🚀 go-pugleaf

Phillip Lord <plord@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> writes:

> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> writes:
> 
>   Tim> Anyone see a flamewar around here? *Blink* did I miss something
>   Tim> interesting?
>         There is no flame war but...        
>   Tim> You'll never get your views to sustain if you can't present
>   Tim> them to folks new to them coherently. Or maybe they're just not
>   Tim> worth it, of course.
> 
> you do seem to be the one slinging mud.

(Check the email address, it comes naturally ;8^)

I can't say what_you_mean_by slinging mud is an intention. I'd much rather
have a nice bit of debate and ask one or two questions and put over the
occasional opinion. None of these constitute flamewar - and the closest
it's got is *someone* introducing the idea of "attitude".

> Probably (although I cant be sure) he can present his views to people. As
> for whether they are worth it this depends on how many times you have
> done it. As a biologist I think that Darwinism is of more merit than
> "scientific creationism" but I have had the argument so many times that I
> can rarely be assed these days.

Aha, a biologist. You picked up /exactly/ on what I had in mind with 'get
views to sustain'.

(I've thought, briefly, about "getting one's code out & about there" in
similar terms, but IANA(biologist) :)

> ps I picked this creationism argument because although its highly
> controversial in some areas, it is so off topic on this board that it
> should not start an argument I dont want to have again. I hope that I'm
> not proven wrong here.

That's OK. I come from *both* sides of the fence and have long-since
realised *there is no need for conflict*. (There might, of course, be
morons & provokers claiming to be on either side, but that's a different
kettle of evolving fishies..)

~Tim
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