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- From: ds0007@medtronic.COM (Dale Skiba)
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:52:36 GMT
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- Jon Livesey (livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- How about lawyers with no conscience. They act like defense lawyers
- that use anything they can to get their client free, even though their
- client has admitted his guilt in private...
-
- Thanks everyone for specific evidence on how the ICR intentionally
- uses bad data to hold up yet another bogus "Young Earth" argument.
- From time to time, these examples are very useful to inform non-
- fanitical Christians of just how bad the ICR really is.
-
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- Dale Skiba
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