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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Creationists might be stupid
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 17:44:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 17:44:35 1984
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> [Richard Carnes]
> Creationists are not "stupid".  Consider our creationist friends on the
> net.  They impress me as honest and sincere people who are doing their best
> to figure things out.  They did not invent the fallacious arguments for
> creationism that they serve up to us; they are simply relaying them from
> persons whom they respect.

Actually, on rare occasions we actually think about those arguments
before we parrot them mindlessly onto the net.  Not too often, of
course! :-)

>			      They have adopted the belief system of persons
> whom they have known and looked up to, just as we have ourselves.  So let us
> please lay off the rhetoric of moral turpitude that we sometimes roast
> them with, or at the very least save it for Morris, Gish, and Co.

Personally, although I second the sentiment regarding a reduction of the
slams and attacks (of which I have unfortunately been a part, at least
in my earlier articles (after posting the one about the tail, I felt
a deep sense of shame (yes, really) and have tried not to return to
that kind of posting)), I would just as soon be served up with any
argument which you feel appropriate for the San Diego enclave.  I am,
after all, fairly closely aligned with them in spirit, if not in method.
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois