dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (11/10/84)
> [Richard Carnes] > Creationists are not "stupid". Consider our creationist friends on the > net. They impress me as honest and sincere people who are doing their best > to figure things out. They did not invent the fallacious arguments for > creationism that they serve up to us; they are simply relaying them from > persons whom they respect. Actually, on rare occasions we actually think about those arguments before we parrot them mindlessly onto the net. Not too often, of course! :-) > They have adopted the belief system of persons > whom they have known and looked up to, just as we have ourselves. So let us > please lay off the rhetoric of moral turpitude that we sometimes roast > them with, or at the very least save it for Morris, Gish, and Co. Personally, although I second the sentiment regarding a reduction of the slams and attacks (of which I have unfortunately been a part, at least in my earlier articles (after posting the one about the tail, I felt a deep sense of shame (yes, really) and have tried not to return to that kind of posting)), I would just as soon be served up with any argument which you feel appropriate for the San Diego enclave. I am, after all, fairly closely aligned with them in spirit, if not in method. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois