- Anything Else -I already have. Want me to say it again?In Reply to: You have to answer the original point first posted by Robert on May 02, 1999 at 01:26:51:
: Farinata, my dear friend, ...is untenable as part of the argument, since by your own admission the Bible gives no date. So, you can't really claim that Science and the Bible are in complete agreement with any justification (bar your own). : : Maybe the original point keeps coming up because, by your own admission (ah hem), you have shown no evidence to support your position, hence you are unable to go effectively beyond it. May I cite that page for the nth time?;
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EVIDENCE The last time I cited these, you merely declared that they were "rubbish". Do you have any logically valid reason for your declaration, or are you merely judging from your exalted Christian viewpoint; it does not fit with your view of the world and therefore must be wrong. That's imperialism, Robert. Not to mention breathtaking arrogance. :So in this regards, you've been discreditted. Really? Can you provide evidence to "discredit" me? Or is your declaration sufficient evidence to render the work of many thousands of scientists null and void? : Simply going off on unrelated tangents to mask your lack of evidence for the original point won't convince me. From your observed behaviour, the only thing that would convince you is being told directly by J-hw-h that evolution exists. Anything else is not sufficient, as far as you seem to be concerned. I cited evidence for the original point; you cited no counterevidence. One to me, as far as the rules of debating go... : Even you have to admit that stating that different races are species is a bit extreme and an admission of your weak position. That's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that racial subtyping and isolation can lead to speciation, as Floyd understood perfectly well. That's been observed in the examples I cited above; a quick glance at bird species in Polynesia will tell you exactly the same story. At no point did I suggest any value judgements be attached to this observed scientific fact. I point also to the Carl Sagan quote I posted in the previous message; "......the Darwinian insight can be turned upside down and grotesquely misused:..." : Question: Do you really believe that Pygmies, Aborigines, Koreans, and Nordic peoples are different species? No. Of course I don't. They are, after all, still capable of interbreeding. If one race went off to Mars for a few hundred thousand years, they might evolve into a genotype that was incapable of breeding with homo sapiens sapiens. At which point, they would be a different species, say homo sapiens martialis. Not inferior in any way. Just different. : If so, where did you get your degree, from the Jozef Goebels School of Geneology? Deliberate misrepresentation of my position, Robert? (Oh, and Goebbels is spelt with two 'b's, ;) : : Mind you, you always did seem more interested in proselytizing than debating. : Then how come you continue to preach the religion of evolutionism? Sounds like adament proselytizing to me. Au contraire; you have yet failed to provide any compelling or substantial evidence to prove any of the arguments cited on the page I quoted. If you could do that, I might be able to treat this as a genuine debate. However, you haven't dared to acknowledge that page's existence yet; could it be that you don't want to be drawn into a debate on which you are ill-informed? And if you're ill-informed on the debate, why are you trying to sustain your position in the face of those who are obviously better-informed than yourself? Dare you read that page and try to counter the points therein? Or will your undoubted response to this post merely have all mentions of snipped out? Farinata.
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