Subject: devolution
Date: Aug 12 11:34:24 1999
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 11:27 AM 8/12/99 -0700, D. Daily wrote:
>
>Well, what can I say. Don nailed me good.
>I lack education and am probably an intentional liar.

No, I suggested you'd been influenced by writers who are
liars:

>> Because I suspect you didn't make up this fallacious statement
>> all by yourself. I suspect you read it in some book claiming
>> to debunk modern biology, written by someone who knowingly
>> lies for God.

Please read somewhat more carefully.

The statement you make's not unique. Perhaps you made it up
all by yourself, in which case I have no problem believing
you just don't understand the fallacy.

I have no doubt, though, that those who write professionally
for the ICR and the like are liars, i.e. they know they misrepresent
facts, quote out of context, make blatant mistatements (such
as the one you present), etc.

....

>But this is a fact! I took quite a bit of math and physics and
> 8 of 12 of my professors and TAs were lefthanded!

So what? I once cut for dollars ten times in a row and won.

That doesn't undermine probability theory in the least.

How did you manage to take so much math and physics without
learning enough about the two subjects, and the relationship
between the two, without learning enough to understand why your
statement about "proving" the earth is at the center of the universe
is fallacious?




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