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Article #31673Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Daniel Packman
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24
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In article <JAsAd.1710820$SM5.136762@news.easynews.com>, Sam Stone <sirian@mental.org> wrote: >Daniel Packman wrote: ...... >> Creating an imagined group, here "eco-weenies", >"Imagined"??? >Is there no Greenpeace? >No Sierra Club? >No anti-ANWR drilling? A single pejorative term isn't useful to characterize people involved in these two groups and those against drilling in ANWR. It is akin to the general statements of those "liberals" are anti-American or some such meaningless generality. >> and ascribing >> negative qualities to them doesn't advance your point. >> h > >My pejorative is their willingness to employ scientific "experts" of >choice to "plausibly" advance their ludite agenda - no more, no less. Your pejorative is a broad brush. >As I have stated, and as you have passed off, they seek to combine the >moral (theirs) with the analytical (yours) - and that is a marriage you >refuse to comment on, which tells me more than I really expected you'd >reveal, even under my ham-fisted lens of exploratory interrogation. You haven't mentioned specifics in this area, so let me respond with the same generality: "They" shouldn't do that. Whoever they are and whatever specific biased experts and contrived moral high ground they stand on. "They" should be most roundly castigated. -- Daniel Packman NCAR/ACD pack@ucar.edu
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X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 1044e7,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: fec2a,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 113415,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 115ded,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 111e4f,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: fbb8c,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,gid1044e7,gidfec2a,gid113415,gid115ded,gid111e4f,gidfbb8c,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.arizona.edu!noao.edu!ucar!not-for-mail From: pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) Newsgroups: co.general,talk.politics.guns,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights,alt.politics.liberalism,co.denver.general,alt.politics.libertarian.gay Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research Lines: 46 Message-ID: <cqup7o$s5t$1@news.ucar.edu> References: <Od9zd.1004$qf5.599@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> <eFmAd.7627093$6p.1199617@news.easynews.com> <cqsuvd$i3m$2@news.ucar.edu> <JAsAd.1710820$SM5.136762@news.easynews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mop2.eos.ucar.edu X-Trace: news.ucar.edu 1104341048 28861 128.117.37.8 (29 Dec 2004 17:24:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.ucar.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)