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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:48:02 GMT
- References: <1k1a58INN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org> <C1FD14.17B@cs.dal.ca> <1993Jan25.235631.4019@news.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.235631.4019@news.uiowa.edu>, cdminter@icaen.uiowa.edu (Corey D Minter) writes:
- |> hyde@cs.dal.ca (Bill Hyde) writes:
- |>
- |> > Does this tell you something about
- |> > their honesty?
- |>
- |> I think that is not it at all. This phenomena may show that we are
- |> talking about a group of people that is not interested in surveying
- |> all the information that is out there. They tend to put a lot of
- |> effort in drudging up 'older' references only rather than doing
- |> some real work and seeing what is out there and deciding for themselves.
- |>
- |> So, I don't think it is a matter of honesty directly, though it comes
- |> to that when their beliefs are exposed. Then they might find it hard
- |> to overcome the fact that they were wrong.
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- I think you may both be wrong. I think Creationists are more
- like lawyers. They are more interested in finding cheap and easy
- arguments to convince a jury their way, than they are in arriving
- at the truth.
-
- jon.
-