rlb@cohesive.UUCP (Bob Braun) (05/25/90)
Why does this blithering ignorant fool keep coming back with the same rhetoric? The general quality of postings here is very good, and the content is varied and interesting. Please go away Bales! You have nothing to say, but you keep on saying it.
salem@fritz.sri.com (Bruce B. Salem) (05/26/90)
rlb@cohesive.UUCP (Bob Braun) writes: >Why does this blithering ignorant fool keep coming >back with the same rhetoric? The general quality >of postings here is very good, and the content >is varied and interesting. Please go away Bales! >You have nothing to say, but you keep on saying >it. Bob Bales is a Christian Fundementalist who is an EE at Tektronix in Beaverton Ore. He has been posting criticism of evolution over in talk.origins for many years. Replies to him and from him can make up most of the traffic in that group for months at a time. He would be a plague on any normal newsgroup. He is nothing if not stubboren and insists that his religious views have nothing to do with his "science". The problem is that he has never displayed the least competance in biological or geologic sciences and argues from a clearly ad hoc basis for Creationism. He is evasive and tenaceous, and hopelessly biased. The best thing you folks can do is to totally ignore him. Don't debate him here, he will waste bandwidth. If you want to debate him, come over to talk.origins which at last has a charter that can accommodate the like of him. There is also lots of him on the archives for that group, too. He has posted but a few times to talk.religion.misc, and I did not know until now that he has posted elsewhere. You are right about his debate style being rhetoric, mostly. His ideas and support for them have very little substance. Bruce Salem