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Hi, (...) If you think of the number of animals that have existed over the previous X million years, and the small fraction of these whose remains have survived to exist as fossils, and the smaller fraction of these which actually have been found (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Big ugly trolls (was Re: New stuff on my webpage ...)
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(...) (Comments addressed to Richard, but obviously people can jump in if they think there is something relevant to add. Since I gratuitously posted my initial response to the newsgroup I think it's fair that I should post my more rational apology (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Democracy, individual human rights and the concept of "property" are all myths too, and myths with much shorter history in human culture than the idea of a divine creator. They're also less rational than belief in God. If we accept a literal (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have seen no such claims in any scientific source. (...) I listed those for human evolution from hominids to current man. That's the family/genus/species record. (...) A cat didn't evolve into a dog or vica versa. (...) It's hard to see with (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Essay on Emerson vs. Thoreau; civil disobedience
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(...) Go ahead and do so... (...) I am having a lot of trouble with this notion. It smacks of might makes right. <snip> (...) Yes, it so much more convenient to already have "lost", don't you think? ++Lar (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Snippety Snip. (...) Faked, faked... always with this faked. You sound like a broken record. Everything that you can't explain away must be faked, right? I found this quote from one of the creationist resources rather interesting((URL) By basing our (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ad infinitum? No I won't. The only links I've heard of have been faked. The recent reptile/bird fake that made the cover? of National Geographic being a great example. If cats really evolved from dogs (my example - feel free to adjust it to (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh? So Nostradamus was God? His prophecies have been as accurate or more accurate. It's all in the interpretation. The more vague the prophecy, the easier it is to link to actual events. Nostr even predicted Bush becoming president ;-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A large part of the Bible is fulfilled prophecy. Only God can prophecy because he isn't bounded by time like we are. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt AFAIK. (...) Can we try being just a BIT more objective? 8-) As you said, my main objection (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Evolution - Impossible!
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(...) Coupled with the evidence I heard that mamalian amino acids appeared to have come from space as well (I.E. specifically mamalian amino acids didn't develop here on Earth), it makes even more sense. Also with the fact that both here and on (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I have seen ET, and we is he! ;-) Actually, considering the vast #s of chemicals/compounds available in the Soup of Space, it would not surprise me at all to find out that life here originated from Seed Matter from space. After all, the universe had (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) Dave! (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) and what little does is some 40 years old--the palaeontological equivalent of considering an IBM PC-XT "cutting edge" in 2001, just because it's only a dozen or so years old. It's selective misinformation--Kitts's work is even older, mostly in (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm... actually I'm not sure anymore what parts voice it best... I think I tried to sum it up at the bottomish part of: (URL) a lot of that was expounded upon in the (vastly long) thread that followed... so I don't think it goes into as much (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I see no contradiction in what I am saying. I/you/we are mixing school/higher education. The UK system provides education up to the 16. It is required that parents provide their children with education - the default is the state system. Within (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ah-- then we shall certainly have differences. My own moral theory arrives at the conclusion that there are no absolutes in morality. (...) And I'd argue that it CAN be. Not necessarily that it's EVER actually BEEN ok, but that the possibility (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ack! In the past you have repeatedly advocated that education should be doled out in quantities proportional to the ability to learn. Now you are saying that it should be equal. Just for clarity, which of these stances do you actually agree (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I noted that you had expressed this moral theory in another thread but I didn't backtrack far enough to find it. Can you point me to the post? (...) Does it come down to behavior x is only immoral when those doing the behaving think that it (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Snip most, hope to come back later... address a tiny fraction. (...) We differ strongly. I suspect this is moral relativism. I reject that... I go even farther than rejection. I think there are moral absolutes and no government, even with the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) At the risk of being accused of jury tampering by making you aware of your rights and duties as a juror(1), check this out: (URL) discusses "jury nullification". This is a unique power that American jurors have... to find a defendent innocent (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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