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    Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture! —David Eaton
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture! —Dave Schuler
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture! —David Eaton
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture! —Dave Schuler
   (...) 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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