Eric,
Seems if the people on this list are "not too knowledgable about evolution",
the THEY are the ones who need to "go to a group where they debate evolution".
Brett
At 06:47 PM 8/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
>
>> >So do I...However, as I think you pointed out yourself, this is not the
>> >place to discuss such things. I very strongly recommend
>> >that you join the Evolutionary Theory Mailing List, at
>> >http://www.esosoft.com/evolution/ ROBIN
>>
>> Robin,
>>
>> No, I did not say any such thing. You are responding to your own internal
>> voice (this may sound like a generalization or suggestion that you are not
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>
>Brett,
>
>I think you seriously overreacted on this one. Robin did not suggest
>you "you leave"... he merely suggested that if you wish to debate
>evolution, you go to a group where they debate evolution. You see, we
>(or at least I) am not too knowledgable about evolution. Certainly the
>people on the list he refered you to would know more than the people
>here.
>
>You don't have to leave here to join there, and I doubt that was what
>Robin meant.
>
>As well, I always believe that a little personal information (revealing
>our *weaknesses*, as you say) is a very good thing. Becuase, Grant, it
>is weaknesses -- our imperfections -- that allow us to grow. And
>besides, who is scared of revealing weaknesses on this list? Like the
>talk about "perfect robots" with but one flaw a while back, we have
>decided to mutually ignore, protect, even *fix* our weaknesses. For we
>all have them.
>
>Sides, it's good to get to know people. I, for one, have greatly
>enjoyed Eva's "statements of state"... it's good to know that a person
>exists on the other side, and not a machine or "God".
>
>And as to keeping ourselves closed-minded, as you insinuated at the end,
>I think, if that was our goal, we would be stopping people from signing
>*on*, rather than trying, with mere words, to send people away. And I
>remember something John said a while back about "your presence on this
>list *gives* me permission to rock your boat"... the point is, memetics
>is such a new *in*your*face* idea that sometimes it's unavoidable.
>
>Science never said truth was beautiful. Sometimes it is, but then
>"nature red in tooth and claw"
>
>ERiC
>
Returning,
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