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Politics : Evolution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (761)	9/17/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Bill Ounce: Let's let HUMPTY DUMPTY have the last word in this: Modern Biology's definition of Fact: In science "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent." Stephen J. Gould, "Evolution as Fact and Theory"; Discover, May 1981 (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html) Humpty Dumpty's definition of fact: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less. Page 123 etext.lib.virginia.edu. Cheers TA essage #761 from Bill Ounce at Sep 17 1999 6:10PM re: typical deceptive creationist tactic of taking things out of context Don't know how you can interpret things like that when the document ends with: "In any meaningful sense evolution is a fact, but there are various theories concerning the mechanism of evolution." But at least you are now making an attempt to read something about evolution :-)