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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (24055)6/21/2006 9:28:00 PM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
<What I meant is that your statement is a type of sophistry.>

It might LOOK like that to you, but that is your viewpoint, and I can assure you there is no intent to deceive anyone.

<It is a statement which does not really carry any information, but relies on the pattern of words to seem as if it is trying to say something.>

Information is in the eye of the beholder, it seems to me to be a valid inquiry... if there is some logic fallacy there (there may well be, I haven't thought it out), please point it out.

I would point out that the topic at hand ("natural selection" or "evolution") is very broad and open to similar "emptiness" in that there is really little restriction on what (theoretical) systems WOULDN'T be open to a "selectionist" approach as Darwin is often defined. Darwin's use of "natural" begs questions IMO.

DAK
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