theory.  When an
  22.  > educational establishment has to resort to tactics like that,
  23.  > you can be sure that some people are getting desperate.
  24.  
  25. Agreed. Let us fairly examine all theories. You can do your part right now by 
  26. stating the theory of creationism.
  27.  
  28.  
  29. +--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  30. | 10                    2  | Garden Grove Institute of Technology |
  31. |        DR PEPPER         | Community Outreach Center            |
  32. |                       4  |                                      |
  33. +--------------------------+ Snail Addr: Unit #1, 7872 Trask      |
  34. | Hussein: We made him, we |             Westminster, Ca  92683   |
  35. | broke him, we'll build   | Modem:      714-894-7039             |
  36. | him up again if we want  | Fidonet:    1:103/241                |
  37. | to, we're the US.        | Candynet:   42:1001/1                |
  38. |                          | Internet:   Dr.Pepper@f241.n103.z1   |
  39. |                          |              .fidonet.org            |
  40. +--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  41.  
  42. ---
  43.