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To: publius1
Whatta screed! Coyne spends all his time attacking the messenger rather than engaging her arguments. And then says that anyone who agrees with her must be a moron. By implication, anyone who agrees with him is a genius....

Well that clears up everything, now doesn't it? :^)

He does seem pretty exercised about Ann's brief, however. Jeepers, you'd think that the "central paradigm of biology" ought to be fairly bullet-proof, impervious to Ann's little slings and arrows. But I suspect folks like Coyne must have their own doubts about it; otherwise, why get down in the gutter and attack people who make astute objections and draw reasonable associations between neo-Darwinist theory and the devolution of Western culture?

Name calling doth not a reasonable argument make.

59 posted on 08/17/2006 1:57:03 PM PDT by betty boop (Nature loves to hide. -- Heraclitus)
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Many here seem somewhat exercised by the style of Coyne's writing, and perhaps rightly so.

Reading the review it is absolutely obviously a pastiche of Coulter's own style, and rather well done, in my honest opinion; replete with stylish ad hominem just like La Coulter's work. Great, if you like that kind of thing, and I would have expected the Coulter worshippers to lap it up. ;)

Two wrongs don't make a right however.


60 posted on 08/17/2006 2:11:58 PM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatHenry I'm the real PatHenry all the other PatHenrys are just imitators)
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To: betty boop
Name calling doth not a reasonable argument make.

But Ms Coulter has done such for years. However, she's is a lawyer.

61 posted on 08/17/2006 2:13:46 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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