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Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:05:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
> > > > No, evolution didn't happen.
> > > >
> > > > As Sherlock Holmes states - or is attributed to have said,
> > > > "After you eliminate the impossible whatever you are left with, however
> > > > improbable, must be the answer."
> > >
> > > Sherlock is a fictional character, not a scientist (and I suppose I
> > > shouldn't mention Piltdown Man and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the same
> > > breath). :-O
> >
> > Way off topic here...
> > I suppose you thought that I believed the SH was real? hardly - Piltdown
> > wasn't either... - But we all know that too. But he was more of a pig than
> > SH :-)
> >
> > -Jon
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> If it's way off topicn then why do you bring it up?
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> You suppose incorrectly. I was pointing out that you were using a fictional
> character to attempt to make a scientific point - a character written by the
> man who may (or maybe not, lotsa noise, little surety) have been behind the
> Piltdown Hoax, the man who wrote "The Lost World", to make a point about
> evolution. I simply find it hugely ironic. :-)
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> Bruce
Ah - thanks for the clarification. Now I understand.
I was quoting "Sherlock" only because Sir ACD via Sherlock made an appropriate
statement and I gave him credit.
That's all.
-Jon
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