Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Perhaps probability Message-ID: <236@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 11:03:08 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.236 Posted: Tue Aug 28 11:03:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Sep-84 08:26:12 EDT References: <1081@dciem.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 19 > [Martin Taylor] > You (Paul Dubois) quote evolutionist arguments sarcastically because they > include "seems" and similar words of uncertainty. You should drop the > sarcasm, and learn from them. Not quite. I am not rejecting the uncertainty, am I? I am rejecting the completely and totally speculative nature of the arguments in which those terms were embedded, and using the terms to point that nature out. It's fine to speculate, certainly. No argument there. But it is unreasonable to expect me to be convinced by such propositions. You wouldn't be, would you? Should I? -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. Psalm 119:111