Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Harper's Message-ID: <706@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 13:39:13 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.706 Posted: Thu Feb 7 13:39:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 04:44:15 EST References: <697@uwmacc.UUCP> <4971@fortune.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 26 > [Richard A. Brower] > In article <697@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes: > >I am not a biologist either. I guess anything I might > >propose about evolution is similarly invalid by virtue of not being > >proposed by a biologist. The logical extension is of course that should > >we desire knowledge of evolution we should bow to the keepers of the > >Truth, the biologists, saying "surely you are the people, and wisdom > >shall die with you!" Which brings us round again to authority. Or > >perhaps, religion? > >You may suppose that I am overreacting. I assure you that I am. > > No, you should learn something about biology. When you are well enough > informed to make rational decisions, you will be an evolutionist also.8-) I can appreciate what you're saying (at least I can try to), but: (i) I don't know nothing about biology. (ii) You demonstrated no irrationality in my comments. I'd be more impressed with such than with your snide remarks. (iii) I am a creationist, true. But I am also a former evolutionist. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois | --+-- Vegetarian Geology: Is it a True Concept? | |