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Originally posted by jaywillI cannot seriously discuss this with you now because of time limitations of the public library's PC.
Mind you propoganda can be true or false.
Maybe sometime next week.
Originally posted by jaywillGenerally propaganda is referred to when you are accusing someone of either lying purposely or lying by omission. This is particularly what I object to.
Mind you propoganda can be true or false.
Originally posted by PsychoPawnIf I do offer evidence of unfair prejudice on Evo's side you dodge it by saying that such a person doesn't speak for all science.
Generally propaganda is referred to when you are accusing someone of either lying purposely or lying by omission. This is particularly what I object to.
You essentially are establishing the usual persecution argument that creationists and ID proponents trot out without any real evidence for it.
Originally posted by jaywillUmmm.. no. You didn't offer evidence of unfair prejudice.
If I do offer evidence of unfair prejudice on Evo's side you dodge it by saying that such a person doesn't speak for all science.
Convenient.
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Ummm.. no. You didn't offer evidence of unfair prejudice.
Also, when I said that it wasn't a "dodge" at all - please make your argument as to how it was a dodge. You simply stating that it was a dodge doesn't count.
You make a reference as to something Richard Dawkins said - that isn't evidence of a conspiracy of persecution of ID. It's just somet e with that at this point.
I do not believe they are doing so without reason though.
Originally posted by jaywillWell, for one if Biology, according to Dawkin's definition, is the study of things which only have an appearance of design, then any scientist who decides to further explore if design REALLY is behind these life systems - is not really practicing biology
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Ummm.. no. You didn't offer evidence of unfair prejudice.
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Well, for one if Biology, according to Dawkin's definition, is the study of things which only have an appearance of design, then any scientist who decides to further explore if design REALLY is behind the ...[text shortened]... on Theory. So why don't you do it?
Other comments I'll address a bit latter.[/b]
Originally posted by PsychoPawnI told you. "The Blind Watchmaker" by Dawkins is the source of the sentence. From the book I am reading it appears to be on page 1 and is this quotation:
Well, for one if Biology, according to Dawkin's definition, is the study of things which only have an appearance of design, then any scientist who decides to further explore if design REALLY is behind these life systems - is not really practicing biology
I'm very skeptical that Dawkins defines biology specifically in that way. However, the scien sometimes I know it's going to get into a discussion that I don't want to get into.
Originally posted by jaywillYet again you misrepresent what I was refering to by "vague reference".
I told you. [b]"The Blind Watchmaker" by Dawkins is the source of the sentence. From the book I am reading it appears to be on page 1 and is this quotation:
"Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose."
Yes, I know. That is slightly different from what I wrote. But it is ess ...[text shortened]... is, I believe, what I originally wrote.
Now no more complaining about vague references.[/b]