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To: beckett
and my remarks about the document he signed don't qualify as ad hominem at all

Oh damn, you're right - your remarks were a well reasoned argument against his ideas on evolution! My bad.

331 posted on 07/04/2002 11:33:30 AM PDT by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
Oh damn, you're right - your remarks were a well reasoned argument against his ideas on evolution! My bad.

I don't dispute much of his evolutionary theory, with the exception of his wholly unfounded and untestable claims about 'random chance.' Despite having said the following, when it suits him he declares that the world is full of evil, all of it found among people of faith.

"In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, p 133

Dawkins regularly makes claims about the universe that he can't prove, from memes to "blind pitiless indifference." As Marion Montgomery has said, "he presumes an absolute comprehension of the nature of man. Thus he becomes an excellent illustration of what I shall call the provincial mind. Alas, his is an intellectual malady conspicuous among our intelligentsia: the modernist mind presuming intellectual autonomy beyond limit."

We are not as smart and you and Dawkins and the other "provincial minds" on these threads think we are.

332 posted on 07/04/2002 11:52:23 AM PDT by beckett
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To: edsheppa
As for the document Dawkins signed --- an anti-American document masquerading as an anti-Israel document --- how does that qualify as ad hominem?

Is it ad hominem to point out a man's deliberate actions?

333 posted on 07/04/2002 11:56:23 AM PDT by beckett
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