[lbo-talk] Altenberg 16: Will the real theory stand up

[Alan Rudy]

The thread's about evolution but this sub-thread/re-thread includes direct
reference to climate change.
I was drawing parallels between and showing common failings among
skeptics/critics of both.
Sorry you found it opaque and felt the need to make two public comments to
that effect.
A

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> In addition note that teaching methods and policy recommenations belong
> in completely separate realms and can't be handled coherently in the
> same sentence. This thread is about evolution. It obviously can be
> illuminated by comparing it with a quite different matter. But obscurity
> rather than illumination is achieved by this mushing of the topics
> together.
>
> Carrol
>
> Carrol
>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > Alan Rudy wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Second, the "problem" Mazur and climate change skeptics attribute to
> 99.5%
> > > of evolutionary scientists and 98% of all climate scientists is
> perfectly
> >
> > Alan, I had to stop reading here when you use this compound subject.
> > They may be in prinmciple the same, and that is fine, but it creates
> > impossible sentences when you lump them inthis way.
> >
> > Carrol
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