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Subject: 
Re: Evolution vs Scientific Creationism
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Date: 
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 04:23:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

>   Because "tribes in the stone age" is a severe value judgement.  It
>   implies that they exist along a continuum that has us at the "good"
>   end and them at the "primitive" or less developed end.

I'm OK with that so far as it goes... Tribes in the stone age ARE less
developed. And I am perfectly OK characterising my life (and my society) as
"better" than theirs. We have LEGO(r). They don't.

QED.

Next!

++Lar



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  Re: Evolution vs Scientific Creationism
 
(...) Because "tribes in the stone age" is a severe value judgement. It implies that they exist along a continuum that has us at the "good" end and them at the "primitive" or less developed end. That's the core of development theory. And it's (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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