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(...) Bobby Heinlein I can figure out...Orson Scott Card? (not that I've read a single word by the guy). -->Skiffy<-- (19 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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It is a pity that many of those lauding him now did not listen to him more in the build-up to the war in Iraq. Unlike them, he viewed all human life equally. Bush: "The world has lost a champion of peace and freedom." Scott A (...) (19 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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From Websnark(1) for 2 April 2005. I have in the past said how much I like RAH, and how much I enjoy the work of OSC (not as much as RAH, but I do). Yet I still agree with Eric, and with Aerie too (at Queen of Wands, anothe rof the many comics I (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Commentators are already saying he may have been one of the most significant figures of the late 20th... they're right. Arguably he was a major part of the process that lessened the blight of Soviet communism on the world, his elevation and visits (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The latter option is the one that they invariably choose, and sometimes they add that the veracity of the bible is not subordinate to a conflicting reality. Alas. (...) The difference with Helga is that (barring some odd preferences on your (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, the point is really "what if you could see into the past", not necessarily "what if you could travel to the past and do unspeakable things to temporal continuity, as great of an April Fools that would be". Again, let's say the WayBack (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The problem with this example, though, is that once we posit the existence of a WayBack Machine, we have allowed for time traveling marvels in our universe. What's to prevent some creationist with a WayBack machine of his own from going back (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) sake of argument :) (...) Exactly correct, effectively. IE that any creationist must assume that at SOME point, your great-great-<insert greats here>-great-grandparents DIDN'T exist, because the generation after that was the first to appear, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ***snip*** (...) I think I gave my answer in the post to which you replied: (URL) summary, it's entirely possible that no quantity of numbers is sufficient to prove that the theory is true as long as other potentially disproving numbers have (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ha! Well, as an odd sidenote, my sophomore year of high school (when I took Biology), there was an NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) in Boston, right near my High School. And as it turns out, my bio teacher was the official head (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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