[lbo-talk] Neo-Lamarckianism???? Come on!

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 15 05:00:43 PST 2008


Maybe I get testy on this subject, but it is really, really frustrating. God is not some sort of super-mind that has thoughts, dammit. No sophisticated theist believes that. This is the rough equivalent, only even wronger, of saying that evolutionists believe that people evolved from apes. No, they don't. It is a cartoon.

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:


> The 18th-century wit (and a good bit more), Rev.
> Sydney Smith, when walking through an Edinburgh
> alleyway, saw two women shouting abuse at one
> another across the alley from their tenement
> windows. "They'll never agree," he said. "They're
> arguing from different premises."
>
> (And Flann O’Brien improved on the line in At Swim
> Two Birds: "The conclusion of your syllogism, I said
> lightly, is fallacious, being based upon licensed
> premises.") --CGE
>
>

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