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To: From many - one.

You didn’t mislead me, certainly not intentionally.

After rereading your post I see what you meant. It could be interpreted in more than one way and I guess I just got the wrong one.

You know, when you have a 50/50 chance of being right, you’ll be wrong 90% of the time.


919 posted on 01/30/2009 5:20:21 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
You know, when you have a 50/50 chance of being right, you’ll be wrong 90% of the time.

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

NO more calls, please.

We have ANOTHER winner!

...it works for me that way when I'm choosing the fastest line at the grocery store.

Cheers!

931 posted on 01/30/2009 6:31:24 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: metmom

I know what you mean about 50-50 chances. :-)

The problem is I may have run afoul of the same thing here. So, instead of being brief, I’m going to be uncharacteristically wordy. And if this gets misunderstood, oh, well.

First, to be clear, I work in biology, have a good understanding of evolution and use that understanding in my work. There is no conflict with my religion because I never thought God was writing a biology textbook. At a basic level, Genesis does not mention fungi, or bacteria for the (to me) obvious reason that the people He was addressing hadn’t seen them. There are day length issues also since, in our time, it has changed.

I also like to keep my own house clean, so to speak. My children were partly homeschooled, yet I am always warning homeschoolers to accept some degree of accountability because there are bad people out there who use that as a cover to abuse their kids.

Which is why I say ~now~ that those who disagree with evolution might have spoken against the intemperate language of a newcomer. After all, it is not the anti-evolution group that is getting banned wholesale.

But, what I tried to get at in my original post was that someone who claims to be pro-evolution did not speak up. I was not addressing the issue I described above. That’s a contrast with the point I had in mind...that the supporters of a position did not actively support someone else on their side. Neither did I, but I was not posting actively at that time.

And now, I have given this more time than I have available so I quite posible will not respond further.


963 posted on 01/31/2009 8:04:02 AM PST by From many - one.
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