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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <651@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 16:41:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 16:41:14 1985
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In article <14600031@hpfcrs.UUCP> lief@hpfcla.UUCP (lief) writes:
> Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
> >Hmmm, these seem to be mostly(or exclusively) highly partisan
> >creationist publications, I would like to see this stuff confirmed in
> >proper refereed journals! I place about as much faith in these finds
> >as I do in the Paluxy River "human footprints" - exactly none!
> >(Actually, the first reference sounds like it is even worse than
> >a creationist publication - a Von-Daenken-esque type pseudo-science
> >book)
> 
> I am sometimes amazed at folks who claim to be scientific and open minded.

I beg your pardon, but the subject of these publications is exactly what we
are debating here.  To assume they are true or correct is a prime case of
begging the question.  Skepticism and demands for confirmation are entirely
appropriate.  (And scientific and open-minded.  Check a dictionary, and you
will see that skepticism and open-mindedness are not incompatible.  Nor do
either of them rule out judgement of value.)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh